Signing of industrial gas cooperation agreement for Jutai’s coal-to-ethylene glycol project in Inner Mongolia

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Signing of Industrial Gas Cooperation Agreement for Jutai’s Coal-to-Ethylene Glycol Projects in Inner Mongolia Author/Source: Date: 2017-09-14 Clicks: 49 Recently, the signing ceremony for the industrial gas cooperation framework agreements related to Jutai Energy (Ordos) Co., Ltd.’s project to produce 500,000 tons of ethylene glycol per year, as well as Inner Mongolia Jutai New Materials Co., Ltd.’s project to produce 1 million tons of ethylene glycol per year, was held at Aerospace Changzheng Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. Cui Lianguo, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Jutai Group, Jiang Congbin, General Manager of Aerospace Changzheng Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd., and Zhu Haixing, CEO of China Energy Engineering Group Co., Ltd., were among those who attended the signing ceremony. It is reported that Jutai Group, Aerospace Changzheng, and China Energy Engineering will cooperate to jointly invest in the construction and operation of the 500,000-ton-per-year ethylene glycol production facility at Jutai Energy (Ordos) Co., Ltd., as well as the coal-to-syngas section of the 1 million-ton-per-year ethylene glycol production facility at Inner Mongolia Jutai New Materials Co., Ltd. The three parties will cooperate in areas such as project technology, solution evaluation, project construction, investment cooperation, and factory operation. In the presence of guests from various parties, Cui Lianguo, Chairman of Jiu Tai Group, Jiang Congbin, General Manager of Aerospace Changzheng Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd., and Zhu Haixing, CEO of China Energy Engineering Group Co., Ltd., signed the framework agreement on behalf of the three parties. On September 5, the signing ceremony for the engineering design contracts of Jutai Energy (Ordos) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Jutai Group Co., Ltd., for its project to produce 200,000/500,000 tons of ethylene glycol per year, and Inner Mongolia Jutai New Materials Co., Ltd., for its project to produce 1 million tons of ethylene glycol per year, was held at Hualu Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. in the High-Tech Zone of Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. Cui Lianguo, Chairman of Jutai Group, Wu Yinlong, Chairman of Hualu Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., and Jiang Congbin, General Manager of Aerospace Changzheng Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd., signed the engineering design contract on behalf of the three parties. The contract scope includes all process units other than the air separation unit, gasification unit, shift unit, and low-temperature methanol washing unit, as well as the utility systems, auxiliary facilities, and the overall project design work. Jiutai Energy (Ordos) Co., Ltd. has currently put into operation projects for the production of 1 million tons of methanol and 100,000 tons of dimethyl ether; the ethylene glycol production project will make use of some of the remaining capacity of the 1 million-ton-per-year methanol production facility, by modifying certain utility systems and auxiliary production units. For the 1 million-ton per year ethylene glycol production project of Inner Mongolia JiuTai New Materials Co., Ltd., the initial land area required is estimated to be 2,000 mu. The site for this project has been chosen to be north of Jinlong Street and west of Fuxing Road in the Tuoketuo Industrial Park (the area originally designated for the Chinalco and Qinghua projects). In June 2017, it was decided to change the product scope of this project: instead of producing 1.7 million tons per year of coal-based olefins along with related specialty products, the project will now focus on the production of 1 million tons per year of ethylene glycol. Jiutai Group originally planned to invest 40 billion yuan in the Tuoketuo Industrial Park in Tuoketuo County, Hohhot, to build a facility capable of producing 4 million tons of coal-based methanol and 1.7 million tons of olefins per year; upon completion, the annual output value was expected to reach 18 billion yuan. Jiutai Energy (Zhungeer) Co., Ltd.’s methanol deep processing project is located in the Dalu Industrial Zone in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and it has an annual production capacity of 600,000 tons of olefins, 280,000 tons of polyethylene, and 320,000 tons of polypropylene. The estimated total investment is 8.28 billion yuan. It was approved by the Autonomous Region’s Development and Reform Commission in January 2012; construction began on a full scale in March 2013. Work on the project resumed in March 2017, with completion and operation scheduled for June 2018. The project uses methanol produced at the Dali Coal Chemical Industry Base as raw material, and employs UOP’s MTO technology, KBR’s pre-propane separation technology, and Dow Chemical’s UNIPOL polypropylene technology.