On June 15-16, the Beijing Methanol Energy Summit (hereinafter referred to as the "Summit") with the theme of "renewable energy" was held in Shougang Park, Beijing. The summit set up four modules, namely keynote speech, academician expert forum, ship power, and innovative technology speech, to deeply discuss the construction of methanol energy, the application prospect of methanol fuel, and the necessity of developing Methanol economy.
During the summit, guests from both domestic and international academia and industry shared cutting-edge perspectives, leading technologies, and the latest products, bringing a feast of ideas on renewable energy utilization to the attending audience.
Building a Multilateral Exchange Platform to Discuss the Future of Green Development
The energy situation in China is characterized by a shortage of oil, gas, and coal. As the world's second largest oil consumer and largest oil importer, how to promote the diversified development of energy structure, ensure energy security, and promote the achievement of the "dual carbon" goal has become an urgent issue that China needs to solve.
Against this background, on the basis of the successful holding of the 2014 and 2015 working conferences, the 2016-2018 three-year technical exchange seminar, and the 2019 International Conference on Methanol Vehicles and Methanol Fuel Applications, the Summit gathered institutions, experts and scholars in the field of global renewable energy, focused on the common topic of developing the Methanol economy, and explored new development paths for alternative clean fuels.
It is reported that this summit has innovated the organizational model of previous conferences, and specially invited Li Can, an academician of the CAS Member, Greg Dolan, CEO of the Global Methanol Industry Association, and Li Shufu, Vice President of the Chinese Civil Chamber of Commerce/Chairman of Geely, to chair the conference.
At the same time, the Summit specially invited He Guangyuan, the former minister of the Ministry of Machinery Industry, Ni Weidou, an academician of the CAE Member, the former vice president of Tsinghua University, and G K. Surya Prakash is an honorary advisor to the conference. We invite internationally renowned energy think tanks and research institutions to provide support in the name of partner units.
The summit takes multilateral, open, dialogue, cooperation, service, and integration as its conference mechanism, aiming to create an international summit with international brand connotations in the field of renewable energy and achieve equal dialogue.
In addition, the main venue of the summit will be permanently positioned in Beijing, aiming to build a multilateral dialogue platform for jointly discussing future trends in the energy field, energy and social security, energy and environmental governance, energy and carbon reduction, energy and economic development, and other related topics.
Industry chain "think tanks" gather in Beijing to fiercely collide with cutting-edge viewpoints
As a conference focusing on energy transformation and industrial upgrading, promoting the construction of the methanol energy industry, and promoting the development of the Methanol economy industry, the summit site was "full of dry goods", and the participants brought cutting-edge information and the latest achievements in their respective fields.
Zhang Tao, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, delivered a video speech under the title of "Organic Integration of Various Energies Jointly Undertake the Important Task of Carbon Reduction". He stated that green methanol has a high energy density and is an ideal way of storing and transporting liquid energy. Utilizing renewable energy to generate electricity to produce green hydrogen, and then combining it with CO? Combining the generation of green methanol for convenient storage and transportation is an important path towards zero carbon emissions.
Li Can, an academician of the CAS Member, pointed out in the report Liquid Solar Fuel - Green Methanol that the World energy resources energy crisis and Climate crisis are promoting the rapid development of new energy industry, and promoting the use of green methanol is a practical way to achieve "carbon neutrality" in the transportation field.
It is reported that green methanol includes biomass methanol, e-methanol, and liquid sunlight methanol. Among them, liquid sunlight methanol utilizes clean energy sources such as photovoltaic, wind power, and hydropower to couple CO? Make. Can CO be converted per 1 ton of methanol produced? 1.375 tons. If liquid sunlight methanol is used instead of gasoline/diesel, it can reduce one billion tons of CO emissions?, And it helps alleviate energy security issues.
Li Can added that using green methanol represented by liquid sunlight methanol to drive vehicles in the transportation sector can achieve CO? Against the backdrop of the "dual carbon" goal, vehicles fueled with green methanol are expected to gradually replace fuel vehicles with "near zero" emissions.
In fact, after years of development, China's methanol automotive industry has established a green channel for promoting methanol vehicles from the perspectives of policy licensing, administrative management licensing, standard and regulatory licensing, vehicle announcement licensing, market access licensing, and market supervision licensing. The biggest challenge has been overcome in the market-oriented promotion and application of methanol vehicles.
Liu Ke, dean of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship College of Southern University of Science and Technology and foreign academician of the Australian National Academy of Engineering, pointed out in the report "Low cost green methanol technology path helps carbon neutrality" that green methanol is one of the best carriers for green hydrogen storage and transportation. Green methanol technology based on renewable energy can achieve the best safe storage and transportation of green hydrogen, and can provide more safe and convenient hydrogen sources for Hydrogen station and fuel cell vehicles, It is the path to achieve "carbon neutrality" at the lowest cost in the transportation sector.
Li Shufu, Vice President of China Civil Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of Geely, titled Energy Transformation and Industrial Upgrading to Promote the Development of Methanol economy, put forward clear views on energy security and "carbon neutrality" issues, and gave suggestions on Energy development and utilization, calling on the whole society to pay attention to the construction of green methanol industry and promote the development of Methanol economy industry.
Li Shufu stressed that commercial vehicles are CO in the field of transportation? Methanol, as a globally recognized clean energy, is the best carrier of hydrogen. Like Hydrogen fuel vehicles, green methanol vehicles are the "ultimate" new energy vehicles and the best choice and effective way to implement the "dual carbon" goal. Li Shufu said: "For our country, the development of green methanol can not only solve the energy security problem, but also achieve the goal of carbon neutrality; for Chinese energy enterprises, it is a major historical opportunity for transformation, upgrading and high-quality development, especially for small and medium-sized energy enterprises, which have unlimited business opportunities."
