Coal-to-methanol project will be further developed

The National Development and Reform Commission, the Energy Administration, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology are jointly formulating the "Coal Deep Processing Demonstration Project Plan". This document is considered by the market as the 12th Five-Year Plan for the coal chemical industry. According to the newspaper's understanding, unlike the ban issued by the National Development and Reform Commission in the past few years, this document will give both local and market prospects.

Informed sources disclosed that in addition to coal oil, coal-made dimethyl ether and pure coal to methanol, the formulation of the plan will open a more clear channel in the coal-synthetic ammonia, coal gas in some areas. At the same time, coal-to-methanol will be directed to chemical products such as olefins.

This will not only give room for further development of the coal-to-methanol project that has been launched, but also provide room for investment where there are coal resources and downstream demand.

Still based on trials

According to reports, according to the division of labor, the above-mentioned planning is led by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is responsible for the project planning for coal to methanol, coal to olefins, and coal to ammonia. The National Energy Administration is responsible for coal to oil, coal to natural gas, and coal. Project planning for energy products such as methyl ether. People in related departments said that “the document under development is called demonstration project planning, and it is already clear that in the next three to five years, the field of coal chemical industry will mainly be based on experiments because the investment is too big and the energy consumption is too high. Huge, technical and commercial aspects are faced with many challenges, so they will not be allowed to spread quickly in large areas."

Li Baoqing, a researcher at the State Key Laboratory for Coal Conversion of the Shanxi Coal Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that the coal chemical industry is still in trial stages all over the world and the government will not allow China to become a testing ground for the entire world. This price will be very high.

The "Coal Deep Processing Demonstration Project Plan" was born out of the "Mid-term and Long-term Development Plan for Coal Chemical Industry" formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission in 2006. This plan has been discussed for more than three years. However, due to controversy, it has been reported as abortion.

Those involved in the mid- to long-term planning of the year said that at that time, the plan clearly defined the development of coal chemical projects in seven provinces such as Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and other coal resources, and plans to start construction in the country since 2011. Coal chemical industry base. This caused great dissatisfaction in other places. In addition, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology later joined the planning and formulation department, hoping that according to the principles of the three-definition plan, the approval authority for some coal chemical projects will be handed over to the administrative departments of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Energy Bureau by the National Development and Reform Commission. The local government, on the ground that the right to approve investment approvals is not in line with the direction of the country's investment system reform, proposes to directly decentralize the approval of coal chemical projects.

The controversy surrounding the coal chemical project is that the project approval authority is bounded by the scale of investment, the larger one is still approved or filed by the National Development and Reform Commission, and part of the approval power is devolved to the local government. The National Energy Administration and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology respectively perform the duties according to their own duties and responsibilities. Related industry planning guidance work.

It is understood that in accordance with the current “coal deep processing demonstration project plan” jointly formulated by the three departments, those areas that are short of water will be restricted to the Shangma Coal Chemical Project first, and the coal net transfer area will also be strictly controlled to develop the coal chemical industry. At the same time, it will also stipulate that new coal chemical projects must strictly calculate the cost and conversion efficiency from coal to the final product, coal prices shall be calculated according to market prices, and new projects must also have certain carbon reduction measures.

The new plan encourages larger and longer-chain coal chemical projects. The coal chemical industry is required to implement a park, built in regions where coal and water resources are available, and the enterprises and localities of Shangma Coal Chemical must have funds, technology, and resources. In principle, a company undertakes a demonstration project, and there are also strict quantitative restrictions on products and demonstration projects in regions where coal chemical development is conditional. After the project is completed, it must be strictly examined and accepted.

For this reason, in April this year, the Department of Industry of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Department of Science and Technology of the National Energy Administration also held a symposium on development of the coal chemical industry in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” in Beijing. More than 20 units and enterprises participated in the discussion. The conclusion is that it is necessary to properly develop coal chemical industry, but it needs an orderly and standardized development.

