1 August 2018
ABOUT HUBEI SANNING CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Hubei Sanning Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. was founded in 1970
and is based in Zhijiang, China.
It manufactures chemicals from coal and phosphorous,
petrochemicals, and other fine chemicals,
as well as hydrochloric acid, alcohols, ammonia, methanol,
and fertilizers.
The company operates as a subsidiary of
Shanxi Jincheng Anthracite Mining Group Co., Ltd.
DETAILS
First use of Honeywell UOP technology in a coal-to-MEG plant in China
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announced today that
Hubei Sanning Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
will use Honeywell UOP’s Polybed™
Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology
to supply high-quality hydrogen
at its monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant
at Zhijiang in China’s Hubei Province.
The Hubei Sanning plant will use
the hydrogen to produce MEG
– commonly used to make polyester resins, films and fibers
— manufactured from coal.
The new PSA unit is designed
to generate 165,000 cubic meters of hydrogen per hour.
Hubei Sanning chose the Honeywell UOP technology
due to its proven reliability, superior economics,
and fast delivery and start up schedule.
The technology also features new UOP adsorbents
that recover hydrogen at very high levels.
As a result, the PSA unit can generate
hydrogen with purities as high as 99.9999 percent,
making it an excellent source for
the production of high-quality monoethylene glycol.
The new PSA technology will help Hubei Sanning,
which is located near the Yangtze River,
meet new environmental regulations.
It also is part of the company’s plan
to modernize its production technology
to high-pressure gasification and accommodate
a new 600,000 tons-per-annum MEG plant
that is scheduled to begin operations next year.
China is rich in coal with reserves of nearly 300 billion tons
but imports more than 8 million barrels of oil per day,
about a tenth of which is converted into petrochemicals.
In China, coal is an increasingly attractive alternative to oil
as a petrochemical feedstock.
Coal is gasified with water to produce
synthesis gas,
which is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
Each of these components are purified
and used in different stages
to produce monoethylene glycol.
Henry Liu,
Regional general manager
for Honeywell UOP China
“This is the first application in China
of the Honeywell UOP PSA technology
in an MEG chemical plant,”
“It demonstrates the flexibility of
Honeywell UOP’s hydrogen technologies
in a wide range of uses,
including chemical manufacturing.”
Contact:
John Simley
847-391-2278
john.simley@honeywell.com
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