Low carbon has become a trend; zero carbon is becoming a pursuit.
Just imagining the future under zero carbon makes people excited!
The green mountains are always there, the green waters are always flowing, and the beauty is preserved for the earth. You and I are never bystanders. This is especially true for the construction and ceramics industry, which is a large energy consumer!
So, have we ever imagined what the zero-carbon future of the building and ceramics industry will look like?
Natural gas ≠ ideal clean energy
Ceramics is known as the art of earth and fire. Where does fire come from? From the most primitive wood burning to coal, heavy oil, coal-to-gas, and natural gas burning, every energy replacement means a huge progress in the industry. For the ceramic industry, the replacement of energy means not only that the fuel used is cleaner, but also that the combustion system is more advanced and the fuel utilization rate is higher. It is also more conducive to the control and improvement of the quality of ceramic products.
Under the regulation of the national "dual carbon" and "dual control" policies, the shift from traditional energy to green energy and clean energy has become an important factor affecting the development of the ceramic industry in the past two years. It has not only accelerated the reshuffle of the industry, but also It is the core competitiveness of ceramic enterprises in the future!
When most people think of clean energy, they think of natural gas. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has made natural gas a hot topic. As the pace of coal-to-gas conversion continues to deepen in major production areas across the country, gas consumption in the ceramic industry is also rising sharply.
According to research data from the China Building and Sanitary Ceramics Association, the annual output value of my country's building and sanitary ceramics industry only accounts for 1% of the country's GDP, while energy consumption accounts for 1% of the total consumption of the entire society. 1.7%, of which 30% of natural gas resources are used in the construction and sanitary ceramics industry. As a large energy consumer, the energy curse of the ceramic industry has always been there and lingering. This also means that, after natural gas, continuing to search for cleaner, greener, and more sustainable new energy sources is still a fate and an issue of the times that ceramic people cannot escape.
Ammonia energy, the ideal zero-carbon fuel
In the context of the dual carbon targets and the tightening of energy consumption policies, coupled with the current soaring prices of natural gas and other energy sources, how to achieve green and sustainable development of the ceramic industry?What about exhibition? Ammonia-hydrogen fusion zero-carbon fuel technology is undoubtedly a major breakthrough direction.
Hydrogen energy is a green, efficient secondary energy and is regarded as the "ultimate energy of the 21st century". But to ultimately realize the commercialization of hydrogen energy, poor safety and difficulty in storage and transportation are the primary problems to be solved. As a "hydrogen energy version 2.0", ammonia is both a hydrogen energy carrier and a zero-carbon fuel. It has important significance and role in the energy revolution process of achieving dual carbon standards.
As Cheng Yibing, academician of the Australian Academy of Engineering and strategic scientist of Foshan Xianhu Laboratory, said, ammonia energy is a new energy based on ammonia, which can be integrated with hydrogen energy to solve the problem of The major bottleneck issue in the development of hydrogen energy can also be directly used as a direct or indirect carbon-free fuel. It is an important technical route to achieve high-temperature zero-carbon fuel.
The integration of ammonia and hydrogen into zero-carbon fuel technology can solve the major problems of high safety, low cost, and cross-regional storage and transportation of hydrogen faced by the development of my country's hydrogen energy industry. One of the important ways for the equipment industry to achieve "dual carbon" compliance.
“Zero-carbon ceramic tiles” will be born in Oceano
In December 2021, Foshan Xianhu Laboratory initiated a three-party alliance with Foshan Oceano Ceramics Co., Ltd. and Foshan Delitai Technology Co., Ltd. to target the disruptive key technologies of zero-carbon combustion in kilns and jointly create domestic The first green energy industry innovation platform to carry out research and development of zero-carbon combustion technology for ammonia-hydrogen high-temperature kilns - the Joint Innovation R&D Center for Advanced Zero-carbon Combustion Technology, is committed to exploring a new path for my country's ceramic industry and even the entire building materials industry to achieve dual-carbon compliance. .
Since the establishment of the Advanced Zero-Carbon Combustion Technology Joint R&D Center, relying on the academicians, professors and doctoral teams of Xianhu Laboratory in combustion theory, burner design and computer simulation, ammonia, hydrogen and nitrogen With strong support in oxide detection and laboratory verification, the doctoral team of Oceano Central Research Institute and the scientific research team of Delitai Combustion Laboratory have worked together on "ammonia-natural gas mixed combustion low-carbon combustion, ammonia-hydrogen" Several key zero-carbon combustion technology fields such as "mixed combustion zero-carbon combustion and zero-carbon pure ammonia combustion" have achieved major milestones.Breakthrough, achieving stable combustion of all ammonia in the laboratory!
Currently, the zero-carbon combustion technology transformation of the roller kiln at the Central Research Institute of Oceano Sanshui Base is in full swing. After the transformation, the kiln will be upgraded from the original natural gas combustion to a low-carbon or even zero-carbon kiln with "pure ammonia combustion, ammonia-natural gas mixed combustion and ammonia-hydrogen mixed combustion zero-carbon combustion", which is also a ceramic The industry's first truly "zero-carbon" combustion kiln.
With the joint efforts of Oceano, Xianhu Laboratory, and Delitai, the industry's first truly "zero-carbon ceramic tile" is expected to be launched in late October. Oceano Central Research Institute is born! This also means that the ceramic industry will officially enter the era of "zero-carbon combustion" and make great strides towards the goal of "dual carbon".
The promotion and application of new energy in the ceramic industry is not only a tough battle, but also a life and death battle. It can be predicted that the birth of the industry's first truly "zero-carbon ceramic tile" in Oceano will undoubtedly open the door to spring. The ceramic industry's move into the "zero-carbon" era will no longer be just a dream!
The wave of innovation is surging, and it’s time to make progress. In the future, Oceano will continue to practice the development concept of "innovation, green and intelligent manufacturing", continue to make efforts in intelligent manufacturing, energy conservation and environmental protection, industrial upgrading and other aspects, create a model of high-quality development of the building ceramics industry in the new era, and lead the industry. Green and low-carbon manufacturing to comprehensively promote the high-quality development of the entire ceramic industry!
