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Significant progress has been made in large-scale CTO/MTO projects; frequent developments indicate the promising prospects for this industry. Author/Source: Yaha Coal Chemicals. Date: 2018-09-26. Clicks: 18. ● The Yan’an Energy and Chemicals project for the comprehensive utilization of coal, oil, and gas resources has completed its entire production process; the boiler in the Zhongan United project was started successfully on the first attempt, and the same happened with the boiler in the Jiutai project. ● By 2018-2019, it is expected that 8 CTO/MTO projects will be completed and put into operation, with a total olefin production capacity of 4.43 million tons per year, involving an investment of around 105 billion yuan. ●Industry professionals will gather in Hefei, Anhui, from November 21-22 for the 2018 Coal-to-Olefins Conference. The organizers have extended a formal invitation to senior executives and experts from leading domestic and international organizations in the field of coal-to-olefins to deliver speeches at the conference. According to statistics from Yahuazhengxun, as of mid-September 2018, China had 29 coal (methanol)-based olefin production plants that were in operation or had successfully completed trial operations, with a total olefin production capacity of 13 million tons per year (excluding the capacity of the MTP plants that were not yet in operation). During 2018–2019, the Yan’an Energy Chemical Plant of Yanchang Petroleum, Jiutai Energy, Zhongan United, Luxi Chemical’s Liaocheng Coal-Wu New Materials facility, Ningxia Baofeng, Damei Coal Industry, Nanjing Chengzhi Yongqing Energy Technology, and the Cornell project are all expected to come online. Together, these facilities will have an olefin production capacity of 4.43 million tons per year, with total investment amountsing to around 105 billion yuan. http://img.yf116.cn/image/img/20180926/842573137761.jpg In the first three quarters of 2018, significant progress was made on several large-scale CTO/MTO projects in China; the details are as follows: 1. Huayi Qinzhou Chemical New Materials Integrated Base Project: On September 10, the construction of the main facilities for this project began, marking the entry of its development into a rapid phase and laying a solid foundation for further progress on this project. The Huayi Qinzhou Chemical New Materials Integrated Base project is a coal-based cogeneration project located in the Petrochemical Industrial Park of Qinzhou Port Economic and Technological Development Zone. The total investment in this project is around 22.8 billion yuan, and it will be constructed in two phases; the first phase involves the industrial gas island facility, with an investment of approximately 12 billion yuan. The project will produce industrial gases such as hydrogen, syngas, and nitrogen for use by users within the industrial park, as well as chemical products like methanol, ethylene glycol, and acetic acid. It is expected to be completed and put into operation in 2020. The second-phase olefin and downstream processing projects produce products such as ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA), and further develop fine chemicals like butyl octanol as well as high-performance materials. 2. Jutai Energy (Jungar) Co., Ltd.’s methanol deep processing project – On September 10, the boiler for this project was successfully ignited for the first time. This marks another new milestone in the project’s development, further strengthening the confidence and determination to complete and put the olefin project into operation by the end of 2018. The project is located in the Ordos Dali Industrial Park in Inner Mongolia, with an investment of over 8 billion yuan. The project uses methanol from the Dali Coal Chemical Industry Base as its raw material. Once completed, the methanol-to-olefins facility will be capable of producing 600,000 tons of olefins per year, along with 280,000 tons of polyethylene and 320,000 tons of polypropylene, utilizing UOP’s MTO technology. 3. The comprehensive utilization project of coal, oil, and gas resources at Yan’an Nenghua Petrochemical in Yan’an was extended. On September 6, the polyethylene production unit at Yan’an Nenghua Company began operating successfully, and on the 7th, qualified HS GC7260 polyethylene powder and high-density polyethylene pellets were produced. This marks the complete establishment of the main production process at Yan’an Energy Chemical Company. On September 17, Yan’an Energy Chemical’s first domestic light oil processing unit, ACO, successfully commenced operations on its first attempt. The Yan’an Coal, Oil, and Gas Comprehensive Utilization Project of Yanchang Petroleum Group is located in Luoyang Village, Fuxian County, Yan’an, Shaanxi, with an estimated total investment of 21.6 billion yuan. The methanol-to-olefins plant utilizes the DMTO technology developed by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is designed to process 1.83 million tons of methanol per year, thereby