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Leading the green, low-carbon, and high-quality development of China's titanium industry

Recently, Baotai Group was selected as a "leader" in China's industrial carbon peak. The achievement of this honor is a milestone in Baotai Group's green and low-carbon development process, and also a new starting point on the zero carbon development path. Baotai Group will continue to promote the application of green and low-carbon new technologies in the titanium industry, accurately empower the titanium industry chain, and inject strong momentum into green and low-carbon development.
Wang Jian (second from left), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Baotai Group Co., Ltd., stepped on stage to receive the award
On January 14th, the research and professional evaluation results of China's industrial carbon peaking "leaders" enterprises were announced, and a list of 63 2023 China's industrial carbon peaking "leaders" enterprises was announced. Baotai Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Baotai Group") was listed. This marks that Baotai Group has outstanding capabilities in low-carbon technology and product research and development, driving the green transformation of the industry. Carbon reduction and efficiency improvement have penetrated from the strategic planning level to the production and operation level of the enterprise. Carbon reduction has extended upstream and downstream, and value chain carbon reduction has become a new normal.
Strengthen cleanliness and green energy conservation
Significant emission reduction results
In recent years, Baotai Group has been focusing on the development path of strengthening, supplementing, and extending the titanium industry, actively playing a green role as a model and leader, reducing carbon emissions throughout the product lifecycle, driving the green transformation and upgrading of the titanium industry supply chain, and promoting the coordinated development of upstream and downstream industries in pollution reduction and carbon reduction. Through the implementation of capacity expansion projects, the advancement of intelligent transformation and digital transformation, the transformation of energy-saving and carbon reduction achievements, and the application and promotion of new technologies and processes, a new green chapter of sustainable and high-quality development has been opened.
Through continuous technological transformation and progress, multiple products and core technologies have filled the domestic gap, significantly promoting the green development and technological level of the titanium industry. Accelerating the strategic adjustment of the product layout structure of "controlling the upstream, strengthening the midstream, and expanding the downstream", the successful launch of the C919 large aircraft, the successful launch of the CZ5 high thrust rocket, and the development of the domestically produced 4500 meter manned deep-sea vehicle reflect the hard work, wisdom, and innovation of the Baotai people. Implement energy-saving, emission reduction, safety and environmental protection goals, completely dismantle coal-fired boilers in use, and replace them with clean energy sources such as waste heat utilization and natural gas for heating, and carry out low nitrogen combustion transformation on gas boilers in use. Adhere to the environmental protection laws of "civilized production, clean production, and green development", pay attention to the construction of environmental protection equipment, increase investment in green and energy-saving technologies, and titanium residue recycling technology and production lines represent the advanced level of green production of titanium materials in the world today. Continuously increasing investment in environmental protection, strengthening efforts in energy conservation and environmental protection renovation, carrying out anti-corrosion engineering renovation on the old pickling line of the sheet metal factory, completing the equipment renovation of gas boilers with ultra-low emissions, ensuring the effective operation of environmental protection equipment and the standard discharge of wastewater and exhaust gas. Actively carry out promotional activities such as World Water Day, China Water Week, National Energy Conservation Awareness Week, and National Low Carbon Day. In recent years, the company has actively carried out clean production, energy conservation and consumption reduction work, achieving many significant results, and has been awarded the title of Advanced Enterprise in Energy Conservation and Consumption Reduction by the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government multiple times. In 2017, it was awarded the title of "First Leading Enterprise in Green Development of China's Nonferrous Metals Industry"; In August 2023, it was rated as the fourth batch of green supply chain management enterprises in Shaanxi Province.
Increase efforts in green transformation and investment
Improving the quality of green development
Baotai Group always adheres to the concept of "green, low-carbon, and high-quality development", responds to the national call for low-carbon environmental protection, standardizes and improves the environmental management system, strengthens energy management, strictly controls pollutant emissions, and continuously improves economic benefits while deeply practicing green development. After years of development, for residues that cannot be directly recycled, the production of titanium iron is adopted to turn waste into treasure and use it as a titanium containing steel additive; We have established a complete internal management system and standardized system for the collection, storage, treatment, quality control, and process control of residual waste. Led the establishment of national standards for "Titanium and Titanium Alloy Waste" and "Zirconium and Zirconium Alloy Waste", providing a standard basis for the entire industry to achieve green renewable resources; We have undertaken the national science and technology support project "Development of Titanium Alloy Return Material Recycling and Utilization Technology - Key Technology Development for Titanium Smelting and Titanium Alloy Processing" and have passed the appraisal of relevant national departments. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, through continuous technological innovation, we have broken through multiple key common technologies in the titanium processing field. In terms of green recycling technology for titanium materials, we have also made breakthroughs in a series of technologies such as recycling of returned materials and designing new titanium alloy compositions; We have built a professional and internationally advanced production line for the recovery and treatment of recycled materials, achieving the recycling of more than 10 types of titanium alloys such as pure titanium and TC4. We have successfully developed more than ten types of titanium alloys with different strength levels for added recycled furnace materials, which have been successfully applied in China's weapons and other fields. This has effectively promoted the green, healthy, and recyclable development of China's titanium industry. Actively implementing the renovation project of the titanium and titanium alloy pipe oil removal and acid washing production line, treating and recovering waste acid, oily wastewater, acid containing wastewater, and nitrogen oxides generated during the production process, and treating residual liquids that cannot be recovered to meet corresponding national standards, fundamentally solving the problem of comprehensive treatment of "three wastes" and achieving the goal of circular economy and green development.
