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Description of the DICP Methanol-to-Olefins Technology (DMTO) has been completed.

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Zhang Tong in Beijing
Published: 4:00pm, 30 Dec, 2023

The world’s largest coal-based ethanol production plant has started test runs in southeastern China, state media reported.

The plant, which has an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes, uses coal rather than crops as raw materials to produce ethanol – a petrol additive and valuable basic chemical. This is expected to ease the pressure on China’s food sources while reducing its dependence on fuel ethanol imports.

The coal-based plant in Huaibei, Anhui province, with an annual production capacity of 600,000 tonnes, uses advanced technology jointly developed by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) and the state-owned Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group, state news agency Xinhua (photo) reported.

The new technology, called DMTE, produces methanol from coke oven gas – a by-product of coke production – which then reacts with other materials to generate ethanol. It can enable large-scale production of ethanol not only from coal, but natural gas or gas from steel plants as well, according to the DICP report.

China is the only country known to have deployed the technology on an industrial level.

Read full article on the South China Morning Post website.

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