Construction of Shaanxi’s 4 million-ton coal-to-oil project will begin in full by August next year

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This post was last edited by liaifeng on 2018-9-1 at 12:28. The 4 million-ton coal-to-oil project in Shaanxi is set to begin operations in full by August next year. Author/Source: Date: 2017-08-04. Clicks: 13. According to reports from August 2, the subsequent phase of the project in Yulin, Shaanxi, with a capacity of 4 million tons per year, is planned to start construction in April 2018, with full operations beginning in August of the same year, and completion and trial operation expected by 2021. At present, the follow-up projects for the first phase of coal liquefaction are advancing rapidly, with work on water supply, power supply, land allocation, and railway planning essentially completed. Various supporting documents such as the project application report, environmental impact assessment, water resource evaluation, and energy conservation assessment are currently being prepared. Among them, the project site selection assessment report, soil and water conservation plan, and geological disaster risk assessment have entered the administrative approval stage. The project engineering design has been fully underway, and the bidding process for selecting the overall design firm has been completed. Shaanxi Future Yulin Coal Indirect Liquefaction Phase I, a 1 million tons per year low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis coal-to-oil project, was a demonstration project for deep coal processing during the 12th Five-Year Plan period; it was completed in 2015 and began producing high-quality oil products. The first-phase project maintained safe, stable operation over a long period, achieving good economic and social benefits. The subsequent 4 million tons of coal-to-oil production capacity (2 million tons per year via low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, and 2 million tons per year via high-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis) has been included in Shaanxi Province’s as well as the **13th Five-Year Plan’s list of key projects for the deep processing of coal. It is reported that the follow-up project for the first phase of coal indirect liquefaction in Yulin, Shaanxi (a coal-to-oil project with a capacity of 4 million tons per year) utilizes the proprietary high- and low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis multiproduct technology developed by Yankuang Group to build a coal indirect liquefaction facility with a capacity of 4 million tons per year. The project uses coal as raw material to produce petroleum products and chemicals, with an annual production capacity of 4.17 million tons. The construction site is located to the east of the existing 1 million tons per year coal indirect liquefaction demonstration project in Qinhe Town, Yuyang District. The project consumes approximately 20 million tons of coal as raw materials and fuel per year, as well as about 43.5 million tons of water annually. It covers an area of around 15,000 mu, with a total investment estimated at around 69.8 billion yuan. Upon completion, the project will have an annual production capacity of 5 million tons of synthetic products. It will form industrial clusters centered around the indirect liquefaction project, including those in plastics and rubber, FTO-based specialty chemicals, and textiles. These clusters will complement the existing local industries, address their weaknesses, improve the quality of regional industrial products, reduce production costs, and increase the added value of these products. The project will also create approximately 3,000 to 4,000 direct jobs. The main units of the project include: coal gasification, gas purification, air separation, a 2 million tons per year low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis unit, a 2 million tons per year high-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis unit, as well as downstream refining units for producing PAO at 100,000 tons per year, ethylene and propylene through deep cryogenic separation at 500,000 tons per year, hydrogenation at 3.3 million tons per year, hydroisomerization at 2 million tons per year, aromatization for viscosity reduction at 300,000 tons per year, cyclic fluidized bed aromatization at 800,000 tons per year, alkylation at 100,000 tons per year, and MTBE at 100,000 tons per year. The project is scheduled to be completed and put into trial operation in 2021. To accelerate and promote the scaled development of the coal-to-oil industry, Yankuang Group Shaanxi Future Energy Chemical Co., Ltd. launched an industrialization test project for comprehensive utilization on June 10, 2017. This project was carried out at the 1 million tons per year coal indirect liquefaction demonstration plant owned by Shaanxi Future Energy, laying a solid foundation for the future construction of larger-scale Fischer-Tropsch synthesis units in the 4 million tons per year coal-to-oil project.