China Risun Group Limited (“China Risun”, or the “Group”, stock code:
1907), a leading global integrated coke, coking chemicals and refined chemicals
producer and supplier and relevant operation management services provider in
China, announced that the No.5 coke oven in Phase II of its Hohhot Production Base was loaded with coal on 18 February and put out
coke that meets standard on 20 February, marking a successful kick off of
production. Phase II of Hohhot Production Base is a three-million-tonne a year
coking chemical and hydrogen production comprehensive utilization project. To
date, three of the four coke ovens, with annual output capacity of 2.25 million
tonnes in all, in Phase II of the project are in operation, indicative of the
project achieving critical progress and results.
Together with the No. 5 coke oven now in operation, production capacity
of the operating coke production plants at the Hohhot Production Base has
reached 3.15 million tonnes/year, and the operating methanol production plant puts
out 100,000 tonnes/year. And, Phase II of the production base has been named a
key project for three consecutive years in the work report of the Hohhot
Municipal People's Government. It is a major project in the modern industrial
cluster being built in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Hohhot City.
Its downstream finer chemical project is also on the 2022 list of key economic
cooperation projects of the Autonomous Region. With the coal chemical industry
and its related downstream finer chemical industrial endeavors as source, the
project focuses on developing large-scale modern coal chemical undertakings
related to such as new energy, new materials, and excess heat and pressure
recycling. When the project is completed and in full operation, it will afford
an annual output of three million tonnes of coke, 300,000 tonnes of synthetic
ammonia, 480 million m3 of hydrogen, 140,000 tonnes of tar and 47,000 tonnes of
crude benzene.
In Phase II of the project, the Group has, for the first time, adopted the
German ThyssenKrupp 6.78m tamping coke oven technology, the most advanced in
the world, enabling it to achieve in-check but unmanned operations, as well as
automated basement inspections and automatic coke oven heating and temperature
measurement. Boasting a complete industrial chain, the Phase II project can
turn out more than 40 products and has achieved connection of pipelines of the
different coking and chemical devices, and linkup of upstream and downstream
industrial chains allowing sharing of resource supply. It is an example showing
what an industry-leading and technologically advanced green, smart and highly
efficient circular economy and city-friendly project looks like. In the core of
the city clusters around Hohhot, Baotou, Erdos and Yulin, the production base
has exclusive railway lines of 26km in its plan, which when completed will
markedly enhance the railway transportation and logistics capacity of the base,
turning it into the logistics distribution center of the entire Tuoqing Economic
Development Zone.
The Phase II project has outstanding collective advantages in aspects
including new energy, new materials, hydrogen energy guarantee, industrial
integration and delicacy management. It uses coke oven gas as a clean
alternative energy and for producing hydrogen energy, residue heat warming and
steam supply, thus qualifies as a clean energy and heat supply guarantee center
in the Tuoqing Economic Development Zone and is a circular production base that
affords the best synergistic development. In its plan, there is also a 300MW
distributed photovoltaic power generation project, which will accommodate
photovoltaic power generation, dry quenching power generation and allow complementary
power supply for new material and chemical production. With that, power system
operations will be more economical and flexible and it is expected to reduce
carbon dioxide emission by 660,000 tonnes a year.
The project also has its eye on hydrogen energy development. To begin
with, a hydrogen production plant of capacity 5,000 nm3 per hour and five
four-in-one (hydrogen + electricity + oil + gas) comprehensive energy stations to
be built to back development of the hydrogen power industry and to provide
hydrogen power source to strategic cities, such as Hohhot, to drive green and
low-carbon development in the region. Capitalizing on the advantages of Hohhot
in resources and the industries she homes, downstream coking companies are
encouraged to cooperate with the production base to realize industrial
integration and marriage of strengths. To promote business growth, the base
welcomes into it fine chemical BDO, deployment of high-end biodegradable
plastic PBT/PBAT, oil-based needle coke cooperation and anode material
development projects.
In the future, the No. 6 coke oven will be completed and become an
important growth driver of China Risun’s core businesses and results in 2023.
China Risun will push for its Hohhot Production Base to quickly meet the
three-million-ton coke output and efficiency targets of Phase II of the
hydrogen production comprehensive utilization project. Moreover, it will seize
the opportunities arising from Inner Mongolia developing into an important
energy and strategic resource base of the country to speed up high-end,
intelligent, green and modern development, strengthen circular economy industry
clusters, expand effective industrial investment, enhance capacity of the
industry and build green parks and green factories, so that it may become a
benchmark industrial park in Inner Mongolia and the country.
Photo caption:
The No. 5 coke oven of a three-million-ton output a year coking chemical
and hydrogen production comprehensive utilization project at China Risun’s Hohhot
Production Base begins operation
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