Sanmenxia City reaches cooperation agreement with Dahuaxi Institute to build an ethanol production facility with an annual output of 400,000 tons

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Sanmenxia City reaches cooperation agreement with Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics to build an ethanol production facility with an annual capacity of 400,000 tons. Author/Source: Yaha Coal Chemical Industry. Date: May 8, 2018. Views: 22. From May 2nd to 4th, Jia Shujun, member of the Sanmenxia Municipal Party Committee and head of the Organization Department, Sun Jiwei, vice mayor of the city, Yang Tong, secretary of the municipal Party committee, Dong Xinglian, also member of the Party Committee and head of the Organization Department, and Ma Jiangtao, secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Henan Energy and Chemical Group’s Gasification Company, visited Professor Liu Zhongmin, director of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in Dalian. Through in-depth discussions and exchanges, the two parties reached a strategic cooperation agreement on establishing a Yima branch of the academician workstation, collaborating on the construction of the first phase of a project with an annual production capacity of 600,000 tons of ethanol – specifically 200,000 tons per year – setting up a Sanmenxia Clean Energy Industry Development Fund, and building a base for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements as well as a demonstration site for renewable energy in Yima City. The Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences was established in March 1949. It is a comprehensive research institute that emphasizes both basic and applied research, combines applied research with technology transfer, and is characterized by developing disciplines based on specific research tasks. The institute currently has key laboratories in catalytic fundamentals and molecular reaction dynamics, as well as various science and technology innovation platforms at the national level, including an engineering laboratory for methanol to olefins, a research center for catalytic engineering technologies, an engineering research center for membrane technologies, an engineering center for fuel cells and hydrogen source technologies, and a research and development center for low-carbon catalysis and engineering in energy. Since 2011, the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics has achieved 283 various scientific research achievements. The leading unit has received over 60 awards at the provincial or ministerial level and above, including 8 **awards and 12 first-prize awards from the Chinese Academy of Sciences as well as provincial or ministerial authorities. Academician Liu Zhongmin is a doctoral supervisor and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He successively served as the deputy director of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; the director of the Methanol to Olefins ** Engineering Laboratory; the director of the ** Energy Low-Carbon Catalysis and Engineering R&D Center; and the director of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In recent years, Academician Liu Zhongmin has led his research team in conducting studies on technologies related to the production of olefins from methanol. They carried out the world’s first industrial-scale test for this process, and it passed the evaluation by experts organized by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation. As a result, China became the first country in the world to possess the technical capability to design and build industrial facilities with a capacity of millions of tons. Numerous new technologies with independent intellectual property rights, such as the technology for producing dimethyl ether from methanol and the method for producing ethanol via methanol carbonylation, have been developed and put into industrial use. In addition, various scientific and technological research projects such as those under the 863 and 973 programs were completed; over 200 papers were published, and nearly 300 patents were filed. It is reported that the Henan workstation of Academician Liu Zhongmin will be established using a \"one station, three sites\" model. A R&D center and a base for the transformation of research results will be set up in Yima City, providing intellectual support for Yima to achieve \"success in its second phase of development and accelerate its transformation and growth.\" The Sanmenxia Clean Energy Fund was established with contributions from Keyuan Fund, Sanmenxia Investment Group, and Yima City Investment Group. Leveraging the technical expertise and achievements of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and its partner companies, this industrial fund was created specifically to support the industrial transformation and upgrading of Sanmenxia City as well as the introduction of advanced technologies; it will also provide financial support for the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements in Yima. The Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics will establish a renewable energy demonstration base in Yima, where research collaborations will be carried out in areas such as the large-scale development of renewable energy, the establishment of specialized bases for such development, energy-efficient production methods, and sustainable operational practices, with the aim of creating a model for the large-scale development and utilization of renewable energy. The first phase of the project, with an annual production capacity of 200,000 tons of ethanol, will be funded by Zongneng Company at a cost of around 1 billion yuan. It is built using the research findings of Academician Liu Zhongmin’s team – a technology for producing ethanol from methanol through dimethyl ether carbonylation – and the capital required for this project will come from the Sanmenxia Clean Energy Industry Fund. This project is another major initiative for our city to further extend and strengthen its industrial chain. Jia Shujun and his party also visited Dalian Rick Technology Co., Ltd., where the two sides had in-depth discussions on establishing a base for the renewable utilization of waste catalysts in Yima.