August 7-9, energy and chemical industry & ldquo; Golden Triangle & rdquo; large-scale thematic research on Industrial Synergy development; the first station of research in the Ordos region of Inner Mongolia entered the Sulige Economic Development Zone, and visited Zhongtian Co-venture Company, China Coal Ordos Energy and Chemical Company and China Coal Mengda University located in the Tuk Industrial Zone, respectively. New Energy Chemical Company, Boyuan Lianhua Company, and high-level talks with Boyuan Group. The world's largest coal-based olefin enterprise, the world's largest coal-based nitrogenous fertilizer plant, the first national pilot demonstration enterprise of Intelligent Manufacturing in coal chemical industry, the largest natural gas methanol production enterprise in China and the largest natural alkali production enterprise in China have highlighted the characteristics and differential development of local energy and chemical enterprises. With the rise of Ordos as an important pole of energy and chemical industry & ldquo; Golden Triangle & rdquo, a number of outstanding leading enterprises emerged as the times require.
Sulige Development Zone is located in Wushen Banner of Ordos City, and is a key development zone at the provincial level in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Development Zone administers four industrial projects in Ulan Tolgoi, Tuk, Ushenzhao, Nalin River and two mining areas in Hujirt and Nalin River. In terms of industry orientation, the development zone takes new coal chemical industry, fine chemical industry and clean energy as its three leading industries, and takes new materials, modern service industry and strategic emerging industries as its three supporting industries.
Zhongtian Hechuang Co., Ltd.
Established in October 2007, Zhongtian Joint Venture Company is a large demonstration enterprise of deep processing of coal, which integrates coal, chemical industry and power production. It is a mixed ownership enterprise, which consists of four units: China Coal Energy, Sinopec Great Wall Energizer, Shenneng Share, Inner Mongolia Manshi Coal Group and 90% of the state-owned shares. Zhongtian has invested 59 billion yuan in the coal deep processing integration project, including two coal mines with a total capacity of 25 million tons per year and coal-to-olefin production lines. It has two series of coal-to-methanol units, two series of methanol-to-olefin units and five sets of polyolefin units. Its total capacity is 3.6 million tons of methanol and 1.37 million tons of polyolefin products per year. It is the largest coal-to-olefin production enterprise in the world.
According to Wang Jun, vice president of Zhongtian Hechuang Chemical Branch, Zhongtian Hechuang started construction in 2013, completed trial production in 2016 and turned into commercial operation in 2017. As a demonstration project of deep processing of coal determined by the state, Zhongtian Co-Creation adheres to high starting point and high standard construction and operation, and strives to build an international first-class coal chemical enterprise. Relying on the management, technology, talent and capital advantages of China Coal Energy and Sinopec, the company integrates the first-class coal chemical technology at home and abroad, including advanced foreign technologies such as liquid-air separation, GE gasification in the United States, Linde low-temperature methanol washing in Germany and methanol synthesis in Lurgi Company, as well as other advanced foreign technologies. Sinopec has independently developed methanol to olefins, carbon tetracarbon-5 cracking, etherification, loop polypropylene and linear low density polyethylene technology, and has a high localization rate of major equipment.
In terms of product selection, Zhongtian Hechuang pays attention to differential and high-end development. Its two sets of high-pressure polyethylene units are unique in domestic coal chemical industry. Especially 120,000 tons/year autoclave high-pressure polyethylene LDPE is the only one in domestic coal chemical industry. The products have small density, good flexibility and excellent performance. Low temperature resistance and chemical stability, excellent electrical insulation performance and good processing performance, acid, alkali and salt corrosion resistance, mainly used for liquid packaging coating film such as milk, fruit juice packaging, also used for injection products such as plastic flowers, medical appliances, drugs and food packaging materials.
