Erdos CTL (sometimes also referred as Shenhua CTL) is a
coal liquefaction
Coal liquefaction is a process of converting coal into liquid hydrocarbons: liquid fuels and petrochemicals. This process is often known as "Coal to X" or "Carbon to X", where X can be many different hydrocarbon-based products. However, the most ...
plant at
Ejin Horo Banner
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in
Inner Mongolia
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,
China. It is the biggest coal-to-liquids complex outside
South Africa
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with a capacity of .
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The plant is owned by Shenhua Coal Liquefaction, a subsidiary of
Shenhua Group
Shenhua Group Corporation Limited was a Chinese state-owned mining and energy company. Shenhua Group was founded in October 1995 under the auspices of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It was the largest coal-producing compan ...
. It uses direct coal liquefaction technology developed by Shenhua Group.
[
][
] In the first phase, three production lines were installed.
[
] The coal liquefaction reactor was manufactured by China First Heavy Industries.
[
] Dedicated steel belt cooling systems for a
coal slurry
Coal slurry is a mixture of solids (mined coal or coal waste) and liquids (water or organic) produced by a coal preparation plant.
Preparation
To transform the coal ash into a slurry, coal is separated from non-combustible components and can be ...
solidification were supplied by
Sandvik Process Systems.
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]
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Construction of the plant started in 2004 and it was commissioned in 2008.
[
] Trial operation started in mid-2009.[
] Since November 2010, its fully operational.[
]
See also
* Shenhua CTL
Shenhua CTL (also known as Ningxia CTL, ) is a planned coal liquefaction plant in Ningdong, Ningxia, China. Its planned capacity is .
The liquefaction plant is to use a Sasol's indirect liquefaction technology, based on the Fischer–Tropsch pr ...
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Petroleum production
Energy infrastructure in China
Synthetic fuel facilities
Coal infrastructure