[Haichuan Chemical Salary Updates] Shenhua Baotou has produced a total of 5.2 million tons of polyolefin products

“As a demonstration enterprise for coal-based olefins, we have paid close attention to the optimization of our production systems since commencing operations, aiming to eliminate bottlenecks in the production process of the demonstration plant; particular effort has been put into achieving clean production. To meet the **ever-rising environmental emission standards and requirements, we have invested nearly 300 million yuan to carry out various improvement projects, including flue gas denitration and dust removal for thermal power boilers, capacity expansion for wastewater reuse, and comprehensive utilization of oily and muddy wastewater. These efforts have enabled the upgrading of our environmental protection facilities and processing technologies. ”General Manager Jia Runan said that the company is currently making active efforts to implement a project aimed at achieving near \"zero discharge\" of wastewater. By cooperating with professional institutions and research organizations such as universities, it is striving to find ways for the comprehensive utilization of solid waste. The company is also actively contributing to Baotou City’s efforts to become a \"waste-free city,\" while advancing the development of an IoT system for managing solid waste within the company.

Speaking about the development path of coal chemical industry in our country, Jia Runan is full of confidence: \"The domestic coal-to-olefins industry relies on its own coal resources, which enables the local conversion of coal and thus avoids losses associated with coal transportation.\"； On the other hand, it has established a complete industrial chain from coal mining to olefin products, enabling greater control over costs ； Compared to the oil route and the propane dehydrogenation route, it is less affected by fluctuations in the international oil and gas market. Against the backdrop of a persistently high dependence on imported oil, the coal-to-olefins route plays an important role in ensuring the security of the petrochemical industry and promoting diversification of petrochemical feedstocks. ”

The main competitive advantages of the coal-to-olefins route lie in three aspects: abundant domestic coal resources, competitive and stable costs, as well as advanced and reliable technology. Its competitive disadvantages include high investment levels, significant water consumption, and high carbon emissions. In addition, there are serious challenges such as intense competition due to product homogenization, as well as the risk of overcapacity resulting from continued rapid expansion of production capacity in the future. Therefore, Jia Runan suggests that the future development of China’s coal-based olefin industry should focus on the upgrading and demonstration of existing projects, including the development of new-generation technologies and the optimization of current ones, in order to improve resource utilization efficiency and environmental protection efforts; in particular, it is necessary to reduce water consumption and carbon emissions associated with coal-based olefins ； At the same time, olefin products should move toward specialization and differentiation in order to avoid homogeneous competition with low-end, general-purpose products.

In Jia Runan’s view, the future opportunities for China’s coal-to-olefins route lie primarily in scientific and technological breakthroughs. Currently, there are two key areas where such breakthroughs are needed: one is the optimization of the entire process to reduce energy and water consumption； The second is the research and development of olefin production technologies using syngas in a single step. Avoid blind expansion of production capacity, fully exploit the potential of existing projects, optimize production processes and utility systems, and actively develop downstream products. The utilization of resources derived as by-products of olefin production is not sufficient. At present, in China, the overall degree of utilization of resources such as C4, C5, and C9 compounds that are produced as by-products of ethylene production is low; some of these materials are used directly as fuel, while the proportion used to produce high-value products such as isoprene rubber and premium petroleum resins needs to be increased further.

Jia Runan said that \"the clean conversion of coal\" is the original aspiration and mission of modern coal chemical enterprises. The company has always been guided by the principles of \"clean development and green development,\" adhering to the ecological civilization concept that \"lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.\" It raises its political awareness, strengthens its sense of responsibility, and earnestly fulfills its social responsibilities as a central state-owned enterprise in terms of environmental protection. It is committed to winning the battle against pollution and pursuing sustainable efforts in ecological civilization construction, continuously working to reduce emissions of key pollutants. In this way, it contributes to the creation of a vast green barrier along China’s northern borders and to the preservation of this beautiful landscape.

Shenhua Baotou was pionier in developing the world’s coal-to-olefins route; it is also a representative example of the DMTO-I technology – in other words, it was the first to try this approach, which is truly commendable!

The technology of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics? ? ? ? ?

An investment of 10 billion was made to build an oil field and integrated processing plant with an annual production capacity of 500,000 tons

Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemical Co., Ltd.: We have received your company’s application letter titled \"Request for Approval of the Environmental Impact Assessment Report for the Shenhua Baotou Coal-to-Olefins Upgrade Demonstration Project\" (Shenbao Coal Letter [2019] No. 44). After examination, the approval is as follows: 1. The project is located in the Jiuyuan Industrial Park of Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It involves expanding an existing coal-to-olefins plant with a capacity of 600,000 tons per year to a capacity of 700,000 tons per year, while also upgrading and modifying the existing facility. The proposed project will use the coal resources in western Inner Mongolia as raw material, and employ processes such as pressurized coal gasification, purification, methanol synthesis, and methanol-to-olefins conversion to produce 700,000 tons per year of polyolefin products. After the expansion, the production capacity of coal-based olefin products increased from the current 600,000 tons per year to 1.3 million tons per year. The main components of the project include units for coal gasification under pressure, shift reaction, low-temperature methanol washing, sulfur recovery, methanol synthesis, methanol to olefins (MTO), polyethylene production, polypropylene production, and air separation. Auxiliary engineering mainly includes tank farms, circulating water systems, flare systems, etc. Environmental protection projects mainly include sewage treatment systems, reclaimed water systems, evaporation crystallization units, waste gas treatment systems, oil and gas recovery systems, as well as newly constructed off-site slag dumps. Additionally, some of the existing auxiliary facilities and environmental protection systems are upgraded or modified. The main products of the project are 400,000 tons per year of polyethylene and 350,000 tons per year of polypropylene, while the main by-products include sulfur, among others. The project construction meets the overall requirements of the \"Environmental Access Requirements for Modern Coal Chemical Industry Projects (Trial)\“. The project is located in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River. Baotou City, where it is situated, is a water-scarce area, and the current quality of the atmospheric environment shows excessive levels of inhalable particles and fine particles; therefore, there is significant pressure to improve the regional environmental quality. It is necessary to strictly implement various pollution control measures and environmental risk prevention strategies, establish and enforce strict environmental management systems and monitoring plans, and set up timely and effective emergency response and coordination mechanisms. After comprehensive consideration, our department In principle agrees to the nature, scale, process, location of the construction project, as well as the environmental protection measures outlined in your company’s environmental impact report.