Environmental Issues Accelerate the Rise of the Instrumentation Industry

China's environmental problems have reached a moment of urgency. Speeding up environmental pollution control and strengthening environmental supervision cannot be merely superficial. As an indispensable new force in the management of environmental pollution, the development of the instrumentation industry and its role in it once again focused on the industry's attention.

Analysis of environmental protection instrumentation industry Environmental monitoring instrumentation: Environmental monitoring instrument is a kind of door in the field of instruments. It is a professional on-site analysis instrument that collects analytical data and obtains pollution sources and environmental background pollution. Today, China's environmental detection instruments and meters mainly include water, air and soil. After more than ten years of development, such instruments and meters have developed to a considerable extent. A number of domestic listed instrument companies, such as environmental protection, concentrating technology, Xuedilong, and Tianrui Instruments, have certain R&D capabilities. In the field of environmental monitoring instruments, the market share of domestic enterprises is similar to that of foreign companies. The main reason is that the gap between domestic technology level and foreign countries is not obvious, and domestic enterprises have an advantage in the expansion of sales channels and after-sales services.

Laboratory Analysis Instrumentation: Laboratory analysis instruments are also an important category of instrumentation. They are terminal analysis instruments that collect, analyze, and test liquid, gas, and soil samples. In the field of laboratory analysis instruments, domestic enterprises still focus on low-end products and high-end analytical instruments such as chromatography, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance. Most of the market is occupied by foreign companies. According to statistics, the domestic market satisfaction rate for middle and low-end instruments is 65%, and the satisfaction rate for medium-to-high-end instruments is 30%.

Industrial process analysis instrumentation: industrial process analysis instrumentation, also known as online analytical instrumentation, is a general term for the automatic analysis and measurement of the composition and properties of substances in industrial production processes, with a focus on combustion control, safe recovery of waste gas, The automated analysis products required for process control and quality monitoring reflect the real-time conditions in production. Industrial process analysis instruments and meters are mainly used in petrochemical, iron and steel metallurgy, energy power, cement, building materials, biochemical pharmaceuticals, microelectronics, air separation, coking, natural gas, coal chemical industry, aerospace and other industries. Chinese online analytical instruments started earlier. In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a group of instrument manufacturers with state-owned and military backgrounds providing various types of online analytical instruments.

3, remote sensing telemetry instrumentation: the use of non-contact sensors / sensors and other non-contact technology to analyze the nature of environmental pollution, characteristics and status of the theory, methods and applications of instrumentation. These mainly include remote sensing remote sensing of air pollution, water pollution (such as ocean red tide, oil spill pollution) and pollution sources. Satellite ground receiving systems and satellite image analysis systems are also set up to analyze the current status and changing trends of environmental ecological quality. In recent years, China's remote sensing technology has achieved certain achievements, but there is still a certain gap between the sensor and the international.

Main environmental protection instruments and meters Market demand for environmental protection instruments and meters industry Currently, the domestic environmental protection instruments and meters urgently needed include: atmospheric environmental quality monitoring instruments and automatic monitoring systems; monitoring systems for flue gas analysis instruments represented by coal-fired power stations or boilers; surface water Environmental quality testing instruments and monitoring systems; pollution source monitoring instruments and automatic control systems represented by urban sewage treatment plants and high-concentration organic wastewater.

1. Atmospheric governance: During the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the Ministry of Environmental Protection will implement eight key projects such as sulfur dioxide treatment and nitrogen oxide treatment, with a total investment of approximately RMB350 billion. For example, the newly issued "Emission Standard of Air Pollutants for Thermal Power Plants" has greatly increased the dust removal and desulphurization standards. According to a rough estimate, 70%-80% of dust removal equipment and desulfurization equipment need to be reconstructed, and over the next two and a half years will usher in a denitrification market of more than 80 billion yuan. It is expected that the market capacity for desulfurization construction during the “12th Five-Year Plan” will exceed RMB 50 billion, and the operating market will reach RMB 32.8 billion by 2015, with a compound annual growth rate of more than 50%.

2. Water management: The entire water treatment industry chain will benefit from China's 12th Five-Year Water Governance and water price increase. The lack of water and water, and the uneven distribution of water resources in space and time are inherent disadvantages. Water pollution and deterioration of water ecology are blamed on the extensive growth and control of the water. Without affecting the supply of water resources, controlling pollution, protecting and maximizing the use of available resources are the main ways to ensure water supply security. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, China's investment in the water treatment industry will reach 800 billion, which is 113% higher than during the 11th Five-Year Plan period.