Policy tilted

On March 21, 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission specifically issued the "Circular on Regulating the Orderly Development of the Coal Chemical Industry" and clarified that before the introduction of the new policy, it is forbidden to build a coal-to-olefins project with an annual output of 500,000 tons or less. Production of coal-to-methanol projects with a capacity of 1 million tons or less, annual production of 1 million tons of coal-made dimethyl ether projects, annual production of 1 million tons of coal-based oil projects, and annual production of 2 billion cubic meters of coal-based natural gas projects, Annual output of 200,000 tons coal-based ethylene glycol project. He also stated that large-scale coal processing and transformation projects above the above-mentioned standards must be submitted to the National Development and Reform Commission for approval.

However, the local investment boom under the auspices of the new coal chemical concept seems to be slowly turning the above notification into a dead letter. According to statistics, there are currently 30 new coal chemical projects currently under construction in China, with a total investment of over 80 billion yuan, of which 850 million tons of new methanol production capacity, 900,000 tons of new dimethyl ether, and 1 million tons of new olefins. Coal added 1.24 million tons of oil. These newly added coal chemical projects are frequently investing billions of dollars, but not every major project has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission.

By the end of June this year, the Shenhuaning coal-to-olefins project using Siemens equipment will be inspected after more than three months of operation. The relevant report will be submitted to the National Development and Reform Commission, which is currently one of the few coal mines approved by the National Development and Reform Commission. One of the chemical demonstration projects, the government hopes to first consider whether to promote the project demonstration.

However, local governments with huge investment incentives in coal chemical industry have been unable to wait for these demonstration results. Some time ago, Siemens had already delivered two sets of coal chemical equipment to Shanxi Jincheng, and the local orchid group would launch a coal chemical project of “300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 520,000 tons of urea”—though these projects have not yet obtained the National Development and Reform Commission. Approval.

Siemens, a giant of equipment manufacturing, is now responding to local investment enthusiasm. The large-scale coal chemical equipment is recommended in China, and those small equipment are no longer available.

Liu Yun, equipment engineer of Siemens Jessica Gasification Technology Co., Ltd., said that the country will focus on encouraging large-scale coal chemical projects. However, in the field of small coal chemical projects, the competition in related technologies and equipment has become fierce. At present, many places are talking about coal chemical projects with Siemens, most of which are concentrated in the western region represented by Xinjiang.

The relevant technologies in East China University of Technology's clean coal technology are one of the most mature technologies in the domestic coal chemical industry. Zhou Zhijie, a researcher at the institute, said that there are already 23 coal chemical projects in the country that have determined the use of their technologies, of which 8 have already been operated and the minimum investment in these coal chemical projects has exceeded 2 billion. From Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia to Anhui, Shandong, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, coal chemical projects have been launched.

According to the situation held by the National Development and Reform Commission, there is currently a serious surplus of some coal chemical products. Among them, the national methanol plant operating rate is only about 50%, a large number of dimethyl ether plant idle, a considerable number of companies are facing bankruptcy. The newly launched coal chemical projects are no longer focused on coal-to-oil, coal-to-dimethyl ether, and simple coal-to-methanol. Instead, they have turned to coal to olefins, coal to natural gas, and ammonia.

Zhou Zhijie, a researcher at the East China University of Science and Technology Clean Coal Technology Institute, said that from the current situation, the next step in the development of coal-to-olefins and coal-to-natural gas industries may be a general direction of policy encouragement. Among them, coal-to-natural gas may be subject to geographical restrictions, and coal-to-olefins are less likely to be geographically limited.

Zhou Zhijie believes that coal-to-oil can not be allowed to be launched more in the future, because the coal-to-oil project not only has a greater investment, but also is affected more by the fluctuation of oil prices. Although the coal-to-oil project piloted by Shenhua has been in operation for several years, it is still difficult to say that it has achieved commercial success.

Li Baoqing, a researcher at the State Key Laboratory for Coal Conversion of the Shanxi Coal Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, agrees with the above viewpoint. He said that the coal chemical industry is still in the demonstration stage. The government hopes that these demonstration projects will be summarized and promoted after a period of operation.

Zhou Zhijie also said that the current view of coal-made methanol is surplus, but the government's encouragement of downstream chemical products such as olefins will be beneficial to the digestion of methanol. Since methanol is an intermediate product of coal to olefins, encouraging the development of olefins is actually equivalent to encouraging coal to make methanol.

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