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Over 40 billion yuan invested in the launch of second batch of major projects in Ningxia / Source: Huahua Network Coal Chemicals Date: July 27, 2020 Clicks: 138 On July 25, 2020, a meeting was held to oversee the commencement of the second batch of major projects in the Ningdong area of Ningxia Autonomous Region. The Ningdong base is an **important large-scale coal production facility, a thermal power generation base for transmitting electricity from the west to the east, a coal chemical industry hub, and** a demonstration area for circular economy. In 2020, the Ningdong base planned to carry out 165 construction projects, with a total investment of 219 billion yuan, and the annual planned investment was 25.5 billion yuan. The 57 projects that are set to commence construction simultaneously fall into four categories: industrial sectors, infrastructure, ecological protection, and public services. The total investment for these projects amounts to 40.2 billion yuan, with an annual investment plan of 6.25 billion yuan. In the first half of 2020, the 2.2 million-ton methanol project of Baofeng Energy’s Phase II came online in its entirety, and the solar-powered hydrogen production project was launched successfully. In the second half of the year, Baofeng Energy plans to build a 500,000-ton/year coal-to-olefins project, a 400,000-ton project for the comprehensive utilization of coke oven gas to produce methanol, a Ningdong Energy Center project, and a power island project within the Linhe Comprehensive Project Area in the Ningdong base. It is also striving to establish a 500,000-ton/year project for the comprehensive utilization of olefins. The total investment in the aforementioned project is 14.2 billion yuan, and it will help to advance Baofeng Energy’s circular economy industry chain in the directions of higher sophistication, greener practices, greater intelligence, and greater integration, thereby enabling more comprehensive utilization of resources. Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd. will make further investments to build a new coal-to-olefins plant with an annual production capacity of 500,000 tons; the location of this plant will be Area A of the Linhe Comprehensive Project Zone in the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base. The total investment for the project is 1,377,000 million yuan, of which 1,298,201 million yuan is allocated to construction costs. The project will construct a 1.5 million tons per year coal gasification to methanol plant (4 in operation and 2 as backups), a 500,000 tons per year methanol to olefins plant, a 250,000 tons per year ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) plant, a 300,000 tons per year polypropylene plant, along with supporting utility systems and auxiliary facilities. Upon completion and reaching full capacity, the project will primarily have an annual production capacity of 250,000 tons of EVA, or a partial production capacity for low-density polyethylene, as well as 300,000 tons of polypropylene; in addition, it will be able to produce by-products such as propane, C4, C5, and sulfur. The coal required for the project is obtained by the project owner through market-based procurement. The project uses coal as raw material and produces methanol through pulverized coal pressure gasification, shift reaction, and purification, achieving an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons of MTO-grade methanol. Further processing via MTO units and olefin separation yields 500,000 tons per year of polymer-grade ethylene and propylene. This polymer-grade ethylene and propylene, along with 50,000 tons per year of vinyl acetate purchased externally, are fed into EVA and propylene polymerization units to produce 550,000 tons per year of polyolefin products. By-products include sulfur, mixed C4, C5+, propane, etc. The project also includes the construction of 3 high-temperature and high-pressure circulating fluidized bed boilers with a capacity of 330 t/h each (2 in operation and 1 as backup), along with other utility and auxiliary facilities. On July 9, the design meeting for the overall project of Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd.’s 500,000 tons per year coal-to-olefins facility was held at Tianchen Engineering Co., Ltd. Liu Wanzhou, Vice President of Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd., along with Wang Lei and Guo Gui, Deputy General Managers of Tianchen Company, attended this meeting. Experts and leaders from various equipment departments, as well as relevant personnel from Tianchen Company’s Baofeng project team, attended this meeting. This meeting was held in a hybrid format, combining in-person attendance with online video conferencing. As the lead institution for the project, Tianchen Company organized discussions on aspects such as the basic design principles of the project and unified engineering standards, ensuring that all agenda items could be addressed successfully and that the project kickoff was completed on schedule. For its subsequent investments, Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd. will build a new coal-to-olefins plant with an annual production capacity of 500,000 tons. This plant will utilize space-based pressurized coal gasification technology, DMTO methanol-to-olefins technology, olefins separation technology from the American company KB, high-pressure tubular EVA process, and Spherizone gas-phase fluidized bed technology for polypropylene production.