总投资9.8亿元 台州湾生物质制氢项目加速建设落地Total Investment of RMB 980 Million: Taizhou Bay Biomass-to-Hydrogen Project Accelerates Construction

[Green Fuel International Business Network] has learned that international shipping's demand for low-carbon marine fuels is growing, yet the supply of EU-certified green methanol is tight. Targeting the low-carbon new track, the Taizhou Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone has laid out a green energy gas island biomass hydrogen production project, which once in production will convert agricultural and forestry waste into clean energy. The project is currently under accelerated construction.

On the morning of September 7, workers at the project construction site were carrying out pile driving for the production workshop. The workshop pile foundation work is now basically complete and will soon move on to superstructure construction, with equipment mobilization and installation advancing in parallel. The R&D building, analysis building and fire protection and utility facilities have all been completed, and preliminary procedures related to workshop construction and equipment installation are being implemented in an orderly manner.

The project is located in the Linhai Taizhou Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone, with a total investment of RMB 980 million and phased construction. It adopts an internationally pioneering biomass hydrogen production technology to utilize agricultural and forestry waste such as straw as resources and produce clean energy products. Phase I is expected to start production by the end of 2027; at full capacity it can produce 7,120 tonnes of high-purity hydrogen, 50,000 tonnes of green methanol and 100,000 tonnes of green carbon dioxide annually, consuming 170,000 tonnes of agricultural and forestry biomass waste each year.

The implementing entity of the project is Zhejiang Haichang Gas Co., Ltd., headquartered in Linhai. The company has been deeply engaged in the industrial gas field for 38 years and has mature hydrogen and carbon dioxide production technologies. Leveraging years of technological accumulation, it has partnered with East China University of Science and Technology for industry-academia-research cooperation and extended downstream into the green methanol industry chain.

Chen Fang, project manager of the Taizhou Bay green energy gas island biomass hydrogen production project and assistant to the general manager of Zhejiang Haichang Gas Co., Ltd., said that the industrial methanol commonly used by shipping vessels today cannot meet EU green certification standards, whereas the green methanol it produces complies with EU green emission reduction requirements, aligns with the orientation of the national 15th Five-Year Plan and contributes to achieving the "dual carbon" goals.

From an industrial logic perspective, the project uses agricultural and forestry waste such as straw as feedstock, linking the waste disposal needs of agriculture and rural areas at one end and the low-carbon fuel gap of international shipping at the other, forming a chain of "waste - hydrogen and methanol - shipping fuel." The project simultaneously produces three categories of products - high-purity hydrogen, green methanol and green carbon dioxide - which helps raise the comprehensive utilization value per unit of biomass and supports the clustering of a green gas industry in the Taizhou Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone.

It is understood that green methanol is an important low-carbon alternative fuel for international shipping, helping vessels cut carbon and emissions and holding positive significance for the green and low-carbon transition of Taizhou's marine economy. Once in production, the project will further improve the local green energy industry layout and inject green momentum into the high-quality development of the marine economy.