producing 610,000 tons of ethylene and propylene products. As one of the main production units at Enenghua Company, the light oil processing unit not only supplies raw materials for downstream olefin polymerization plants but also provides some raw materials for EPDM rubber production facilities. This facility utilizes a new hydrocarbon catalytic cracking technology jointly developed by the American company KBR and the South Korean company SK. It is capable of processing 400,000 tons per year of light hydrocarbon feedstocks such as naphtha, and can produce 151,000 tons per year of polymeric-grade ethylene and 126,000 tons per year of polymeric-grade propylene. At the same time, high-purity hydrogen, methane hydride, and crude pyrolysis gasoline are produced as by-products. 4. The 1.7 million tons per year coal-to-methanol and olefin production project of Zhongan United Coal Chemical Co., Ltd.: On August 30, Boiler No. 1 in the thermoelectric unit of Zhongan United Coal Chemical Co., Ltd.’s integrated coal chemical project was successfully ignited for the first time. This marks the entry of the utility system for the Zhong’an United Coal Chemical Project into the full commissioning phase. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018 by CCCC, with the entire process to be operationalized by June 2019. The project is located in Panji District, Huainan City, Anhui Province, and will be implemented in two phases: Phase 1 will involve the construction of facilities for producing 1.7 million tons of coal-based methanol as well as transformed olefins and derived products; it will also include a coal mine with an annual production capacity of 4 million tons in Zhujixi, as well as facilities for producing 350,000 tons per year of linear low-density polyethylene and 350,000 tons per year of polypropylene ； Phase II of the project will construct a coal-to-ethylene glycol plant with an annual capacity of 600,000 tons, along with a coal mine featuring an annual production capacity of 4 million tons. The total investment for the project is approximately 40.2 billion yuan, of which 24.2 billion yuan is allocated to the first phase. The first phase of methanol-to-olefins production utilizes Sinopec’s S-MTO patented technology, while the gasification unit employs Sinopec’s SE-Eastern Furnace technology. 5. The completion and improvement project for Phase 1 of Shaanxi Yanchang China Coal Yulin Energy Chemical Company: Since August 28, various components of this project, including the methanol-to-olefins unit, LDPE/EVA units, polypropylene unit (PP3), methanol complex, and various plant-wide system projects, have begun operations one after another. The project is scheduled to be basically completed by the end of 2019, with phases being put into operation gradually in 2020. The total investment for this project is approximately 14.413 billion yuan. Using coal and oil field gas as raw materials, and building on the mature technical expertise gained from the first phase of the Yulin Energy Chemicals project, it is planned to construct facilities with an annual production capacity of 1.8 million tons of methanol, 700,000 tons of methanol-to-olefins products, 300,000 tons of low-density polyethylene, integrated ethylene-vinyl acetate polymerization units, and 400,000 tons of polypropylene. The methanol-to-olefins plant utilizes the DMTO technology from the Large Scale Chemical Research Institute. 6. The olefin production project via the comprehensive utilization of exhaust gases in the Ganhe Industrial Park of Qinghai Damei Coal Industry: As of mid-August, 73% of the construction work for the methanol-to-olefins unit in this project has been completed; 51.5% of the construction work for the PE unit has been finished, and 55% of the construction work related to the warehouses in the park has been completed. All construction activities are progressing in an orderly manner. The project is scheduled to be fully completed by December 31, 2018, and put into operation in the first half of 2019. The project is located in the Ganhe Industrial Park of the Xining Economic and Technological Development Zone, with a total investment of around 12.7 billion yuan. The methanol-to-olefins plant utilizes the DMTO process developed by the RIKEN Center for Chemical Technology; it uses methanol produced by enterprises within the industrial park as raw material, with an annual production capacity of 1.8 million tons of methanol-to-olefins products, 300,000 tons of polyethylene, 400,000 tons of polypropylene, along with the necessary utility systems, auxiliary facilities, and off-site infrastructure. The 2018 China Coal-to-Olefins Conference will be held in Hefei, Anhui from November 21-22. As the most influential and enduring professional conference in the country, the organizers have honoredably invited senior executives and experts from leading domestic and international organizations in the field of coal-based olefins to deliver keynote speeches at this conference. The conference will also include industrial site visits.