Direct coal liquification project under construction in Erdos
By Ma Zhiping (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-08-03 13:50 Under the current high international oil prices background, Chinese experts
believe the Shenhua project will serve as a demonstration in taking advantage of
China's abundant coal resources and play an important role in help upgrading the
country's energy structure.
The designed total annual production scale of the Shenhua direct coal
liquification project is 5 million tons of oil products and will be built in two
stages.
Production capacity of the first-stage project, to be fully completed around
2010, will reach 3.2 million tons and it will have three production lines, 14
main production installations.
The main production area of the first stage project and the supporting
projects will cover a total of 380 hectacres of land.
Equipment of the first production line will be ready for operation by the end
of 2007 and direct coal liquification will begin in 2008. With a total
investment of 12.3 billion yuan, the first production line will process annually
3.45 million tons of coal and will be capable of producing 1.08 million tons of
oil products.
The Shenhua group plans to invest 6.1 billion yuan for the first line, also
called the demonstration line this year to complete construction of basic
facilities, install manufacturing equipment and complete all the steel
structures.
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