October 18, 2005 - "Shenhua to Implement Axens’ Simulator for Coal Liquefaction"
Axens Performance Programs (P2) has been selected by China’s Shenhua Coal Liquefaction Company Ltd. to provide an operator training simulator (OTS) for the direct coal liquefaction and H-Oil®DC units being constructed in the Peoples Republic of China. The simulators will be used for the training of plant personnel and will play an important role in the start-up of the plant. Axens’ customized OTS solution is based on rigorous kinetic models of the units and uses INDISS™ software supplied by RSI. The project will be managed through Axens P2 office in Princeton, New Jersey. This is a first-of-a-kind direct coal liquefaction plant and will produce 19,000 barrels per day of oil from coal in a single train. The H-Oil®DC technology is designed to hydrotreat 10,400 metric tons per day of recycle liquid and products from the direct coal liquefaction unit. The combination of direct coal liquefaction and H-Oil®DC is well adapted to handle small amounts of coal particles and maintain constant product quality. There are three commercial versions of the H-Oil technology: DC - VGO or distillate conversion, RC – heavy oil or resid conversion, HCC – heavy crude conversion to syncrude.
Shenhua Group Shenhua is China’s largest coal company with production capacity approaching 122 million tons per year. This first-of-its-kind direct coal liquefaction plant will produce 19,000 barrels per day of oil from coal in a single train. Additional processing trains are planned for future.
RSI RSI, an IFP Group company, has been providing dynamic simulation solutions since 1980 in the upstream and downstream oil and gas industries and for petrochemical and chemical applications. RSI simulators are employed for engineering studies, operational support and operator training.
