Shanxi Lubao Group’s 10-billion-yuan fine coal chemical project begins pilot production

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The 10-billion-yuan fine coal chemical industry project of Shanxi Lubao Group begins pilot production/Author/Source: Huahua Net Coal Chemicals Date: 2018-12-26 Clicks: 24 On the morning of December 24, the fine coal chemical industry projects invested in by Shanxi Lubao Group at a cost of 10 billion yuan – namely the project for producing 10,000 tons of high-end specialty pharmaceutical ingredients, the project for producing 100,000 tons of nylon 6, the third phase of the methanol production project, and the project for upgrading coking operations – began pilot production. This marks further substantial progress in Lubao Group’s transition from basic chemical manufacturing to polymer chemical manufacturing. The 10,000-ton capacity project for high-end specialty active pharmaceutical ingredients, which is now starting up for trial production, is an emerging industry that focuses on the production of high-end pharmaceutical intermediates and specialty active pharmaceutical ingredients. It is being developed in three phases, with Beijing Yuanyan Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. leveraging its own technological capabilities alongside the industrial resources available in Lubao to carry out this development ； The 100,000-tonny nylon 6 new material project was jointly developed by Shanxi Lubao Group and Beijing Sanlian Hongpu. It is one of the largest one-time investment and construction projects in the field of high-performance polyamide industrial fibers in China, reflecting the positive trend of expansion in downstream application areas driven by the significant development of the polyamide raw material industry ； The ten-million-ton coking transformation and upgrading project will utilize 7.65-meter large-scale, intelligent coke ovens, and once operational, it will achieve a production capacity of ten million tons ； The third phase of the million-ton methanol project (200,000 tons per year) makes full use of the coke oven gas produced as a by-product in coking plants as raw material, enabling comprehensive energy utilization, reducing pollution emissions, and extending the coal-coking industry chain. By adopting a mature, reliable, advanced, and rational process for converting coke oven gas into methanol, this project increases Luba Group’s methanol production capacity to nearly 600,000 tons per year, laying the foundation for a 600,000-ton-per-year project for producing olefins from methanol. In April 2017, the Lubao 200,000-ton methanol project, which was the first project under the group’s 13th Five-Year Plan, began construction. Invested and built by Shanxi Jiantao Lubao Chemical Co., Ltd., the project covers an area of 170 mu, with a total investment of around 720 million yuan. The project adopts a mature, reliable, advanced and rational methanol production process using coke oven gas. The main processes include a 50,000 cubic meter gas holder, gas compression, precise desulfurization, methane conversion, syngas compression, methanol synthesis, and methanol distillation. The new methanol plant uses the residual coke oven gas from the coking plant in the Lubao Industrial Park as raw material. The desulfurized coke oven gas is sent to a PSA unit, where CO2, CH4, and H2O are removed from the gas. The gas exiting the PSA unit is then fed to a synthesis compressor and sent to the methanol synthesis section, where crude methanol is produced; this crude methanol is further processed in a methanol distillation section to yield pure methanol. The 600,000 tons per year methanol-to-olefins project of Shanxi Jiantao Lubao Chemical Co., Ltd. is located in the Lubao Industrial Park in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province. With an investment of 7.5 billion yuan, it aims to use methanol produced by Shanxi Lubao Group as raw material and advanced technologies from home and abroad to produce polyethylene and polypropylene. The main construction contents include production facilities for MTO methanol-to-olefins, olefin separation C4 cracking (OCP), MTBE/1-butene, polyethylene, polypropylene, etc.