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With an investment of 28 billion yuan, the bid for the core process package of the Shaanxi-Shandong project has been awarded. Author/Source: ChemNet Coal Chemical Industry. Date: October 13, 2022. Click-through rate: 14. Recently, the bidding and evaluation process for the process package of the new BDO projects in Yulin, Shaanxi, and Liaocheng, Shandong, undertaken by Shandong Xinfa Group, came to an end. The winning bidder is **Guanda. Shenmu Shenxin New Materials Co., Ltd.’s project on the high-efficiency fractional conversion of coal and the downstream deep processing of BDO within a circular economy framework is located in the Shenmu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone (Jinjie Industrial Park), Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. With a total investment of 18 billion yuan, the project includes facilities for producing 1.2 million tons per year of 1,4-butanediol (BDO) along with supporting formaldehyde production units; additionally, it produces 400,000 tons per year of acetic acid, 100,000 tons per year of vinyl acetate, 600,000 tons per year of PBAT, 400,000 tons per year of PTMEG, 400,000 tons per year of spandex, and 100,000 tons per year of GBL/NMP. The Circular Industry Demonstration Park project of Shenmu Shenxin New Materials Co., Ltd. was invested and constructed by Xinfaa Group in the Shenmu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone. The park is divided into two sections: power plants and chemical industries. The chemical industry sector focuses on the efficient conversion and utilization of coal, as well as the deep processing of BDO and its downstream products. Guided by the principle of enhancing the overall utilization efficiency of coal as a chemical raw material, and with the efficient quality-based conversion and utilization of coal serving as its industrial foundation, efforts are made to increase the level of innovation and environmental sustainability in projects, thereby facilitating the transformation of low-value-added chemical raw materials into high-value-added fine chemical products. The park utilizes the large-scale circulation of the industrial chain to drive smaller-scale circulations within individual industries. By optimizing the structure of raw materials and products and recycling waste resources, it maximizes product efficiency. By employing the most energy-efficient and environmentally friendly technical equipment, exhaust gases, waste heat, and intermediate products are comprehensively utilized. The 2×660MW power generation project of Shenmu Shenshin Thermal Power Co., Ltd. is part of the power plant component of Shenmu Shenshin New Materials Co., Ltd.’s circular industry demonstration park project. It is also a thermal power project outlined in the \"Jinjie Industrial Park Master Plan (2018-2035)\", and has been included in Shaanxi Province’s electricity development plan for the 14th Five-Year Period. The project is located in the Shenmu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. It involves the construction of two 660 MW high-efficiency ultra-supercritical air-cooled coal-fired units, along with two 2,600 t/h high-efficiency ultra-supercritical pressure-variable direct-flow boilers, as well as supporting facilities such as desulfurization and denitrification systems. The transport of ammonia outside the plant, the transport of calcium carbide slurry outside the plant, the transportation of coal outside the plant, external water supply projects and pipelines, external steam supply pipelines, certain parts of the on-site step-up substations and transmission lines, as well as the roads for transporting ash outside the plant and the radiographic inspection during the construction period are not included in the scope of this evaluation. The total investment in this project is approximately 5.79 billion yuan, of which about 550 million yuan is allocated to environmental protection. Environmental protection-related investments account for 9.5% of the total project investment. The Chiping Xinfafa Huaxing Chemical Co., Ltd. project for the comprehensive utilization of waste gases to produce 300,000 tons per year of BDO along with related fine chemicals is located in the Chemical Industry Park in Chiping District, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province. The total investment in this project is 10 billion yuan; its production facilities are capable of manufacturing 300,000 tons per year of BDO, 180,000 tons per year of PBAT, 100,000 tons per year of PTMEG, 120,000 tons per year of spandex, 50,000 tons per year of NMP, as well as 5,000 tons per year of n-butanol as a by-product. Main production units: industrial gas purification units, tail gas-to-methanol units, methanol-to-formaldehyde units, PSA nitrogen extraction units, BYD units, BDO units, PBAT units, PTMEG units, spandex units, GBL units, NMP units, air separation units, etc. Further reading – BDO technology package: **The conflicts between Guanda and American Invista. Domestic BDO production capacity remains high, with numerous large-scale projects being signed and implemented one after another; according to statistics, including the production capacity plans announced by companies themselves, the total amount is nearly 15 million tons. It is reported that almost all the BDO plants that have been built and are in operation in mainland China currently use the alkyne-aldehyde method, and most of the technology related to this method in China comes from Invista and Guanda. As for the lawsuit between these two companies, it’s an open secret within the BDO industry. First, let’s look at Invista. Invista is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., a U.S.-based company headquartered in Kansas, USA. Koch Industries is the largest privately held company in the world. Invista’s butanediol production technology using the oxo process originates from DuPont in the United States; Invista was originally a subsidiary of DuPont. On April 30, 2004, a subsidiary of Koch Industries acquired Invista (formerly DuPont Textiles & Interiors) from DuPont, and merged KoSa into Invista. In 2005, Cargill Industries surpassed Cargill to become the world’s largest privately held company. Invista is currently one of the world’s largest integrated fiber and polymer companies, with operations in over 20 **/regions worldwide. Its products are primarily used in applications involving nylon, spandex, and polyester. Let’s take a look at Guanda now. **Crownda, which is actually Frontech, is headquartered in Houston, USA. The boss is a Chinese-American, Ming D. Wan. China has been able to become the largest producer of BDO, and Guanda has played a crucial role in this. Guanda’s process package is cheaper than Nvidia’s, so the emergence of Guanda has broken the monopoly on this technology held by Nvidia and ISP, reducing the costs for companies to implement BDO projects and enabling such projects to spread widely. At present, the BDO production capacity of many enterprises in our country utilizes Guanda’s process technology.