In order to prevent and control pollution, Zhongtianhe has established more than 20 sets of environmental protection devices and facilities, such as sewage treatment, waste water reuse, high salt water crystallization, flue gas desulfurization and denitrification, with a total investment of about 4.2 billion yuan, accounting for 10.6% of the total investment. It has realized zero discharge of wastewater, standard discharge of waste gas and legal treatment and disposal of solid waste compliance. The company's fresh water consumption is less than 3 tons per ton of standard coal, which is substantially ahead of the industry average.
Zhongtian Hechuang coal-to-olefin plant belongs to the pithead plant. The transportation cost of raw coal is low and the benefit is outstanding. Since its full commissioning, Zhongtian Hechuang has made remarkable achievements. Following last year's profit of 2.2 billion yuan, it has remained strong this year despite the overall decline in the chemical market and the prices of olefin products.
Investigation and Research of China Coal E Energy Chemical Company
Established in June 2011, China Coal Eneng Chemical Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Coal Group. The Tuke Granular Urea Project is the first commissioning project of China Coal Group to build the energy and chemical industry base in Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi and to build a world-class coal and chemical industry enterprise. The project is designed to produce 2 million tons of synthetic ammonia, 3.5 million tons of urea and 200,000 tons of liquefied methane annually, with a total investment of 20 billion yuan. At present, the first phase of the project has been completed and put into operation, with an annual output of 1 million tons of synthetic ammonia, 1.75 million tons of urea, 100,000 tons of LNG and by-products such as mixed hydrocarbons, crude phenols, industrial sulfur and mixed ammonium sulfate, with a total investment of 10 billion yuan. It is the largest coal-based nitrogen fertilizer project in the world.
The project was completed in 2013, and high quality large granular urea was produced through the whole process in 2014, creating excellent achievements in the domestic and international industries with the shortest construction time, the best investment control, the highest production efficiency and the most advanced level of energy conservation and environmental protection. At present, the project converts 3 million tons of coal annually, and the output of urea exceeds 1.95 million tons, with an annual output value of 3 billion yuan. From 2015 to mdash, in 2018, the company ranked among the top 20 national ammonia production, urea production and total profit of nitrogen fertilizer enterprises, ranked ninth among the top 20 national ammonia production of nitrogen fertilizer enterprises in 2018, and was ranked as the advanced enterprise of the national nitrogen fertilizer industry by the China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association.
The quality of large granular urea produced by the company meets the international leading standards, and the rate of high-quality urea products is over 99.9%. It sells well in the domestic and international markets. Therefore, it has won the honor of the top 10 exporters of nitrogen fertilizer in China. Its annual export of large granular urea accounts for more than 20% of the total export of the country. On the basis of the main products of urea, the company has made innovations and successively developed and produced differentiated value-added urea such as polypeptide urea, slow-release urea and trace element urea.Vegetable products. In order to make up for the shortcomings of logistics transportation, the company has built its own special railway line to build the first bulk logistics transportation channel in the mainland. Now it has formed a one-stop logistics system from factories to ports, to domestic and foreign end users, and cooperated with the world's largest chemical fertilizer sales enterprise to rapidly open up the domestic and foreign markets.
Zhang Baotai, Secretary of the Party Committee of the company, said that the company attached great importance to energy saving and emission reduction, and achieved remarkable results. It was awarded as an advanced environmental protection unit in the petroleum and chemical industry by China Petrochemical Federation and China Chemical Environmental Protection Association. Its zero-discharge project of coal chemical wastewater won the award of China Enterprise Social Responsibility-ldquo; Green Environmental Protection Award-rdquo in 2017.
At present, the company is promoting the implementation of the second phase of the project, and on the basis of the original design of the first phase of the annual production of 1 million tons of synthetic ammonia, 1.75 million tons of urea project, starting the technical transformation project of the annual production of 1 million tons of methanol from syngas, in order to achieve the simultaneous fertilization, two wings fly together, and optimize the company's business and product structure.