Liu Qiang, Secretary General of the Global Energy Security Think Tank Forum of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Challenges and opportunities for Methanol economy under the" dual carbon "goal". In his view, methanol energy has the following advantages: low-cost compatibility between liquid fuel routes and existing infrastructure networks based on traditional energy; The methanol fuel cell route provides two major advantages for renewable energy and distributed utilization mode, namely maximum volumetric energy density. Under the "dual carbon" goal, the development of methanol energy is directly linked to national energy security.
In addition, at the summit, Greg Dolan, CEO of the Global Methanol Industry Association, and Frank Menchaca, President of Sustainable Transportation Solutions, delivered speeches via video. Surya Prakash, a professor at the University of Southern California in the United States, titled "Development Trend of Global Methanol economy"; Paul Cooper, President of Australia Gane Energy Co., Ltd., made a video speech on the topic of "Methanol Fueled Heavy Engine", and shared the future development trend of Methanol economy around the world.
In the ship power unit, Li Kun, Director of the Ship Transportation Technology Research Center of the Water Transport Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Communications, delivered a keynote speech titled "Application of Methanol Fuel in Chinese Ships"; Lei Wei, senior engineer of China Classification Society Wuhan Specification Research Institute, delivered a keynote report entitled "Technical Specification for Methanol Fuel Application on Ships"; Yao Chunde, a professor of Tianjin University, shared the technology of methanol application under the title of "Application of diesel methanol binary combustion technology in medium and high speed marine engines".
At the same time, Karim Fahsis, Director of China's decarbonization business at Maersk Group, shared a report titled "Research on Maersk's decarbonization process and future fuels"; Zhou Jihong, general manager of W?rtsil? China/technical sales, shared the topic of Medium Speed Methanol Fuel Engine; Yan Guiwang, the head of the low-speed market at MAN Corporation in Germany, presented a report on "MAN B&W Methanol Fuel Low Speed Engines". Experts, scholars and enterprise representatives at the meeting discussed the current situation and future trend of methanol energy application in the field of ships, pointing out the direction for the future development of methanol energy as a Alternative fuel for ships.
In the innovation technology lecture module, Su Maohui, vice president of Xinghan Engineering Institute of Remote New Energy Commercial Vehicle Group, delivered a keynote report entitled "Choice and Path of Alcohol Hydrogen fuel Fuel Commercial Vehicle Energy Transformation"; Li Hongting, General Manager of Jiangsu Changzhou Lvchuang Technology Co., Ltd., gave a keynote report titled "Application of Modular Extended Range Technology for Methanol Fuel Power Units".
Gao Jiming, General Manager of Guangdong Nengchuang Technology Co., Ltd., Liu Zhong, Chairman of Tianjin Qingyan Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd., Liu Hanru, Chief Scientist of Remote New Energy Commercial Vehicle Group and General Manager of Alcohol Hydrogen Technology, delivered keynote speeches on Methanol Online Hydrogen Production Technology and Application, "Super Capacitor" Power and Electric Energy Storage System, and "Industrialization Practice of Green Methanol Circular Economy", from the perspective of enterprise innovation, Showcased the achievements and prospects of methanol energy application.
The ecological chain of Methanol economy has taken shape
According to statistics from the China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association, in 2022, China's methanol production capacity reached 100.41 million tons, surpassing the 100 million ton mark. The production of methanol is 80.22 million tons, and the import volume is 12.192 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 3.3% and 8.9%. The production capacity, output, sales volume, and import volume all rank first in the world. Adhering to the reality of China's resource endowment and national conditions, effectively playing the role of coal as a bottom line guarantee, fully utilizing coal based methanol fuel, is conducive to ensuring China's energy security and promoting the process of achieving the goal of "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality".
In addition, methanol is a key link in the development of hydrogen energy. Methanol is a liquid fuel with the highest hydrogen content, which is liquid at room temperature and pressure. It is easy to store and transport, making it the best hydrogen storage carrier. The reuse of hydrogen to methanol solves the problem of high cost storage and transportation of hydrogen, and has good safety. Therefore, methanol is an essential key link in the development of hydrogen energy.
Methanol is also the best hydrogen storage carrier. Essentially, methanol vehicles are hydrogen powered vehicles. The Technology roadmap of green methanol liquid hydrogen fuel alcohol hydrogen power is actually another Technology roadmap of power battery, and it is also a practical and feasible route for Hydrogen fuel to achieve true commercial application without relying on subsidies. This Technology roadmap will certainly become another new energy Technology roadmap of China's commercial vehicle industry that can make up for the shortcomings of the traditional pure electric Technology roadmap.
At the Beijing Methanol Energy Summit, Geely Holdings' remote new energy commercial vehicle group brought remote Xinghan G super alcohol electric hybrid heavy-duty trucks and remote Xinghan G alcohol hydrogen electric integrated heavy-duty trucks, showcasing the latest methanol technology applications and scientific research achievements, attracting the attention and visits of many industry insiders.
In fact, with methanol fuel and methanol vehicles as the center, a complete industrial chain of methanol vehicles, parts, raw methanol, transportation, allocation, terminal injection, etc. can be built, and a large-scale Methanol economy ecological chain can be formed. The promotion and application of methanol vehicles will produce huge economic and social benefits.
The holding of this summit also let all circles see the preliminary prototype of the "Methanol economy ecological chain", which is useful for summarizing the development process of the promotion and application of methanol vehicles and methanol fuel in China, guiding countries around the world to develop the preparation and application of renewable energy according to local conditions, and jointly committed to ecological environment governance, providing a useful reference for the coordinated development of renewable energy and economy.