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“The Five Key Technical Directions for Modern Coal Chemical Industry during the 13th Five-Year Plan Period Author/Source: China Chemical Industry News Date: 2016-04-26 Clicks: 8 The development direction of modern coal chemical technology during the 13th Five-Year Plan period has been determined. At the Science and Technology Work Conference of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation held in Qingdao from April 21 to 22, Hu Qianlin, deputy secretary-general of the federation, said that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the development of modern coal chemical industry would focus on upgrading and setting up demonstration projects; it would move in the direction of higher efficiency, cleaner operations, larger scale, greater precision, as well as diversification of raw materials and products. At the same time, integrated innovation and application demonstrations would be carried out in relation to the hierarchical utilization of lower-grade coal, as well as the use of coal tar by-products to produce clean fuels and chemicals. Hu Qianlin explained that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, modern coal chemical technology had five main development directions. First, optimize the production conditions and process design of key technologies in modern coal chemical industry to improve the stability of existing demonstration projects ； Second, develop a range of key technologies and new products ； Third, a number of new demonstration projects will be established ； Fourth, carry out research and development as well as demonstration on efficient comprehensive utilization technologies for low-rank coal, which accounts for over 55% of coal reserves ； Fifth, develop a range of treatment and reuse technologies tailored to the characteristics of the \"three wastes\" in coal chemical industries. Among them, the development of a number of key technologies and new products includes: the development of a multi-nozzle opposed water-coal slurry gasification technology capable of processing 4,000 tons of coal per day, a pressurized gasification technology for coal powder at a rate of 3,000 tons per day, as well as technologies for optimizing large-scale coal gasification processes ； Developing key technologies for producing low-carbon olefins from methanol and fuel ethanol from syngas, coal-based polyglycolic acid degradation materials, co-treatment of kerosene, FTO synthesis for high-value chemicals, as well as reactors and catalysts ； Carry out demonstration projects for an engineering scale of 1 million tons per year for coal-based aromatics and derivatives, a complete syngas methanization process demonstration project, an industrialization demonstration project for 300,000 tons per year of polymethoxymethane (DMMn), as well as integrated innovation and application demonstrations for the hierarchical utilization of low-cost coal and the production of clean fuels and chemicals from coal tar by-products ； Research and development are carried out on the key technologies for the degradation of characteristic pollutants in coal chemical industry wastewater, such as phenols, amines, and heterocyclic compounds; key technologies for the advanced treatment of coal chemical industry wastewater; and key technologies for the treatment of various waste gas pollutants generated during coal chemical processes. Hu Qianlin also said that the Coal Chemicals Committee of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, as the leading entity for the research on a standardization system for the deep processing of coal, has carried out studies on a modern coal chemicals standard system. These studies have now been completed, and the report has been submitted to the Science and Technology Department of the **Energy Bureau. Research on the coal chemical industry standard system will overcome the bottleneck of standard shortages and regulate as well as promote the healthy development of the industry. Reporters from China Chemical Industry News learned that during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the modern coal chemical industry focused on advancing the diversification of raw materials, and has succeeded in developing a number of world-leading technologies in this field. Regarding the multi-nozzle opposed water-coal slurry gasification technology, a water-coal slurry gasification unit with a capacity of 3,000 tons of coal per day per furnace was built in the world, and it was put into operation successfully from the start. To date, 113 such gasification furnaces have been ordered, with 55 of them already in industrial use ； For coal indirect liquefaction technology, next-generation Fischer-Tropsch synthesis oil technologies have been successfully applied in coal-to-oil project demonstrations, enabling the production of high-quality diesel and gasoline, naphtha, and chemicals that are difficult to obtain using existing petrochemical technologies ； In terms of the localization of coal chemical equipment, large-scale gasification units with a daily coal processing capacity of over 2,000 tons, shift converters, low-temperature methanol washing systems, coal-to-oil reactors with a capacity of millions of tons, and methanol-to-olefins reactors with a capacity of 600,000 tons have been developed through independent research.