As a renewable green energy, biodiesel has attracted wide attention because of its wide range of raw materials, good performance in the alternative to ordinary petrochemical diesel. Experts predict that the world biodiesel market will grow by 26% in 2015, the output value will reach 62 million US dollars. The current international crude oil prices hit a 5-year low, the advantages of coal oil has been questioned, which also brought the opportunity for the development of biodiesel. However, the promotion of biodiesel in China has encountered difficulties in raw material procurement, poor sales and other factors.
Oil prices fell to bring opportunities
Huatai Biodiesel Group Co., Ltd. manager Founder told the China Chemical Industry News reporter, recently, the international crude oil prices fell again and again, the advantages of coal oil more questioned. The use of waste oil, swill oil, oil palm, soybeans, rapeseed and other vegetable oils and other refining biodiesel has ushered in the development opportunity.
Founder said: "Biodiesel can act as a lubricant in fossil diesel, especially in the automotive fuel environmental standards, diesel sulfur content decreased, in which with biodiesel, can improve the low sulfur diesel lubricating performance, to avoid the engine Wear.
In 2010, China National Offshore Oil Corporation in Hainan Dongfang Industrial Park to invest in the construction of Hainan annual output of 60,000 tons of biodiesel industrialization demonstration project put into operation. This is the first completed and put into operation in Hainan biodiesel project, is also approved by the National Development and Reform Commission of the first national biodiesel industrialization demonstration project in the first put into operation. The completion of the project can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 140,000 tons per year, reduce carbon monoxide emissions by about 400 tons, reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by about 60 tons, reduce the emissions of respirable particulate matter by about 100 tons. Hainan has thus become the first province to take the lead in the use of "green diesel" provinces.
It is understood that Shandong Biodiesel Group Co., Ltd. is the largest biodiesel enterprises in Shandong, the company with an annual output of 200,000 tons of cottonseed oil conversion biodiesel demonstration project by the Development and Reform Commission as a biological field of national high-tech industrialization demonstration project.
Raw material procurement competition
Zoucheng Xin Tang New Energy Co., Ltd. Shi Chao told reporters that food waste oil is the main raw material of domestic biodiesel, but with the illegal flow back to the dining table on the waste oil compared to the production of biodiesel is not competitive. A public message is that the cost of processing 1 ton of waste oil into edible oil is less than 100 yuan, while the cost of processing biodiesel is about 1,000 yuan, the difference between the two nearly 10 times. At the price, the price of biodiesel per ton of edible oil is about 1,000 yuan.
With the rise of biodiesel enterprises, production of raw materials required tight. Shandong Biodiesel Group in the surrounding procurement has been difficult to meet the 200,000 tons of biodiesel production needs, raw material procurement has been extended to Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu and other places.
Anhui Zhongshi Bio Energy Co., Ltd. is the largest bio-diesel production project in Anhui Province. The annual production capacity of biodiesel is 60,000 tons. The daily consumption of waste oil is about 600,000 tons. It not only consumes local waste oil, but also from Shanghai, Shandong and other places to buy waste oil.
Poor sales of enterprises
At the same time, many biodiesel installations are running at low loads because of poor sales. Last year, China's total output of biodiesel was 1 million to 1.5 million tons, which was very low compared with the annual production capacity of 3.7 million tons.
Because the biodiesel did not sell and stop the business of a few, Anhui earliest involved in biodiesel national wind bio-energy company disappeared from the public eye is an example. As well as the United States independent investment 150 million US dollars, located in Zhenjiang City Dagang International Chemical Industrial Park, with an annual output of green renewable bio-diesel 1 million tons of Jiangsu Hengshunda bio-energy base, but also because of acclimatized and closed down.
The biggest reason for the collapse of the biodiesel business is that there is no market, the survival of the biodiesel companies are also worried about the sale. Shi Chao told the China Chemical Industry News reporter, Xin Tang new energy bio-diesel is currently used as power plant ignition combustion agent use. And Founder told reporters that the current Shandong Biodiesel Group's biodiesel can only be sent to a small number of refining enterprises in the diesel in a small amount of blending. As biodiesel sales can not enter the normal sales channels, Shandong Biodiesel Group annual production capacity of less than 50%, that is less than 100,000 tons. "But that is 10 million tons of biodiesel, sales is also a very troublesome thing." Founder said.
Industry expect "take the ocean"
Although the use of waste oil and other waste oil production of bio-diesel in the cost of raw materials have advantages, but China's biodiesel industry is far behind abroad.
From the experience of foreign countries, the United States, Europe, the intensity of subsidies for biodiesel are very large, but the subsidies are the upper reaches of the farmers benefit, because it is raw materials soybeans and rapeseed. But the domestic situation is different, the Government of the flow of waste oil is not a strong control measures, a lot of waste oil I do not know whereabouts.
In the sales of biodiesel, some developed countries and regions also have a corresponding incentive policy. South Korea's diesel is the addition of 2% biodiesel mixed diesel; the EU also proposed to 2020, the consumption of gasoline and diesel consumption, the member countries must achieve at least 10% of renewable energy targets.
Biodiesel industry is the most hope that the state can after a certain pilot, learn from foreign biodiesel industry development experience, the implementation of mandatory addition and use, which will be able to biodiesel market to bring huge market opportunities.