Shenhua Completes World’s Largest Coal-to-Olefins Project
04 June 2010
People’s Daily. The Shenhua Baotou Coal-to-Olefins Project was completed in Baotou, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on 31 May. The project—targeted to produce 1.80 Mt/a methanol and 600,000 t/a of polethyelene and polypropylene—is to be operational this year and is the world’s largest coal-to-olefins project.
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| SHenhua’s Coal-to-Olefins process. Source: Shenhua. Click to enlarge. |
Coal is gasified into syngas, which is converted to methanol. The methanol is transformed into olefin and the olefin is then polymerized into polyethylene and polypropylene.
This is China’s pilot industrialized coal-to-olefins project. This is also the first time that methanol-to-olefins technology with independent intellectual property rights owned by China’s was used as the core device, which opened a new technical approach for implementing alternative-energy strategies and creating a new coal-to-olefins industry.
This project was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in December 2006 and began design and construction in 2007. More than 20,000 designers from 70 units and organizations participated in the construction.
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