"Before the formal sale of methanol gasoline, we have vigorously publicized the target market area and offered promotional gifts to owners who are willing to use methanol gasoline. Therefore, the number of customers coming today is relatively large." The person in charge of gas stations on the site of methanol gasoline The sales situation is very satisfactory.
At a methanol fuel symposium held in Shanghai in mid-June this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that it will pilot the pilot project for the industrialization of methanol gasoline from scientific research.
From the national level for the first time to carry out the pilot project of methanol gasoline promotion to the advent of Jinhua's first methanol gasoline station, methanol gasoline is getting closer and closer to the daily life of Jinhua citizens.
Energy-saving pressure brings development opportunities for methanol-gasoline Ma Yueyue, deputy director of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that in recent years, methanol-gasoline has re-entered the field of vision and is related to the increasingly serious energy crisis and the government's heavy pressure on energy-saving and emission reduction.
China has become the world’s second largest oil consumer after the United States. The energy demand of our province has also shown rapid growth along with economic and social development.
In China's oil consumer market, the consumption of gasoline and diesel exceeds 50% of the total consumption, of which transport fuel accounts for about 70%. With the soaring auto ownership, the demand for fuel for civilian vehicles has also grown faster.
At present, our province has established a “military order†for reducing emissions: During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, carbon dioxide*, and nitrogen oxide emissions decreased by 2.5%, 1.8%, and 3, respectively, on a 2010 basis. % and 2.5%. “Zhejiang is the second province in the country for energy-saving and emission reduction tasks. The task of decomposing energy-saving emission reduction targets in our city is not too light,†said Ma Yueyue.
Methanol gasoline is a clean vehicle fuel that can effectively improve the quality of urban air environment. Based on the 8.55 million motor vehicles remaining in the end of 2007 in Zhejiang Province, the total carbon monoxide emissions can be reduced by 1.9 million tons, hydrocarbon emissions by 270,000 tons, and nitrogen oxides emissions by 21% calculated on 1/3 gasoline vehicles. Ten thousand tons, together with a reduction of 2.38 million tons of exhaust pollutants from automobiles, can greatly increase the level of air quality in Zhejiang Province.
Provincial Department of Commerce's information entitled “Issues of Promoting the Methanol Gasoline Industry in the Province and Promoting the Construction of a New Energy Industry Platform†holds that the promotion of new energy such as methanol and gasoline is to solve energy security and environmental protection. The important approach has also provided a new way for the province to complete the task of energy-saving emission reduction and the development of a low-carbon economy. Therefore, this measure must be promoted.
It is based on this consideration that the methanol gasoline pilot has been put on the agenda of the government. In October 2008, the Provincial Party Committee Vice Governor and Governor Lu Zushan stated in a document entitled "Provincial Economy and Trade Committee Organizes Methanol Gasoline Promotion Experts' Argumentation and Next Steps": "This is a good thing and it must be solid." Doing a good job of promotion.†In April 2009, the provincial government approved the approval of the pilot work of methanol gasoline in the province. In August last year, the city was also identified as a pilot city for the promotion of methanol gasoline, and the city's Gasoline Office was established.
Methanol gasoline into the promotion of stumbling blocks?
In the 1980s, China carried out research and practice of low-proportion methanol fuel, and it has not been used on a large scale until now. This is largely due to the psychological barriers and awareness of methanol gasoline's prejudice.
According to experts, methanol is a polar organic matter that not only causes metal corrosion but also causes swelling of automotive rubber parts. Methanol gasoline suffers most from rickets because of its toxicity. Due to its strong volatility, it can pass through the mouth, respiratory tract, and skin, causing acute poisoning in humans.
The government is also very cautious about this. In September 2008, before deciding to pilot the promotion of methanol-gasoline, the provincial Economic and Trade Commission organized 9 authoritative experts to demonstrate the safety, technicality, environmental protection, and economy of methanol gasoline.
The result of the demonstration is that vehicle methanol gasoline has a power close to that of conventional gasoline at low speeds, and its power is superior to traditional gasoline at high speeds. When used on cars, the fuel consumption is 3% to 8% lower than traditional gasoline; vehicle methanol gasoline is more traditional than gasoline. Full combustion, exhaust emissions of harmful pollutants reduced by 40% to 90%; vehicle methanol gasoline and traditional gasoline belong to the same low-grade toxic, will not harm the human body and vehicle engines.
The methanol-gasoline pilot report prepared by the Provincial Alcohol and Steam Office in December last year also confirmed this point. The pilot practice has proved that, in terms of economy, methanol gasoline M30 is more than RMB 1000/ton lower than ordinary 93# gasoline; in terms of environmental protection, compared with national standard 93# gasoline, conventional emissions of exhaust gas have been reduced by more than 60%. Unconventional emissions The average material reduction was 86.3%. In terms of safety, the toxicity of methanol gasoline was less toxic than gasoline or diesel, and the fueling point or the vehicle driver did not find any occupational disease of methanol. In terms of quality, the methanol gasoline technology had passed, and the quality was safe and reliable.
