Implementation of DMTO technology in new projects (Changzhou Fude)

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DMTO Technology Applied in a New Project (Changzhou Fude) – Author/Source: Date: 2017-07-21, Clicks: 26. Recently, the 300,000 tons per year PP production facility of Changzhou Fude Energy Chemical Co., Ltd. completed the entire production process, yielding qualified polypropylene products. The Changzhou Fude Methanol Deep Processing and Comprehensive Utilization Project, which consists of 40 units including a 1 million tons per year methanol-to-olefins (DMTO) plant and a 300,000 tons per year PP plant, is not only the largest chemical project of its kind in Jiangsu Province but also the first modern coal chemical \"turnkey project\" built by Sinopec Luoyang Engineering Co., Ltd. using its own developed DMTO and olefin separation technologies. Once completed and put into operation, this project will have an annual production capacity of 160,000 tons of propylene and 160,000 tons of ethylene, laying the foundation for the full commercial operation of Changzhou Fude’s methanol deep processing and comprehensive utilization project. 　 The DMTO technology, which possesses independent intellectual property rights in our country, is a set of technologies that uses coal (or natural gas) as a substitute for oil as raw material to produce basic chemical products such as ethylene and propylene through methanol. Sinopec Luoyang Engineering Co., Ltd. worked closely with all members of the research consortium to develop the DMTO process and related engineering technologies, and by the end of 2005 it had completed the development, design, and construction of the world’s first industrial-scale DMTO pilot plant with a capacity of 10,000 tons per year. The development of DMTO technology not only opens up a brand-new non-petroleum technological route for olefin production in our country, creatively establishing a seamless connection throughout the entire value chain of the emerging energy chemicals industry and its high-end products, but it also holds great significance for China’s efforts to replace petroleum and drive the upgrading of the energy chemicals industry. 　 Li Jianbao, deputy chief engineer and head of the Market Development Department at Sinopec Luoyang Engineering Co., Ltd., said in an interview with reporters that since 2010, the DMTO technology has been put into industrial use at nearly 20 enterprises across China, resulting in a total olefin production capacity of 11.26 million tons per year.