Starting from the green energy of wind power with rich resources, taking the large-scale hydrogen production from electrolytic water as the way, and finally releasing electric energy through the hydrogen and oxygen reaction of fuel cell stack, starting the motor to drive the car. From wind power to hydrogen production, from hydrogen storage and hydrogenation to large-scale application – “Zhangjiakou experience” has attracted much attention.
With the successful completion of the Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, the fuel supply of cars has also passed the test of hydrogen supply. Since February 14, the guarantee of hydrogen injection of more than 6 tons per day for many consecutive days can be called a large-scale use of hydrogen power in the field of transportation in history. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles coerced by the Beijing Winter Olympic Games have entered the global vision.
Starting from the green energy of wind power with rich resources, taking the large-scale hydrogen production from electrolytic water as the way, and finally releasing electric energy through the hydrogen and oxygen reaction of fuel cell stack, starting the motor to drive the car. From wind power to hydrogen production, from hydrogen storage and hydrogenation to large-scale application – “Zhangjiakou experience” has attracted much attention. Where will this hydrogen energy industry cluster go after the Winter Olympics? Can the fuel cell vehicle demonstration city cluster in Hebei Province led by Zhangjiakou rise strongly?
In this regard, the shell finance reporter of the Beijing News visited.
7 10 trolley platform to ensure the Zhangjiakou competition area of the Winter Olympic Games
Leaving Zhangjiakou Railway Station, bus No. 33 goes all the way north and soon drives to the core business district of Beicheng. Although the low temperature is more than ten degrees below zero, the experience of shell finance reporters found that this hydrogen fuel cell bus runs smoothly and has little noise, which is no different from other vehicles.
“In order to host a green and low-carbon Winter Olympic Games, Zhangjiakou has put 444 hydrogen fuel cell buses into operation since 2018, with a passenger capacity of more than 62 million and a running distance of more than 21 million kilometers. It has become one of the cities with the largest and most stable number of fuel cell vehicles in China.” Yin Xuguang, director of High Technology Department of Zhangjiakou development and Reform Commission, introduced.
After more than three years of operation and technology upgrading, a total of 710 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be put into use in Zhangjiakou during the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, including 623 in Chongli district and 87 in the main urban area. At present, the city has built 9 hydrogenation stations, including chuangba station, Weisan Road station, Dongwangshan station, taizicheng station and taizicheng skid mounted station, Chongli south station and Chongli South skid mounted station, Chongli north station and Xishan industrial park, with a hydrogenation capacity of 7.9 tons / 12 hours, which can support the demonstration application of hydrogen energy industry in the city and ensure the supply of hydrogen energy for the Winter Olympic Games.
Director Yin Xuguang told shell finance reporters that from the adaptability training in the early stage of the Winter Olympics to the end of the Winter Olympics, Zhangjiakou has supplied more than 150 tons of hydrogen energy, and the hydrogen filling has reached the peak of 6 tons per day after the opening of the Winter Olympics.
Meng Xiaomin, project director of Zhangjiakou hydrogen and Renewable Energy Research Institute, told the reporter of shell finance, “During the 2022 Winter Olympic Games (from February 4 to 20), according to the data of fuel cell vehicle data acquisition and monitoring center of Zhangjiakou Institute of hydrogen and renewable energy, Zhangjiakou competition area has injected 94.3 tons of hydrogen and reduced carbon emissions by 1414.5 tons, which is equivalent to the absorption of planting more than 68000 trees.”
Zhangjiakou successfully passed the “hydrogen assessment” under the Winter Olympic Games. Moreover, the hydrogen industry is spreading, benefiting the development of many industries.
The R & D, demonstration and application projects of key technologies of natural gas hydrogen blending supported by the science and Technology Department of Hebei Province are advancing in an orderly manner; The feasibility study report of the hydrogen metallurgy project of Xuanhua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. has been completed and the project approval procedures are being handled; Zhangjiakou hydrogen energy technology company, located in Xiahuayuan District, has an automatic production line with an annual output of 4000 sets of air-cooled hydrogen fuel stacks. Its low-cost air-cooled hydrogen fuel cells have been applied in UAVs, small express logistics vehicles and other fields.
Hydrogen power, represented by hydrogen fuel cell buses, has gone from unfamiliar technology to ordinary life in Zhangjiakou Lbx Pharmacy Chain Joint Stock Company(603883) in just five or six years. With the help of the Winter Olympic Games, it has quietly realized curve overtaking in this field.
fuel cell circle of special friends
“Over the years, Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) The R & D team overcame difficulties, the low temperature resistance of engine series products reached the national standard two years in advance, completed the acceptance of the project “development of high environment tolerant fuel cell system products” of Beijing Municipal Commission of science and technology, and worked with Futian OUHUI bus to complete the extreme cold test in Hailar in January 2020. After the hydrogen fuel cell bus was placed in – 30 environment for more than 8 hours, The ultra-low temperature cold start test was carried out, and it was successfully started in 116 seconds, which is of great significance to the large-scale promotion of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the north. ” Yu Min, executive deputy general manager of Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) recalled to the reporter of shell finance, “in order to improve the climbing ability of vehicles, we continuously upgraded the fuel cell stack, and the power was increased from 30 kW to 120 kW. The hydrogen fuel cell bus we cooperated with has been upgraded for three generations.”
Shi Hongwu is the deputy general manager of Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) power technology, a holding subsidiary of Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) sent to Zhangjiakou. In 2017, Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) power technology landed in Zhangjiakou. From Beijing to Zhangjiakou, Shi Hongwu also witnessed the development here. The 48 Mu wasteland in the past has become a modern production base of Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) power technology. The company has built phase I and phase II production lines with an annual output of 2000 and 10000 fuel cell engines. The phase I production line has been officially put into operation in 2017, and the phase II production line is under commissioning.
