The facility, named as Shanxi Lu’an Coal-based Synthetic Oil Demonstration Factory, have reached a production capacity of 2 million tonne/year of synthetic oil, the company said.

Lu’an Group’s core technology was developed independently by the Shanxi Research Institute of Coal Chemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association said.

The facility has incorporated coal bed methane reforming, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 2 million tonnes/year. The plant facility also contains a water treatment facility to ensure that water treatment reuse can achieve zero discharge of wastewater.

Synthetic oil is a lubricant consisting of chemical compounds that are artificially made (synthesized). Synthetic lubricants can be manufactured using chemically modified petroleum components rather than whole crude oil, but can also be synthesized from other raw materials. Synthetic oil is used as a substitute for lubricant refined from petroleum when operating in extremes of temperature, because, in general, it provides superior mechanical and chemical properties than those found in traditional mineral oils.

4 Comments on "China’s Lu’an Group Manages to Produce Coal-based Synthetic Oil"

Rick on Tue, 26th Jun 2012 7:05 pm 



This really is nothing new, and not sustainable. And does nothing to get us off fossil fuels.

DC on Tue, 26th Jun 2012 7:54 pm 



CTL is nothing new. We’ve known how to do this since before WW2. As for zero wastewater hah, this is a RZ article.

BillT on Wed, 27th Jun 2012 3:29 am 



Rigzone = Corporate propaganda, not truth/facts.

Max Reid on Thu, 28th Jun 2012 12:21 am 



So that means the oil we produce is not sufficient enough to meet the demand, thats why Coal to Liquids, Gas to Liquids is coming up.

Share of Oil in the energy mix will slowly go down.