【Haichuan Chemical Salary News】Large-scale modern coal and coke chemical project worth 10 billion yuan kicks off construction in Xiaoyi, Shanxi

The three modern coal and coke chemical projects in the Xiaoyi Economic Development Zone, for which the total investment exceeds 10 billion yuan and whose construction has commenced simultaneously, are: Jinyan’s 400,000-ton per year ethylene glycol production facility coupled with LNG generation, Jinmao’s 300,000-ton per year production facility, and Shanxi Guokong Yuan’erzhou’s 10-million-ton per year project for the comprehensive utilization of low-grade coal. These projects are being built through cooperation between Xiaoyi-based enterprises Jinyan, Jinmao, and Yuan’erzhou, along with Chinese Global, Hebei Shijiao Chemical Industry, and Shanxi Guokong. The implementation of the Jinyan, Jinmao, and Shanxi Guokong Yuan’erzhou projects will help make the Xiaoyi Economic Development Zone the largest modern coal and coking chemical production base in the country.

The Jinyan 400,000-ton ethylene glycol production project with co-production of LNG is an important part of Jinyan Group’s 5-million-ton modern coal chemical circular economy park. Once completed and put into operation, it will enable the extension of the chemical processing chain for coke oven gas and coke powder, facilitating the comprehensive utilization of coke oven gas from large-scale modern coking plants. It is the largest-scale, most technologically advanced project in China for the production of ethylene glycol through the comprehensive utilization of coke oven gas, offering the highest ecological and environmental benefits.

The 300,000-ton ** project is the first step in the overall plan for building the \"Jinmao Benzene-based Full-industry Chain Modern Fine Chemicals Circular Economy Industrial Park.\" It makes use of the existing advantages in the refining of crude benzene from coking processes, employing the most advanced hydration + polymerization processes for production. By extending the benzene industry chain, the coking industry can be transformed into a high-end industry.

Upon completion of the first phase of the comprehensive utilization project for low-grade coal in Yuaner Prefecture, it will be able to process 3 million tons of raw material peat per year, producing a variety of products such as upgraded coal, tar, crude phenol, and liquid ammonia; the upgraded coal can meet the standards for anthracite set by national regulations. In August 2017, Shanxi Guokong Group Industrial Technology Design and Research Institute and Shanxi Yuan’erzhou Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. officially signed a general contract for the first phase of a project aimed at the comprehensive utilization of low-grade coal at a capacity of 10 million tons per year; the value of this contract was 450 million yuan. The low-rank coal pyrolysis unit used in this project employs the core technology of an external-heating rotary bed, which was independently developed and integrated by the institute. By carrying out low-temperature dry distillation of low-rank coal, high-quality coal with improved properties, low-temperature coal tar with a high hydrogen-to-carbon ratio, and low-temperature dry distillation gas with high calorific value are produced. Further processing of this low-temperature coal tar and gas then enables the production of clean fuels such as gasoline, diesel, CNG (LNG), etc.

They are all projects in the category of \"two highs and one capital\" that are explicitly restricted.

High energy consumption, high pollution, and resource-intensive

Poor areas need to take responsibility for development; there is a conflict between the environment and development, and post-treatment will no longer be as extensive as it used to be