Progress in equipment installation for the 240,000 tons/year ethylene glycol project at Jianyuan Coal Chemical Technology in Ejin Horo Banner, Inner Mongolia

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Progress in Equipment Installation for Jianyuan Coal Chemical Technology’s 240,000 tons/year Ethylene Glycol Project in Ejin Horo Banner, Inner Mongolia / Author/Source: Huahua Network – Coal Chemical Industry / Date: 10-06-2018 / Clicks: 60. Recent reports indicate that the main equipment for Jianyuan Coal Chemical Technology Co., Ltd.’s project to produce 240,000 tons of ethylene glycol per year from coke oven gas is being installed at full speed, with completion and operation expected by April 2019. Wen Shangjun, general manager of Etoke Banner Jianyuan Coal Coking Co., Ltd., said that the project is currently in the equipment installation phase, with completion expected by April next year. Coke oven exhaust is a flammable gas produced during the production of coke and tar products, and it is usually discharged through combustion in most coke manufacturing plants. Upon completion of the project, a new approach to the comprehensive utilization of coke oven gas was established. This approach increases the added value resulting from the deeper processing of coke oven gas while minimizing carbon emissions; the utilization rate of carbon can reach over 99%. The ethylene glycol production project using coke oven gas, carried out by Eket Banner Jianyuan Coal Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., began construction in May 2016. Located in the Qipanjing Industrial Park in Eket Banner, it uses 64,500 Nm3/h of coke oven gas as raw material, and through processes such as non-catalytic conversion with pure oxygen, desulfurization and decarburization, syngas separation, ethylene glycol synthesis, and distillation, it produces 240,000 tons of ethylene glycol per year. The complete set of technologies for producing ethylene glycol from syngas provided by Shanghai Pujing Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. was used, with Hualu Engineering Company responsible for the engineering design. Eotog Banner Jianyuan Coal Coking Co., Ltd. was established in 2005 and is located in the Qipanjing Industrial Park in Eotog Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Inner Mongolia Sanwei Resources Group Company. The production capacity has been established at 3.5 million tons of coking coal per year, 6 million tons of raw coal processed annually, 1 million tons of rammed coke per year, 200,000 tons of crude benzene processed annually, and 50,000 tons of LNG per year. The company has adopted a development strategy that focuses on coal mining as the core activity, with washing and processing playing a supporting role; it aims to expand its coal resources significantly and continue to develop comprehensive utilization and advanced processing of coal-based products. The company is making every effort to advance the upgrade projects for mines capable of producing 5 million tons of coking coal per year, as well as projects that enable the production of 5 million tons of coke per year, along with 250,000 tons of coal tar hydrogenated products and 300,000 tons of LNG.