Pilot Plant Of National Advanced Functional Fiber Innovation Center Will Be Put Into Use

On June 9, Xu Yonghua, an engineer sitting in front of the screen, reported the operation status of the equipment through walkie talkie in the main control room of the pilot plant of the national advanced functional fiber innovation center. The pilot test line of phase I flame retardant fiber in the pilot plant of the innovation center entered the final stage of joint debugging and joint test, and it is expected to be put into operation at the end of June.

 

The national advanced functional fiber innovation center is the 13th and the first national innovation center led by a private enterprise in China. It conducts cutting-edge research on new functional fiber materials, high-end fiber materials and textiles, and frontier fiber new materials. At present, the supply system of technological innovation supported by key laboratories, pilot bases and national textile testing centers has been established.

An innovative product often needs to go through several stages, such as laboratory research and development, small scale test, pilot scale test and industrial mass production. The "pilot test" is a very critical stage, which is often called the "valley of death" of innovation.

 

Mei Feng, chairman of Jiangsu new horizon advanced functional fiber innovation center, said that as an important part of the innovation center, the pilot plant is at the world leading level. After being put into use, it will solve the difficulties in the research and development and test of functional fiber, high-end fiber and frontier fiber of the innovation center, and provide an important platform for promoting the key technology of the innovation center from laboratory to industrial mass production.

The pilot production line of the first phase flame retardant fiber in the pilot plant will be put into use. Since March 2021, the project has officially pressed the "start button". Although the whole process has experienced the epidemic situation, the project team has innovated the working methods, played a "combination fist" of epidemic prevention and control, and ran out of the "acceleration" of construction.

 

　　 "The equipment of the pilot production line of flame retardant fiber involves more than 200 suppliers all over the country. In the face of poor transportation caused by the epidemic situation, we specially set up a working group for epidemic prevention and control and project promotion to maintain close communication with the Bureau of industry and information technology of Wujiang District, the Economic Development Bureau and the epidemic prevention and control headquarters, and take preventive and control measures such as advance reporting, high-speed port transportation, overall elimination and closed-loop management to actively promote the equipment "Enter the market," said Xu Song, general manager of the pilot plant of Jiangsu new horizon advanced functional fiber Innovation Center Co., Ltd.

On May 10, the truck loaded with precision remote control instruments set out at the first time after some key enterprises in Shanghai resumed production. On the premise of strict implementation of prevention and control measures, the truck successfully arrived at the pilot test base and drove into the killing area for overall killing. So far, the final batch of equipment in the pilot base was delivered. "After the equipment entered the site, we coordinated the installation unit to work overtime, and completed the normal one month installation and commissioning work in only 15 days," Xu said.

Xu Song introduced that the construction standard of the pilot plant is high and the task is heavy. In the first phase of the pilot test line of flame retardant fiber, more than 1000 sets of various types of equipment have been installed, nearly 100 sets of test and detection equipment have been installed, and more than 200000 inch mouth pipeline welding has been completed, and nearly 1000 tons of various types of materials have been used.

Since the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the most important thing is to ensure the project duration and equipment installation progress. China Kunlun Engineering Co., Ltd. completed the design of the flame retardant pilot line. Since the design personnel of epidemic prevention and control could not be present, the project personnel solved the problem through remote video communication. At most, nearly 1000 people are working at the same time. The project team strictly implements the health code, travel code inspection, body temperature detection, wearing masks and other measures, but also sets the nucleic acid detection point to the construction site, and works overtime to ensure the construction progress of the project.

(source: Jiangsu Economic News)