Groundbreaking ceremony held for Xinjiang Zhiben Natural Gas Refined Chemicals project
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On October 18, the groundbreaking ceremony for the 400,000 tons per year ethylene glycol production project for natural gas refining chemicals at Xinjiang Zhiben Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd., a project for which Donghua Engineering Technology Company was responsible for the preliminary consulting and engineering design work, was held in Kuqa County, Xinjiang. Cui Congquan, the deputy secretary of the company’s Party committee and general manager, along with five other members of his team, attended the ceremony. The total investment for the refined chemicals project in Kuche County is 21.5 billion yuan, with construction carried out in three phases; the investment for the first phase, which involves an ethylene glycol production capacity of 400,000 tons per year, is approximately 4 billion yuan. Upon completion of the first phase of the project, the annual total tax revenue is expected to be around 1.07 billion yuan, of which 210 million yuan will go as income tax and 270 million yuan as value-added tax and related taxes. The project will create more than 600 long-term employment opportunities, thereby significantly improving the living standards of the residents in Kuqa County. Taking advantage of the mineral and oil & gas natural resources in Kuqa County, the project utilizes the non-catalytic partial oxidation technology developed by East China University of Science and Technology, the ethylene glycol production unit equipped with dimethyl oxalate hydrogenation catalysts from Japanese company UBE, as well as the CTEG technology jointly developed by Gaochemical and Donghua Technology. It features a long catalyst lifespan, high conversion and selectivity, low raw material consumption, and safe and stable operation. The investment in this project has received strong support from the local authorities. Liang Fengyuan, a member of the Aksu Regional Party Committee and executive deputy commissioner of the regional administration, said at the groundbreaking ceremony that Kuqa County would do its utmost to provide the highest quality, most convenient, and most effective services for the project’s development, with the aim of having it completed and put into operation as soon as possible, so as to realize its economic and social benefits. The company will provide full support for the commencement of the project, offering high-quality design assurance through a competent team.
How is so much ethylene glycol produced in southern Xinjiang transported out? There isn’t such a large market for local consumption either.
A polyester production base could be established in Xinjiang, using the PX and ethylene glycol produced by Wuhu Petrochemical to manufacture PTA and PET for downstream use; the main export markets would be those within the Belt and Road Initiative**
Sometimes I think this world is truly full of contradictions – Qinghua and Guanghui are involved in converting coal into natural gas in Xinjiang, while here they are trying to convert natural gas on-site, using pure oxygen for a non-catalytic process. It’s a shame that so much hydrogen in the natural gas gets wasted in this way; it would be better to combine this process with coal utilization to make the most of it
With such a large shortage of natural gas in our country at the moment, is it a waste to invest in natural gas conversion?
It mainly involves the catalytic conversion of pure oxygen; in other words, it means burning natural gas in an oxygen-deficient environment, which is a waste. However, this approach also needs to take into account local conditions and overall regional development, especially considering Xinjiang’s vast area
This post was last edited by pyp222 on 2018-10-25 at 15:34. Uncatalyzed conversion is a process in which, in the absence of a catalyst, oxygen and steam are introduced for partial combustion to generate heat, raising the temperature above 800°C so that methane can be decomposed into gases such as CO and H2. The higher the methane content, the higher the temperature required. For the catalytic conversion of coke oven gas with a methane content of 20%+, the temperature is generally maintained at around 1350°C in order to reduce the methane content at the outlet to about 1%