The result ofthe 2nd Bluetech Awardwas released inBeijing on December 15. After four months of detailed technology assessments of 54 technologies from 16 countries,includingChina, the US, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 23 were selected as finalists and six of them were titled Bluetech Award winners. The Bluetech Award is aprofessional award given by Clean Air Alliance of China (CAAC) focusing on clean air technologies. It aims to select best clean airtechnologies on a global scale and help the dissemination of practicalclean air technologiesin China. The awardedtechnologies will receive support from CAAC to worktogether in solving China’s air pollution challenge.
This year, the award categorieswere derived from needs among provincial and municipal air quality managementwork. They were:
· Diesel engine emission reduction technologies
· Coal combustion emission control
· VOCs monitoring, substitution and pollution prevention technique
· Indoor air quality monitoring and air purification
· Ultra-low emission control for coal-fired power plants.
Many cutting-edge technologies were among the winners.Domestic company Intermet Techonology Chengdu Co., Ltd. developed the “Intermetallic Compound Paper Membrane Air Purification Technology” which achieved particle matter purification efficiency up to 99.71%, degerming efficiency higher than 99.6% and antibacterial ratio more than 99%. In addition, the filter is washable, which could significantly reduce the purifier operational cost. Shanghai Shen Zhou Vehicle Energy Saving & Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. received the award for its air powered start-up system technology. It is able to achieve oil-savings of approx. 20% on public buses under urban traffic condition. It can also avoid the engine’s low-efficiency during start-up, which could significantly help to reduce PM and CO emissions.
The Bluetech Award also titled four more winners:
· Ammonia (Solid State) Storage and Delivery System (ASDS) from France,which is a NOx emission control technology that can be applied to the newestemission standard
· Slurry Atomization and Vortex Flow Field Technology for the IntensiveDesulphurization of Flue Gas from China, which can largely improve theefficiency of desulphurization of flue gas
· Zeta Electrode Boiler from China, which can achieve the thermal efficiencyof over 99% and produces no emissions when the boiler is in operation
· Escaping Current Particle Measurement Technology fromFinland, which gives a direct, fast, real-time measurement of particleconcentration.
There are many other energy-efficient and low-emission technologies whichare believed to have great potential. “It is our goal and theoriginal intention of this award to use the power oftechnology to help solve air pollution in China.” said XieHongxing, director of the Secretariat of the CAAC, “therefore, the assessmentprocess is based onenvironmental effect, technological performance and economic viability by actual case studies and original testingdata. Our goal isto find the technologies that can be put into practice, andlet these technologies support air quality improvements in different places.”
CAAC has carried out air quality management projects in different provincesand cities since 2014. Currently there are ten projects in places includingBeijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanxi and Shenzhen. Part of the awardedtechnologies have been put into practice in these places, such as fueladditives from EGS which are used in Shenzhen and have achieved good results.
