The new DMTO-II process has passed evaluation

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On October 26, 2010, the DMTO-II technology – a new generation of industrial process for producing low-carbon olefins from methanol, developed jointly by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sinopec Luoyang Petrochemical Engineering Company, and Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry Group – passed the expert evaluation organized by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation. This new technology achieves a methanol conversion rate of 99.97%, an ethylene+propylene selectivity of 85.68%, and a methanol consumption of 2.67 tons per ton of ethylene+propylene produced. The project at Shaanxi Pucheng Clean Energy Chemical Co., Ltd., which is capable of producing 1.8 million tons of methanol and 700,000 tons of olefins from methanol per year, was launched with an investment of 17.865 billion yuan provided jointly by Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry Group and China Three Gorges Corporation.