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Internal review meeting for the basic design of 400,000 tons/year coal-based ethylene glycol production at Shaanxi Yueneng Chemical Materials held; Author/Source: Coal Chemical Industry 114 Forum; Date: May 17, 2020; Clicks: 5. On May 15, an internal review meeting for the basic design of the first phase of production capacity of 400,000 tons/year of coal-based ethylene glycol at Shaanxi Yueneng Chemical Materials Co., Ltd. was held in Yulin. The conference invited several well-known experts from the industry; in particular, it welcomed two authoritative figures in this field: Mr. He Yongde, former deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Petrochemical Department, member of the decision-making advisory committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government, director of the China Chemical Society, and president of the Shaanxi Chemical Society, as well as Mr. Wu Quanfu, former head of the Budgeting and Estimating Center of Sinopec. Zhang Jixiao, deputy general manager of the group company and chairman of the Chemical Materials Company, heads of relevant departments of the group company, leaders of the Chemical Materials Company and staff from related departments, as well as representatives from the four design firms of Tianchen, Saiding, Hualu, and Chengda, attended the meeting. The meeting was chaired by Wu Jianzhong, the head of the Infrastructure Engineering Department of the group company. Zhang Jixiao, deputy general manager of the group company and chairman of the Chemical Materials Company, put forward requirements for internal review on behalf of the group company. Representatives from the four design firms presented reports on the basic design documents under their responsibility. The experts present conducted discussions and exchanges in accordance with their professional groups, resulting in specific suggestions and opinions. The expert group recommends that chemical material companies should earnestly learn from the experiences and lessons of relevant domestic entities, optimize the basic design, and promptly urge the design firms to implement the experts’ opinions and suggestions as soon as possible, so as to provide a basis for the development of the detailed design of the project. The 400,000 tons per year ethylene glycol project is one of the initial projects undertaken by Yueneng Group in the coal-to-clean-fuel base and high-end chemical materials base located in the Qingshui Industrial Park of the Yushen Industrial Zone. The total planned land area for this project is 1,711 mu, with an estimated total investment of 5.887 billion yuan. The construction period is 30 months, and the project is scheduled to be completed and put into operation by June 2022. Using production processes such as coal-based syngas, carbon monoxide and hydrogen are used to indirectly synthesize ethylene glycol through carbonylation, coupling, and hydrogenation; meanwhile, by-products such as dimethyl carbonate, crude ethanol, mixed alcohols, sulfur, liquid oxygen, and liquid nitrogen are produced. The main facilities include those for producing coal-based syngas, purification and separation, ethylene glycol synthesis, boiler power generation, air separation units, as well as supporting utility systems.