Company Introduction

Hunan Chemical Engineering Design Institute Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Hunan Chemical and Pharmaceutical Design Institute) (hereinafter referred to as “the Institute” or “we”) was founded in 1958, formerly known as the Design Institute of the Hunan Chemical and Petroleum Industry Bureau, the Design Institute of the Hunan Chemical Industry Department, and Hunan Chemical Industry Design Institute, and renamed as Hunan Chemical and Pharmaceutical Design Institute after merging with Hunan Pharmaceutical Design Institute in 2001. In 2017, we joined Hunan Xiangtou Holdings Group Co., Ltd., a large backbone enterprise in Hunan Province, and were renamed as Hunan Chemical Engineering Design Institute Co., Ltd. In April 2020, we joined China Energy Engineering Group Hunan Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Energy China Hunan Institute”), one of the third national pilot units for mixed ownership reform, and became a central enterprise in Hunan. In 2022, relying on the Institute, Hunan Energy Administration set up the Hunan Oil & Gas Development Research Institute, which is positioned as the oil & gas consulting agency and decision-making think tank of Hunan Energy Administration to serve the oil & gas development strategy of Hunan Province in an all-round way. Relying on Energy China, a central enterprise listed among the Fortune Global 500, the Institute has ushered in new opportunities for reform and development, and has demonstrated a leapfrog development in all aspects of the personnel structure (both quality and quantity), chemical & pharmaceutical, oil & gas, and municipal construction services, as well as corporate management.

    Founded in 1958, Energy China Hunan Institute is subordinate to Energy China, a central enterprise listed among the Fortune Global 500, and has obtained the Class-A design qualification in the electric power industry, Class-A comprehensive engineering survey qualification, Class-A engineering cost consulting qualification and Class-A engineering consulting qualification. Relying on Energy China Hunan Institute, the Development and Reform Commission of Hunan Province has authorized the establishment of the Hunan Energy Planning Research Center and Hunan Energy and Carbon Neutrality Development Research Center. The primary services of Energy China Hunan Institute consist of survey, design, consulting, project general contracting in the fields of power system planning, dispatching and communication engineering, ultra- and extra-high-voltage grid engineering, conventional islands of nuclear power plants, large-scale thermal power generation, pressure pipes, pressure vessels, new energy, distributed energy engineering, etc., as well as the business of selling electricity and comprehensive energy.

    Hunan Chemical Engineering Design Institute serves as a provincial-level design institute for chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, and has been recognized as a National High-tech Enterprise, one of the SMEs that use special and sophisticated technologies to produce novel and unique products in Hunan Province, Hunan Joint Postgraduate Training Base Based on Industry-Education Integration, an oil & gas consulting agency and decision-making think tank in Hunan Province (Hunan Oil & Gas Development Research Institute), and an integrated technical consulting agency for planning, consulting, evaluation and diagnosis regarding chemical industry parks. We have three technological innovation platforms, including the “Provincial Enterprise Technology Center” under the Industry and Information Technology Department of Hunan Province, the “Municipal Technological Innovation Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials” under the Changsha Science and Technology Bureau, and the “Municipal Enterprise Technology Center” under the Changsha Development and Reform Commission. With more than 60 years of experience in chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, construction, municipal and other fields, we are in the leading position in terms of qualifications among the industry departments and institutes, as well as provincial-level institutes, boast strong and long-standing technological strength and foundation, and possess “special and sophisticated” technologies with distinctive features and clear advantages. Relying on our well-established and leading core patents and proprietary technologies of chemical processes, we continue to increase our efforts in scientific and technological research and development and to strengthen the construction of the provincial-level technical expert team; we also, relying on our joint postgraduate training base, strengthen the technical exchanges and cooperation with well-known universities and research institutes, continuously achieving upgrades in both our process technology roadmap and solutions. We have the following qualifications: ■ Class-A qualification for engineering consulting; ■ Class-A qualifications for engineering design: Class-A qualification in the entire chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries; Class-A qualification in the construction industry (architectural engineering); Professional Class-A qualification in the municipal industry (water supply, drainage, and urban gas); Special Class-A qualification for building intelligent systems; ■ Class-B qualification for urban and rural planning; ■ Class-B qualifications for engineering design: four Class-B qualifications in the commodity grain industry, environmental engineering, municipal industry (environmental health), and textile industry; ■ Qualification of safety assessment agency in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries; ■ Design License for Special Equipment such as pressure vessels and pressure pipes, and equipment engineering supervision qualification; ■ Class I Agency for the Review of Construction Drawing Design Documents in Municipal Engineering (Gas) (the first Class A institute and the first review agency for municipal gas in Hunan Province); ■ Sponsor (editor-in-chief) of Chemical Engineering Design Communications, a national sci-tech journal (one of the first nationally recognized academic journals, founded in 1975).

