With all process units commissioned, including both gasifiers, the plant is operating in a pure oxygen-blown mode using locally sourced, high-ash coal as feedstock to produce synthesis gas (syngas), which is in turn being used by Hai Hua as a feedstock for methanol production.
Hai Hua and its affiliates produce metallurgical coke and town gas apart from methanol. Over the next few weeks the Hai Hua plant is expected to optimize its process units.
The Hai Hua plant is utilizing Synthesis Energy Systems’s (SES) U-Gas technology. Future expansion plans for the plant are being developed to increase capacity to accommodate planned increases in methanol production by Hai Hua and are expected to help meet other gas and chemical demands.
Tim Vail, president and CEO of SES, said: Commercial operations at the Hai Hua plant underscore SES’s ability to execute our strategy of building, owning and operating gasification plants utilizing our U-Gas technology. Our execution continues with the construction of a second plant in China and two projects under development, one in China and one in the US.
