The Development of Green Chemicals Is A Major Trend

“Green chemistry” is at the forefront of scientific research in the international chemical industry today. It eliminates pollution at the source, rationalizes the use of resources and energy, reduces production costs, and achieves sustainable development. China is a country with an energy shortage, resource shortage, and a large population. Therefore, energy saving, environmental protection, and resource conservation are important elements and prerequisites for the sustainable, rapid, and healthy development of the petroleum and chemical industry in the future.

The petroleum and chemical industry is the pillar industry of the national economy. The petrochemical industry plays a pivotal role in the country’s economic development. Traditional chemical industry, such as the petrochemical industry in rubber, chemical fiber, and other industries, has long become an important pillar of the national economy. Chemical products are also necessary for the development of high-tech industries. Because the source of high technology is in the chemical industry.

Such as the emerging information industry relies on the basis of silicon, zinc flakes, and other new materials industry. These are the extension of the chemical industry. Petroleum and chemical products will be more widely used in various fields such as industry, agriculture, and people’s lives.

Petrochemical products are involved in both production and life.

• Provide agricultural chemicals such as fertilizers, pesticides, and plastic films for agricultural production.
• Provide raw materials such as oil, natural gas, liquefied gas, and other fuels for energy, transportation, and people’s life.
• Provide synthetic materials, tires, coatings, and adhesives for the automobile, ship, aerospace, and machinery industries.
• For the textile industry to provide synthetic fiber monomers, synthetic fiber polymers, dyes, and textile auxiliaries.
• Provide various plastic materials and functional materials for the light industry and home appliance industries.
• For the electronics industry, we provide electronic chemicals such as printed circuit board substrates, plastic sealing materials, photoresists, high-purity reagents, and special gases.
• Provide plastic building materials, heat insulation materials, architectural coatings, fireproof materials, and other construction raw materials for the construction industry.
• Provide basic chemical raw materials for the pharmaceutical industry.
• Provide military chemical products for the military industry.
• Provide various kinds of related daily-use chemicals for people’s life.

All aspects of the national economy are inseparable from petroleum and chemical products. The petroleum and chemical industry occupies a pivotal position in the industrial chain of the national economy.

However, in recent years, people have had other perceptions about the chemical industry. They think that the chemical industry is a sunset industry, pollution industry, and even worse, talk about “chemical”.

Some environmental pollution incidents and safety accidents have caused extremely bad social impacts. The reason for this status quo is that some local governments or individual enterprises only pursue economic interests unilaterally and implement rough production. Casual discharge of “three wastes”. Not only wasted valuable energy and resources but also polluted the environment. It causes damage to the ecology. But this is not the fault of the chemical industry itself.

From another point of view, the problems arising from the chemical production process can only rely on the chemical industry itself to solve. The way out lies in abandoning the crude chemical production model. Change the linear material flow process of “resource-waste” emission. Enable the circular material flow process of “resources – products – renewable resources”. That is, we advocate the green chemical industry.

The green chemical industry is in line with the trend of developing a circular economy. To promote the “green chemical industry”, we should develop environmentally friendly products, adopt advanced technology, realize clean production, and minimize the emission of three waste according to the requirements of the general trend of environmental protection. A number of backward production processes are bound to be gradually eliminated.