First public announcement of the environmental impact assessment for Sinopec Cangzhou Branch’s 200,000 tons/year sustainable aviation fuel conversion project

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On February 6, the environmental impact assessment for Sinopec Cangzhou Branch’s 200,000 tons per year sustainable aviation fuel production project was made publicly available for the first time. According to the public announcement documents, the project is located at Sinopec Cangzhou Refining & Chemical Company in Xinhua District, Cangzhou City, with an investment of 789.76 million yuan. The project plans to partially reuse the 600,000 tons per year diesel and gasoline hydrorefining unit by converting it into an aircraft fuel production facility with a capacity of 200,000 tons per year, along with a 200,000 tons per year raw material pretreatment unit. The main products will be aircraft fuel and bio-naphtha, with a small amount of gas being produced as a by-product. Current project status and environmental protection measures: The company’s current crude oil processing capacity is 3.5 million tons per year. The main production units include: 3.5 million tons per year of atmospheric and vacuum distillation, 1.2 million tons per year of catalytic cracking, 1.2 million tons per year of delayed coking, 800,000 tons per year of hydrocracking of gasoline and diesel, 1.6 million tons per year of hydrocracking of diesel, 80,000 tons per year of benzene extraction, 900,000 tons per year of S-zorb processing, 400,000 tons per year of continuous reforming, 300,000 tons per year of gas fractionation, 50,000 tons per year of MTBE production, 20,000 tons per year of sulfur production, and a hydrogen production capacity of 20,000 cubic meters per hour.