【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Equipment】2448–2025: SHENGU’s 110,000-unit air separation unit compressors enable the efficient commissioning of the Baofeng olefins project
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Let’s give praise and support to the achievements made in China’s chemical engineering technology and equipment; your participation in discussions is the greatest encouragement. **********************【Ten Years of Great Development in Chemical Engineering Equipment】A continuously updated summary post – feel free to join the discussions: https://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-3576046-1-1.html ***************** The compression units from SHENGU, worth 110,000 units, helped the Baofeng Olefins project to operate efficiently. On June 16th, a summary meeting for the completion of Baofeng Energy’s coal-based new materials project was held in Wushen Banner, Ordos City. As a landmark ultra-large-scale project in China’s modern coal chemical industry, the Inner Mongolia Baofeng Coal-based New Materials Project has a total investment of 67.3 billion yuan. In just 18 months, its first phase was completed and brought into operation, resulting in the creation of the world’s largest industrial facility for producing polyethylene and polypropylene using coal as a substitute for oil. This facility is capable of producing 3 million tons of olefins, 1.5 million tons of polyethylene, and 1.5 million tons of polypropylene per year, accounting for 23.4% of the country’s total production. It offers significant cost advantages and market competitiveness compared to projects that use oil as a raw material for olefin production. This project has set new industry records in terms of production capacity, construction time, equipment replacement, and energy consumption costs, providing a model that can be used as a reference for achieving a deep integration of large-scale operations with industrialization in the coal chemical industry. It is reported that the project has been operating stably for 4,800 hours in a row, producing 9,000 tons of polyolefins per day; it enjoys a significant cost advantage, as well as notable economic and social benefits. As a key partner in this project, SHENGU Group supplied the compression units for the 110,000 cubic meter per hour air separation unit used in Baofeng Energy’s coal-based new materials project in Inner Mongolia. With its outstanding technical expertise and reliable equipment performance, it provided a solid foundation for the stable and efficient operation of the project. In addition to the air separation unit, SHENGU Group also provided for this project compression units for process gas streams such as methanol units, MTO units, PP units, and PE units. During the project development process, SHENGU Group kept in mind the trust placed in it by its customers in Baofeng, strengthened its sense of responsibility, adhered to innovation driven by technology and independent R&D, and organized expert technical teams to actively address the key technologies in this industry, striving to solve the critical challenges that hinder progress. As a result, it set new records for the localization of key equipment in the field of large-scale air separation. The compression units of Shenyu’s 110,000 cubic meter air separation plant utilize the next-generation \"6+1\" ultra-large axial-flow and centrifugal high-efficiency compression units; these are the largest air compression units in China. They represent a significant breakthrough in the domestic production of such large-scale air separation compression units in our country. They have played a key role in enabling the Baofeng coal-based new materials project in Inner Mongolia to use entirely domestically produced equipment instead of imported ones, with 23 aspects of the technology reaching world-class levels. These units have contributed to achieving \"five global records\" in terms of production capacity for gasification units, purification units, methanol synthesis units, methanol-to-olefins separation-coupled steam cracking units, and full-density polyethylene units, as well as \"three national records\" for air separation units, DMTO units, and polypropylene units. They have thus helped to push China’s modern coal chemical industry from a situation of relying on imports to one where it can lead independently, injecting new momentum into the effort to build a strong manufacturing nation. Since the project came online, the SHENGU turbines have maintained a high-efficient and stable operating condition, ensuring the continuity and stability of production and laying a solid foundation for steady and high output. The successful commissioning of the Inner Mongolia Baofeng coal-based new materials project marks another important milestone for SHENGU Group in the field of coal chemical industry. In the future, SHENGU Group will continue to uphold its core corporate values of \"delivering value to customers, focusing on quality, pursuing continuous innovation, and striving for excellence.\" It will deepen cooperation with its various clients and work together to develop more advanced, intelligent, and environmentally friendly heavy machinery, thereby contributing to the optimization of China’s energy structure as well as the transformation and upgrading of its economy.
