Order contract signed for Ningxia’s 21.1-billion-yuan coal-to-olefins project

Thread Content

Signing of Order Contracts for Ningxia’s 21.1-billion-yuan coal-to-olefins project Author/Source: Chemical Industry Network – Coal Chemicals Date: 2018-01-26 Clicks: 76 On January 23, the signing ceremony for the order contracts for two sets of 105,000-air-volume-compression units for the 2.2-million-ton-per-year methanol production unit as part of Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd.’s 600,000-ton-per-year coal-to-olefins project was held in Yinchuan. Baofeng Group and SHENGU Group have reached a cooperation agreement. At the signing ceremony, the projects under this cooperation include Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd.’s 600,000 tons per year coal-to-olefins project, a 2.2 million tons per year methanol plant, and two sets of air separation units with a capacity of 105,000 cubic meters per hour each. It is reported that over the past decade or so, Baofeng Group and SHENGU Group have carried out extensive cooperation; Baofeng has entrusted SHENGU with almost all of its contracts for compressors, including those for the first set of centrifugal compressors used in China’s 1.8 million tons per year methanol-to-olefins production facility. The construction site for the 600,000 tons per year olefin production facility via coke gasification by Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd. is Area A of the Linhe Comprehensive Project Zone in the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base, with a total investment of 2,112,960 million yuan. On August 11, 2017, the project was approved by the Development and Reform Commission of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The project will build a 2.2 million tons per year coke gasification methanol production facility, a 600,000 tons per year methanol to olefins facility, a 300,000 tons per year polyethylene facility, and a 300,000 tons per year polypropylene facility, along with the accompanying utility systems and auxiliary facilities. Upon completion and reaching full production capacity, the project will primarily have an annual production capacity of 800,000 tons of purified methanol, 320,000 tons of polyethylene, 310,000 tons of polypropylene, and 227,000 tons of LNG, in addition to by-products such as propane, mixed C4, C5+, and sulfur. This project has been listed as one of the key projects to be implemented in Ningxia. In addition, it includes the Shenhua Ningmei coal indirect liquefaction project, as well as the Shenhua Ningmei Shabik coal-based 700,000-ton per year olefins project. Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd. is one of the large private enterprises in Ningxia. The coal chemical projects planned and constructed by Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group include 5 million tons per year of coking capacity, 4.6 million tons per year of methanol production, 1.5 million tons per year of olefins production, 750,000 tons per year of polyethylene production, 750,000 tons per year of polypropylene production, 250,000 tons per year of C4 production, 300,000 tons per year of tar processing, 100,000 tons per year of crude benzene hydrogenation, and 500,000 tons per year of LNG production. Among them, the first phase of the olefin project with an annual capacity of 600,000 tons was completed and put into operation in 2014. The project is located in Area B of the Linhe Industrial Park, Ningdong Town, Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, within the Baofeng Energy Circular Industry Base. It is equipped with a methanol production facility with an annual capacity of 1.72 million tons; 1.8 million tons of methanol are consumed annually, with a small amount of methanol being purchased from external sources. China’s first 100,000 cubic meter air separation unit: It is reported that this project represents another collaboration between Shenyang Gas Turbine Group and Hangzhou Oxygen Group, along with Hangzhou Automobile Group, following Shenyang Gas Turbine Group’s completion of the task of localizing the compressors for Shenhua Ningxia’s first 100,000 cubic meter air separation unit in 2013; together they are working to localize the entire set of equipment required for a 105,000 cubic meter air separation unit. On August 25, 2017, the domestically developed 100,000-class air separation unit and air compression unit, jointly developed by Hangzhou Hangyang Co., Ltd., Shenyang Blower Group Co., Ltd., and Hangzhou Turbine Co., Ltd., passed the industrial operation evaluation in Yinchuan, Ningxia, with their key technical performance reaching the advanced level of similar foreign devices and products. On March 15, 2017, the first domestically developed extra-large air separation unit of 100,000 Nm3/h capacity, developed by Hangyang, was successfully commissioned for the first time.