Pucheng Clean Energy Chemicals Company’s methanol production reaches 1 million tons

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Pucheng Clean Energy’s methanol production exceeds 1 million tons 2015-9-14 As of September 11, 2015, Pucheng Clean Energy Company’s methanol production had reached 1 million tons. The company employs technologies such as 8.7 MPa water-coal slurry pressurized gasification from GE in the United States, low-temperature methanol washing from Linde in Germany, and methanol synthesis from Davy in the UK. The unit produced qualified methanol in November 2014. The company has achieved excellent records, with the gasification unit operating at Class A performance for 155 consecutive days, and the methanol purification unit operating continuously for 154 days. http://www.chinacoalchem.com/news.asp?id=60457 On October 26, 2014, the 700,000-ton coal-to-olefins project in Pucheng, Shaanxi began trial operations with some of its units. At 10:20 a.m. on November 7, 2014, the 90,000 Nm3/h air separation unit of Shaanxi Pucheng’s 700,000-ton coal-to-olefins project was put into operation ； At 15:43 on December 21, 2014, methanol was fed into the MTO reactor of the PMU DMTO-II unit for the first time ； On the evening of February 3, 2015, feeding to Reactor C4 began, and by February 6, the entire C4 reprocessing process was operational.