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There are significant opportunities for mining in the environmental protection industry, including hazardous waste treatment and smart environmental protection

During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the environmental protection industry has six sub sectors with market space, namely soil remediation, environmental impact assessment, sponge cities, environmental monitoring, kitchen waste treatment, and black and odorous water treatment.

However, in the environmental protection market of up to 10 trillion yuan, there are also significant opportunities for mining in other environmental sub sectors.

Smart environmental protection

Smart environmental protection is a concept combining Internet technology and environmental informatization, that is, sensors and equipment are embedded into various environmental monitoring objects with the help of Internet of Things technology, and the Internet of Things in the environmental protection field is integrated through supercomputers and cloud computing, which can achieve the integration of human society and environmental business systems, and achieve the wisdom of environmental management and decision-making in a more refined and dynamic way.

From the perspective of the environmental protection department, smart environmental protection will play an important role in environmental impact assessment quality monitoring, pollution source monitoring, environmental emergency management, pollution discharge fee management, and other aspects.

From the perspective of polluting enterprises, smart environmental protection can accurately grasp the quantity indicators of wastewater, exhaust gas, waste residue, etc. generated by enterprises, thereby avoiding the punishment faced by environmental protection departments due to excessive or unqualified emissions.

Through smart environmental protection, environmental monitoring can be intelligentized, systematized, and mobile, enabling related enterprises to transform from simply selling environmental monitoring instruments and equipment to becoming a provider of overall environmental monitoring and governance solutions. These enterprises utilize smart environmental protection models to integrate regional environmental issues and solve local government pain points fundamentally through a full range of monitoring layouts.

Analysis shows that providers of overall environmental monitoring and governance solutions are better able to enjoy development that exceeds the industry average growth rate compared to single category and pure governance companies, and gain more dividends from the huge market.

In April 2015, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development and the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the third batch of pilot projects for smart cities. Currently, there are 290 pilot projects for smart cities. As an important component of smart cities, the scale of orders for smart environmental protection can be imagined.

Hazardous waste treatment

Hazardous waste has a wide variety of types and complex properties, and its pollution hazards exhibit long-term and hidden characteristics, which can easily form significant environmental pollution hazards. The characteristics of hazardous waste determine the importance and urgency of its management and disposal.

The hazardous waste treatment industry in China started around 2001 and has entered a stage of rapid growth after more than a decade of development. However, due to the relatively complex hazardous waste treatment technology, large investment scale, and the strict qualification certification required by enterprises entering the industry, the current industry market has not opened up.

In addition, currently, most hazardous waste treatment companies in China are relatively small in scale and cannot effectively carry out hazardous waste treatment. At the same time, it dilutes the processing quantity of larger manufacturers. In addition, the actual hazardous waste recovery rate is not high, resulting in a lower overall market operating rate.

However, as an important branch of the solid waste field, the prospects of the hazardous waste treatment market are still widely optimistic. According to analysis, due to the serious lack of hazardous waste treatment capacity in China's polluting provinces, many hazardous waste needs to be transported to other places for treatment. The field of hazardous waste treatment is likely to evolve into a situation where giant enterprises occupy a market share.

According to relevant professional institutions, the scale of China's hazardous waste market is expected to reach around 100 billion yuan in 2020. At present, well-known enterprises in the environmental protection industry have also entered this blue ocean, and China's hazardous waste treatment market has ushered in good development opportunities.

Desulfurization of thermal power plants out of stock

In recent years, the atmospheric environment quality in China has not been optimistic. With the continuous appearance of severe weather such as haze for a long time and on a large scale, air pollution control has become a focus of almost everyone's attention.

The main atmospheric pollutants in our country are sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and dust. Data shows that sulfur dioxide emissions from thermal power and steel industries account for 55.4% of industrial sources; The nitrogen oxide emissions from the thermal power industry account for 65.4% of industrial sources; The smoke and dust emissions from thermal power, cement, and steel industries account for 29.7% of industrial sources.

The desulfurization market for thermal power in China originated around 1998 and has entered a mature stage after about 10 years of development. According to statistics, as of the end of 2014, the capacity of flue gas desulfurization units in thermal power plants that have been put into operation is about 760 million kilowatts, accounting for 83.0% of the capacity of thermal power units and 92.1% of the capacity of coal-fired power units.

At present, the development of flue gas desulfurization, denitrification, and dust removal in thermal power plants in China is basically mature. Some analyses indicate that the future increase in the market for flue gas desulfurization and dust removal in thermal power plants will mainly come from the improvement of environmental standards and franchising in the operation process. The incremental market will come from the flue gas treatment of small boilers, steel, and cement.

Another analysis agency believes that the governance of haze in China is urgent, and the enforcement of air pollution control will be stricter in the future. The desulfurization and denitrification industry is expected to significantly benefit, and the market will experience substantial growth.

Industrial wastewater treatment

The pollutants contained in industrial wastewater are complex and relatively difficult to treat compared to urban wastewater. The treatment of industrial wastewater usually requires a combination of one or several processes to achieve good results. At the same time, factors such as high technological barriers in the industry make China's industrial wastewater treatment industry still in the early stage of development.

At present, the proportion of urban sewage treatment in China is relatively high, and it is expected that the future increase in emissions will be relatively slow, with little room for improvement in the treatment proportion; However, the proportion of chemical wastewater treatment in China is relatively low, and there is great room for improvement in the future.

Data shows that in 2013, the total amount of wastewater discharge in China was 69.54 billion tons, of which 20.98 billion tons were industrial wastewater, accounting for 30%. The discharge of wastewater from the chemical industry is 9.3 billion tons, with a treatment capacity of 4.1 billion tons and a treatment ratio of only 44%. The treatment capacity urgently needs to be improved.

Experts have analyzed that China's industrial wastewater has a large output, wide coverage, and a wide variety of types, making it difficult to treat and costly. The chemical wastewater treatment market alone will reach about 200 billion yuan per year in the future, nearly three times that of urban sewage.

With stricter emission standards and greater regulatory efforts, there will be more problems to be solved and improved in industrial wastewater treatment, which will also bring more market opportunities.


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