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Steam was introduced into the evaporation and crystallization section of the water system for the ethylene glycol production project at Xinjiang Tianye, as reported by Huahua Net’s Coal Chemicals section on June 11, 2020. The click rate for this article was 5. At 8:15 a.m. on June 9, steam was supplied to the evaporation and crystallization section of the 600,000-ton-per-year ethylene glycol production unit, which is part of the first phase of Xinjiang Tianye (Group) Co., Ltd.’s 1 million-ton-per-year syngas-to-ethylene glycol project, and this action marked the official start of the thermal load testing phase for this section. It is reported that the evaporation and crystallization section consists mainly of five key systems: chemical dosing, preheating, evaporation, crystallization, and vacuum, with a processing capacity of 30 m3/h. This thermal load trial operation mainly includes the commissioning of core equipment such as axial flow pumps, the calibration of key instrument circuits, the trial operation of the evaporation system and part of the crystallization system, the verification of key design parameters after steam is supplied, and flange heat tightening. The Xinjiang Tianye project team of Donghua Technology will strictly follow the debugging methods, process requirements, and procedural steps to ensure the proper functioning of all systems. This combined thermal load commissioning operation established the overall process for the evaporation and crystallization section, completing all the preparatory work prior to the official startup. On the afternoon of June 8, the first large-scale equipment for the project undertaken by Sinochem 11th Construction’s Fourth Engineering Company – namely the pressure swing adsorption tower of the PSA CO extraction unit in Hami Guanghui Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd.’s facility for the comprehensive utilization of waste gas to produce 400,000 tons of ethylene glycol per year – was successfully installed in one go. This equipment is a key core component of the purification unit in the ethylene glycol project, used for PSA to extract CO. The equipment has a diameter of 3.6 meters, a height of 11.018 meters, a wall thickness of 36 MM, and a net weight of 45 tons. The successful one-time lifting of the first large-scale equipment marks the completion of a key milestone in the purification unit area of this project; it marks the full entry into the equipment installation phase, kicking off the installation work and laying a solid foundation for subsequent equipment installation tasks. The first phase of Xinjiang Tianye (Group) Co., Ltd.’s project for producing ethanol from syngas at a capacity of 1 million tons per year, which includes an ethylene glycol production line with a capacity of 600,000 tons per year, involves an investment of 8 billion yuan. The construction site is located in the Shihu Tan New Materials Industrial Park in Shihezi, Xinjiang (Unit 147). Construction began in August 2017, with completion and operation planned for the end of 2019; once operational, the project is expected to generate an annual output value of 4.2 billion yuan. The gasification technology for this project involves the use of four sets of 6.5MPa Jinhua furnaces model 3.0, supplied by Shanxi Yangmei Chemical Machinery (Group) Co., Ltd. The core process of the project makes use of the syngas-to-ethylene glycol production technology developed by a consortium comprising Gaochemical and Donghua Technology. Xinjiang Tianye (Group) Co., Ltd. currently has a production capacity of 250,000 tons of ethanol derived from syngas, with 50,000 tons from the first phase and 200,000 tons from the second phase coming online successively. The second-phase project is located in the North Industrial Zone of Shihezi, Xinjiang, and involves the construction of facilities for producing 200,000 tons per year of ethylene glycol and 170,000 tons per year of BDO, with the aim of making comprehensive use of the off-gases from calcium carbide furnaces in the Xinjiang Tianye Chemical Industry Park as raw materials.