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SAIC Volkswagen plant adopts greener energy
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Energy recovery is a green solution not only for cars, but also the factories that makes them.
Earlier this month, SAIC Volkswagen’s No.3 Plant in Shanghai’s Anting, Jiading District, saw the launch of the city’s first large-scale combined heat and power system for industrial use. The system is meant to maximize the plant’s energy utilization rate by collecting waste heat.
The product of a retrofit project that begin in April, the new system represents the company’s reinforced commitment to green manufacturing following the shutdown of its last coal boiler in Anting in October. Natural gas, the burning of which emits fewer pollutants and leaves smaller carbon footprints than other fossil fuels, is now the plant’s primary energy source for generating electricity.
The new system is reckoned to achieve an annual energy-consumption reduction equal to 11,594 tons of standard coal and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 59,308 tons.
Through four 6.5 megawatt gas turbine generators, natural gas is transformed into mechanical energy, and then into electric energy. Meanwhile, waste heat generated during the process is collected and reused by four 15 ton/hour steam generators.
With the capacity to produce more than 130,000 megawatt-hours annually, the system can meet the electricity demand of the CPA3 and EPA2 platforms, and at the same time produce 60 tons of steam per hour, which is enough to cope with the general steam load of the company’s Anting manufacturing base in summer, and also winter if the contribution of the gas boiler is counted in.
The inauguration of combined heat and power system is a landmark for car production in China. It makes car manufacturers totally independent from using coal boilers and will reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly.
As one of China’s first carmaking joint ventures, SAIC Volkswagen is at the frontier of developing environmental-friendly car manufacturing, and efficient resource management is at the heart of its efforts.
Upon the inauguration of its combined power and heat system and the switch from coal to natural gas, the company has adopted 18 energy-saving production solutions at its factories across the country. The others include ground source heat pumping, chilled water storage, rain water recycling, and photovoltaic power generation.
Its factories in Changsha, Hunan Province, and Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, have both received Triple-Star Green Building Awards, the highest state award available for environmentally-friendly factory design in China. And its plants in Nanjing and Shanghai took the initiatives to build new paint workshops for the applications of waterborne coatings, which can reduce volatile organic compounds while saving paint materials and improving the efficiency of spray applications compared with traditional solvent coatings.
Last year, to raise awareness about energy-saving among employees, SAIC Volkswagen introduced “green labels” under five themes at all of its factories: energy, carbon dioxide, water, volatile organic compound, and waste.
Over the past few years, SAIC Volkswagen has achieved a 75 percent reduction of volatile organic compounds, and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 200,000 tons annually.
SAIC Volkswagen has achieved great sales performance, marked by the roll-off of its 14 millionth car on February 9th.
Meanwhile, SAIC Volkswagen continues to take on its social responsibilities. In the future, SAIC Volkswagen will honor commitment to saving energy, cleaning up air and protecting water resources to make sure the company and the society develop together in a sustainable way.
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