Signing ceremony for the license agreement and process package for olefin separation and C4 conversion technologies in the 600,000-tonne olefins project held

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Signing Ceremony for License Agreement and Process Package for Olefin Separation and C4 Conversion Technologies in the 600,000-ton/year Olefins Project of Datong Coal Mining Group’s Coal-to-Olefins Chemicals Company Held / Author/Source: Chemical Industry Network, Coal Chemicals Section / Date: 2019-06-18 / Clicks: 84 On June 13, Datong Coal Mining Group’s Coal-to-Olefins Chemicals Company and Lummus Technology held a signing ceremony for the license agreement and process package related to olefin separation and C4 conversion technologies for the 600,000-ton/year olefins project. The 600,000 tons per year olefins project and the associated 1.2 million tons per year coal-to-methanol project of Datong Coal Mine Group Co., Ltd. have a total investment of 14.97 billion yuan. It was invested and constructed by Datong Coal Mine Group Co., Ltd., with the plant located in Xihanling Township, Yungang District, Datong City. The 600,000-ton olefin project has a total investment of 9.8 billion yuan; it represents a strategic modern coal chemical project launched by the Datong Coal Group in recent years, characterized by a large scale of investment, high technological content, and clean and efficient utilization of coal. On June 4, the international tender for the process packages of Datong Coal Mine Group Co., Ltd.’s new project with an annual production capacity of 600,000 tons of olefins was held in Beijing. Tenders were issued for five process packages: methanol-to-olefins, olefin separation, conversion of C4 compounds into propylene, polyethylene, and polypropylene. The proprietary methanol-to-olefins technology (DMTO) from the Dalian Institute of Physical Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, won the bid thanks to its advantages of optimal technology, lowest consumption, and the best performance. The winning bid for the methanol-to-olefins process package in the Tongmei Olefins project has laid a foundation for further deepening cooperation and exchanges within the \"Datong Coal-Based Clean Energy Comprehensive Development Strategy Alliance\". The 600,000-ton-per-year olefins production project of Tongmei Group officially commenced construction on March 19, 2019. It represents the largest-scale, most technologically advanced, and cleanest and most efficient strategic modern coal chemical project that Tongmei Group has invested in in recent years; completion and operation are expected within 33 months. Upon completion, the project will effectively improve the clean and efficient utilization of coal resources as well as the added value of the products, generating annual profits and taxes amounting to 1.4 billion yuan. In 2019, Tongmei Group will carry out 50 major new construction and transformation projects with a total investment of 118.8 billion yuan; once these projects come online, they are expected to generate an additional annual output value of over 140 billion yuan. Efforts will be focused on launching the three major coal chemical projects carried out by CNOOC, namely coal-to-gas, coal-to-olefins, and coal-to-hydrogen, thus ushering in a new era of shifting from fuel coal to raw material coal. Among these is the promotion of the 600,000-ton coal-to-olefins project by Tongmei; construction commenced in full in March, with some of the main works to be completed within this year ； CNOOC’s project to produce 4 billion cubic meters of coal-to-natural gas per year aims to start construction in the first half of the year.