China Huisheng Clean Energy Company has chosen UOP’s coal-to-olefins technology
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This post was last edited by jordan569 on 2013-1-6 at 19:58. Honeywell announced that Huisheng (Nanjing) Clean Energy Co., Ltd. in China has chosen UOP technology to convert methanol in its existing coal chemical complex into raw materials for producing high-quality polycarbonols and other chemical products. This project will be the world’s first commercial application of Honeywell UOP’s Advanced Methanol-to-Olefins technology solution. The project is expected to come online at Huisheng Energy’s Nanjing plant in 2013, with Honeywell UOP providing technical licensing, process packages, catalysts, adsorbents, special equipment, and commissioning services. Liu Hongjun, General Manager of Huisheng (Nanjing) Clean Energy Co., Ltd., said, “Huisheng is pleased to collaborate with Honeywell UOP to build a world-class methanol-to-olefins unit using advanced methanol-to-olefins technology.” We look forward to the success of this technology at Sinopec’s Nanjing plant, as it will help Sinopec further extend its product supply chain, enabling the company to offer a wider range of high-quality chemical raw materials. It will also support the industrial application of this methanol conversion technology in China. ” Huisheng Energy’s Nanjing plant will be one of the first plants in the world to produce olefins from methanol; it is expected to generate 295,000 tons per year of ethylene and propylene intermediates, which will then be converted into other chemical products. The MTO process was jointly developed by UOP and INEOS (formerly Hydro) to convert methanol into ethylene and propylene. The olefin cracking process (OCP) is employed to further convert the olefins produced by the MTO process, thereby increasing the yield of available ethylene and propylene. This solution uses UOP’s proprietary catalysts, and it is reported to yield high outputs with few by-products ； It also allows for flexible adjustment of ethylene and propylene production volumes, enabling producers to adjust plant design to meet market demands most effectively. Total Petrochemicals has successfully demonstrated the semi-commercial-scale production of advanced MTO process technology at its plant in Feluy, Belgium. Total Petrochemicals and UOP recently announced that they have successfully converted the ethylene and propylene produced at the pilot plant into polyethylene and polypropylene. Huisheng (Nanjing) Clean Energy Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary controlled by Huisheng Group Holdings Limited, whose headquarters are located in Shanghai, China. The Huisheng Energy Nanjing plant is situated in the Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park, and it uses clean coal production technology to manufacture high-quality chemical raw materials such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen, syngas, methanol, and sulfur for use in China. UOP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honeywell International and is part of Honeywell’s Strategic Materials business group. Honeywell International’s business areas include aviation products and services, building, home, and industrial control technologies, automotive products, turbochargers, and specialty materials. Honeywell’s history in China dates back to 1935. At that time, Honeywell opened its first distribution office in Shanghai. Currently, Honeywell’s four major business segments are all present in China, and the Asia-Pacific headquarters of all its business units have also been relocated there. The company operates multiple subsidiaries and joint ventures in 20 cities across China. Honeywell now has over 11,000 employees in China. . Note # ) # # , .
It is said that Huisheng assigned this MTO project to Chengda; if this project is successful, the domestic MTO industry will face a highly competitive landscape.
Thank you to the original poster for the introduction, everyone*
If that’s really the case, it’s good news for the developers – competition is beneficial!
What about those elites from SEI at Huisheng’s Beijing office? It seems that the original process design for this project wasn’t done by someone from SEI, right?
Does Huisheng not also have a design department? Why hire Chengda Design then?
MTO is very similar to FCC; methanol is used in place of oil feedstock. Therefore, the institutes in Luoyang and Beijing that were previously involved in FCC projects should have no problems carrying out this work as well. But the Luoyang Institute has already achieved success at Shenhua Baotou. UOP is already behind.
UOP is not behind; catalysts were first industrially applied by Daehwa Research Institute. Catalyst. There are two key issues related to reactors, while catalysts involve engineering aspects such as catalyst preparation, catalytic engineering, catalytic chemistry, catalytic kinetics, and the firing of support materials – issues that cannot be resolved by just one person. It still takes practical experience regarding catalyst degradation, conversion rate, stability, and so on
Yes, I’m also puzzled – does Chengda handle the detailed engineering work, while Huisheng Beijing is responsible for the most valuable design aspects?
This post was last edited by fossil-zhang on 2011-7-13 at 11:06. UOP seems to be like Yu and Liu Bang in the same story – where there’s one outstanding person, another appears. I don’t think there’s a significant difference in their technologies. While Dahuaxing was trying to find places for pilot tests, UOP just watched from the sidelines. When Dahuaxing carried out pilot tests at Shaanxi Chemical Industry, UOP arrogantly waited for the results; by the time Dahuaxing succeeded in operating the plant in Baotou, it was already too late for UOP to act. If Huisheng were to adopt UOP’s technology, there might still be a slim chance of success, but I still think the prospects are not good; after all, Dahuo has the advantages of timing, location, and support.
This post was last edited by douglas on 2011-7-13 11:16. Well, the technologies are more or less the same these days; it just comes down to whether they are user-friendly or not. Besides, UOP’s technology is too expensive and difficult to implement in practical applications. Their catalysts and reactors are excellent. Anyway, the fact that UOP has not managed to establish a local presence in the Chinese mainland is indeed a problem. Now their sales manager has left as well, and a new one has taken his place