The 250,000-ton butyl octanol project in Anhui has successfully completed its commissioning trial!

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Coal chemical industry: The 250,000-ton butyl octanol project in Anhui has successfully started operation! Author/Source: Date: 2016-12-19 Clicks: 14 At 9:28 on December 16, 2016, the 250,000-ton/year butanone-octanol production project at Anqing Refining & Chemical Shuguang Butanone-Octanol Chemical Co., Ltd. began its commissioning trial; qualified products were produced on December 17, achieving a successful completion of the commissioning trial on the first attempt. The raw materials for Shuguang Chemical’s 250,000 tons per year butyl octanol production facility come from propylene supplied by Anqing Petrochemical and coal-based syngas produced by Anhui Shuguang Chemical Group; the S10 low-pressure carbonylation technology, developed jointly by Dow Chemical and Davy Process Technology Ltd., is used in this process. The 250,000 tons per year butyl octanol project was jointly developed by Sinopec Anqing Branch, Shuguang Chemical, and Anqing Chemical Construction Company, with a total investment of 992 million yuan. The designed capacity is 250,000 tons per year of butanone and octanol, of which 100,000 tons per year are butanol, 110,000 tons per year are octanol, and 22,600 tons per year are isobutanol. The project was EPC-general contracted by Sinopec Shanghai Engineering, and was completed in December 2015 by CCCC. It is a key project under the strategic partnership between the people of Anhui Province and Anqing City and Sinopec; it represents a significant initiative by Anhui Shuguang Chemical Group to adjust its product portfolio. It has been included in the special funding program aimed at strengthening the core competitiveness of the manufacturing sector. The total estimated investment for Shuguang Chemical’s coal-to-hydrogen project is 2.4 billion yuan. It utilizes GE’s new pressurized water-coal slurry gasification technology to build a large-scale gasification unit, with a designed capacity of 85,500 standard cubic meters per hour of useful gas; an Yingde air separation unit is also employed in this project. On August 20, 2016, the gasifier in Shuguang Chemical’s coal-to-hydrogen project was successfully fed with feedstock, and high-quality methanol was produced on August 23. The entire production process of the project is integrated, enabling it to supply hydrogen to Sinopec Anqing Branch upon the resumption of operations after its major maintenance. It also ensures a supply of hydrogen and syngas for the 250,000 tons per year butyl octanol production project in the Shuguang Chemical Park.