Commencement of Yanchang Petroleum Group’s coal-based ethanol project and launching ceremony of the YuHeng coal-to-aromatics project

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Commencement of Yanchang Petroleum Group’s Coal-Based Ethanol Project and Launch Ceremony of the YuHeng Coal-to-Aromatics Project Author/Source: Chemical Industry Network, Coal Chemicals Date: 11-06-2018 Clicks: 1 At 10 a.m. on November 6, the commencement of Yanchang Petroleum Group’s coal-based ethanol project and the launch ceremony of the YuHeng coal-to-aromatics project were held in the Qingshui Industrial Park of the Yushen Industrial Zone. It is understood that the coal-to-ethanol project that is now under construction represents the first phase of the integrated CCSI industrial demonstration project invested in by Yanchang Petroleum, with an annual production capacity of 8 million tons of tar extracted from coal and syngas produced; this marks the entry of the entire CCSI industrial demonstration project into the stage of actual construction. Using West Bay coal as raw material, this project produces 500,000 tons per year of ethanol and a small amount of methanol, with by-products including fusel oils, heavy fractions, sulfur, etc. The total investment in the project is approximately 6.4 billion yuan, with annual operating revenue of 3.051 billion yuan and an annual profit margin of 1.04 billion yuan. In February 2017, the **Energy Bureau officially issued the ‘13th Five-Year Plan for Demonstrating Advanced Coal Processing Industries’. In terms of the selective utilization of low-grade coal, the Yulin CCSI project operated by Yan’an Petroleum, which involves the extraction of coal tar and the production of syngas at a capacity of 8 million tons per year, was included among the projects to be demonstrated. This project will undertake various important demonstration tasks, including industrial-scale demonstrations of CCSI technology on a million-ton scale, industrial-scale demonstrations of coal oil co-processing technology, and demonstrations of integrated oil, chemical, and power production. The Yuheng coal-to-aromatics project, launched simultaneously, is part of Yanchang Petroleum’s coal-based aromatics industry and related coal mining projects in Yulin, northern Shaanxi. The project to be launched is the MTA industrial demonstration project using 1 million tons of methanol as raw material; its main product is mixed aromatics, with an output capacity of 400,000 tons per year. The project is scheduled to be completed and put into operation in 2021. The construction site is located in Plot C17 of the Yulin Yuheng Coal Chemical Industry Zone, adjacent to the Yuheng Railway to the south and the Kaiyue Coal Chemical Methanol Plant to the east, covering an area of 30.36 hectares. Yanchang Petroleum’s 1 million-ton coal-to-aromatics project has been included in Yulin City’s 2018 list of key construction projects and major preliminary projects. The total investment in this project is 33 billion yuan, with an annual production capacity of 1 million tons of aromatics and downstream products derived from them.