China’s largest coal-to-olefins CCUS project has commenced construction in Yulin, Shaanxi

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On December 27, the first-phase demonstration project for carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) with a capacity of 3 million tons per year – a key energy demonstration project under the 14th Five-Year Plan – at Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Yulin Coal Chemical Company was officially launched in the Yushen Industrial Zone in Yulin, Shaanxi. This project is the largest full-process CCUS project in the coal chemical industry that has been planned in China to date, and it will serve as a powerful \"carbon reduction engine\" for the green and low-carbon transformation of China’s modern coal chemical industry. The first-phase demonstration project that is now under construction has a total investment of around 4.8 billion yuan. It is led by the Yanchang Petroleum Group, with the participation of research teams from institutions such as the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University. The project primarily serves several large-scale coal chemical plants in the Yulin area, including Yulin Coal Chemical Company’s own facilities for producing methanol from coal and olefins from methanol.