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Petrochemical Waste Catalyst Standards Committee Established
Release time:
15 Nov,2017
The types and quantities of spent catalysts from the petrochemical industry are vast, with over 1 million tons generated in 2016, accounting for 8.7% of all hazardous waste. As almost all spent catalysts were classified as HW50 hazardous waste under the newly promulgated and implemented Catalogue of Hazardous Wastes in 2016, standardized management has become a common challenge for government agencies, industry organizations, and related upstream and downstream enterprises.
There are various types and huge quantities of petrochemical waste catalysts. In 2016, more than 1 million tons of waste catalysts were generated, accounting for 8.7% of all hazardous waste. Due to the fact that almost all of them were listed as HW50 hazardous waste in the newly issued and implemented hazardous waste catalog in 2016, how to standardize management has become a common problem faced by government agencies, industry organizations, and related upstream and downstream enterprises.
At the first quarter hazardous waste management meeting of the Ministry of Environmental Protection at the beginning of the year, representatives of the association proposed that although the new catalog of hazardous waste has become clearer in classification and more accurate in definition compared to the previous version, there is no clear definition of product attributes in the catalog of thousands of sub categories or related regulations, and there is no basis for qualitative judgment, often leading to differences with local environmental protection departments. In response, the environmental protection department proposed the need for standard supplements as the basis for local environmental protection agencies to implement. In response to the significant differences between newly listed companies and regulatory authorities regarding the HW50 waste catalyst category, a series of standards need to be introduced to define and regulate the management of related waste materials.
At the member meeting of the Rare and Precious Metal Recycling Industry at the end of July, Bian Jiang, the head of the Rare and Precious Metal Recycling Committee of the China Material Recycling Association, Zheng Yang, the director of the Hazardous Waste Management Office of the Solid Waste Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and Yuan Zhiwei, the general manager of the Precious Metal Branch of Sinopec Catalyst Company, explained the framework and direction of the standard and discussed it with all member enterprises. In the end, all member enterprises agreed that the standard formulation for waste catalyst management is a necessary task at present and actively responded and participated. At the same time, our standards must be open and practical, and cannot be inconsistent with the actual production operation.
At the 11th China Rare and Precious Metal Recycling International Forum in early November, Liu Zhijian, Deputy General Manager of Sinopec Catalyst Company, once again explained the importance of formulating standards for waste petrochemical catalysts.
After nearly a year of communication and preparation with Sinopec, the Solid Waste Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and relevant recycling and disposal enterprises, the Waste Petrochemical Catalyst Group Standard Working Committee was officially established at Sinopec Hainan Refinery, with the Rare and Precious Metal Recycling Special Committee of China Material Recycling Association as the drafting unit, Sinopec Catalyst Company as the leading participating unit, and major refining and recycling enterprises and disposal enterprises as member units. The first plenary meeting and drafting group special discussion meeting were held.
At the first plenary session, the head of the Rare and Precious Metals Recycling Special Committee of the China Association for Recycling Materials, Bian Jiang, announced the organizational structure of the Standards Working Committee, as well as the names of the committee director, executive deputy director, drafting group, on-site coordination group, office and liaison group leaders and members. He explained the division of participating enterprises, task allocation, standard development time periods, and work arrangements at each stage.
In order to ensure the high quality, authority, and applicability of the standards, and to avoid pure theoretical forms of standards becoming useless standards that do not conform to practical operations, the working committee has specially appointed experts and drafting group leaders who are experienced senior professors from Sinopec and have participated in the development of thousands of petrochemical catalyst standards. They are also composed of major production source enterprises such as Sinopec Catalyst Company and Precious Metals Branch, Hainan Refining and Chemical, Zhenhai Refining and Chemical, Yangtze Petrochemical, Shanghai Petrochemical, Maoming Petrochemical, and Gaoqiao Petrochemical, as well as the first batch of Guiyan Resources (Yimen) Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Zhongming New Materials Co., Ltd., Xuzhou Haotong New Materials Technology Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Shenlian Environmental Protection Group Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Teli Renewable Resources Co., Ltd., Xuzhou North Mining Metal Recycling Co., Ltd., which were shortlisted for the standard drafting working group. Research Institute The main downstream recycling and disposal enterprises, such as Yunlong County Platinum Cui Precious Metal Technology Co., Ltd. and Hebei Xinrui Recycling Resource Utilization Co., Ltd., as well as the drafting unit, the Rare and Precious Metal Recycling Special Committee of China Material Recycling Association, and the regulatory unit, the Solid Waste Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, will jointly draft. The standard drafters will go deep into the unloading site of refining enterprises to study and develop the most environmentally friendly, scientific, and practical standards in various processes such as sampling, testing, analysis, and packaging after unloading waste catalysts, and visually reflect them in the form of text and images. The preliminary standard formulation for FCC waste catalysts, hydrogenation (non-ferrous) waste catalysts, and reforming (precious metal) waste catalysts is being carried out simultaneously. It is expected that nearly 20 standards will be issued, all of which will take six years to complete. The first batch of standards will be completed in the second half of 2018 for industry enterprises to use and for government regulatory agencies to refer to. In the case of good results in the use of standards, they will be directly applied for and converted into national standards.
On the second day of the meeting, the drafting and on-site team members specifically studied the formulation of standards. The participating enterprises had intense discussions on the sampling and analysis process, with significant differences. After multiple discussions, a unified opinion was finally formed, and it was decided to go to the site again to operate and formulate standards during the unloading of reagents in Hainan Refinery.
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