The dedicated railway line for coal-to-olefins production operated by Zhongtian Hechuang has been put into use

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The last edit to this post was made by liaifeng on 2018-7-29 at 15:40. The dedicated railway line for coal-to-olefins production operated by Zhongtian Hechuang has been put into use. Author/Source: Huahua Net – Coal Chemical Industry. Date: 2018-05-04. Views: 11. At 12:58 p.m. on May 2, a train carrying 2,800 tons of olefin products slowly set off from the Zhongtian Hechuang facility. This marks the official opening for operation of the Zhongtian Hechuang olefin railway dedicated line today. From now on, Zhongtian Hechuang’s products will depart from the olefin loading station, and travel via the Xintao-Baoxi-Jingbao line to areas beyond Hohhot, as well as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and other places. The Zhongtian Hechuang Olefin Railway Dedicated Line is located in Tuk Town, Wushen Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, right next to the Tuk Station on the Xin’en Railway. The dedicated line starts from the northern end of Tudaba Station on the China Coal Urea railway dedicated line, then turns southeast toward the Zhongtian Hechuang factory complex. The total length of this line is 7.837 km, with a total investment of 183 million yuan. In 2018, Zhongtian Hechuang planned to send 600,000 tons of olefin products via this dedicated railway line. The olefin dedicated railway line is located in the Maowusu Desert area, where soil types are diverse, making construction quite challenging. After 5 years of construction, the Zhongtian Hechuang Olefin railway dedicated line was finally opened officially. The opening of this railway line will not only significantly alleviate the pressure associated with the storage and transportation of Zhongtian Hechuang’s products and reduce transportation costs, but it will also further boost the development of the local economy. Project Overview: The Zhongtian Hechuang project is located in the Tuk Industrial Park, Wushen Banner, Ordos City. With a total investment of 60 billion yuan, its production capacity is 1.37 million tons of polyolefins per year. During the project period, two coal mines will be built, along with a methanol production facility with an annual capacity of 3.6 million tons, 2 methanol-to-olefins plants each with an annual capacity of 1.8 million tons, a polyethylene plant with an annual capacity of 670,000 tons, and a polypropylene plant with an annual capacity of 700,000 tons. In September 2016, the 3.6 million tons per year methanol plant produced qualified methanol products ； In October, the 1.8 million tons per year methanol-to-olefins plant was successfully commissioned, producing qualified ethylene and propylene ； On October 26, the first series of units in the project completed all the process steps, producing qualified polyethylene and polypropylene. On August 17, 2017, the second unit of Sinochem’s coal-to-olefins MTO project was successfully commissioned, producing qualified ethylene and propylene products, which marked the completion of the entire process for this second series of units.