【Haichuan Project Updates】37 billion yuan invested in Xinjiang Naomao Lake’s 1.5 million tons/year coal-based olefins project

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Recently, Xinjiang Zhongxinjian Coal Industry Co., Ltd. announced its plan to build a demonstration project for coal-based chemical industry combined with green hydrogen as a clean energy source in the Hongshan Industrial Park of the Naomaohu Economic and Technological Development Zone in Xinxing City, under the 13th Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps – a project for the production of olefins from coal at a capacity of 1.5 million tons per year. The total investment in this project amounts to approximately 37 billion yuan, with the aim of promoting the upgrading of the local energy industry and its sustainable development through advanced technologies and circular economy models. The core construction elements of the project include the planning and construction of an olefin production facility with an annual output of 1.5 million tons. This facility integrates multiple key processes such as gasification, purification, methanol synthesis, MTO (methanol to olefins), and the production of polyethylene and polypropylene. Specifically, the project will construct a gasification unit to efficiently convert coal resources, and then use purification units to remove impurities, ensuring the smooth progress of subsequent processes. The methanol synthesis unit converts the purified syngas into methanol, which serves as a raw material for the MTO unit. The MTO unit is the core of the project; it is responsible for further converting methanol into low-carbon olefins, which serve as raw materials for the downstream polyethylene and polypropylene plants. The polyethylene facility will be divided into an FDPE (low-density polyethylene) plant with a capacity of 350,000 tons per year and an HDPE (high-density polyethylene) plant with a capacity of 400,000 tons per year, in order to meet the market’s demand for polyethylene products of different specifications. The polypropylene plants are also of large scale, comprising two units with capacities of 350,000 tons per year and 400,000 tons per year, aimed at increasing the production capacity and market competitiveness of polypropylene products. It is particularly worth mentioning that the project will also include an electrolytic water hydrogen production facility with a capacity of 50,000 Nm³/h, which reflects the project’s proactive efforts in the use of green energy. The technology of producing hydrogen through water electrolysis not only helps reduce dependence on traditional fossil fuels, but also provides clean and efficient hydrogen resources for projects, further promoting their green and low-carbon development. In addition, the project will also install a range of supporting auxiliary devices to ensure the stable operation and efficient management of the entire production process. These public utility facilities include, but are not limited to, water supply, power supply, and gas supply