Inner Mongolia Lianhe Energy Co. has entered into a contract with Johnson Matthey Process Technologies (JMPT; London, U.K.; www.matthey.com) for the supply of a methanation technology license, engineering, catalysts and technical services for a major new coal-to-chemicals plant. The plant, to be located in Baotou in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China, will produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) from syngas generated from gasification of coal.
The new plant, expected to be operational in 2017, will use Johnson Matthey’s proprietary CRG methanation process technology. CRG technology converts carbon oxides and hydrogen to methane, which can be exported by pipeline as substitute natural gas (SNG) or liquefied for export by tanker.
Johnson Matthey Process Technologies is proud to continue its support of the Chinese energy industry with this latest project which follows more than a dozen other applications of CRG technology in China in the last few years. The first of these plants are already operational and successfully supplying SNG to Chinese cities such as Beijing.