Yitai Group starts commercial output at coal liquefaction plant

25 September 2009 11:00  [Source: ICIS news]

SHANGHAI (ICIS news)--Inner Mongolia Yitai Group started commercial production at its 160,000 tonne/year indirect coal liquefaction plant at Ordos, in China’s Inner Mongolia province, from 23 September, a source with the Chinese coal producer said on Friday.

“Production is mostly diesel,” the source said in Mandarin. “The plant is running steadily and ramping up the operating rate.”

The coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant can produce diesel, naphtha, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and sulphur, the source said.

The plant started to produce on-spec petroleum products in late March of this year but had to shut down in early April for maintenance following a fire, the source said.

A second series of trial runs took place successfully on 20 September, the source said.

By 2015, Yitai plans to have a 5m tonne/year CTL production base, according to information on the company’s website.

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