Expert consultation meeting on the environmental impact assessment for Xinjiang Zhongtai Group’s oil-coal co-processing project was held

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Expert consultation meeting on the environmental impact assessment for Xinjiang Zhongtai Group’s oil-coal co-processing project was held. Author/Source: Xinjiang Zhongtai Chemical Fukang Energy Co., Ltd.; compiled and published by the Nitrogen Fertilizer and Methanol Technology Network. Date: May 28, 2019; Clicks: 7. On May 6, an expert consultation meeting regarding the environmental impact assessment plan for Xinjiang Zhongtai Group’s integrated oil-coal co-processing project (review of the assessment outline) was held in Beijing. The main purpose of this meeting is to bring together the various project contractors, the local authorities in charge of construction, the entities responsible for environmental impact assessment, as well as relevant technical support organizations, in order to have thorough discussions on the issues existing in the progress of the project’s environmental impact assessment. Relevant experts will then provide comprehensive analysis and specific guidance to help ensure the smooth advancement of all key tasks related to the environmental impact assessment. Expert consultants from units such as Sinopec Engineering Construction Company, Shanxi Meteorological Science Research Institute, and China Wuhuan Engineering Co., Ltd. were invited to attend the conference. It is understood that the integrated oil-coal co-processing project is a major technological innovation and research project of Zhongtai Group. In recent years, Xinjiang Zhongtai Group and Sinopec Engineering Company have joined forces, actively establishing closer ties with departments such as the Energy Bureau and Sinopec, in an effort to have both the oil-coal co-processing project and the MTO project included in the 13th Five-Year Plan. This initiative aims to help Xinjiang Zhongtai Group move forward in the direction of high-tech development. Project Name: Bazhou 4 million tons/year integrated project for the deep processing of heavy oil and coal. Project Location: This project is located within the Bazhou Korla Petroleum and Petrochemical Industrial Park, which is situated about 65 km west of Korla City, the capital of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang. Project Overview: This is a new project, with an approved total investment of approximately 19.912 billion yuan. This project uses heavy oil and coal as raw materials, and employs co-processing technology of oil and coal to produce clean gasoline, diesel, p-xylene, benzene, propane, butane, and other products. The production facilities include systems for treating raw coal and crude oil, slurry-bed hydrogenation, hydrocracking, aromatic compound processing (including pre-hydrogenation, continuous reforming, aromatic extraction, disproportionation and alkylation, isomerization, and xylene distillation), isomerization, coal-to-hydrogen production (including gasification, shift reaction, acid gas removal, and PSA hydrogen purification), PSA hydrogen purification, light hydrocarbon recovery, gas separation, and sulfur recovery processes (including solvent regeneration, acidic water stripping, phenol recovery, and sulfur recovery), as well as systems for shaping oil residues and air separation ； The supporting storage and transportation facilities include coal unloading and storage facilities, tank areas (raw material tank areas, intermediate tank areas, product tank areas, acid and alkali tank areas), vehicle loading and unloading facilities, train loading and unloading facilities, oil and gas recovery facilities, plant-wide warehouses, hazardous chemicals warehouses, and temporary storage areas for hazardous waste. The utility systems include water supply and drainage systems (water supply pump stations, circulating water plants, sewage treatment plants, rainwater collection tanks, emergency storage tanks, etc.), power supply systems (main substation, regional and unit substations), heating systems (chemical water treatment stations, condensate water stations, etc.), telecommunications and fire alarm systems, and gas supply systems (air compressor stations). The auxiliary facilities include flare systems, central control rooms, central laboratories, environmental monitoring stations, fire and gas protection stations, maintenance centers, administrative office buildings, canteens, and bathrooms. At the same time, this project plans to make use of the off-site railways and roads built as part of the park infrastructure, the park’s heat and power plant, the off-site water supply and drainage facilities, the park’s landfill for general solid waste, and the facilities for the disposal of hazardous waste within the park.