    The Institute has introduced a large number of highly qualified professional, technical and management personnel led by professor-level senior engineers, doctors and masters, including 93 professor-level senior engineers and senior titles, and 78 doctoral and master’s degree holders, with a total of 150 certificates of various types of registered engineers. Our personnel have formed a well-structured cascading technical team in the order of “survey and design masters - professional leaders - technical backbones (registered experts) - new personnel (postgraduates)”. Moreover, our team members involve more than 180 positions of group leaders and senior experts of various expert pools at the provincial, ministerial, municipal and industry levels, and include 50 experts commissioned by the Development and Reform Commission of Hunan Province to evaluate construction projects, 14 experts on provincial-level emergency management, 2 experts on provincial-level carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in the industrial field (chemical industry), 13 experts from the survey and design industry of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department of Hunan Province, 8 experts handling disputed construction drawing review issues of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department and the Civil Air Defence Office of Hunan Province, 30 assessment and consulting experts from Changsha Development and Reform Commission, 21 experts from the Changsha Emergency Management Expert Pool, 21 experts from the Changsha Survey and Design Management Expert Pool, as well as many experts from the Department of Science and Technology of Hunan Province, Hunan Energy Administration (oil & gas), Hunan Fire and Rescue (chemical industry), and the Provincial Technical Expert Pools for Engineering Assessment and Bids Evaluation. We provide a full range of integrated technical services such as planning, consulting, review, design, inherent process safety diagnosis for industrial parks and enterprises, safety evaluation, HAZOP analysis, and project acceptance, for relevant government departments, chemical (pharmaceutical) industrial parks, and relevant investors in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, construction, municipal and other fields. We have strong technology strength, complete professional allocation, superior technical equipment, complete engineering design data, advanced computer software and hardware configuration, as well as overall applications of computer 3D design technology. Over the past sixty years, taking chemical, pharmaceutical, and oil & gas projects as the engine and keeping in step the characteristic development of construction, municipal and environmental protection projects, the Institute has formed its own technological advantages in the chemical industry segments, such as PDO, Hydrogen Peroxide, coating, acetate, caustic soda, Polyvinyl Alcohol, Sodium Hydrosulfite, paste resin, high-purity Potassium Nitrate, Manganese Sulphate and high-purity Manganese Sulphate, new energy battery materials, and other systems, and accumulated extensive engineering experience in process package design, engineering of experimental sets and international projects, as well as remarkable mature project achievements and relevant characteristic technologies in related business fields.

■ Characteristic technical services for chemical (pharmaceutical) industries and parks
    Supported by the technical strength behind numerous achievements the general planning, survey and design for chemical (pharmaceutical) projects made over the past 60 years, and taking the regulations, norms and policy documents closely related to segments of the chemical (pharmaceutical) industry as our basis for preparation, such as general planning, chemical process and equipment, electric automatic control, architectural structure, water supply and drainage, utilities, safety and environmental protection, fire protection, and industrial policies, we provide technical services with remarkable advantages and characteristics, including multi-disciplinary, all-round, systematic, integrated and interconnected planning, consulting, review and other technical consulting for the chemical (pharmaceutical) industry and parks. （Related linkhttp://www.chcd.cn/news/772.html）
    （1）Provincial and prefecture levels: chemical (pharmaceutical) industry development planning, industrial development planning, safety development planning, land space planning for hazardous chemical storage layout, carbon peaking and carbon neutrality planning research, etc.; expert services.
    （2）Chemical (pharmaceutical) industrial parks:
      1、Overall development planning, industrial development planning, safety development planning, fire planning, carbon peaking and carbon neutrality planning, etc., for parks;
      2、Site selection for new parks, site comparison and selection, feasibility study, regulatory detailed planning, transfer and expansion, etc.;
      3、Guidelines for industrial development of parks, and catalogs of prohibitions, restrictions and controls; project access and evaluation; multi-disciplinary expert pool and expert services for chemical (pharmaceutical) projects in parks;
      4、Overall safety risk assessment for parks, “one policy for one park” safety improvement plan, “one map and one chart” on safety risk distribution, and safety risk grading and control system; planning and layout, safety risk assessment and safety evaluation of park projects; site selection, comparison and safety assessment for parks and projects;
      5、Other special plans and technical documents of parks: comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation plans, special plans for natural disasters, fire planning, accidental wastewater analysis reports, overall emergency plans & special plans, etc.;
      6、Design verification, system diagnosis, and expert services for inherent process safety (general drawing, process, equipment, automatic control, fire control, safety, building, structure, etc.) in chemical industrial parks and enterprises; safety design diagnosis for in-service chemical plants;
      7、Other technical consulting services for parks.