The pilot report also stated that methanol gasoline is more than 0.5 yuan per liter lower than traditional gasoline and is highly popular among consumers. Since the M30 was launched in Pizhou in November 2010, the sales growth of individual gas stations increased by more than 20%, and the sales of methanol gasoline exceeded the sales volume of ordinary gasoline. However, in the pilots, there were occasional blockages of older vehicles.
The prospects for the inclusion of pilot methanol gasoline at 10 gas stations in the city seem to be bright, but it is "the ideal is full and the reality is very edgy."
The two major raw materials of methanol gasoline are methanol, traditional gasoline and methanol. However, traditional gasoline must be purchased from PetroChina and Sinopec.
Ye Zhijian, deputy director of the Commercial Development Department of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that 80% of the gas stations in the city belong to Sinopec, 16.5% of the gas stations belong to PetroChina, and only 3.5% of the gas stations belong to private gas stations. Ni Yingtao, the general manager of Zhejiang Saifu Energy Technology Co., Ltd., a pilot company promoting methanol gasoline in the city, tried to cooperate with the two major groups that controlled the sales channels and sold methanol gasoline through a large number of gas stations. However, he was rejected. "The promotion of the use of methanol gasoline is equivalent to cutting cakes from PetroChina and Sinopec's plates, which will inevitably affect their interests."
In fact, between the promotion of methanol gasoline and the interests of the two major groups, the local government's attitude is very subtle, in addition to considerations of energy conservation and emission reduction, it also links energy security with the promotion of methanol gasoline.
Relevant data show that currently in the province's refined oil market, the share of Sinopec and PetroChina is over 80%, and the market is basically monopolized. According to a report from the Provincial Department of Commerce, this pattern has had a negative impact on the sustainable development of energy and the promotion and utilization of renewable energy in our province. Therefore, it is necessary to establish Zhejiang's refined oil reserve model and methanol gasoline strategic reserve pool with “combination of government reserves and commercial reserves, government control, and relying on enterprisesâ€.
Another plan of the government is to develop a strategic reserve of refined oil that can be controlled by itself by developing formaldehyde gasoline. The above report believes that Zhejiang's petrol supply is highly dependent on the outside world. As soon as the price of oil fluctuates, there is a risk of tight gasoline supply in Zhejiang.
According to the city's methanol gasoline pilot program, the city also has Sinopec Petrochemical Company, Yongkang Qingxi Gas Station, Dongyang City Listing Petrochemical Company, Pujiang Huangzhai Parking Lot Gas Station, Pujiang Hongrui Gas Station, and Pujiang Mansion Gas Station. , Yiwu City Second Oil Company, Yiwu Agricultural Mechanization Service Center gas station, Yiwu Shunfeng gas station and other 10 gas stations were included in the pilot.
The Provincial Alcohol and Steam Office has also proposed to the provincial government to introduce industrial support policies and promote explosion-proof armored gas stations that are mobile and have a small land occupation area.
Methanol Gasoline-related conditions Methanol is an environmentally friendly, renewable energy fuel, and its other well-known name is industrial alcohol. The so-called methanol gasoline, is to add methanol directly to gasoline, supplemented by some additives. Methanol gasoline is marked with the content of methanol as a fuel. For example, gasoline blended with 15%, 30%, 50%, and 85% methanol is M15, M30, M50, and M85, respectively.
In the power output, methanol gasoline and gasoline are almost the same, but the methanol gasoline is more advantageous in terms of price, the price of gasoline is 7.48 yuan per liter, and the price of methanol gasoline is 6.96 yuan per liter.
The development and application of methanol gasoline began during the second oil crisis in the 1970s. China's research on methanol fuel was not late. During the "6th Five-Year Plan" period, the State Science and Technology Commission conducted a research and practice of low-ratio methanol fuel in Shanxi Province.
In 2009, the Zhejiang Provincial Government formally approved Zhejiang Saifu Energy Technology Co., Ltd. as the first high clean methanol gasoline pilot production and operation enterprise in Zhejiang Province, and officially launched the pilot of methanol gasoline in Zhejiang Province on April 13, 2010 in Ganzhou City. Promotion. The Saifu company is also the only designated pilot manufacturer of methanol gasoline promotion in Jinhua.
Business Club July 14th In the morning on July 7th, at the Hengdian gas station in Hengdian Town, Dongyang City, dozens of cars were parked in front of two refueling windows with “M93#†green signs, waiting for staff to be Their cars add methanol gasoline.