Engineering design contract for 600,000 tons per year of coal-based ethylene glycol production in Xinjiang signed

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Contract for the engineering design of a 600,000-ton coal-based ethylene glycol production plant in Xinjiang signed. Author/Source: Date: 2017-07-17. Views: 18. According to reports on July 15, on July 14, Xinjiang Tianye (Group) Co., Ltd. officially signed an engineering design contract for the 600,000-ton/year ethylene glycol production unit as part of the first phase of a project to produce 1 million tons/year of ethylene glycol from syngas, with Donghua Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. The contract comes into force officially upon signature and sealing by both parties, stipulating that Donghua Engineering shall be responsible for tasks such as the preliminary design and construction drawing design for this ethylene glycol project ； The contract price is 55 million RMB, and the project design timeline is approximately 12 months. The 600,000-ton/year ethylene glycol production unit of the first phase of Xinjiang Tianye (Group) Co., Ltd.’s 1 million tons/year syngas-to-ethylene glycol project has been registered with the Development and Reform Commission of the Eighth Division. The project is located in the Shihu Tan New Materials Industrial Park in Shihezi, Xinjiang. The total investment in this project amounts to 799,721.60 million yuan, and its implementation period is from 2017 to 2019. The capacity of this facility is 600,000 tons/year of ethylene glycol produced from syngas. The main components of the project include gasification, shift reaction, methanol washing, and hydrogen/carbon monoxide separation. The process gas produced meets the requirements for the manufacture of ethylene glycol and methanol; ethylene glycol is synthesized through carbonylation using DMO followed by distillation, as well as through the hydrogenation of oxalate esters followed by distillation. Methanol is also produced via low-pressure synthesis, and accompanying air separation units along with various auxiliary and utility facilities are included in this setup. On June 23, Xinjiang Tianye Co., Ltd. announced that it, together with its controlling shareholder Tianye Group, would invest in establishing a project company: Xinjiang Tianye Huihe New Materials Co., Ltd. With a registered capital of 2.5 billion yuan, this company will be responsible for the construction and operation of the 600,000-ton/year ethylene glycol production unit as part of Tianye Group’s \"1 million tons/year syngas-based ethylene glycol production project, Phase I.\" Among them: Tianye Group contributes 1.75 billion yuan in cash, accounting for 70% of the registered capital ； Xinjiang Tianye Co., Ltd. contributes 750 million yuan in cash, accounting for 30% of the registered capital. Xinjiang Tianye (Group) Co., Ltd. currently has a production capacity of 250,000 tons of ethylene glycol per year from synthetic gas; 50,000 tons from the first phase and 200,000 tons from the second phase, with these capacities being put into operation sequentially. The second-phase project is located in the North Industrial Zone of Shihezi, Xinjiang, and involves the construction of facilities for producing 200,000 tons per year of ethylene glycol and 170,000 tons per year of BDO, utilizing the off-gases from calcium carbide furnaces in the Xinjiang Tianye Chemical Industry Park as raw materials for comprehensive utilization. In 2011 and 2013, Donghua Engineering was responsible for the engineering design of ethylene glycol projects with capacities of 50,000 tons per year and 200,000 tons per year, which were invested in and constructed by Tianye Group and its subsidiaries. On June 9, 2017, Xinjiang Tianye (Group) Co., Ltd. and Donghua Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. The two parties will engage in extensive strategic cooperation in the field of carbon-based chemicals (including ethylene glycol, methanol, and their downstream processed products), in the comprehensive utilization of chlorine derived from calcium carbide and PVC, as well as in the fields of environmental protection and new energy.