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Ningxia Baoli New Energy’s 300,000 tons/year FITS hydrogenation plant completed its initial test run successfully. Author/Source: Coal Chemicals News. Date: April 16, 2020. Clicks: 7. On April 15, 2020, Ningxia Baoli New Energy Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Baoli New Energy”) successfully completed the initial test run of its 300,000 tons/year FITS hydrogenation plant, producing qualified products. The successful trial operation of this device will further advance the integrated production optimization of BaoLi New Energy’s various facilities, and it is of great significance for reasonably reducing production costs and improving product quality. Baoli New Energy’s 300,000 tons per year FITS hydrogenation plant uses diesel and hydrogen as raw materials, employing the diesel FITS hydrogenation process developed by Hunan Changling Petrochemical Technology Development Co., Ltd. Main products: refined diesel, with minor amounts of crude gasoline and sulfur-containing fuel gas as by-products. The purpose of this unit is to process the straight-run diesel produced by upstream units and diesel purchased from external sources. It removes sulfur and nitrogen elements from the feed diesel through hydrogenation, and at the same time, it strips hydrogen sulfide and removes naphtha components from the products of the hydrogenation reaction, thereby producing qualified products. Ningxia Baoli New Energy Co., Ltd. is located in the **-level Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base. It was established in August 2015 with a registered capital of 200 million yuan, and is mainly engaged in the production, processing, and sales of new types of clean energy sources as well as chemical products. The total investment in the project is 5 billion yuan, with a total land area of 913 mu; the investment per mu amounts to 5.48 million yuan. Following the principle of phased implementation as outlined in the first-phase plan, the project will be built in two phases. Construction of the first phase began in September 2015, and it was completed and put into operation in October 2016. Construction of the second phase of the project began in June 2017, with completion and operation scheduled by the end of 2019. Once the entire project is operational, it is expected to generate annual sales revenue of over 10 billion yuan. The project relies primarily on the by-products of coal chemical industry in the Ningdong area for further processing; it plays a significant role in extending the downstream industrial chain of coal chemicals and in developing clusters of fine chemical products. It is of great importance for accelerating the industrial transformation and upgrading of the Ningxia base and promoting high-quality economic development. In March 2016, construction began on a facility for the comprehensive utilization of 600,000 tons per year of oil, gas, and hydrocarbons, along with the associated public auxiliary facilities; it was completed and put into operation in October of that same year. To achieve product upgrades and improve production efficiency, a new project was launched in June 2017. This project is one of the key construction projects in the autonomous region, with a total investment of 1.692 billion yuan. It involves the construction of facilities for producing 400,000 tons per year of isomerization and MTBE combined units, 400,000 tons per year of high-purity light hydrocarbon reforming units, 100,000 tons per year of benzene extraction and methanol-to-hydrogen combined units; 800,000 tons per year of high-purity heavy hydrocarbon reforming units, 100,000 tons per year of propylene production and product refining combined units; 1.2 million tons per year of raw material pretreatment facilities, and 600,000 tons per year of coal tar deep processing facilities. There are also facilities for the comprehensive utilization of benzyl compounds at a capacity of 100,000 tons per year, as well as a FITS hydrogenation unit for high-purity heavy hydrocarbons with a capacity of 300,000 tons per year, and a hydrogen production facility with an output of 28,000 Nm3 per year. These facilities have been gradually built and put into operation.