The demand for energy from a large industrial park in Foshan city, in the Guangdong Province has been met by a LNG Combined heat and power (CHP) installation, built by Xiwei. It is currently the biggest one of its kind in a Province that includes industrial production enterprises that are leading world suppliers.
A response to government environmental protection initiatives
The government are becoming increasingly strict in the supervision of environmental protection, and the businesses on the industrial park were under pressure to change as in the past they have relied on traditional, inefficient and polluting fossil-fuelled boilers.
The Xiwei energy customer is the only supplier for the industrial park and needed to look for an alternative way to support their end-customers and satisfy the demand for energy efficiency and emission reduction.
A central solution for a high energy requirement
The industrial park includes over 200 individual enterprises with production from a range of traditional industries such as textile printing and dyeing, fine chemicals, new materials, machinery and equipment, so it has large demand of heat and power.
Xiwei recognized, that a large LNG station was the solution to support the needs of the whole park and allow for future expansion as demand increases.
The central heating project has a total storage capacity of 800Mt, and the steam supply capacity is up to 570 t/h while the scale of the cogeneration unit is 150 MW. It serves all enterprises on the park, with a cost-effective, centralised energy supply with strong support to allow for increased production capacity.
Reducing CO2 emissions by 180,000 tons per year
The change from using coal to LNG has resulted in a significant increase in thermal efficiency, which is estimated to reduce CO2 emissions by up to 180,000 tons per year, which is equivalent to the impact of planting over 1 million pine trees and let them grow 25 years.
The project has demonstrated how an environmentally focused and clean energy solution, can support large scale industrial centres with increased efficiency and is also a remarkable milestone for Bulk LNG business of Xiwei.
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