en.Wedoany.com Reported - On March 31, at the Qingshan District Science and Technology Innovation Conference in Wuhan, the Wuhan Chemical New Materials Pilot-Scale Verification Base was inaugurated. This base will focus on the field of chemical new materials, pressing the "accelerator key" for transforming scientific research achievements into real productive forces, and injecting new momentum into Wuhan's goal of building a national science and technology innovation center.
It is understood that this is Wuhan's first public service pilot-scale base in the chemical field, filling the gap of having no pilot-scale platform in Wuhan's only compliant chemical industrial park.
According to the plan, the base is located within the Qingshan District Chemical Industrial Park, covering a total area of approximately 385 acres with a total investment of about 1.2 billion yuan. It is divided into two main sections: pilot-scale verification and industrial incubation. The currently advancing Phase I project of the pilot-scale base involves an investment of approximately 360 million yuan, covering supporting facilities such as an operation and maintenance management center, pilot-scale workshops, Class A warehouses, a wastewater pretreatment station, an emergency accident pond, and an initial rainwater collection pond. It is estimated that within five years of completion, the base will serve over 100 pilot-scale projects, attract more than 300 high-end talents, and strive to build itself into a chemical new materials pilot-scale base that is "based in Qingshan, serves the entire province, and radiates nationwide," and obtain national-level pilot-scale platform qualifications.
For a long time, Qingshan District has been home to Wuhan's only compliant chemical industrial park, boasting a strong industrial foundation and a cluster of leading enterprises such as Wuhan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and Sinopec-SK (Wuhan) Petrochemical Company Limited. However, the lack of a professional chemical pilot-scale platform has constrained the local transformation of scientific research achievements. As the district fully promotes the intelligent and green development of traditional industries and the rapid growth of emerging industries like new materials and artificial intelligence, establishing the transformation channel from "laboratory - pilot-scale line - production line" has become an urgent need for industrial upgrading.
"Pilot-scale testing is the essential path for scientific and technological achievements to transition from 'experimental products' to 'commercial goods'," said Kang Yihong, Executive Dean of the Wuhan Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the operational partner of the base. He explained that while researchers can complete product synthesis from beakers to flasks in the laboratory, it is often difficult to directly achieve large-scale production. Pilot-scale testing is precisely the rigorous process conducted before mass production, involving cost, environment, and controllable full-process technology, to develop a scalable production process package, laying the foundation for subsequent production line construction.
Studies have shown that scientific and technological achievements that undergo pilot-scale testing can achieve an industrialization success rate of up to 80%; whereas unverified achievements have a conversion success rate of only 30%.
However, the pilot-scale phase requires significant investment and high barriers to entry, needing professional sites, equipment, and talent teams, making it difficult for individual enterprises or university laboratories to bear the burden. Kang Yihong revealed that due to the lack of a pilot-scale platform, many achievements from enterprises and university laboratories in Wuhan had to be sent to places like Jiangsu and Zhejiang for pilot-scale testing. After receiving supporting funds, they were ultimately transformed locally, leading to the outflow of high-quality achievements.
It is reported that the main structure of Phase I of the base is scheduled for completion next year and has already attracted research teams from universities such as Northwestern Polytechnical University, Sichuan University, and Wuhan University of Technology for negotiations.
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