Speaking to reporters, Serge Perineau, president of the World Coal and Oil Association and senior international energy and chemical industry expert, said that the new coal chemical industry is of great significance in reducing the environmental pollution caused by coal burning and reducing the dependence on oil. China's new coal chemical industry has now become the most advanced industrial system in the world. The success of national independent industrialization and the universal application of green, energy-saving and environmental protection technologies have provided a powerful support platform for the entire industry. Therefore, the healthy and sustainable development of green coal chemical industry is not only the future of China's economy, but also the future of the world economy.
On June 12, the 4th China International Coal Chemical Industry Summit 2009 held in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, came to the news. The new coal clean transformation industry represented by coal-to-oil, coal chemical industry has entered the demonstration phase of the project. China's largest coal chemical company, Shenhua Group will focus on promoting the appreciation and clean transformation of coal. The rapid development of coal cleansing and transformation industry will plan to produce about 30 million tons of oil products and chemicals by 2020, and the amount of coal to be transformed will exceed 100 million tons. At present, the development of China's new coal chemical industry is breaking through the difficulties of technology, capital, and environmental protection. The “Petrochemical Industry Adjustment and Revitalization Plan†recently promulgated by the government proposes to steadily carry out demonstration of coal chemical industry and focus on existing coal-to-oil, coal-to-olefin, coal-to-dimethyl ether, coal-methane gas, and coal-to-ethylene glycol. Five types of demonstration projects explore new ways for the efficient and clean coal conversion and the diversified development of petrochemical raw materials. This indicates the direction for the healthy development of the new coal chemical industry. Zhang Diankui, deputy general manager of the Beijing Engineering Branch of Shenhua Coal-to-oil Chemicals Co., Ltd., stated that China's coal clean-transformation industry has broad prospects. The coal-based oil and coal chemical industry represented by the new coal clean-up and transformation industry has entered the project demonstration stage. Shenhua Group will make great efforts to promote the appreciation and clean transformation of coal, develop the coal clean transformation industry at a high speed, and realize the integrated development of coal, electricity, and oilification, such as direct liquefaction of coal, indirect liquefaction, and polygeneration of modern coal chemical industry. According to reports, Shenhua Group plans to build seven coal chemical bases in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, with a total investment of more than 400 billion yuan, mainly to develop coal direct liquefaction oil, coal indirect liquefaction oil, coal to olefins and Coal gas and so on. At present, Shenhua Huaneng has annual production of 250,000 tons of methanol and 210,000 tons of dimethyl ether and the Ordos 1 million tons of coal direct liquefaction demonstration project, Shenhua Ning has an annual output of 520,000 tons of polypropylene project and Baotou has an annual output of 600,000 tons. Coal to olefin demonstration project. One of the latter two projects will be commissioned in 2010.