In recent years, the domestic development of oil replaced coal as the raw materials to produce products of modern coal chemical industry highly motivated, but some parts of the optimistic outlook for the market, the industry showed signs of blind development. "12 5" period, China's coal chemical industry will be resource-conserving, environment-friendly direction, to model-based modern coal chemical industry, coal will be transferred to strictly limit the development of coal chemical industry area.

       "12 Five-Year" period, China's coal chemical industry, regional planning and layout will be better. On August 25 at the 2010 China International Coal Chemical Industry Development Forum, Industry and Information Technology, said Zhu Hong, Chief Engineer, "12 5" during the traditional coal chemical industry in China should be strictly trade access, modern coal chemical industry should to model-based, strictly limit the redeployment of regional development of coal coal chemical industry, the coal-rich western region to appropriately develop coal chemical industry.

        Turning to the current development of China's coal chemical industry is facing a major bottleneck, the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association, Li Yongwu that embodies irrational industrial structure and common key technologies to be breakthroughs in key technology and equipment as well as some products urgently localization lack of capacity utilization and so on.

Beginning to take shape modern coal chemical

        30 years of reform and opening up, China has been insisting petrochemical and coal chemical pronged approach to coke, calcium carbide, coal-based fertilizer products of traditional coal chemical industry, will gradually replace petroleum products of a modern coal chemical changes.

        Generally, modern coal chemical industry is the production of alternative clean fuel oil, petrochemical products and focus on the energy and chemical industry, coal products, both ether, coal-to-olefins, but also coal oil, coal and natural gas oil substitute products.

        "Since last year, synthetic ammonia and methanol is the fastest growing in the two basic chemical raw materials." Li Yongwu said that in 2009 reached 51.36 million tons of synthetic ammonia production, the first half of this year 26.5 million tons, up 4.6%; year methanol production reached 11.3 million tons, 8.11 million tons this year's first half, up 53.3%.

        Rapid growth of output of main products in the same time, coal-chemical industry restructuring has also made considerable progress. To coking industry as an example, in 2009 the National coking industry closed down, eliminate backward production capacity approaching 23 million tons of coke oven, new production capacity of about 37 million tons of coke oven, achieved by automated, large-scale, clean environment of the large and medium coke replacement of the outdated production capacity. At the same time, calcium carbide industry is also increased efforts to eliminate backward production capacity. End of last year, the industry has accumulated out of 2.87 million tons and backward production capacity, exceeding the "Eleventh Five-Year" goals.

Major demonstration projects are emerging

        It is worth mentioning that in recent years a number of major demonstration projects are emerging. Shenhua Group's largest global liquefaction million tons coal liquefaction project is a project already completed, has entered a long cycle of test operation phase; Shenhua Baotou 600 thousand tons methanol to olefins project open up the whole process, and smooth production of qualified polyethylene, polypropylene products; world's first coal-to produce 200,000 tons ethylene glycol demonstration unit, also at the end of 2009 Tongliao City in Inner Mongolia was put to trial; Luan Group and two 160 thousand tons Yitai Group indirect liquefaction of coal liquefaction projects have been put into operation. In addition, the introduction of technology development with an annual output of 500,000 tons a large Tang Duolun MTP, Shenhua Ningxia Coal MTP projects an annual output of 520,000 tons is under construction process.

        At the same time, China's coal chemical industry of technological innovation after another. The successful development, promotion, large multi-Nozzle water slurry gasification technology, coal gasification technology space heater, low water / air resistance to sulfur transform new technology, large-scale methanol synthesis technology, the same time, coal oil, coal to olefins, glycol and a number of coal a major breakthrough in key technologies.

Need to overcome four major bottleneck

        Li Yongwu pointed out that the development of China's coal chemical industry there are still some outstanding issues, particularly by the international financial crisis, sustainable development of the industry is facing many difficulties.

        First, industrial restructuring tasks are arduous. Traditional coal chemical in coke, calcium carbide redundant construction projects such as serious excess capacity, modern coal chemical project is still in the model construction phase, needed to guide and regulate the development industry.

        Second is the need to overcome common key technologies. Coal chemical industry is technology intensive, capital-intensive industries are also a number of key technologies introduced from abroad, but the lack of industrial introduction of technology validation, high risk, high cost of the cost. Therefore, accelerating the development of coal chemical industry with independent intellectual property core technology, good commercial demonstration plant construction and operation, is the urgent need for the development of modern coal chemical industry issues.

        Third, localization of key technology and equipment urgently. "To a large coal chemical projects supporting the core reactor, compressor, valve and other major equipment, the key can not currently meet the demand." Li Yongwu said. The key to speed up coal chemical equipment and complete sets of technology and equipment development, not only can reduce the project's investment, but also enhance the technical level of China's equipment manufacturing industry, in order to stimulate the development of related industries.

        Fourth, some lack of production capacity utilization. At present China's methanol production capacity already exceeded 30 million tons, but the methanol to olefins project is still in demonstration. Meanwhile, the low percentage of methanol and gasoline national standard (M15) is still under development, coupled with the dumping of foreign low-cost methanol, methanol industry as a whole the current operating rate of less than 50%, dimethyl ether plant, the average national rate to 20% of start , difficulties in production runs.

"12 5" increased barriers to entry

        Although the pace of development in recent years, laudable, but the development of China's coal chemical industry does not match with the quality.

Pursuit of scale benefits, some companies regardless of resources, ecological and environmental carrying capacity, blind planning, race to build coal chemical projects. Coal methanol, dimethyl ether and other oil substitutes blind development momentum is gradually revealed, leading to calcium carbide, coke and coal chemical products and other traditional surplus production capacity. There are individual enterprises to build the name Coal chemical projects, occupy and seize the coal resources.

        To overcome this negative trend on the sustainable development of coal chemical adverse effects, Zhu, "12 5" during China's traditional coal chemical industry restructuring should be focused strictly trade access, to enhance technological progress and the elimination of backward production capacity, improve the level of resource utilization; modern coal chemical industry should model, and strengthen innovation and improve the technical equipment of modern coal chemical industry development system, coordinating regional development, considering water resources, environment, markets, transport constraints and other aspects, overall planning and rational distribution of coal transferred to strictly limit the development of coal chemical industry area, in the coal-rich western region to appropriately develop coal chemical industry.

        Industry experts also believe that modern coal chemical industry to enhance key technologies and major equipment on the basis of research and development, actively and steadily carry out coal-to-olefins, coal ether, ethylene glycol coal, coal oil, coal and natural gas technology industrialization model, reduction of chemical raw materials in the oil while achieving an effective complementary and alternative oil and thus ease the oil supply and demand. (Semi-Fu)