p-Xylene synthesis

• Book ID: 104387388
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Weight: 53 KB
• Volume: 2008
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1351-4180
• DOI: 10.1016/s1351-4180(08)70098-9

✦ Synopsis

Via collaboration with Shanghai Jinmei Chemical New Technology Co Ltd, the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structures of Matter (Chinese Academy of Science) has devised a new process for making monoethylene glycol (MEG) from coal. A 200,000 tonne/y MEG plant based on the technology, together with a catalyst preparation plant, is being built in the Tongliao Economic and Technological Development Zone of Inner Mongolia, with startup scheduled for 4Q 2008. Newly developed catalyst technology, which has been awarded Chinese patents, enables industrial-grade carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, hydrogen, oxygen, and alcohol to be used as raw materials in a process that features low production costs. The process is particularly suitable for use in Inner Mongolia, which has large brown coal reserves.