China's first 500,000-ton biomass green alcohol and oil demonstration project has started construction.
On April 10th, it was learned from China Energy Engineering Group that China's first 500,000-ton biomass green alcohol-oil demonstration project - the 500,000-ton wind-solar hydrogen integration biomass green alcohol-oil demonstration project in Shenyang, Liaoning Province - has officially started construction. The implementation of this project marks that China's hydrogen-based liquid fuel industry has officially moved from the demonstration stage to the stage of large-scale construction.
Green alcohol oil is a clean and low-carbon liquid fuel. In simple terms, its production process involves generating electricity using renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, then electrolyzing water to produce hydrogen, and subsequently reacting the hydrogen with the green carbon sources extracted from agricultural and forestry waste (such as straw and branches), ultimately synthesizing methanol and aviation fuel. The demonstration project that has started this time has a total investment of 32 billion yuan. Leveraging the unique resource endowment of "wind power + biomass" in the local area, a 500,000-ton-per-year biomass green alcohol oil project will be constructed, along with 2 gigawatts of centralized wind power. It is estimated that about 3 million tons of biomass will be required annually.
Pan Jun, the chief expert of China Energy Engineering Group Co., Ltd.: The project innovatively established a wind-solar-hydrogen coupled biomass gasification technology route, overcame the technical barriers of efficient synthesis of green alcohols and oils, and developed a stand-alone "electricity-hydrogen-carbon" coupled system, which solved the technical bottleneck of the incompatibility between the fluctuation of new energy power generation and the stability of chemical plant production.
Previously, hydrogen production through photovoltaic power and biomass gasification were mostly carried out independently. This project is the first to achieve a system integration of "green electricity - green hydrogen - biomass" for the utilization of raw materials on a 500,000-ton scale. In addition, the project is also planning to build a green computing power center simultaneously, and is actively exploring a new model of "green electricity + computing power" for coordinated development.