■ Relevant project categories in the field of engineering construction
   Taking chemical, pharmaceutical, and oil & gas projects as the engine and keeping in step the characteristic development of construction, municipal and environmental protection projects, the Institute has accumulated remarkable mature project achievements and relevant characteristic technologies in related business fields (planning, consulting, survey, design, general contracting, safety evaluation, safety design diagnosis, etc.)（Related link:http://www.chcd.cn/news/768.html）：

    (1) Chemical industry field: A large number of chemical engineering projects that vary in types, solutions and process routes, including Hydrogen Peroxide, coating, caustic soda and chlorine products made by organic chemical, inorganic chemical and fine chemical engineering; Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA), PVC paste resin, acetic acid & acetate, Sodium Hydrosulfite, PDO, polyimide film, photosensitive dry film for PCB, dismantling and utilization of waste power batteries for new energy vehicles, Cobaltosic Oxide, precursors for anode materials, Si-based anode materials, anode materials for lithium batteries, Nickel-Cobalt-Manganese ternary precursor materials, Iron Phosphate, Manganese Sulfate, ammonia synthesis & compound fertilizer, biodiesel, ethyl alcohol, carbonyl iron powder, Methylaniline, N-Ethylaniline, Ammonium Bicarbonate, special amines, Polyacrylamide, 2-Hydroxy-4-(Methylthio)butyric Acid, Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acid, Azelaic Acid, Potassium Dicyanoaurate, Olefin epoxidation auxiliaries, 2-Ethylanthraquinone, Trimethylolpropane, Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride, Magnesium Chloride Hexahydrate, Magnesium Hydroxide, Magnesium Sulfate Heptahydrate, Calcium Chloride Dihydrate, Ferrous Oxalate, Ferric Trichloride, Sodium Chloride, Nitric Acid, Potassium Nitrate, Barium Nitrate, Ammonium Nitrate, Mirabilite, Phosphate Compound Fertilizer, Lithium Carbonate, Strontium Carbonate, Barium Carbonate, Lithium Dihydrogen Phosphate, White Carbon Black, Chlorate, Ammonium Perchlorate, MPDA, Fluoride Salt, silicone oil & auxiliaries for coating, 3,3,5,5-Tetramethylbiphenyl-4,4-diol, new environmentally friendly H-DINP plasticizer, 2-sec-Butylphenol, Chloromethyl Thiazole, O-cresol, Betaine, Sorbic Acid, Potassium Sorbate, Epichlorohydrin, asphalt & asphalt reservoir, pesticide, Sodium Metabisulfite, etc.;
    (2) Pharmaceutical field: Pharmaceutical engineering projects, including APIs (sterile and non-sterile), chemical-pharmaceutical preparations, bioengineering (cellular engineering), antibiotic drugs, traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces, modern Chinese medicine (plant) extracts, Chinese medicine preparations, veterinary drugs, health care products, cosmetics, biological agents, vaccines, inspection and quarantine rooms, SPF animal rooms, medical devices, pharmaceutical packaging materials, health preservation (herbal medicine cultivation centers and rest centers), etc.; hospitals (outpatient clinics, inpatient departments, preparation rooms, operating rooms, ICU wards, research centers, PET-CT nuclear medicine imaging, and medical gas pipeline and hospital supply centers), and other pharmaceutical and purification engineering projects;
    (3) Oil & gas field: oil and gas transmission and distribution, municipal gas pipe network, city gate stations, gas holder stations, pressure regulating stations, gas filling stations, gas stations and charging piles, etc.;
    (4) Construction & municipal fields: regulatory detailed planning, as well as general planning for the transfer, expansion, parks and projects; construction projects (theaters, exhibition halls, schools, hospitals, real estate, hotels, agriculture-tourism, and offices), municipal and environmental protection projects (treatment projects for water plants, municipal sewage, chemical wastewater, wine industry wastewater, landfills, kitchen waste, tailings & slags, etc.), as well as a wide range of architectural, municipal and environmental protection projects supporting the chemical and pharmaceutical projects.

■ The scope of integrated services between the Institute (Hunan Oil & Gas Development Research Institute) and the superior group Energy China Hunan Institute (Hunan Energy Planning Research Center and Hunan Energy and Carbon Neutrality Development Research Center)

1、Energy and power industry planning

2、Chemical, petrochemical (including oil and gas) and pharmaceutical industry planning, safety development planning, and carbon peaking and carbon neutrality planning

3、Overall development planning, industrial development planning, safety development planning, carbon peaking and carbon neutrality planning research, inherent process safety diagnosis & design review, regulatory detailed planning, general planning, project evaluation and review, etc. for chemical, petrochemical (including oil and gas) and pharmaceutical industrial parks

4、Safety evaluation, safety diagnosis, safety expert services (including integrated technical solutions to HAZOP analysis and SIL classification), and carbon peaking and carbon neutrality implementation plans for chemical, petrochemical (including oil and gas), and pharmaceutical projects

5、Special plans (energy & power, chemical & petrochemical, pharmaceutical, heating, gas, cities & towns, parks, etc.)

6、Project planning, consulting, survey, design and general contracting for thermal power generation, power transmission and transformation, new energy, distributed energy, etc.

7、Project planning, consulting, survey, design and general contracting for chemical, petrochemical (including oil and gas), pharmaceutical, gas transmission and distribution, urban gas (including gas stations and charging piles), environmental protection, municipal, and architectural engineering, etc.

8、Integrated solutions for parks and districts