Recently, SHENGU Group successfully won a contract to supply 6 sets of air separation compressor units with a capacity of 110,000 cubic meters per hour for the first phase of Inner Mongolia Baofeng Coal-based New Materials Co., Ltd.’s project involving the production of 2.6 million tons per year of coal-derived olefins, along with a supporting facility for the production of olefins using green hydrogen in a combined process. This marks another achievement by SHENGU Group in terms of the localization of key equipment in the large-scale air separation sector; following the production of the first set of 100,000 cubic meter per hour air separation compressors for Shenhua Ningxia Coal in 2013, two sets of such compressors with a capacity of 105,000 cubic meters per hour for Ningxia Baofeng Energy in 2018, and yet two more sets of 105,000 cubic meter per hour air separation compressors for Ningxia Baofeng Energy in 2020. Over the course of 10 years, SHENGU Group has progressed from filling the gap in China regarding compressors for ultra-large air separation units to achieving independent research and development of core technologies that are at the world’s advanced level. Over the years, SHENGU has made a remarkable progress in the field of large-scale air separation units, moving from following others to keeping pace with them and eventually taking the lead; it has completely resolved the critical issue of shortages in key driving equipment for such ultra-large-scale air separation units in China. Shenmu has also become one of the few companies in the world capable of independently developing, designing, and manufacturing compression units for ultra-large air separation plants; it is truly a \"major national asset\" and a \"key player\" in this field. It is understood that Inner Mongolia Baofeng Coal-based New Materials Co., Ltd., for which Shenhua Gas Turbine Group won the bid successfully, is a subsidiary controlled by Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd. The project utilizes a combined production process that integrates green hydrogen with modern coal chemical technologies. Its total olefin production capacity is 3 million tons per year, making it the largest coal-based olefin plant in the world to date. It is also the only project globally that uses green hydrogen on a large scale to replace fossil fuels in the production of olefins. In addition to the air separation unit, SHENGU Group also successfully secured contracts for the process compressors used in the methanol plant, MTO plant, PP plant, PE plant, and other process lines of this project. Since the early 1990s, SHENGU has been carrying out independent research and development on air separation compressors of the 20,000–120,000 class. In 2004, the first set of compressors for large-scale domestic air separation units was developed by Shenyang Blower Group, putting an end to China’s history of being unable to produce compressors for air separation units of 40,000 cubic meters per hour or higher capacity. In 2006, SHENGU made another breakthrough by producing compression units for air separation units of 52,000 capacity, which became the domestically produced air separation compressors with the longest operating time and greatest capacity. At the end of October 2011, regarding Shenhua Ningmei’s 4 million tons per year coal indirect liquefaction project, the **Energy Bureau organized a meeting on the localization of key equipment, and decided to assign the task of localizing the compressor units for the 100,000 cubic meter per hour air separation plant to Shenyang Blower Group Co., Ltd. On May 15, 2017, the compression unit of the 100,000-class air separation plant (air compressors, steam turbines, reducers, boosters) was successfully started up for the first time at the Shenhua Ningxia site. On January 23, 2018, Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd. joined forces with SHENGU Group to sign purchase contracts for two sets of 105,000 cubic meter air separation compressor units. This is another collaboration between Shenmu Heavy Industry and Hangzhou Oxygen Group and Hangzhou Motor Group, following Shenmu’s completion of the task of localizing the compressor units for Shenhua Ningxia’s first 100,000 cubic meter air separation unit in 2013; together they are working to localize the entire set of equipment for a 105,000 cubic meter air separation unit. In April 2020, the 105,000-class air separation compressor unit, which was at that time the largest of its kind produced in China, generated qualified oxygen and nitrogen products.
Shenmu 110,000-ton compressor: A significant breakthrough in China’s manufacturing industry. April 15, 2024. I. Enhancing independent innovation capabilities: The Shenmu 110,000-ton compressor is the result of independent research and development and production by China of large-scale air separation plant compressors; it has successfully broken the foreign technological monopoly and enhanced China’s independent innovation capabilities in this field. This is not only a significant breakthrough for China’s manufacturing sector, but it also provides strong support for China’s competitiveness in the international market. II. Promoting the development of the coal chemical industry: Air separation units are the core components of coal chemical projects, while compressor sets serve as the key \"heart\" equipment within these air separation units. The successful development and production of the Shenyu 110,000-compressor unit have provided strong support for the development of China’s coal chemical industry. At the same time, this also provides important support for China’s independent innovation and technological upgrading in the energy sector. III. Improving the overall level of the manufacturing industry. The successful development and production of Shenmu’s 110,000-unit compressor sets not only demonstrates China’s manufacturing capabilities in the field of high-end equipment but also contributes to raising the overall level of China’s manufacturing industry. This is of great significance for the transformation and upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry as well as for enhancing its international competitiveness. In summary, the successful development and production of the Shenyu 110,000-compressor unit represents an important breakthrough for China’s manufacturing industry in the field of high-end equipment, as well as a significant milestone in the development of China’s coal chemical industry. Its successful development and production have not only enhanced China’s ability to innovate independently in the field of compressors for large-scale air separation units, but have also provided strong support for the development of China’s coal chemical industry. Additionally, it has contributed to the improvement of the overall level of China’s manufacturing sector.
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