Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Company supplied hydrogen for the 24th Winter Olympic Games.
The 24th Winter Olympic Games were held in Beijing successfully. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have played an important role to promote the green and low-carbon development. Meanwhile, hydrogen is being used as fuel for the Olympic torch to show green and low-carbon life.
As one of the Olympic partners, Sinopec Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Company supplies clean hydrogen for the Olympic cauldron and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Company is affiliated to Sinopec. In the 1960s, to ensure the supply of refined oil in Beijing, China built a refinery base in the southwest of Beijing. At present, it has 10 million tons of crude oil processing capacity and nearly one million tons of ethylene production capacity. In recent years, it has actively promoted green and low-carbon development towards the field of new energy, developed energy saving and new energy technologies, and invested in hydrogen production business.
On the occasion of the Winter Olympic Games held in Beijing, Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Company became the main supplier of hydrogen energy for the Olympic Games. Hydrogen, supplied by Yanshan Petrochemical, was used as fuel to light the cauldron of the 24th Winter Olympic Games at the National Stadium (Bird’s Nest) in Beijing on February 4. In addition, the hydrogen produced by Yanshan Petrochemical is also supplied to serve the three Winter Olympic hydrogen stations under Sinopec, to guarantee the hydrogen demand of 311 hydrogen passenger cars in Beijing Competition area.
Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Company attaches great importance to the opportunity of providing hydrogen for the Olympic Games. It has arranged the plant construction in advance, made the specialized supply plan by thorough deployment, and set up the special supply guarantee team for Olympic Games, to steadily promote hydrogen production, filling, transportation and other links to ensure safe, high quality and timely supply of hydrogen for the Winter Olympic Games.
In the aspect of hydrogen production, in order to strictly ensure hydrogen quality, the operation of the plant has been continuously optimized, advanced hydrogen quality on-line monitoring system has been put into use, and off-line monitoring has also been adopted, to ensure the quality of hydrogen produced by the plant is controlled.
In terms of hydrogen transportation, Yanshan Petrochemical has made careful consideration, planned several transportation routes, formulated special plans for transportation, accurately calculated the journey time and simulated transportation for many times, to ensure hydrogen transportation in a safe and punctual manner.
In addition to ensuring hydrogen supply for the Olympic Games, Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Company also provides hydrogen supply to market customers. As the largest hydrogen producer in Beijing, it provides guarantee for urban traffic operation and actively serves the green development of Beijing. Beijing Yanshan Petrochemical Company is transforming from traditional energy production to modern green and clean energy production.
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