Economic Frontiers, Building a Green Transportation System, Promoting Heavy Truck Power Exchange and Hydrogenation in Xinjiang
Tianshan net-Xinjiang Daily reporter Yu Jiangyan
After the heavy truck enters the power exchange station, the driver scans the code properly and sends out the power exchange instruction, and the power exchange truss car automatically grabs the old battery and replaces the new battery … This is the scene of replacing the battery for the heavy truck in the No.1 power exchange station of Wusu City on June 8. After the heavy truck enters the station, the battery is automatically replaced in the whole process, and it takes about 5 minutes on average from entering the station to leaving the station.
On May 15th, No.1 power station of Wusu Power Exchange Heavy Truck was put into operation. Photo courtesy of Xinjiang Zhaoyuan Lvneng Co., Ltd.
Wusu Heavy Truck No.1 Power Station was put into operation on May 15th this year, which is the first heavy truck power station put into operation in Tacheng area. Located in the "Golden Triangle" of Wusu, Kuitun and Dushanzi, millions of tons of coal are transported to neighboring power plants and petrochemical enterprises every year. In order to realize the goal of "double carbon", Tacheng area took the lead in popularizing and applying heavy trucks for replacing electricity in coal transportation industry.
"The power exchange station has 8 stations and is equipped with 7 sets of lithium iron phosphate batteries with a capacity of 282 kWh." Jin Shengli, director of the planning and development department of Xinjiang Zhaoyuan Green Energy Co., Ltd., the builder of the power exchange station, said that the power exchange station can guarantee the all-weather operation of 50 heavy trucks.
Building a green and clean transportation system is not only accelerating the layout of heavy trucks for power stations in Tacheng area, but also accelerating the Eighth Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Urumqi City and Turpan City.
At the end of March, the heavy truck replacement power station invested and built by Xinjiang Derun Xiexin Energy Technology Co., Ltd. in Shihezi City was put into operation, which can guarantee 30 heavy trucks to operate all day, and the full-load operation can meet the power replacement demand of 50 heavy trucks. At present, the vehicles that go to the power station to change batteries are mainly heavy trucks engaged in short-distance coal transportation, which transport the coal unloaded from the railway station to nearby power plants.
In January 2022, the People’s Government of the Autonomous Region issued the Guiding Opinions on Further Accelerating the Promotion and Application of New Energy Vehicles and Industrial Development, proposing to accelerate the electrification and demonstration construction of hydrogen fuel in the transportation field, focusing on "Urumqi-Changzhou-Shijiazhuang", "Kuidu-Urumqi" and the joint control area of atmospheric defense in Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. In April, 2022, the first electric heavy truck power station in Xinjiang was put into use in Ganquanbao Economic and Technological Development Zone in Urumqi.
On May 15th, No.1 power station of Wusu Power Exchange Heavy Truck was put into operation. Photo courtesy of Xinjiang Zhaoyuan Lvneng Co., Ltd.
In addition to the layout of heavy trucks for power stations, Xinjiang will also arrange hydrogen refueling stations. At present, relevant enterprises in Yili Prefecture, Hami City and other places have heard the news and plan to take the lead in promoting hydrogen fuel heavy trucks in mining and transportation industries such as coal.
"We produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water through photovoltaic power generation. At present, the hydrogen production plant has completed the construction of’ three links and one leveling’ and can produce green hydrogen at the earliest end of the year." Luo Fengxiang, deputy director of the operation department of Yining Lianchuang Urban Construction (Group) Co., Ltd., said that after the production of green hydrogen, it is planned to purchase the first batch of 247 hydrogen fuel vehicles, including 200 hydrogen fuel heavy trucks and 35 hydrogen fuel dump trucks, to promote the demonstration of hydrogen fuel green transportation in Yining City. Among them, 200 hydrogen fuel heavy trucks will be first used in the coal transportation industry.
At the end of last year, Beijing Yihuatong Technology Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Yining Municipal People’s Government and Yining Lianchuang Urban Construction (Group) Co., Ltd. to jointly promote the construction of the integrated project of photovoltaic green electricity hydrogen production source, grid and storage in Yining City. It is estimated that the annual production capacity of the hydrogen production plant will reach 20,000 tons, and 20 hydrogen refueling stations will be built to meet the daily operation needs of more than 3,000 hydrogen fuel heavy trucks.
While Yining City promoted the construction of photovoltaic power generation and electrolyzed water to produce hydrogen, the hydrogen energy industry in Hami City also started quietly. On June 5th, Guanghui Energy Co., Ltd. signed an equity cooperation agreement with Jiaxing Shenneng Chengchuang Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) and Shanghai Reshaping Energy Technology Co., Ltd., and established Xinjiang Huishen New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., which promoted the production of hydrogen from green electricity and the purification of industrial by-product, carried out the promotion and demonstration of hydrogen energy heavy trucks, carried out the construction of hydrogen production, storage and transportation, hydrogen refueling stations and hydrogen sales, and carried out the integration of green electricity substitution, source network storage and hydrogen energy industry. At the same time, according to the degree of market cultivation and development, timely invest in the construction of hydrogen battery assembly plant, vehicle assembly and other related supporting industries in Hami.
With the continuous development of the green transportation system, it will be as simple to replace batteries and hydrogenate heavy trucks in Xinjiang in the future as it is to refuel at a gas station.
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