SPIC issued Scientific and Technological Development Plan of SPIC during the 13th Five-Year Plan Period, and completed the top design for scientific and technological innovation in the future five years, in order to provide instructions for the scientific and technological work of SPIC during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.
SPIC now owns 27 national high- and new-technology enterprises, eight national-level and 18 provincial- and ministerial-level (including industry-level) R&D institutions, two academician and expert working stations and seven post-doctoral working stations.
SPIC has built a scientific and technological research team of high quality, and this team includes 7 experts of “thousand-talent plan”, over 200 subject leaders, over 6000 R&D personnel and over 16,000 science and technology personnel.
On January 5, 2017, SPIC announced at the press held in Beijing that China had NuPAC platform with fully independent intellectual property rights and approval of both State Bureau of Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Regulation Commission (NRC). It was the world’s first nuclear power plant reactor protection system platform administratively approved by Chinese and American governmental nuclear safety regulation institutions.
On February 21, 2015, SPIC released COSINE in Beijing successfully; COSINE was China’s first set of nuclear design and safety analysis software for nuclear power plants and has fully independent intellectual property rights. The software symbolized the key breakthrough of China in independent work of nuclear power software. The COSINE open beta releases at this time included eight modules (thermotechnical hydraulic design and safety analysis, reactor core physical design, fuel design, shield design and source item analysis, major accident analysis, probability safety analysis, reactor Monte Carlo and group constant development), and 15 software. It covers over 80 functions of the similar software in the world, and has all core functions for nuclear engineering design and safety analysis of nuclear power plants - the functions have passed the pre-acceptance of technical achievements of the subject. The whole performance and technical indexes of COSINE software have reached the international advanced level and some key technologies have reached international leading level.
On April 6, SPIC Central Research Institute announced in Beijing that it had fully mastered the production technologies of S32101 ultra-wide duplex stainless steel plates and had conducted short run. These stainless steel plates fill up the blank page of special steel plates in China.
SPIC was appointed the leading entity to undertake the national science and technology major project of heavy-duty gas turbine. It has completed the toplevel design for the project organization and management system, and the project proposal has been approved by the national government. The core technology team of China United Heavy-duty Gas Turbine Technology (CUGT) has been substantially established, which marks a concrete milestone for the capability building of the team. SPIC has since become the only central SOE that leads two national science and technology major projects.
Detection of metallic impurities on the surface of polysilicon materialSPIC subsidiary Yuanda Environment Protection owns China’s largest untreated gas comprehensive test base, the first set of ten thousand ton class gas CO2 catching device, largest active coke dry desulfurization and denitrification test rig, the first PM2.5 control technology pilot plant test system in the coal-fired power station and the first radioactive sewage treatment test platform in Chongqing and many other industrial leading scientific and research platform. It owns the first catalyst performance detection center approved by CNAS.
Huanghe Hydropower Development has set up three labs, i.e. PV materials and equipment R&D lab, solar energy generation system demonstration lab and solar energy generation system design and research lab.
Polycrystalline silicon lab of Huanghe Hydropower Development is the first lab approved by China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment in the silicon industry in China.
The 2 × 660 MW project of Tianji phase II is the China’s first ultrasupercritical unit with 620 °C reheat steam temperature, and the effect of energy conservation is obvious. No. 3 unit was awarded to the title of “the optimal coal consumption unit” of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. The average coal consumption for power supply is decreased by about 10g/kWh in contrast to the similar domestic units. Annually, about 6.27 t standard coal can be saved, 168,800 t CO2 emission and 1,300t SO2 emission can be reduced respectively.
It was the first time in the world to boost the outlet voltage of million-class unit directly to 1,000 kV and connect it to the grid. The blank page both in domestic and abroad are filled up with the above research achievements.
Yuanda Environment Protection has developed the Yuanda honeycomb-like wet electrostatic technology (YD-HTW) with independent intellectual property rights. It can remove smoke and especially fine dust efficiently. It can make the smoke concentration at outlet smaller than 5mg/m3, and can remove SO3 and murcury, etc. effectively. The technology has reached the national leading level, and has been applied in Xishui Erlang Power Plant and Shaanxi Weihe Power Plant successfully.
Yuanda Environment Protection has developed regeneration processes and techniques as well as dedicated key equipment for catalyst of different inactive catalysts. Yuanda has set up catalyst regeneration pilot plant test platform and production line while breaking the monopoly of few overseas manufactures over catalyst regeneration techniques. The investment of reloading catalyst has been reduced by over 40%. The techniques have been successfully applied in Shanghai Waigaoqiao 3rd Generation Company and Jiangxi Xinchang Power Plant etc.
In 2016, SPIC won one Second Prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress, 27 provincial- and ministerial-level awards, including: one first prize of Qinghai provincial scientific and technological progress prize, one first prize of Heilongjiang provincial scientific and technological progress prize, one first prize of China Power scientific and technological progress prize, one first prize of scientific and technological progress prize in China’s non-ferrous metal industry, and one first prize of scientific and technological prize in China’s machinery industry.
After the merger and reorganization, SPIC won 457 patent authorizations in 2015, and won 476 patent authorizations in 2016.
In 2016, SPIC directed and participated in the drafting of 268 national and industrial technical specifications.
On November 22, 2016, SPIC and Tsinghua University held the signing ceremony for the framework agreement on scientific and technical cooperation in Beijing.
On March 1, 2016, SPIC and Chinese Academy of Sciences held the signing ceremony for the framework agreement on scientific and technical cooperation in Beijing.
On October 24, 2016, SPIC and Shanghai Jiao Tong University held the signing ceremony for the framework agreement on scientific and technical cooperation in Beijing.
Huanghe Hydropower Development in collaboration with Huawei Company set up Joint Innovation Center of Intelligent PV Power Plant, and conduct the research on innovative technologies of intelligent PV. Qinghai PV Engineering Technical Research Center has basically been completed. The center has provided support in improving overall conversion efficiency of PV power plant, applying new products and new materials and reducing project investment etc.
SPIC subsidiary CPIH in collaboration with Tsinghua University established multi-energy complementary comprehensive energy management joint research center. They intend to accelerate the advancement of integrated smart energy project via multi-energy complementary key technical breakthrough and demonstrative application.