First public announcement of the environmental impact assessment for the Shenhua Yulin Circular Economy Coal Comprehensive Utilization Project (follow-up phase)

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First public announcement of the environmental impact assessment for China Shenhua’s coal-to-oil and chemical industry project – Shenhua Yulin Circular Economy Coal Comprehensive Utilization Project (follow-up phase). Author/Source: Huahua Net Coal Chemicals. Date: 2023-03-10. Clicks: 27. Recently, the first public announcement was made regarding the environmental impact assessment for China Shenhua’s coal-to-oil and chemical industry company’s Shenhua Yulin Circular Economy Coal Comprehensive Utilization Project (follow-up phase). Project Name: Shenhua Yulin Circular Economy Coal Comprehensive Utilization Project (Follow-up Phase), China Shenhua Coal-to-Oil Chemical Co., Ltd.
Project Nature: New construction
Project Location: Northern Area of Qingshui Industrial Park, Yushen Industrial Zone, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province
Project Composition: The project’s process facilities include 38 units such as coal liquefaction, coal gasification, naphtha-methanol coupled cracking, MTO, polycarbonate production, and coal-based biodegradable materials, along with the associated storage and transportation systems, utility facilities, and auxiliary equipment. Product portfolio: The company mainly produces coal-based specialty fuels (including aviation fuel and diesel), gasoline, coal liquefied asphalt, coal-based biodegradable materials, p-xylene, mixed aromatics, polycarbonate, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, high-density polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber, and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene; sulfur and ammonium sulfate are produced as by-products. **The Shenhua Yulin Circular Economy Coal Comprehensive Utilization Project (CTC Project) of the Energy Group was approved for implementation by the **National Development and Reform Commission in March 2015; the total planned investment for this project is 120 billion yuan. The Shenhua Yulin Circular Economy Coal Comprehensive Utilization Project (Phase 1) is a preliminary phase of the Shenhua Yulin Circular Economy Coal Comprehensive Utilization Project (CTC Project). It also serves as a project for producing methanol, which is a raw material needed for the already established Shenhua Shaanxi Methanol Downstream Processing Project (SSTO). The total investment in this project amounts to 13.6 billion yuan. The project is located in the northern area of the Qingshui Coal Chemical Industry Park, within the Yushen Industrial Zone in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. It covers a total area of 133.4 hectares and represents the final project under the coal chemical sector’s 13th Five-Year Plan of the **Energy Group. The construction scope includes a methanol plant with an annual capacity of 1.8 million tons, which also produces 400,000 tons of ethylene glycol per year. It consists of process units such as air separation, gasification, shift reaction, acidic gas removal, methanol synthesis, sulfur recovery, and ethylene glycol production, along with supporting utilities and auxiliary facilities like power boilers and sewage treatment systems. By the end of 2020, the first phase of the Yulin circular economy coal comprehensive utilization project successfully completed the entire process, producing methanol of MTo (methanol-to-olefins) grade. On November 21, 2021, the full production process for 400,000 tons per year of ethylene glycol was successfully operationalized, enabling the production of qualified ethylene glycol products. By making further processing of some intermediate products from the ethylene glycol project, a new PGA project has been established to produce a new type of coal-based biodegradable material, polyglycolic acid. On September 19, 2022, the 50,000-ton/year polyglycolic acid (PGA) biodegradable material demonstration project operated by **Energy Group Yulin Chemical Co., Ltd. completed all stages of its production process and was officially put into operation, marking the industrialization of the world’s first 10,000-ton-scale coal-based biodegradable material demonstration project. “Before the 13th Five-Year Plan, coal-to-oil and coal chemical industries in China were in the demonstration stage and were developed separately. “During the 14th and 15th Five-Year Plans period, coal-to-oil and coal chemical industries will achieve coordinated development. **The energy group plans to establish an integrated demonstration base for new energy and new materials based on coal in Yulin, focusing on direct coal liquefaction – the method with the highest efficiency for energy conversion – and actively developing coal-based specialty oils, coal-based biodegradable materials, and coal-based carbon materials. Advance coal-to-oil and coal chemical production from producing single types of oils and olefins to the development of high-end, diversified material products.