On October 18—19, 2018, three R&D achievements for realizing the Chinese content of coal chemical industry,including the DCS system for Sinopec’s large coal deep processing project, the methanol syngas compressor train,and the large water-cooled and gas-cooled methanol synthesis reactors, had passed the appraisal in Ordos city of Inner Mongolia. It is learned that these three projects are being applied for the first time in China’s coal chemical industry to symbolize new breakthroughs in the Chinese content of major equipment owned by the Sinopec Corp., which boasts a range of independent intellectual property rights to push forward the technical advancement of national industry.

The said DCS system has been envisaged in the Sinopec’s key nationalization development project for 2016, aiming at adopting the central control system developed by the Zhongtian Hechuang Energy Co.(ZHEC), Ltd. Previously, the DCS systems for the large coal chemical plants and steam cracking plants were basically provided by overseas manufacturers. In the last three years upon being propped up by Sinopec’s overall advantages, ZHEC in close cooperation with the Zhejiang Central Control Technology Co., Ltd., the Sinopec’s Ningbo Engineering Company, SPEC, and the Shanghai Engineering Company has grappled with a lot of key issues to achieve the commissioning of DCS system at the first attempt, which has been operating reliably in two years to make a decisive stride towards the application of domestic DCS system in large and complicated chemical units.

The methanol syngas compressor train, and the large water-cooled and gas-cooled methanol synthesis reactors represent respectively the key dynamic equipment and the key stationary equipment of the coal chemical plant.Previously, these pieces of equipment with similar production capacity were imported from the outside. The said methanol syngas compressor train was fabricated jointly by the Shenyang Air Blower Group and the Hangzhou Steam Turbine Co., Ltd. The large watercooled and gas-cooled methanol synthesis reactors were designed by the Ningbo Engineering Company and fabricated by the Chemical Machinery Plant of Nanjing Chemical Company. After having been operating smoothly for two years, the syngas compressor train and the large water-cooled and gas-cooled methanol synthesis reactors can fully meet the requirements for major technical indicators to fill the gap in the domestic design and fabrication of key coal chemical equipment.