<span style="white-space:normal;">Coal-rich Inner Mongolia has been working on coal deep processing in a move to promote clean use of coal and realize sustainable economic development, sources reported.</span><br style="white-space:normal;" /> <br /> The autonomous region has gained preliminary approval from government authorities to develop five coal-to-gas (CTG) or coal-to-liquids (CTL) projects since 2013.<br /> <br /> With total investment estimated at 223 billion yuan, these projects are expected to produce 28 billion cubic meters of syngas and 2 million tonnes of liquids upon completion.<br /> <br /> Among the five projects, the Ordos coal comprehensive utilization demonstration project, developed by Xinmeng Energy Investment Co., Ltd., is designed with an annual production capacity of 8 billion cubic meters of syngas, with total investment up to 53.4 billion yuan.<br /> <br /> The project will be developed by two phases, each designed with annual capacity of 4 billion cubic meters. The first-phase project would start construction this year and come on stream in 2017, with total investment estimated at 22.8 billion yuan; the second-phase project is planned to finish by 2019.<br /> <br /> The Zhunge’er coal comprehensive utilization demonstration project, with investment estimated at 74.7 billion yuan, is planned to achieve annual syngas capacity of 12 billion cubic meters. There will be three CTG projects, each with capacity of 4 billion cubic meters, developed by China National Offshore Oil Corporation New Energy Investment Co., Ltd., Beijing Enterprises Group, and Hebei Construction and Investment Group, respectively. In addition, Hebei Construction and Investment Group will also build a self-supporting power plant, comprising two generating units each at 350 MW.<br /> <br /> The third project, also a CTG project with designed syngas capacity of 4 billion cubic meters per annum, will need investment of 22.9 billion yuan. It will be developed by Inner Mongolia Huaxing New Energy Co., Ltd.<br /> <br /> The fourth project – the Xing’an League integrated coal, chemical, power and heat demonstration project – is designed with an annual capacity of 4 billion cubic meters of lignite-based syngas, and the total investment is estimated to 34.5 billion yuan.<br /> <br /> Additionally, Yitai CTL Co. would invest 37.5 billion yuan on an indirect CTL project, which is to produce a total of 2 million tonnes of oil products, including synthetic diesel, synthetic gasoline, naphtha, liquefied gas, and other chemicals.<br /> <br /> The first three projects are hopeful to start construction in the second half of 2014, and are expected to supply clean coal-based fuel to Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei by 2017.<br /> <br /> If all goes well, the five projects would bring enterprises with net profit of 16.5 billion yuan and provide great employment opportunities at the same time.<br /> <br /> Besides, by transforming 120 million tonnes of coal into other cleaner energy fuels each year, these projects would play a positive role in fighting air pollution in main consumption areas.<br /> <br /> <p> So far there have been three CTG and CTL projects under construction in Inner Mongolia after gaining final approval from the National Development and Reform Commission, including the Hexigten Banner 4-billion-cubic-meter-per-annum CTG project by Datang International Power, 1.6-billion-cubic-meter-per-annum CTG project by Huineng Group and Shenhua’s direct CTL project. </p> <p style="text-align:center;"> <img src="/upfiles/news/image/20140623/20140623173644_8423.jpg" alt="" /> </p>