Recent Progress of Coal Chemical Technologies in China

摘要

The national energy policy of China is different from the rest of the world due to the shortage of oil and natural gas and relative abundance of coal and strong energy demand. Over 70% of primary energy consumption in China relies on coal. It provides tremendous opportunities for coal chemical industry. Numerous commercial coal chemical projects have been launched or are in plan, and great efforts are made by the government and enterprises to develop some core technologies of coal chemical. The synthetic technology of fuels and chemicals via syngas route is getting some significant big progresses. This speech mainly introduces the recent technology progress of advanced Fisher-Tropsch, coal to SNG, MTO process and catalyst, coal to glycol and coal to fuel ethanol in China.