Investigation of China Coal and Mongolia Big Company
As the first pilot demonstration enterprise of intelligent manufacturing recognized by the state in coal chemical industry, the research team was deeply impressed by the intelligent manufacturing of China Coal and Mongolia Corporation. According to Xia Zunjiang, chairman of the company's trade union, China Coal and Mongolia Dalian started construction in 2013 and successfully commissioned in April 2016. It purchased 1.8 million tons of methanol as raw material and produced 600,000 tons of olefins annually.
The company earnestly implements & ldquo; Made in China 2025 & rdquo; strategy, with intelligence and informationization as the grasp, and constantly enhance the enterprise's technological innovation ability and core competitiveness. The company monitored the operation status of 2 large extrusion units, 14 key centrifugal units and 112 key pump in real time by wired and wireless mode, and realized intelligent management. The application of intelligent detection system realized the trend of pump start-up and shut-down process, intelligent early warning of operation status and abnormal fluctuation intelligence of 128 key pump units. Intelligent management which can diagnose and analyze ensures the stable, long and excellent operation of the equipment. The company pioneered to build a full-hot three-dimensional model of 22 sets of production equipment in the whole factory by using innovative virtual reality method. The model integrates the whole life cycle management of the factory, involving engineering design, equipment installation, production, safety, operation and maintenance and other business links.
With a thorough understanding and a focus on investment, CIMCU's exploration of intelligent manufacturing has yielded fruitful returns. At present, the company's production technical indicators are in the leading level in the industry, especially the methanol consumption per unit is at the best level in the domestic similar plants. In 2018, the methanol consumption per unit of diene was 3.002 tons. This year, the application of the third generation catalyst of DMTO was successfully realized. At present, the methanol consumption is further reduced to 2.971 tons per ton. In 2018, the domestic methanol price reached a historical high, and the enterprises purchasing methanol to olefins generally suffered huge losses. In such a market situation, China Coal and Mongolia Dalian still achieved a profit of 50 million yuan, relying on continuous wisdom and innovation. To build the world's first-class intelligent chemical plant, China Coal and Mengda continue to make great efforts.
Research on Boyuan Linkage
Boyuan Lianhua is a 1 million tons/year methanol production enterprise initiated and controlled by Yuanxing Energy and jointly built by Sigma Investment Group, USA. It is also the largest gas head methanol enterprise in China. Zhang Yongjun, general manager of the company, introduced that methanol production is dominated by natural gas raw material routes in the world, while domestic methanol production is dominated by & ldquo; gas shortage & rdquo; and coal. Boyuan Lianhua Gas Project takes PetroChina Sulige Gas Field, the largest integrated gas field in Asia, as its gas source. Its daily gas consumption is about 2.1 million cubic meters. The gas price is discussed once a year and implemented at 1.34 yuan/cubic meters this year. Due to the shortage of domestic air supply in winter and the priority of ensuring civil gas, the company is forced to produce seasonally. It is shut down for at least four months from November 15 to March 15 every year. The gas source is the main factor restricting the development of the project.
The research team also went to Boyuan Group to discuss with the company's senior officials. Boyuan Group is the backbone private enterprise in Inner Mongolia. With the exploration and development of natural alkali resources in Ordos, it has developed and expanded, with a nearly 40-year development process. Its holding listed company Yuanxing Energy has become the largest soda and baking soda production enterprise in China, and has mastered all the natural alkali resources that have been proved in China.
Dai Lianrong, Chairman of Board of Directors of Boyuan Group, Ding Ximei, Vice President and Chief Engineer, shared their thoughts and experiences on the development of soda ash and coal chemical industry. It is reported that Yuanxing Energy recently discovered large-scale natural alkali deposits again in Alashan League. By virtue of the unparalleled cost and environmental protection advantages of soda-making process from natural alkali, Boyuan Group plans to focus on the coordination of natural alkali process and combined alkali process in its later stage, to build a total capacity of 10 million tons/year of soda-making, striving to become a new dominant industry in the whole country and even in the world, and to push China's soda-making industry into a new one dominated by natural alkali. Times.