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Steel conduit emission standards will be released

China’s steel conduit industry has not yet emerged from the profit crisis, but it is facing escalation of environmental protection pressure. At the China Iron and Steel Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Forum held on June 29, Wu Xuefang, director of the Environmental Standards Institute of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, revealed that the series of pollutant emission standards for the iron and steel industry that have just been reviewed and passed are being countersigned by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine in the near future. Release.
Wu Xuefang said that the new standards have substantially tightened the emission limits for particulate matter and sulphur dioxide, and added emission limits for pollutants such as nitrogen oxides; and specified stricter special emission limits for water and air pollutants in environmentally sensitive areas.
The new standard stipulates that the industry-wide particulate matter emission concentration will be adjusted from the current 100-150 mg per cubic meter to 20-50 mg, and the sulphur dioxide emission concentration of new steel sintering machines will be adjusted from the current 2000 mg per cubic meter to 200 mg.
The person in charge of the environmental protection work of Steel conduit generally believes that for key large and medium-sized steel companies, the particulate matter emission standards are relatively easy to complete, and the large-scale sintering machine desulphurization process is facing great challenges to meet the above standards.
A person in charge of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of a large state-owned steel company told the Waiting reporter that before the major steel companies reported to the Ministry of Environmental Protection on energy-saving and emission reduction work, they were full of confidence in the sulphur dioxide emission indicators. “But as far as I know, the actual situation is not In this way, there is still a big challenge to reach the new standard.”
In terms of numbers, there is still a big gap between China’s steel industry and the international advanced level. In 2011, my country’s key statistical iron and steel enterprises’ sulphur dioxide emissions per ton of steel were 1.53 kilograms, and the ton of steel smoke and dust emissions were 1.1 kilograms. In 2010, South Korea’s Po hang Steel produced only 0.7 kilograms of sulphur dioxide per ton of steel, and 0.13 kilograms of smoke and dust per ton of steel.
The above-mentioned steel company representatives stated that most of the steel companies’ investment in energy conservation exceeds emission reductions, because the former can directly reduce costs, while the latter is to complete corporate social responsibility, which belongs to the category of increasing corporate costs and causes relatively greater motivation for corporate investment. Small.
At present, the steel industry has fallen into a dilemma of difficulty in profitability for the entire industry. From January to April this year, the steel industry achieved a profit of 25.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 28.5%. Among them, the profit of the steel smelting and processing industry was only 8.7 billion yuan, a decrease of 58.3%.
Wu Xuefang said that taking into account the stage characteristics of my country’s development and basic national conditions, the new standards set a transition period of two years and three months for steel companies. After the transition period, existing companies must implement strict emission control requirements.
In addition, steel conduit companies are also facing more direct cost pressures. On the same day, Gao Sheng, director of the turnover tax division of the Taxation Department of the Ministry of Finance, said that he is currently studying the introduction of environmental taxes. If the “fee to tax” is realized, it means that steel conduit companies will pay higher environmental costs.

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