Latest progress on the 10-billion-yuan coal chemical project under construction in Inner Mongolia

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Latest Progress on the 10-billion-yuan Coal Chemical Project Under Construction in Inner Mongolia Author/Source: Date: 2018-01-17 Clicks: 19 Recent reports indicate that the first phase of the chemical energy project invested by China National Storage Energy & Chemical Group and Guoneng Emerging Energy Group in Tuyou Banner, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, has entered the full equipment installation stage. The project involves an investment of over 10 billion yuan and is located in the Shangejia Chemical Industrial Park within the New Industrial Park in Tuyou Banner, Baotou City, covering an area of more than 1,000 mu. The supporting projects include Huiteng Energy’s 600,000-ton coal-to-ethylene glycol plant, Lianhe Energy’s 720,000-ton annual liquefied natural gas production facility, and the Lianhe Equipment modern coal chemical equipment manufacturing base. The 50,000-ton polyglycolic acid resin project is under development, as is a coal-to-gas project. The total investment for the coal-based ethylene glycol project is 8.89 billion yuan, with a production capacity of 600,000 tons of ethylene glycol per year. The project is being constructed in two phases. The first phase requires an investment of over 4 billion yuan, and it is scheduled to be completed and put into operation in 2018. The main units include those for coal transportation, boilers, air separation, pulverized coal gasification, syngas conversion, and methanol washing. At present, the civil engineering work and equipment foundations for all these main units have been completed, creating the conditions necessary for equipment installation. The foundation for the plant building and the storage tanks for United Energy’s project with an annual production capacity of 720,000 tons of liquefied natural gas have been completed. Currently, work is underway on welding the 20,000-cubic-meter storage tanks; the construction of these tanks represents the most time-consuming and challenging aspect of this project. Therefore, work did not stop during winter either; instead, reliable winter construction measures were adopted to continue the work. Completion of production is expected by August, after which it can be put into use. China National Energy Storage Chemical Group and Guoneng Emerging Energy Group are enterprises established in accordance with the **energy development strategy. They focus on the chemical and natural gas energy industries; particularly, as there is a push to replace coal with natural gas, the demand for natural gas has been increasing year by year. Therefore, China National Energy Storage Chemical Group and Guoneng Emerging Energy Group are committed to developing projects related to natural gas energy and coal chemistry. It is reported that the over 30-kilometer-long gas pipeline built in Inner Mongolia by China National Storage Energy and Chemical Group and Guoneng New Energy Group has been completed, with a maximum annual gas transport capacity of 1 billion cubic meters. The main strategic partners include the Beijing Aerospace Power Research Institute (No. 11 Institute), which supplies the Huiteng project with a variety of complex devices such as special valves, pumps, and energy-saving and environmental protection systems ； The 711th Research Institute of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (SMDERI) supplies equipment such as gasifier burners and core heat exchangers for the Huiteng project ； Inner Mongolia Energy Construction Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. is responsible for most of the civil engineering work at the Huiteng site ； Dalian Jinzhou Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd. supplies core gasification equipment for the Huiteng project ； Gansu Lanke Petrochemical High-Tech Equipment Co., Ltd. supplies complete sets of equipment such as methanol scrubbers and heat exchangers for the Huiteng project ； Shenmu Group supplies equipment such as core compression units for the Huiting project ； Shaanxi Blower (Group) Co., Ltd. supplies equipment such as air coolers and compressors to the Huiteng project ； Huisheng Engineering (China) Co., Ltd. is responsible for the overall design of the gasification island for the Huiting project.