As the world races toward carbon neutrality, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) has emerged as a critical solution. By capturing industrial CO₂emissions and injecting them deep underground into oil reservoirs, this technology not only permanently stores carbon but also enhances oil recovery—effectively “locking away carbon while squeezing out more oil.” It’s a win-win: reducing greenhouse gas emissions while creating economic value, making it a key driver of the green energy transition.
The Heart of CCUS: High-Pressure CO₂ Pumps
In CO₂ transport and injection, high-pressure pumps play a vital role. However, CO₂’s unique properties—easy vaporization, poor lubrication, and ultra-low temperatures—pose major challenges for standard centrifugal pumps:
- Tricky Medium Characteristics: CO₂ is easily vaporized under high pressure and low temperature, resulting in the risk of cavitation. Adding to Poor lubricity, the pump faces a big challenge of wear.
- Operational Instability: Small flow rates lead to vibrations, reducing efficiency and increasing energy waste.
- Safety & Reliability Risks: Seals can leak at low temperatures, while materials become brittle, raising fracture risks.
- Costly Maintenance: The traditional maintenance methods are inefficient, difficult to disassemble assembly on site, and the long-term costs are rising.
Innovative Solutions of Longgang Pump Industry
- Smart vaporization-control impeller design, using self-lubricating materials;
- Additional design pressure, material selection and verification, and safety and reliability analysis;
- Modular “quick-service” engineering. We take into account aspects such as easy disassembly and assembly, convenient maintenance, and saving on-site space, so as to reduce the burden of on-site maintenance in the later stage and thereby enhance the user experience.
Proven Performance at Qilu-Shengli Project
(China’s largest CCUS demonstration)
✓ 125m³/h capacity | 800m head
✓ 500kW motor | 100% domestic tech
✓ Stable operation since July 2023
Longgang Pump Industry has achieved a major technological breakthrough through China’s flagship “Qilu Petrochemical-Shengli Oilfield Million-Ton CCUS Demonstration Project”. We have:
✓ Commissioned China’s first complete domestic CO₂ booster pump system
✓ Overcome critical technical barriers in CO₂ pressurization
✓ Broken foreign technology monopolies in CCUS equipment
✓ Achieved intelligent manufacturing and industrial-scale production
✓ Established an innovative “Artificial Carbon Cycle” model
✓ Successfully transformed waste CO₂into valuable resources
Strategic Impact
This achievement represents more than technical success – it establishes China’s CCUS equipment independence while creating new industrial capabilities:
- Energy Security
Reduces reliance on imported enhanced oil recovery (EOR) tech by 100%
Enables the development of marginal oil fields with CO₂-EOR
- Environmental Leadership
Each pump system enables 1 M+ tons of annual CO₂ reduction
Creates a blueprint for coal plant decarbonization
- Industrial Upgrade
Form a complete CCUS equipment supply chain
Positions China as a global CCUS technology exporter
Looking ahead, Longgang is scaling this technology for:
→ Offshore CO₂ storage projects
→ Coal chemical plant applications
→ Cross-border CCUS partnerships