Shenhua Xinjiang’s 680,000-ton coal-based new materials project has completed its trial operation
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Shenhua Xinjiang’s 680,000-ton coal-based new materials project completes trial operation. Author/Source: Date: 2016-02-25 Clicks: 27. The Shenhua Xinjiang 680,000-ton coal-based new materials project was funded and constructed by the Xinjiang Coal Chemicals Branch of China Shenhua Coal-to-Oil Chemicals Co., Ltd. This company is a direct subsidiary of China Shenhua Coal-to-Oil Chemicals Co., Ltd., which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shenhua Group; it was established in March 2012. The Shenhua Xinjiang 680,000-ton coal-based new materials project is located in the Ganquanbao Industrial Zone in Urumqi, Xinjiang. It utilizes the water-coal slurry pressurization process, with a total investment of 22.3 billion yuan. The project mainly produces new materials such as polypropylene and polyethylene, while also generating high-value-added products like propane, C4 compounds, C5 compounds, and sulfur. The polyethylene production facility employs the Lupotech TS tubular process technology developed by BASF, whereas the polypropylene facility uses horizontal reactor technology from INEOS. Construction of this project officially began in July 2013. On August 31, 2015, the gasification unit of Xinjiang Shenhua’s 680,000-ton coal-based new materials project was completed, marking the entry of the project into the operation phase. On November 7, 2015, the purification unit of the project was also successfully completed. In late February 2016, the PP production unit based on coal-derived materials at Shenhua Xinjiang completed its trial operation; it is currently under tuning. Qualified PP pellets are expected to be produced by the end of March or early April, while qualified PE products are planned to be available in May.
Nonsense, it’s already May or June by now
The speed is fast enough; I look forward to the success of the Shenhua Xinjiang project.
It’s fast; I’m not sure. What stage has China Coal Mengda reached at the same time? Why is there no news anymore!
The 600,000-ton coal-to-olefins project of China Coal Mengda was officially handed over on April 30, 2015. It was originally planned to start trial operations in August 2015, but no progress has been made to date. There are two situations that warrant consideration: 1. One of the project partners, \"Inner Mongolia Boyuan United Chemical\", transferred its 25% stake in CM Mengda to China Coal Energy in April 2014; with the project about to go into operation, what was the reason for this share transfer? 2. Yuanxing Energy, which supplies the methanol raw materials for China Coal Mengda, has had its methanol production facilities shut down since October 2014; this means that the Mengda 600,000-ton MTO project lacks a source of raw materials. Can this be used to determine whether China Coal Mengda’s operations this year are in doubt?
Does Mengda not have its own coal-based methanol production?
China Coal Mengda owns its own methanol plant with a capacity of 600,000 tons per year, which came online at the end of 2013. Its 600,000 tons per year MTO plant requires 1.8 million tons per year of methanol.
I haven’t heard of it. Is it that fast and smooth? Although I’ve left, I still hope my former employer will thrive!