The Ministry of Environmental Protection has once again accepted the environmental impact assessment documents for Yili Xintian’s 2 billion yuan coal-to-natural gas project

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The Ministry of Environmental Protection once again accepted the environmental impact assessment documents for Yili Xintian’s project to produce 2 billion cubic meters of coal-based natural gas per year. Author/Source: Date: 2016-10-08; Views: 20. In accordance with the relevant regulations regarding the approval process for environmental impact assessments of construction projects, the Ministry of Environmental Protection accepted these assessment documents from September 26 to September 30, 2016. The status of the applications will be made public, with the publicity period running from September 30, 2016, to October 18, 2016 (10 working days). Yili Xintian Coal Chemical Co., Ltd. is a state-owned joint venture established through joint investment by Zhejiang Energy Group and Shandong Energy Xinwen Mining Group. It is located in Yining City, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Zhejiang Energy Group holds 55% of the shares, while Xinwen Mining Group holds 45%, with Zhejiang Energy Group exercising control over the company. Solutions to the issues identified in the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s refusal notice. In response to the problems raised by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and its evaluation center, the project owner actively carried out renovations in accordance with the latest environmental protection standards: an additional 921,600,000 yuan was invested in environmental protection measures, on top of the initial investment of 1,844,500,000 yuan. It is planned to construct a rigid temporary storage tank with an effective volume of 210,000 cubic meters on the northeast side of the factory complex, north of the sewage treatment workshop, to replace the No. 1 and No. 2 homogeneous soil dam storage tanks proposed in the original plan, **thereby reducing the environmental risks to the Ili River ； The integrated ultrasonic desulfurization and dust removal technology is employed, with 4 flue gas bypass systems for the desulfurization units being removed. The SCR (three-stage catalyst) technology is used for nitrogen oxide removal, and the on-site thermal power plant implements the strictest ultra-low emission standards four years ahead of schedule ； Two new regenerative oxidation units have been installed in the low-temperature methanol washing and gasification areas to capture and treat volatile organic compounds, thereby reducing uncontrolled emissions ； Add 6 sets of dust-containing tar three-phase separation systems ； 1 new sludge drying line with a daily processing capacity of 30 t/d has been added ； At the same time, taking into account the problems that have arisen during the trial production of existing coal chemical enterprises, the process plant area was designed for optimization: The vent gas emitted by around 2,000 vent valves is directed to flares or RTO units for treatment, **in order to reduce uncontrolled emissions of waste gases ； Cancel the gasification cold flare; connect the startup exhaust gases to the gasification startup flare ； An additional set of biological deodorization units has been installed; moreover, a photocatalytic unit has been added to these units to improve the removal efficiency of volatile organic compounds ； An additional sulfur recovery unit has been installed to prevent accidental discharge of acidic gases directly into the acidic gas flare ； The three-tier prevention and control system has been improved; 4 new end-point accident buffer tanks with a total capacity of 39,100 cubic meters have been added. The existing wastewater storage tanks with a capacity of 2.45 million cubic meters are being used as emergency tanks for addressing fire risks in the park. New environmental protection facilities added to the project; the process of environmental impact assessment for this project. In accordance with the approval requirements at the **level, the environmental impact assessment report for coal-to-gas projects must be approved by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The project owner commissioned the preparation of a new environmental impact assessment report for the project. In October 2014, the Environmental Protection Department of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region issued the \"Preliminary Opinions on the Environmental Impact Assessment Report for the 2 billion standard cubic meters per year coal-to-natural gas project of Yili Xintian Coal Chemical Co., Ltd.\" (Document No. Xin Huan Zi [2014] 396). On May 8, 2015, the Ministry of Environmental Protection accepted the environmental impact assessment report for this project ； From May 19 to 21, 2015, the Environmental Engineering Assessment Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection organized a technical assessment meeting for the environmental impact assessment of this project in Yining City, Xinjiang. On June 26, 2015, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued a notice titled \"Notice on Not Approving the Environmental Impact Report for the Project of Yili Xintian Coal Chemical Co., Ltd. to Produce 2 billion cubic meters of coal-based gas per year\" (Document No. Huanban Han 1046), thereby refusing to approve the environmental impact report for this project. On February 26, 2016, the Ministry of Environmental Protection accepted for the second time the environmental impact assessment documents for Yili Xintian Coal Chemical Co., Ltd.’s coal-to-natural gas project with an annual capacity of 2 billion cubic meters, and made them public. On April 22, 2016, the Ministry of Environmental Protection made public the \"Explanation on Public Participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment for Yili Xintian Coal Chemical Co., Ltd.’s 2 billion cubic meters per year coal-to-natural gas project\" as well as the \"Report by the People’s Government of Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture on the Matters Related to the Public Disclosure of the Environmental Impact Assessment for Yili Xintian Coal Chemical Co., Ltd.’s 2 billion cubic meters per year coal-to-natural gas project\".