en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 8th, the Zhundong 2 Billion Nm³/year Coal-to-Gas Project by China's Xinjiang Tianchi Energy Co., Ltd. announced the award notice for its Air Separation, Methane Liquefaction and LNG Engineering - Installation Works (Xinjiang Branch). The winning supplier is Anhui Yuda Construction Labor Co., Ltd. Constructed by TBEA Xinjiang Zhunneng Chemical Co., Ltd., the project officially commenced construction on September 20, 2025, in the Jiangjunmiao Industrial Park of the Zhundong Economic and Technological Development Zone. With a total investment of 17 billion yuan, it covers an area of 197 hectares and is primarily aimed at producing synthetic natural gas while undertaking multiple green demonstration tasks.
The award of the installation works on April 8th signifies that the project has completed its preliminary preparations and formally entered the installation and construction preparation phase. The project construction encompasses main facilities such as air separation, coal gasification, purification, and methanation. It employs fixed-bed slagging gasification technology and CCUS technology, coupled with a green power hydrogen production system, establishing a multi-energy coupling system of "photovoltaic-power-hydrogen-carbon". This system is expected to reduce the carbon emission intensity of the entire coal chemical process by over 30%.
Using coal as feedstock, the project has a designed capacity of 2 billion cubic meters per year, with an actual production capacity reaching up to 2.04 billion cubic meters per year. It also co-produces crude phenol and crude benzene. The project utilizes large fixed-bed slagging gasifiers with a gasification pressure of 4.5 MPa and an inner diameter of 3.8 meters. It includes the construction of a 900,000 tons/year carbon capture unit, comprising 700,000 tons/year on-site and 200,000 tons/year as supporting capacity. Phenol-ammonia wastewater will be treated using IMC technology.
The project has obtained approval from China's National Development and Reform Commission and an environmental impact assessment approval from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. It is expected to complete the foundation construction for main facilities by the end of 2025, achieve mechanical completion by the end of 2026, and reach full production and efficiency in 2027. Its supporting wind power project will ensure green power consumption for the facilities is not less than 51%. The scale of its proprietary methanation unit will be increased to 2 billion cubic meters per year, and it will undertake five industrial demonstration tasks, including gasification of Zhundong coal with high alkali metal content.
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