3. Soil management: The General Office of the State Council has issued the “Work Arrangement for Soil Environmental Protection and Comprehensive Management in the Near Future” recently. It is proposed that by 2015, we will thoroughly understand the soil environmental conditions in China, initially curb the rising trend of soil pollution, and strive to build a national soil by 2020. The environmental protection system has significantly improved the soil environmental quality in the country. Some reports pointed out that the cost of land remediation in some regions has reached billions or even tens of billions of yuan. Considering that there are real estate development needs in large, densely populated cities in China, once the market is officially launched, the market space for future soil remediation is expected to be More than 100 billion yuan.

Problems in the development of instrumentation in China In recent years, although China's environmental protection instrumentation has made certain progress, it is far from meeting actual needs in terms of variety and quantity. However, there are problems such as low monitoring frequency, large sampling error, and inaccurate monitoring data. These problems not only affect the scientific decision-making of environmental management and the seriousness of law enforcement, but also tend to dampen the enthusiasm of enterprises for pollution control and environmental protection. High-quality analyzers, special-purpose monitoring instruments, and automatic monitoring systems are mostly introduced from abroad, so the share of domestic instruments is very small. There are several main reasons why this situation is caused:

(1) The operating system of the company is not perfect and tends to converge. The performance of the large-scale state-owned enterprises has a problem in their operation mechanism, and they cannot play a good role as a backbone; many small and medium-sized enterprises flock to the market, lack technology, lack funds, and repeat at low levels. The quality and performance of the instrument cannot be compared with imported equipment. contend.

(2) The product structure is irrational. There is a shortage of high-tech products, and the oversupply of low-end products has contradictions between supply and demand, and it is unable to adapt to strict environmental management needs. At present, the environment monitoring instrument industry is small in scale, backward in technology, and disorderly in competition, and in particular, problems such as unstable technical performance and low level of integration have led to the oversupply of middle- and low-end products, as well as high-quality and high-performance environmental protection instruments. There is no domestic production, and most of them rely on imports.

(3) Low research and development capabilities. The research and development capabilities of Chinese companies are still not much different from those of foreign companies. At the same time, there is also a lack of mechanisms for close cooperation between research institutes and enterprises. Scientific research results cannot be quickly realized in industrialization. The government's investment in developing and developing environmental science instruments and venture capital are also insufficient.

The development countermeasures for China's environmental protection instrumentation industry The development of the environmental protection instrumentation industry must first fully take into account China's national conditions. Environmental monitoring equipment suitable for China's national conditions should have the following characteristics: 1, cheap, low maintenance costs. 2, can adapt to a variety of harsh conditions. 3, easy to maintain, easy to operate. 4, stable operation, strong anti-interference ability. On the basis of fully considering China's national conditions, we must also grasp the development trend of environmental protection instrumentation. Relevant experts believe that the development trend of China's environmental monitoring equipment has the following points: 1. Towards the development of automation, intelligence, and networking in Sanhua; 2. From labor-intensive to technology-intensive development; 3. From narrower areas. Monitoring and development of monitoring in all directions; 4. Development of simple ground environment monitoring combined with remote sensing environmental monitoring.

Combined with the above analysis of the main issues of China's environmental protection instrumentation industry, we hereby make several suggestions:

(1) Increase scientific research investment. With the help of various supporting policies of the country, we will promote the industrialization and technical upgrading of environmental monitoring instruments. At the same time, we will promote the integration of scientific research and production of monitoring instruments and encourage environmental monitoring instrument manufacturers, universities, and scientific research institutions to adopt various methods to carry out technical cooperation and accelerate the transformation of environmental monitoring technologies.

(2) To promote the reorganization of production enterprises, improve the competitiveness of enterprises, and accelerate the process of localization of high-tech products. The use of market control measures to promote the restructuring of enterprises, and gradually change the monitoring equipment production technology is weak, scattered investment, low-level duplication, low market competitiveness, to achieve appropriate scale of intensive production, the formation of a number of monitoring equipment production backbone enterprises . For foreign advanced monitoring equipment of complete sets of technologies, we encourage the introduction, digestion, and absorption of key technologies from abroad, and joint venture production, and gradually realize localization.

(3) Increase the supervision and management of environmental monitoring instruments and accelerate the formulation and improvement of relevant laws and regulations. Establish and improve the operational marketization mechanism and qualification accreditation system of the environmental automatic monitoring system to eliminate the negative impact caused by the chaos in the operating market. Improve the development planning and technical policies of environmental monitoring instruments in a timely manner, clarify the direction of the development of environmental monitoring instruments, guide and standardize the healthy development of environmental monitoring instruments, and avoid the blind obedience of enterprises. By organizing and implementing the demonstration project of the construction of the environmental monitoring automation network, the formation of the automated environment monitoring network system in China will be promoted, and the market demand for environmental monitoring equipment will be expanded.