Magnetic Levitation Heat Pumps Boost China’s Clean Energy Transition Amid Green Drive

This year’s Government Work Report states that China’s installed capacity of new energy storage has exceeded 130 million kilowatts, with the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption reaching 21.7%. Against the backdrop of this green energy transition, exploring the potential of clean energy has become a hot topic.

A chief scientist from Shandong Tianrui Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., who is also a deputy to the National People’s Congress, noted that the development of geothermal energy and the recovery of industrial waste heat are important components of the new energy system. Among them, heat pump technology serves as the core equipment to activate these two types of clean energy, capable of efficiently converting low-grade heat energy and being widely applied in fields such as building heating, industrial production and park energy conservation.

As China advances its "dual carbon" goals further, the efficient and clean development and utilization of geothermal energy have become a focus of the green energy transition. The scientist pointed out that although traditional heat pump technology has been in use for many years, its energy efficiency bottleneck has not been effectively broken, and the emergence of magnetic levitation technology has brought new possibilities for the upgrading of heat pump technology.

He emphasized that magnetic levitation heat pumps, in particular, have broken through traditional energy efficiency bottlenecks, becoming a key technology to promote cost reduction and efficiency improvement in geothermal utilization and waste heat recovery, and representing an important new quality productive force in this field.

He further explained that as a nationally prioritized new quality productive force, magnetic levitation power technology, with its inherent characteristics of "no mechanical contact, no wear and no lubrication", has broken through the technical bottlenecks of traditional bearings. It achieves excellent performance of high speed, high precision and high reliability, and demonstrates significant advantages of low vibration, low noise and low energy consumption. Currently, this technology has been widely applied in numerous industries such as cement, papermaking, sewage treatment, iron and steel, chemical engineering and semiconductors.

Based on these advantages, the scientist suggested increasing support for the promotion of magnetic levitation heat pumps to facilitate the construction of the new energy system and provide solid technical support for the achievement of the "dual carbon" goals.

Regarding future development, he stated that the enterprise will continue to increase R&D investment, break through high-temperature adaptability, build an "heat pump + AI" intelligent energy system, promote the construction of large-scale production lines for core components, and accelerate the formation of a full-chain innovation ecosystem covering "R&D, manufacturing, application and service".