Huqiu won the EPC contracts for three bid sections of the 800,000 tons per year ethylene glycol production project in Yulin

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Beijing Global won the EPC contracts for three phases of the 800,000 tons per year ethylene glycol production project in Yulin. Author/Source: Refining & Chemical Industry News Date: 2020-03-04 Clicks: 29 On February 26, 2020, Beijing Global received a notice from Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shaanxi Coal Yulin) confirming that it had won the EPC contracts for the three phases of this 1800,000 tons per year ethylene glycol production project The project will be built using coal as raw material to produce 1.8 million tons per year of ethylene glycol. The main construction contents include production units such as air separation, gasification, syngas purification, and H2/CO separation, as well as supporting utility systems. The scope of work for which Beijing Huanyu Company has won this bid includes the EPC general contracting for three sections: auxiliary facilities, storage and transportation facilities, etc. Beijing Global Company is responsible for the detailed design, digital delivery, procurement, construction, and overall technical services management of the aforementioned project. It is reported that Yulin Chemical’s “Demonstration Project for the Production of New Chemical Materials through the Differential Utilization of Coal” is currently the largest coal chemical project under construction in the world. The project covers an area of approximately 13 square kilometers, with an estimated total investment of 125 billion yuan. It represents the highest level of development in the coal chemical industry, featuring the greatest coal processing capacity, the highest degree of industrial integration, the most complex technical integration, and a supply chain that is closest to the end market. This project will have a profound impact on the further development of China’s coal chemical industry and will also determine the extent to which its supply chain can be expanded in the future. The project will be constructed in two phases and four stages, comprising a total of 27 process units along with associated utility systems. These mainly include the medium- and low-temperature pyrolysis of 15 million tons of coal, the production of 5.6 million tons of methanol, 1.8 million tons of ethylene glycol, 2 million tons of MTO, as well as downstream products derived from these intermediates. The first phase of the project is scheduled to come online in June 2021, with the entire project to be completed and operational by the end of 2025. The investment for the first phase of this project is approximately 70 billion yuan, which will be used to build facilities for producing 1.8 million tons per year of ethylene glycol and 2 million tons per year of olefins, as well as a large number of fine chemical products derived from olefins. The facility for producing 1.8 million tons per year of ethylene glycol is part of the first stage of this project, and it represents the largest coal-based ethylene glycol production facility under construction worldwide. The estimated investment for this facility is 26.5 billion yuan. The project utilizes Collin’s patented dry powder gasification technology and Japan’s patented technology for producing ethylene glycol from syngas. Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd. and Nippon Kako Kagaku Co., Ltd. jointly invested in establishing Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical Yugao Chemical Co., Ltd. to build and operate facilities for the production of oxalate esters as well as for the hydrogenation of oxalate esters to produce ethylene glycol. The second phase of the Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical’s demonstration project for the selective utilization of coal to produce new chemical materials focuses on coal pyrolysis and is carried out in two stages. The first stage involves the construction of the pyrolysis facility, which will be built simultaneously with the ethylene glycol production plant, with completion and operation scheduled for June 2021. In the second stage, the scale of pyrolysis will be increased to 15 million tons, and the coal tar industry chain will be expanded to produce downstream products based on aromatic compounds; construction is planned to begin by the end of 2021, with completion and operation targeted by the end of 2025.