Erdos CTL
Erdos CTL (sometimes also referred as Shenhua CTL) is a coal liquefaction plant at Ejin Horo Banner in Inner Mongolia, China. It is the biggest coal-to-liquids complex outside South Africa with a capacity of 20,000 barrels per day (3,200 m3/d).[1]
The plant cost USD 2 billion, and is owned by Shenhua Coal Liquefaction, a subsidiary of Shenhua Group. It uses direct coal liquefaction technology in a developed by Shenhua Group.[2][3][4] In the first phase, three production lines were installed.[5] The coal liquefaction reactor was manufactured by China First Heavy Industries.[6] Dedicated steel belt cooling systems for a coal slurry solidification were supplied by Sandvik Process Systems.[7] [8]
Construction of the plant started in 2004 and it was commissioned in 2008.[1][9] Trial operation started in mid-2009.[10] Since November 2010, it is fully operational.[11] It uses 10,000 tonnes of coal per day, and can produce 3,000 tonnes of oil. Annual output capacity is 1 million tonnes, comprising 0.62 million tonnes of diesel, 0.32 million tonnes of naphtha, and 0.07 million tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas. For each tonne of product, it uses 7-12 tonnes of fresh water, and outputs 4.8 tonnes of waste water and 9 tonnes of CO2.[4]
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- ^ Bai, Jim; Chen Aizhu (2011-09-08). "China Shenhua coal-to-liquids project profitable -exec". Reuters. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved 2012-03-10.