The rise of nanometers

Shenhua Group.

The company's large coal chemical base in Baotou branch welcomed a group of guests.

This coal chemical base is currently in the trial operation stage and can produce more than 500,000 tons of polyolefin products per year.

Shenhua Group is one of the few coal groups in China that has a complete set of coal chemical processes. In addition to its Baotou branch, it also has four other coal chemical bases.

Li Shucun, the manager of the Baotou coal chemical base, brought Chen Biting, the chairman of Shenhua Group, and the coal chemical research team of the Suiren Company's scientific research department.

Zhao Yinghua, the chief researcher of the research team, looked at the large reactors and equipment in front of him and discussed with the engineers and researchers of the team from time to time.

Engineers from Shenhua Group also participated in the discussion.

Zhao Yinghua raised his head and asked: "Manager Li, how much is the current cost of coal-fired oil in the factory?"

Hearing this question, Li Shucun replied without hesitation: "Currently, it is around 327 yuan per barrel. With the current international crude oil price, coal-fired oil can be profitable."

Zhao Yinghua shook his head unceremoniously: "It's too high. Once the international crude oil price drops to 50 meters per barrel, your project will be unprofitable."

"There's nothing we can do about it, after all, the production costs are there." Li Shucun was also very helpless.

People at Shenhua Group certainly know the fatal shortcoming of coal-fired oil, which is that the production cost is too high. Once international oil prices fall, the entire project will be unprofitable.

Currently, they need to consume 13 tons of fresh water and 5.5 tons of coal to refine one ton of coalified oil. Adding equipment depreciation and labor costs, the average cost is 327 Chinese yuan per barrel.

After reading for a while, Zhao Yinghua discovered the reason why the cost of coal-fired oil in Baotou was too high.

Baotou's coal-to-oil process adopts the indirect liquefaction method. The so-called indirect method is to first gasify coal into water gas (i.e. carbon monoxide and hydrogen), and then synthesize fuel oil and other products.

In this production process, 5.5 tons of coal are used, which costs 2,200 yuan based on an average price of 400 yuan per ton.

Coalified oil: 5.5 tons of coal = 1 ton of fuel oil.

But in terms of calorific value: 1.42 tons of standard coal = 1 ton of crude oil.

In other words, theoretically speaking, it should be 1.42 tons of standard coal = 1 ton of crude oil, which is the maximum conversion efficiency of coal chemical industry.

Zhao Yinghua turned around and said: "Your catalyst is not good, use our company's nitrogen-16 catalyst instead! In the laboratory, I use our company's nitrogen-16 catalyst to refine 1 ton of fuel with an average of 1.7 tons of coal."

Shenhua engineers in charge of coalification technology were also very surprised by the coalification efficiency of the Suiren system. If calculated according to this cost, the cost of coal in coalification oil would drop from 2,200 yuan per ton to 680 yuan per ton.

Zhao Yinghua once again pointed out a problem: "Another point is that the cost of your catalyst is too high. One ton of catalyst can produce 500 tons of fuel. One ton of nitrogen 16 catalyst can produce hundreds of thousands of tons of fuel."

Ma Guosheng, the chief engineer of the project, was very embarrassed by Zhao Yinghua, as if Shenhua's coal chemical technology was really worthless in front of the Suiren Department.

"Also, the gasification cost, impurities, and environmental protection of nitrogen-16 catalysts are all higher than your old catalysts..."

After some calculations, they found that the comprehensive cost of coalified oil was actually reduced to 727 yuan per ton, which is about 100 yuan per barrel, which is equivalent to the cost of only about 16 yuan per barrel of fuel.

Chen Biting, the chairman of Shenhua Group, whose eyes lit up after hearing this.

Zhao Yinghua, who was firing like a barrage, did not stop, but said speechlessly: "You can also use those poor coal and coal gangue to further reduce the cost of raw materials. In addition, there are a lot of usable elements in the refined waste residue. These When things are fully utilized, the overall efficiency of the factory will be greatly improved."

Ma Guosheng, who was embarrassed by what he said, took notes and asked for advice humbly.

Chen Biting asked impatiently: "Researcher Zhao, if we completely switch to new processes, our production capacity should also be increased, right?"

"Yes! The coal-to-gas process can increase the efficiency by 3.2 times, but the process of gasification of oil requires you to re-modify it before you can bring out the 3.2-fold efficiency." Zhao Yinghua nodded.

Chen Biting discussed with several Shenhua engineers for a while. According to the current production capacity of Shenhua Group's five coal chemical bases, after upgrading and transformation, it can form a production capacity of 6 to 7 million tons of coal chemical oil.

There were still many unfinished projects in China before. When these projects are integrated, they can initially form a production capacity of 10 to 12 million tons.

It is possible to speed up the transformation of old factories and use complete equipment to form a production capacity of 30 million tons in one year and increase it to 60 million tons in two years.

In addition to the coal chemical industry, Shenhua Group can also develop coal chemical industry.

After all, a large part of the crude oil consumed domestically is used in the chemical industry. With a two-pronged approach to fuel oil and chemical industry, the coal industry can offset the import of 60 to 70 million tons of crude oil within a year.

After all, the current international energy situation is deteriorating, and the coal department can only do its best. This is not only for the glory of the coal department, but also for the energy security of China.

The electric power sector, which is closely related to the coal sector, is also preparing for coal chemical industry and coal chemical industry. They have reserves of high-purity carbon powder. It is expected that by the second quarter of next year, they can produce 30 million tons of coal chemical oil and 15 million tons of coal chemical industry. .

Shenhua Group quickly signed a memorandum of cooperation with Suiren Company. Suiren Company will upgrade the technology of Shenhua Group's coal chemical project through technology licensing, and then charge a patent fee of 3 yuan per ton of product.

More than a dozen other large coal groups have also begun to secretly contact the Suiren Group. Among them, the companies that have reached cooperation include Yitai Group, Shaanxi Coal Chemical, Jinneng, Pingdingshan, and Datong.

They already have coal chemical projects or some unfinished projects, and this time they are just reusing them.

In fact, coal-to-chemical projects are very versatile. If there is no need to produce fuel, they can also be converted into coal-to-chemicals and coal-to-gas projects.

According to the current domestic gas vehicle promotion speed, it is expected that by around 2015, the proportion of domestic gas vehicles will increase by about 50%, and by around 2020, it will increase to about 80%.

In addition, the coal-fired boilers in factories will also be gradually converted into gas-fired boilers. Domestic gas demand will further increase in the future.

The biomass gas produced by the three major environmental protection groups alone may not be enough to meet domestic demand. As for the gas pipelines in Lucia and Central Asia, there are also uncontrollable factors.

Therefore, if there is overcapacity in domestic coal-to-oil projects, they can be converted into coal-to-gas projects. The first step in coal-to-oil projects is coal gasification, directly switching to gas supply, which can even further reduce costs.

This intense and covert coal-to-oil project attracts attention due to its secrecy and the fact that the petroleum system is visible.

The Lucia oil pipeline has been connected to the Daqing oil pipeline. It started trial operation in October last year. Now the two parties are intensifying negotiations. The opening of this pipeline can supply 15 million tons of domestic crude oil every year.

This incident attracted a lot of attention and echoed the massive sweep of two barrels of oil in the international crude oil market.

Crude oil suppliers and oil-producing countries around the world are focusing on two things. They believe that China's solution to the security of crude oil supply is to increase crude oil imports from Lucia.

Little do they know that the real murderous intention lies in coal-to-oil and oil-to-gas conversion.

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