【Haichuan Chemical Salary News】80% of the construction progress has been achieved on Inner Mongolia Alxa Jushi Energy’s 200,000-ton synthetic wax project
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The project of Inner Mongolia Jushi Energy Co., Ltd. to produce 200,000 tons of synthetic wax per year is under accelerated construction. According to the WeChat official account of Inner Mongolia Chemical Industry, as of October 16, 2018, the total investment in this project was approximately 3.3 billion yuan. The project is located in the Alxa Economic Development Zone in Inner Mongolia, covering an area of 510 mu, and 83% of the overall construction work has been completed so far. It is understood that the civil engineering work in various plant areas for this project, including the construction of equipment foundations, factory buildings, and steel structures, has been largely completed. The civil engineering work is now in its final stages, with 95% of the total progress for this work already achieved ； 98% of the total installation volume has been completed for the equipment installation ； All compressors have been installed in place ； Piping completion accounts for 80% of the total piping volume ； 97% of the instrumentation and electrical cable trays have been completed; a total of 550,000 meters of instrumentation cables are required, of which 250,000 meters have already been installed ； There are a total of 650,000 meters of electrical cables, all of which have been delivered to the site; so far, 180,000 meters of these cables have been laid.
Synthetic wax is a chemical additive that can be used to produce lubricants for the aerospace industry, as well as pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, and it holds great market potential. Currently, synthetic waxes in China are generally extracted from petroleum or imported from abroad. Jushi Energy Company has developed the first industrial-scale facility in China capable of producing synthetic wax using coke. The advantage of this device is the use of locally available materials; producing one ton of synthetic wax costs 1,000 yuan less compared to traditional methods, and it is possible to process 700,000 tons of coke locally each year. The Jushi Energy project mainly consists of coke storage and transportation systems, gasification units, gas washing systems, electrostatic precipitators, a 50,000-cubic-meter gas holder, raw gas compression units, shift conversion units, acid gas removal systems, sulfur recovery systems, FT Fischer-Tropsch synthesis units, hydroprocessing units, wax shaping units, utility systems, an 110 KV substation, 4 regional substations, storage and transportation systems, as well as related auxiliary systems. This project uses coke as raw material. The synthesis facility employs cobalt-based catalyst technology from Dalian Chemicals to gasify and purify chemical coke; the resulting gasified coke is then used to produce syngas, which is further converted into oil. Finally, hydrogenation and distillation are used to yield clean wax products. The products mainly include n-hexane, n-heptane, D-series solvent oils, white oil, liquid waxes, and high-melting-point waxes (70#, 80#, 90#, 95#, 105#, 115#) ； The product has a high added value and good economic benefits; while ensuring the profitability of the enterprise itself, it can also help upstream coking companies quickly overcome their operational difficulties. It is reported that Jushi Energy’s 200,000-ton synthetic wax project commenced construction in April 2016, with a construction period of 18 months. Upon completion, the project will have an output capacity of 28,000 tons of ethylene cracking materials, 20,000 tons of light wax, 44,000 tons of medium-weight wax, and 101,600 tons of heavy wax.
Pipeline corridor A axis (A1-49 axis)
2# Installation of dry gas seal in compression plant
Installation of 35KV cables from the 110KV main substation to Area Substation No. 4