Accelerate energy transformation
Assist in improving the efficiency of "dual carbon"
Baotai Group aims to deeply implement the requirements of the central and Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Government on carbon peak and carbon neutrality, improve the deployment capacity of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, strive to optimize the company's titanium industry and energy structure, and promote the utilization of clean energy. In 2019, a comprehensive utilization project of heating waste heat in a district was invested and constructed, which utilizes heat pump technology to recover the cooling water heat of the smelting furnace for heating in production and office areas, replacing the original coal-fired steam boiler heating mode. The company actively and orderly develops distributed photovoltaic power stations according to local conditions, improving the grid's ability to absorb and regulate green energy. In 2021, a 12MW photovoltaic power generation project was implemented on the roof of an industrial park, which has been successfully connected to the grid for power generation. The annual power generation is over 10 million kilowatt hours, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 7850 tons, achieving 100% use of clean energy, and achieving zero carbon emissions. In order to actively respond to the requirements of ecological environment governance, clean energy is used instead of coal, and water source heat pump technology is adopted to recover the waste heat of the newly added casting furnace, which is successfully integrated into the production area heat network. Two 14MW coal-fired boilers in the industrial park are shut down, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 19000 tons. This not only reduces carbon emissions, but also improves heating quality, reduces carbon dioxide emissions by about 17000 tons, and enhances the "dual carbon" efficiency.
Increase technological innovation efforts
Enhancing the application effect of low-carbon technology
For many years, Baotai Group has been practicing the "dual carbon" goal, strengthening green ecology, improving the level of intelligent manufacturing, following the development path of green recycling in titanium processing, and developing cutting-edge fields such as high-performance hydrogen fuel cells. The company has overcome multiple key technological challenges through continuous innovation and independent research and development, with multiple technologies filling international/domestic gaps. The developed titanium alloy manned submersible has filled many gaps in China, ending the dependence on imports for the manned spherical shells of deep submersibles in China, and the technology has reached the international advanced level; The mandatory national standard "Energy Consumption Quota for Sponge Titanium and Titanium Ingots per Unit Product" formulated under the leadership of the company has won the "Excellent Technical Standard Award" of the National Nonferrous Metals Standardization Technical Committee. This is the promotion and application of green, low-carbon, and energy-saving process technology equipment. The quality of the high-quality titanium strip developed and produced has reached the international advanced level. Based on the excellent specific strength and corrosion resistance of titanium, it greatly improves the application of hydrogen fuel cells. For the first time, it is used as a "hydrogen Teng" hydrogen fuel cell bipolar plate independently developed by State Power Investment Corporation, meeting the power needs of automobiles. In 2021, it was demonstrated and applied at the Boao Forum for Asia; In February 2022, more than 150 hydrogen powered buses carrying the "Hydrogen Teng" fuel cell system were deployed as designated buses for the Beijing Winter Olympics, participating in Winter Olympics support services, demonstrating China's titanium's * and clean new energy utilization technology strength in the field of new energy utilization.
Baotai Group has carried out carbon footprint certification for titanium and titanium alloy bars throughout their entire life cycle, significantly improving the efficiency of various links such as procurement, process, production, and testing of titanium processing products. Next, in the journey of "dual carbon", Baotai Group will focus on national strategic needs, with Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group's main business positioning of "materials and equipment advancing simultaneously, green and high-end", and the "Thousand Eleven" high-quality development goal as the guide, expand the research and application of green, digital, and low-carbon technologies throughout the entire industry chain, strengthen innovation capacity construction in "green, low-carbon, and sustainable" aspects, adhere to low-carbon and green as the path, actively implement the strategy of technological innovation driven development, orderly carry out energy-saving and carbon reduction technology transformation, continuously promote process optimization and innovation, continuously extend and supplement the chain, and strive to create new development situations of high-quality and beneficial, leading the green and low-carbon development of China's titanium industry to achieve new results.

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