Recently, according to Honeywell's agreement, the company's pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology will be provided by Hubei Sanning Chemical Co., Ltd. with high-quality ethylene glycol (MEG). Polyester resins, films, and fibers are usually made from MEG, which in turn is made from coal. The new pressure swing adsorption unit will produce a total of 165,000 cubic meters of hydrogen per hour.
PSA, referred to as PSA, is a new type of gas adsorption separation technology, which has the following advantages: high product purity; generally works at room temperature and medium pressure, without heating during regeneration, high product purity; simple equipment structure, operation and maintenance Simple; continuous cycle operation can be fully automated. Therefore, when this new technology came out, it attracted the attention of industry in various countries, rushed to develop and research, and developed rapidly and matured.
Hubei Sanning Chemical Co., Ltd., established in 1970, is a subsidiary of Shanxi Jincheng Anthracite Coal Industry Group Co., Ltd. Hubei Sanning chose to cooperate with Honeywell due to its unique reliability, economic advantages, fast delivery time and planned launch timing. This technology also has a brand new sorbent that can recover hydrogen at very high levels. As a result, PSA units can produce hydrogen with a purity of up to 99.9999%, making it an excellent source of high quality monoethylene glycol . Hubei Sanning, located near the Yangtze River, will be able to meet new environmental regulations and PSA technology. The company has modern high-pressure gasification production technology and is expected to start production of a 600,000-ton MEG plant next year.
Honeywell International is a diversified high-tech and manufacturing company with a turnover of more than US $ 30 billion. Its business involves: aviation products and industrial control technology, automotive products. It is an international company engaged in the development and production of self-controlled products. A global leader in diversified technology and manufacturing. In 2017, the Fortune 500 list was released, and Honeywell ranked 73rd.
"This is the first application of Honeywell's PSA technology at a MEG chemical plant in China. It demonstrates the flexibility of Honeywell's chemical technology across a wide range of applications," said Liu Yiliang, general manager of Honeywell China.
As the world's second largest oil consumer, China's primary oil processing capacity exceeds 300 million tons per year. But the proven rate of conventional oil and gas is only about 39%, which is lower than that of the United States. Coupled with the imbalance in the domestic energy structure, coal accounts for a large proportion of the energy structure, while oil accounts for significantly less than developed countries. Faced with this situation, the production of plastics and rubber through methanol-to-olefin technology has also saved our petroleum energy to a certain extent.