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Yanchang Petroleum plans to build a new facility for producing 500,000 tons of ethanol, using methanol produced by Kaiyue Coal Chemical as raw material. Recently, the company held a meeting in Conference Room 405 to discuss the preliminary steps for the 500,000 tons per year methanol-to-ethanol project at Yumei Chemical. To further accelerate the construction progress of the 500,000 tons per year methanol-to-ethanol project at Yu Coal Chemical, the company established a preliminary promotion team for this project. The project promotion team is responsible for handling the preliminary procedures such as project registration, energy conservation, safety assessments, and environmental impact assessments. ? The 500,000 tons per year coal-based ethanol project of Yu Coal Chemical aims to produce ethanol using methanol and syngas from Kaiyue Coal Chemical as raw materials, employing the dimethyl ether carbonylation technology for ethanol production developed jointly by Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and Yanchang Group Company. ? Kaiyue Coal Chemical Co., Ltd. is located in the Yuheng Coal Chemical Industrial Park in Yulin City. 600,000 tons of methanol are produced using multi-component slurry gasification, air separation by membrane technology, low-temperature methanol washing, Shell Ultra Cracker sulfur recovery, and the David methanol synthesis technology from the UK. Trial production began in January 2014. In 2020, methanol production exceeded 700,000 tons.