Chapter 1214 - The World's Largest!

The next day, Yang Jie also inspected and visited the refining and chemical terminal project under construction by Huayuan Energy Technology Group Company in Beibu Gulf Harbor.

The first phase of the wharf project has almost been completed, with a total length of more than 2,000 meters of berths, a design annual capacity of 34 million tons in the near future and 36.7 million tons in the long term.

The wharf has a total of 8 berths, divided into two parts, the shore wharf and the offshore wharf, the shore wharf contains 5,000-ton liquid chemical berths, 5,000-ton liquid hydrocarbon berths, 10,000-ton liquid chemical berths, 100,000-ton finished hydrogen fuel berths, 5,000-ton general cargo berths and working ship berths, a total of 7 berths, and the offshore terminal is a 300,000-ton hydrogen fuel berth.

Yang Jie also learned that the last concrete pouring of the wharf along the shore wharf was completed last month, and the main hydraulic structure of the 8 berths of the wharf project has been completed, and now the wharf project construction has fully entered the superstructure construction stage.

Up to now, 72% of the design work has been completed along the shore wharf, and the ancillary works and process pipeline construction are in full swing.

The offshore terminal has completed 93% of the design project, the process pipeline is under construction, and the project construction has entered the final sprint stage.

Yang Jie is still very satisfied with the construction progress of this wharf project, and this wharf is prepared for the world's largest electrolysis hydrogen production plant and hydrogen fuel plant under construction in Qiongzhou Province.

With this refining terminal, the hydrogen fuel and a large number of chemical products prepared by Huaxing Technology Group in Qiongzhou Province can be smoothly transported to China or abroad.

Yang Jie did not stay long in the Puyang Development Zone, and then went to the large photovoltaic power station and hydrogen production plant near the Yongle Dam Reservoir in Dongle County, Qiongzhou Province, Qiongzhou Province.

When he came here along the national highway, Yang Jie also saw the hills covered with photovoltaic panels, which looked quite spectacular.

Not long after, Yang Jie's convoy also came to the hydrogen production plant high near the reservoir, which covers an area of thousands of acres and now uses only a few hundred acres of land for the first phase of the hydrogen production plant.

The most striking thing when approaching this hydrogen production plant is naturally the huge area of other gas storage tanks that stand tall and tall.

After entering the hydrogen production plant, Yang Jie did not say that he wanted to have a meeting with the management personnel in the hydrogen production plant or anything, and directly asked the management and technical department personnel to follow him to the hydrogen production and oxygen production plant.

In the hydrogen and oxygen production plant, Yang Jie also specially inspected the new electrolyzer prepared by Huaxing Technology Group Company.

The electrolyzer is the core component of hydrogen and oxygen production, and the electrolyzer with a maximum power of 6 megawatts developed and produced by Huaxing Technology Group is also installed in this plant.

This is also the world's most powerful proton exchange membrane electrolyzer at this stage, and it is also the second generation of products developed by Huaxing Technology Group.

Over the years, Huayuan Energy Technology Group has been researching a more flexible alternative electrolysis technology, and proton exchange membrane electrolyzer technology is the main technical route developed by the group.

In contrast to conventional alkaline electrolysis techniques, this PEM electrolyzer isolates two electrodes that decompose to produce oxygen and hydrogen, respectively, and can respond in milliseconds and operate at three times its rated power level for short periods of time.

In other words, even if there is a sudden increase in power generation, this electrolyzer can easily store excess electricity, which is suitable for wind power generation as the main power source.

In the past, many wind turbines had to stop working in windy weather, mainly because of overcapacity, because energy storage devices could not store too much electricity.

In fact, this is also a major challenge for renewable energy sources – production fluctuations due to changing weather conditions can sometimes lead to a lot of waste in order to adjust power generation based on demand like traditional power plants.

That's why wind turbines often stop on windy days, and traditional coal-fired power plants with high CO2 emissions reconnect to the grid on windless days, which has become a common occurrence in countries struggling to develop the wind power industry.

In response to this situation, Huayuan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. is developing energy storage technology while developing hydrogen production technology from wind power.

Hydrogen is a very good energy carrier, and is a hydrogen fuel raw material, but also an important chemical raw material, the wind power plant and photovoltaic power plant excess power into hydrogen energy storage has always been the direction of Huayuan Energy Technology Group company's technology research and development.

The research and development of key equipment for hydrogen and oxygen production plants, Huaxing Technology Group Co., Ltd., including Huayuan Energy Technology Group and Nanao Group, as well as Electrochemical Research Institute and Bluestar Water Treatment Company, have been making efforts.

The proton exchange membrane electrolyzer led by Huayuan Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. has been tested in the laboratory to produce an experimental electrolyzer with a rated power of 10 kilowatts, and the product can operate at a peak power of about 30 kilowatts, and it has also walked out of the laboratory on the basis of a large number of tests.

The Institute of Electrochemistry under Huaxing Technology Group Co., Ltd. has been continuously developing proton exchange membrane technology for more than ten years, especially Huaxing Technology Group has made countless profits in fuel cell technology products, so the R&D investment in this area can be said to be the largest in the world, so it has reached the world-class level in this regard, and even mastered some black technology.

The Institute of Electrochemistry has developed an electrode material with excellent electrochemical properties, and has invented a "hybrid ionic conductive electrolyte" that allows two ions to pass through, and water electrolysis occurs on both electrodes, thereby significantly increasing the total hydrogen production.

The electrolyzer prepared according to this technical route has proved through a large number of experiments that the hydrogen production efficiency of the system is three times that of the existing water electrolyzer system, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.

"Yang Dong, now our new electrolyzer can produce 6,000 kilograms of hydrogen in one hour, and the oxygen production equipment can produce 2,000 kilograms of oxygen.

A hydrogen and oxygen plant like this now has six electrolyzers installed a year, which can produce 5,000 tons of hydrogen and 2,000 tons of oxygen in a year.

There are three such workshops built here, which means that the annual hydrogen output is 15,000 tons, which is already the world's largest electrolysis hydrogen production plant.

Yang Jie also learned that up to now, these hydrogen and oxygen production plants have been running smoothly, and he also nodded.