Entrusted by the Ordos Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the evaluation team composed of 20 academicians and experts, including Jin Yong, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Gu Zongqin, former president of the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Planning Institute, reviewed the Project Feasibility Study Report on the Production of High-end Chemicals and New Materials by Methanol acetic acid Extended Chain Optimization and Comprehensive Utilization. It is believed that the project focuses on accelerating the diversification, low-carbon and high-end development of the energy economy, and is a national coal chemical industry demonstration project built in response to the call and requirements of the "five big starting bottom" of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, helping Ordos City to build a world-class energy industry and modern coal chemical industry.
The report believes that with the great attention and full support of the Party committees and governments at all levels of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the preparatory work of Zhuozheng coal chemical new materials and chemicals projects has been advanced in an orderly manner. The construction of the project is in line with the strategic policy and industrial orientation of "based on China's energy and resource endowment, adhere to the establishment before breaking, implement the carbon peak action in planned steps, further promote the energy revolution, and strengthen the clean and efficient use of coal" to ensure national energy security, and is in line with the national industrial development policy of clean and efficient use of coal. The project will be built in stages, and after completion, it can convert more than 13 million tons of coal on the spot annually, achieve an output value of 38 billion yuan, pay 3.8 billion yuan in taxes, and solve more than 3,500 jobs, which will provide strong support and support for the construction of the core area of Ordos National modern coal chemical Industry Demonstration base. While fully affirming the feasibility report, the experts also put forward many valuable opinions and suggestions.
The report pointed out that Huineng Group, as a large energy and chemical enterprise in Inner Mongolia, actively responded to the call and requirements of the "five big starting points", invested and acquired the original Zhuozheng coal chemical project at the end of 2022, revitalized the original Zhuozheng and other seven "half-pulled" projects, projects and enterprises, and disposed of 3544 acres of idle land. It helped the government and society to resolve 356 conflicts and disputes that had been pending for a long time, injecting new vitality into the local economic development.
Based on the original annual output of 1.2 million tons of methanol and 1 million tons of acetic acid, Zhuozheng Coal Chemical Project conducted field research and technical exchanges with more than 50 relevant research institutes, design institutes, process contractors and new technology demonstration enterprises. Preferably a number of patented technologies such as advanced coal grading and mass conversion, thermal medium and low temperature coal pyrolysis, large-scale pulverized coal gasification, and comprehensive utilization of improved coal, etc. Production of acetic acid, vinyl acetate (VAC), ethanol, polyformaldehyde (POM), polyglycolic acid (PGA), ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and other nearly 30 kinds of extended chain supplement products. The project is planned to be constructed in two phases and four stages, and is expected to initially form 1.1-1.5 million tons in 2026, and a total of 2.6-3.5 million tons of new material products in 2030.
Guo Jianjun, deputy general manager of Huineng Group, said that the development of modern coal chemical industry is a major strategic deployment of Huineng Group in the national "14th Five-Year Plan" stage, and Zhuozheng coal chemical project is an extremely important part of Huineng Group's modern coal chemical development. The successful completion of the project feasibility review meeting not only means that the construction of Zhuozheng coal chemical project has entered the approval and implementation stage, but also an important step taken by Huineng Group in building "big coal, big chemical, and big power" as the leading industrial development strategy.
On June 21, 2023, the methanol acetic acid project of Inner Mongolia Huineng Group Zhuozheng Coal Chemical Co., LTD., with a total investment of 59 billion yuan, was resumed at Narin River Industrial Park, Sulige Economic Development Zone, Ordos.
