Contract signing for a methanol-to-olefins plant at Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd

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Recently, the signing ceremony for the engineering design service contract for the olefins, aromatics, and deep processing components of Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd.’s 15 million tons per year demonstration project for clean and efficient conversion of coal into various products was held in Xi’an. Hualu Company successfully won the bid for the engineering design services project for a 1 million tons per year polypropylene plant. Song Shijie, Assistant to the General Manager of Shaanxi Coal Group, Executive Director and Deputy Party Secretary of Shaanxi Coal Yulin Chemical; Wang Huimin, Party Secretary and General Manager of Shaanxi Coal Yulin Chemical; Liu Wansheng, Chief Engineer ； Wang Hai, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the company, Zheng Kaixue, General Manager, as well as heads of relevant units and departments, attended the signing ceremony. In his opening speech, Wang Huimin said that this project carries the trust and expectations placed in Shaanxi Coal Group by the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Government. It represents an important step taken by Shaanxi Coal Group to implement its development strategy of \"taking coal as the foundation, advancing both energy and materials production, integrating technology as a driving force, and achieving transformation.\" He hoped that all those involved in the project would work together sincerely, make full use of their professional skills, focus on maintaining a proper pace, ensuring high quality, and accelerating progress, so as to achieve all set goals with high standards and excellence, thus opening a new chapter in further strengthening cooperation and friendship. In his speech, Wang Hai expressed his gratitude to Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical for its long-standing recognition and trust in Hualu Company. He emphasized that Hualu Company will fully unleash the vitality of the enterprise following the reform toward a mixed-ownership structure, further leverage its professional strengths, assign experienced technical personnel to carry out their tasks, organize everything carefully and plan meticulously. By focusing on the needs of its clients, the company will continue to provide them with competitive engineering products and high-quality services, thereby contributing to the high-quality development of Yulin Chemical under Shaanxi Coal Group. In his summary, Song Shijie expressed his gratitude to the collaborating partners for their long-term support. He hopes that all parties involved in the project will work together as one, actively respond to the goal of \"reaching a peak in carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060\" (the 3060 goal), ensure high design quality, strengthen coordination, accelerate the progress of project construction, and strive to create high-quality projects in line with the standards of the China Industrial Award. At the signing ceremony, Zheng Kaixue and Wang Huimin signed the polypropylene plant engineering design contract on behalf of both parties. This signing marks the entry of Hualu Company and Shaanxi Coal Yulin Chemical into the second phase of cooperation on this large-scale project, initiating a new chapter in their collaboration in non-coal sectors. It also plays a positive role in facilitating Hualu Company’s expansion of its business in the light hydrocarbon sector. The 15 million tons per year demonstration project for the clean and efficient conversion of coal into various products at Shaanxi Coal Group Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd., which includes projects for the production of olefins, aromatics, and other products through further processing, is a large-scale integrated coal utilization industrial complex developed by Shaanxi Coal Group in the Yulin-Yushen Industrial Park. As the largest coal chemical project under construction globally at present, this project covers an area of approximately 13 square kilometers, with a total investment of 126.2 billion yuan planned; it is capable of converting more than 24 million tons of coal each year. The project is 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 requires an investment of around 70 billion yuan; it will involve the construction of facilities for producing 1.8 million tons per year of ethylene glycol, 5.6 million tons per year of methanol, and 2 million tons per year of olefins, as well as a large amount of fine chemical products derived from these olefins. Phase 1, stage 2 involves the construction of a facility capable of producing 5.6 million tons per year of methanol and 2 million tons per year of olefins, along with related processing units; completion is scheduled by the end of 2023. Phase II of the project focuses on coal pyrolysis and is also divided into two stages. The first stage involves an industrial demonstration facility for 1.2 million tons per year of pulverized coal pyrolysis and 500,000 tons per year of advanced processing of coal tar; completion of the construction is scheduled for June 2021 ； In the second phase, the scale of pyrolysis will be increased to 15 million tons, and the coal tar industry chain will be expanded to produce aromatic hydrocarbons as well as downstream products derived from arylenes. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2022, with all construction work to be completed by the end of 2025.