600,000 tons of methanol to olefins!

Qinghai Provincial State-owned Assets Investment Management Co.
, Ltd.
's 600,000-ton/year olefin project started construction on the 26th in Golmud City, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province
.
This project is China's first super-large coal chemical project in high-altitude areas.
It will promote the transformation and upgrading of the PVC industry and promote the efficient use of Qinghai Salt Lake resources
.

According to Xinhuanet, the olefin project is located in Golmud Industrial Park, Golmud City, and is one of the nine coal-to-olefin demonstration projects identified in the National "Petrochemical Industry Planning and Layout Plan"
.
The total investment of the project is 21.
144 billion yuan, mainly to build 1.
8 million tons of coal-to-methanol, 600,000 tons of methanol to olefins, 270,000 tons of ethylene and 415,000 tons of polypropylene and other process units
.

Golmud City, where the project is located, is the largest potash fertilizer industrial base in China.
The total reserves of various salt minerals in the Chaerhan Salt Lake in Golmud City reach 60 billion tons
.
The project will comprehensively utilize the by-product chlorine gas of salt lake resources, and promote the integration, innovation and extension of traditional salt chemical industry and coal chemical industry
.

In addition, the high-concentration brine generated by the project will be transported to the Bieletan mining area of ​​the Chaerhan Salt Lake as the supplementary water for the leaching agent for the mining of molten ore, which will be used for the mining of solid potassium resources in the salt lake, which is conducive to improving the comprehensive development and utilization level of salt lake resources and assisting the construction of Qinghai.
"World-class Salt Lake Industrial Base"
.