Abstract:
Under the guidance of the goal of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”, promoting the clean and efficient use of coal has become a key path and strategic measure to ensure national energy security, actively respond to global climate change, and realize the green and low-carbon transformation of the energy system. For Sichuan Province, the coal industry has long faced structural contradictions such as low mining efficiency, weak conversion and utilization levels, and high life-cycle carbon emission intensity, which seriously restrict the process of regional low-carbon development and ecological civilization construction. By conducting on-the-spot investigations at a number of coal mines in the province that are normally mined, coal-fired power plants, steel companies, and coal chemical companies that are included in the national carbon emissions trading market, and taking coal and rock samples from the southern Sichuan coalfields for analysis and testing, we collected and analyzed the annual methane emission data of normal coal mines in the province, and carried out a study on carbon emissions in the entire coal industry chain. The study identified the basic status quo of coal mining, washing and processing, transportation and terminal utilization in Sichuan Province, analyzed the current common problems in the clean and efficient utilization of coal in Sichuan Province, combined with my country's "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" goals, advanced coal washing technology, comprehensive utilization of coal gangue, green coal transportation, carbon dioxide Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), efficient utilization of coal mine gas and underground coal gasification have proposed advanced technologies and approaches suitable for the clean and efficient utilization of coal in Sichuan Province; targeted recommendations have been made to promote the green and efficient transformation of coal washing, promote the graded utilization and ecological management of coal gangue in Sichuan, and promote coal transportation in Sichuan Policy recommendations include a green transformation strategy, a strategy to promote Sichuan CCUS industrialization demonstration strategy, a strategy to promote the hierarchical utilization of coal mine gas and a carbon market-driven approach, and a strategy to promote the breakthrough of underground coal gasification in Sichuan. The research results are intended to assist the green development of coal enterprises in Sichuan Province and provide support for the realization of Sichuan Province’s “carbon peak and carbon neutrality” goals.