Research on Spatial Distribution Characteristics of High Haze Pollution Industries Such as Thermal Power Industry in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

• Published in: Energies (Basel) Vol. 15; no. 18; p. 6610
• Main Authors: Zhou, Jingkun, Li, Yating
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2022
• Subjects: Air pollution; Ammonia; Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region; Carbon monoxide; Clustering; Coal-fired power plants; Coke industry; Coking; Economic development; Electric utilities; Energy consumption; Environmental impact; Environmental protection; Flooding; Flue gas; Haze; high haze pollution; Industrial development; Industrial plant emissions; Nitrogen; Outdoor air quality; Particle size; Petroleum industry; Photochemical smog; Pollutants; Pollution; pollution industry agglomeration; Polymerization; Processing industry; Raw materials; Spatial distribution; spatial distribution characteristics; Thermal power; VOCs; Volatile organic compounds; China; Beijing China
• ISSN: 1996-1073; 1996-1073
• DOI: 10.3390/en15186610

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is subject to the most severe haze condition in China. Against the backdrop of the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, it is of great significance to explore the space-time distribution characteristics of high haze pollution industries in the above region. The purpose of this article is to find high haze pollution industries scientifically, analyze the spatial distribution characteristics of high haze pollution industries in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei correctly, and formulate effective reduction measures for the spatial distribution of high haze pollution industries in different regions of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. It hopes that the measures provide a basis for effective to reduce high haze pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Using the Gini coefficient and location entropy, this paper explores the space-time characteristics of high haze pollution industries in 13 cities of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The results show that those aforesaid high haze pollution industries present an obvious clustering trend in Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Handan, and some areas along the economic axis of China, overall flooding into Eastern coastal and Southern inland areas. By industry, the petroleum processing and coking processing industry, chemical raw materials and chemical products industry, manufacture of non-metallic mineral products, and ferrous metal smelting and rolling processing industry witness a declining clustering trend, as opposed to the electricity, heat production, and supply industry. Meanwhile, core cities of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region have developed high haze pollution industries, and the hinterland lags in economic development. It is necessary to face up to the differences in economic development among areas in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, promote the staggered development of high haze pollution industries, and build a high haze pollution industry chain with coordinated economic and environmental development, thus reducing the economic gap with each area, and realizing the coordinated development of economy, industry, and environment.