The reporter of shell finance and economics learned from the interview in Zhangjiakou hydrogen energy industry cluster that the application of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is a complex system engineering. The first is hydrogen production, which can not be prohibitive to the market and can not afford government subsidies; The second is storage, transportation and filling, which requires a certain market share, so as to support the complete storage, transportation and filling supporting industry; The third is fuel cell stack technology. In recent years, the cost of this technology has been declining, and it has fully met the basic conditions for commercial operation; The last is the supporting vehicle production technology. If no enterprise is willing to cooperate, no matter how good the technology is, it will not be applied. It is doomed that the hydrogen energy industry can not be promoted by several enterprises. It needs to unite the forces of scientific research institutions, enterprises, government and society.
At chuangba hydrogenation station in the southeast of Zhangjiakou City, buses drive into the filling area one after another, and more than ten kilograms of hydrogen can be filled in more than ten minutes. The hydrogenation station was built by Zhangjiakou Jiaotou hydrogen energy new energy technology Co., Ltd., jointly established by Zhangjiakou Jiaotou group and air Huatong and Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) power technology. Not far away, Harper New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. is also a green hydrogen production enterprise in which Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) power technology shares.
Yu Min told shell finance that Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) power technology, on the one hand, joined hands with hydrogen production and hydrogenation enterprises, and on the other hand, cooperated with more than 30 mainstream vehicle enterprises such as BAIC Futian, Futian, Shenlong, Zhongtong and Geely. The vehicles have been commercialized in 16 cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Zhangjiakou, Chengdu and Zibo, with a total of more than 1800 vehicles.
An enterprise pulls up a circle of friends in the hydrogen energy industry, which has become a special gift to Zhangjiakou from the Winter Olympic Games.
the light of the Olympic Games lights up the hydrogen energy industry
The reporter of shell finance and economics learned that in July 2015, Zhangjiakou was approved as the first and only national renewable energy demonstration zone in China. In December 2021, the implementation plan of Hebei fuel cell vehicle demonstration and application city cluster led by Zhangjiakou City was approved by the Ministry of finance, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of science and technology, the national development and Reform Commission and the national energy administration. It has become one of the five major fuel cell vehicle demonstration and application city clusters in China.
The process of preparing for the Winter Olympic Games is also the process of Zhangjiakou hydrogen energy industry taking root and developing.
In terms of hydrogen production and hydrogenation, director Yin Xuguang said that four hydrogen production plants have been built, including Harper, shell, Guyuan and Chongli, with a total hydrogen production capacity of 17 tons / day. At the same time, the construction of Bashang hydrogen energy base has been accelerated, and a number of hydrogen production projects such as Harper technical transformation, Guohua Chicheng, Gd Power Development Co.Ltd(600795) Shangyi and Zhongzhi Tiangong are advancing in an orderly manner.
Director Yin Xuguang introduced that in order to strengthen the layout of hydrogen energy industry chain, the city has cultivated and introduced 18 hydrogen energy industry chain enterprises such as Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) , Harper and Xiamen Jinlong, initially forming the development pattern of the whole hydrogen energy industry chain. At present, in addition to the completion of the Beijing Sinohytec Co.Ltd(688339) phase II project with an annual output of 10000 fuel cell engines, projects such as hydrogen technology’s annual output of 4000 sets of air-cooled hydrogen fuel cell stack production lines are being promoted, and Jutong technology’s 150MW fuel cell stack project and testing workshop have been put into construction; Beiqi Futian OUHUI hydrogen bus project has been put into operation, and Zhangjiakou Yilong intelligent hydrogen commercial vehicle industry base project and hydrogen Austria automobile and other vehicle manufacturing projects are advancing in an orderly manner.
Director Yin Xuguang explained: “Zhangjiakou has a certain foundation and advantages in the development of hydrogen energy industry. The development of hydrogen energy industry is conducive to optimizing the energy consumption structure of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, ensuring the green energy supply of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of energy, which is of positive significance for promoting the construction of regional ecological civilization and sustainable development.”
According to the official statistics of Zhangjiakou, by the end of 2021, the installed capacity of renewable energy in Zhangjiakou has reached 23.47 million KW, and the installed scale of wind power ranks first in China. Throughout the year, Zhangjiakou generated 35.75 billion kwh of renewable energy, accounting for 58.5% of the city’s total power generation. By 2030, the installed capacity of renewable energy in the city is expected to exceed 50 million kilowatts. The large-scale development of hydrogen production from renewable energy has a solid foundation and great potential. This also provides important support for Zhangjiakou to accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading and boost high-quality economic development.
At present, Zhangjiakou has begun to implement five major projects, including the construction of zero carbon hydrogen production base, infrastructure network guarantee, the construction of hydrogen energy industry chain, diversified demonstration and application of hydrogen energy, and innovation guidance of hydrogen energy industry. Yu Min told shell finance reporters that the current production cost of hydrogen is 30 yuan / kg, and he looks forward to halving in the next few years. From this calculation, a 12 meter bus filled with 25 kg of hydrogen can travel 400 kilometers, and the energy consumption of 100 kilometers is no more than 100 yuan, which will have great competitiveness.
Therefore, after receiving policy dividends and government thrust, the hydrogen energy industry cluster that originated from the Winter Olympic Games has embarked on a benign development track of scientific and technological innovation, system construction, cost reduction and commercialization, which may have a profound impact on the development pattern of commercial vehicles in China.
