China’s carbon-peak and neutrality goals are a step closer to being realised, with the opening of a massive carbon-capture project in our neck of the woods; a somewhat small, but significant step at capping emissions in the country’s coal-fired, power-generation sector.
随着大型碳捕集项目在我们附近的启动，中国的碳峰值和中和目标距离实现又近了一步；这是限制该国燃煤发电行业排放量的一个虽小但却意义重大的一步。
China Energy announced on Friday, 2 June, that full-capacity operations are under way at the largest carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) facility in Asia. And it’s right here in our very own Jiangsu Province, in Taizhou to be precise.
国家能源集团于 6 月 2 日星期五宣布，亚洲最大的碳捕集、利用和封存 (CCUS) 设施已满负荷运营。就在我们江苏省，准确的说是泰州。
The facility is able to capture and consume up to 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually.
该设施每年能够捕获和消耗多达 50 万吨二氧化碳 (CO2)。
The Taizhou Power Plant has four million-kilowatt generators units; the CCUS project uses the flue gasses from Unit 4 as its raw material for what is the largest CO2 compressor in China.
台州发电厂拥有400万千瓦发电机组； CCUS项目使用4号机组的烟气作为中国最大的二氧化碳压缩机的原材料。
Sucking in those exhaust gasses, the facility purifies the CO2 within to over 99 percent, and then utilises and consumes it in industrial and food processing scenarios.
该设施吸入这些废气，将其中的二氧化碳净化率超过 99%，然后在工业和食品加工场景中利用和消耗它。
In a report by Guangming Net, Liu Jiandong, Chief Engineer of the National Energy Group’s Jiangsu Taizhou Power Plant, said, “On our side, there are shipyards, oil fields, chemical plants and other enterprises with a high demand for CO2”.
在光明网的报道中，国家能源集团江苏泰州电厂总工程师刘建东表示，“我们这边有造船厂、油田、化工厂等企业，对二氧化碳的需求量很大”。
“In the early stage, we proactively contacted park enterprises and locked in an annual sales volume of 500,000 tonnes. That’s 400,000 tons of industrial CO2 and 100,000 tons of food processing CO2”, said Liu.
“前期，我们积极联系园区企业，锁定年销量50万吨，即工业CO2 40万吨，食品加工CO2 10万吨。”刘说。
The new facility in Taizhou is an entirely-domestic affair, 100-percent designed, manufactured and installed by China. It is also the most technologically-advanced CCUS project in the Asian thermal power industry to date.
台州的新工厂完全是国内项目，100%由中国设计、制造和安装。这也是迄今为止亚洲火电行业技术最先进的CCUS项目。
Overall, China seeks a CO2 emissions peak by 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
总体而言，中国力争在 2030 年实现二氧化碳排放峰值，并在 2060 年实现碳中和。
China’s annual CO2 emissions stand at around 13 billion tonnes, of which that derived from coal power accounts for more than 40 percent. Given the half-million tonnes per year capacity of the Taizhou plant, that all means we just need another thousand like it to negate China’s coal consumption.
中国每年的二氧化碳排放量约为130亿吨，其中煤电排放量占40%以上。考虑到台州工厂的年产能为 50 万吨，这意味着我们只需要另外 1000 万吨这样的工厂来抵消中国的煤炭消耗。
