Hualu won the bid for multiple projects related to wastewater treatment and other facilities for Yulin’s 1.8 million tons per year ethylene glycol production plant

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Hualu won the bid for multiple projects related to wastewater treatment in the 1.8 million tons per year ethylene glycol production facility in Yulin. Author/Source: Yulin Chemical Company of Shaanxi Coal Group. Date: March 16, 2020. Clicks: 5. Recently, Hualu Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. secured bids for the EPCO contracts for wastewater treatment systems, purification systems, and air separation systems as part of the first phase of the demonstration project aimed at producing new chemical materials through the selective utilization of coal, with a capacity of 1.8 million tons per year. The total value of these bids exceeds 3.5 billion yuan. The Yulin Chemical Demonstration Project for the Utilization of Coal at Different Quality Levels to Produce New Chemical Materials: It is reported that Yulin Chemical’s “Demonstration Project for the Utilization of Coal at Different Quality Levels to Produce New Chemical Materials” 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, as well as determine the extent to which its supply chain will expand 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 intermediate materials. 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 capable of producing 1.8 million tons per year of ethylene glycol and 2 million tons per year of olefins, while also manufacturing 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. Shanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd. and Nippon Kako Kagaku Co., Ltd. jointly invested in establishing Shanxi 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. At present, the construction of facilities for 1.8 million tons per year of ethylene glycol, 1.2 million tons per year of coal gasification, and 500,000 tons per year of coal tar hydrogenation has already begun. The preliminary procedures for these projects have been largely completed, all process packages have been delivered, and the overall design has been approved. Completion and operation are scheduled for June 2021.