ChinaCoal Shaanxi Yulin Energy & Chemical intends to start up its olefins recovery plant in Yulin, Shaanxi, China in 2013, according to technology provider Lummus Technology. Lummus, a CB&I (The Hague / The Netherlands; www.cbi.com) company, said it has won the contract for the license and engineering design of two light olefins recovery units. The units will recover ethylene and propylene from methanol, and are expected to yield 300,000 t/y of polymer grade ethylene and 300,000 t/y of polymer grade propylene.

ChinaCoal Shaanxi Yulin Energy & Chemical, which is a subsidiary of China National Coal Group (ChinaCoal, Beijing; www.chinacoal.com), has also selected Lummus’ olefins conversion technology (OCT) to upgrade the by-product produced by the light olefins recovery units into an additional 165,000 t/y of polymer grade propylene.

ChinaCoal also plans to produce polyolefins in Yulin. A 300,000 t/y PP plant is scheduled to start up in 2013 and a second PP plant, with a 450,000 t/y capacity is scheduled to start up in 2015. Both will be based on “Unipol” technology from Dow Chemical (Midland, Michigan / USA; www.dow.com) – see Plasteurope.com of 15.09.2011.