Two projects of the School of Chemical Engineering won the 2024 Hunan Provincial Excellent Engineering Surveying and Design Achievement Award

Recently, the Hunan Provincial Surveying and Design Association announced the list of award-winning projects for the 2024 Hunan Provincial Excellent Engineering Surveying and Design Achievements. Two design projects from the Chemical Engineering Institute each received a provincial excellent industrial engineering project award, one second-class and one third-class. This is the result of the Chemical Engineering Institute's commitment to high-quality development through professionalism, focus, meticulousness, and sincerity, demonstrating the institute's strong technical capabilities in engineering design.

Provincial Excellent Industrial Engineering Second-class achievement project: "66,000 tons/year special amine new material project of Yueyang Changde New Materials Co., Ltd." This is a key construction project in Yueyang City, Hunan Province. The product is a special amine product that is encouraged, prioritized, and supported by the state for its high efficiency, safety, and environmental friendliness. Among them, the cyclohexanediamine product fills the gap in key raw materials for the domestic wind power materials industry chain, achieving a breakthrough in China's "stuck neck" technology; the "cement raw material grinding aid" product fills the gap in such functional aids both domestically and internationally, with its main performance reaching internationally advanced levels. It has been recognized as the third batch of single-item champion products in Hunan Province's manufacturing industry and is included in the national recommended catalog of energy-saving technology and equipment products in the industrial and information technology field. In the project design, engineering thinking and innovative concepts are implemented throughout, from improving process routes, adjusting plant structures, optimizing equipment layout, macroscopic overall layout, selecting safe, energy-saving, and environmentally friendly equipment, and highly automated control systems, to meet the requirements of industrial innovation and green development for this project's special amine series products. The project was successfully put into operation in November 2019. After more than four years of operation, production has been stable, product quality is high, and the overall project has become a benchmark project in the industry at home and abroad due to its advantages in advanced technology, intelligent production, low cost, high economic efficiency, and environmental protection and energy saving, receiving high attention and recognition from the industry. Economic benefits are high, and environmental protection and energy saving are advantageous, making it a benchmark project in the industry at home and abroad, and receiving high attention and recognition from the industry.

Third-class achievement project: "Hunan Bangpu Recycling Technology Co., Ltd.'s waste power battery recycling project - production increase and expansion project" This is an expansion project, producing lithium battery cathode material precursor materials, a product encouraged by national policies. The project utilizes process wastewater generated by existing equipment on the site, using nickel beans/nickel powder and nickel-iron alloy as raw materials, to recover effective resources from wastewater through a wet process, producing nickel sulfate, iron phosphate, lithium carbonate, and by-products such as sodium sulfate and sodium chloride. The successful implementation of the project solved the insufficient wastewater treatment capacity of the existing production equipment, extended the industrial chain, added iron phosphate products, enriched the company's product variety, enhanced market competitiveness, and achieved domestically advanced production processes. The project was successfully tested in 2022. After more than two years of operation, production has been safe and stable, wastewater treatment meets requirements, product quality is high, and economic benefits are good, helping Hunan Bangpu to continue to be a benchmark enterprise in the waste battery recycling industry.

In 2024, the Chemical Engineering Institute's two projects won the Hunan Provincial Surveying and Design Achievement Award, which is a microcosm of the countless excellent projects and high-quality engineering projects of the institute. As a Class A design institute in the chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries, and a provincial "production-education integration" postgraduate joint training base, the Chemical Engineering Institute has been deeply engaged in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, construction, and municipal sectors for more than 60 years. Its qualifications and certifications are leading in the industry's ministries and provincial institutes, possessing strong and long-standing technical strength and foundation. Its relevant technologies are "specialized, refined, distinctive, and new," with distinctive characteristics and obvious advantages. It owns three technological innovation platforms: the "Provincial Enterprise Technology Center" of the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the "Municipal Electrochemical Energy Storage Material Technology Innovation Center" of the Changsha Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, and the "Municipal Enterprise Technology Center" of the Changsha Municipal Development and Reform Commission. In the chemical project design process, the Chemical Engineering Institute adheres to the principles of "safety design as the primary task, green design as the core concept, innovative design as the core competitiveness, and intelligent design as the development direction." We believe that in future work, under the guidance of the grand strategic vision of China Energy Engineering Group Hunan Institute 865, the Chemical Engineering Institute will continue to cultivate the chemical and pharmaceutical fields, create more innovative and excellent projects, and strive to write a new chapter in the institute's pursuit of becoming an "industry leader and a first-class domestic institute!"