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Haldor Topsoe and Yanchang form joint venture and build methanol catalyst facility in China

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Haldor Topsoe and Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum have formed a joint venture with the aim of delivering locally produced MK-151+ methanol synthesis catalysts to the Chinese market. Together, the two companies will build a production facility in Shaanxi Fupin in China to produce methanol synthesis catalysts.

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China team optimizes catalytic hydrogenation process to convert coal tar to gasoline and diesel

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Flow diagram of coal tar hydrogenation process. Researchers in China report the production of gasoline and diesel from coal tar via an optimized catalytic hydrogenation using two serial fixed beds, the first with a hydrofining catalyst of MoNi/?-Al In 2010, China’s coke output reached 387.571 million tons, accounting for 61.6%

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Tsinghua University provincial-level lifecycle study finds fuel-cycle criteria pollutants of EVs in China could be up to 5x those of natural gas vehicles due to China’s coal-dominant power mix

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Consumption-based power mixes and NG transmission distances by Chinese province in 2010. In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.

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Honeywell UOP’s Methanol To Olefins technology selected for China coal chemical complex

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China’s Wison (Nanjing) Clean Energy Company Ltd. has selected Honeywell’s UOP technology to convert methanol into building blocks for chemical products at an existing coal chemical complex in China. Located in Nanjing, China, the facility will be one of the world’s first methanol-to-olefin production facilities.

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PNNL, NETL and Chinese Academy Begin Cooperative Work on Coal Conversion, Emissions Capture and Carbon Storage

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Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have formed the Clean Energy Partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of coal conversion, emissions capture and carbon storage technologies.

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US DOE Making $37.5M Available for Joint US-China Clean Energy Research; Buildings, Coal and Vehicles

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million in US funding over the next five years to support the US-China Clean Energy Research Center. The Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) will be located in existing facilities in both the US and China and will include an additional $75 million in Chinese funding.

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US and China Presidents Announce US-China Electric Vehicles Initiative, Six Other Measures to Strengthen Cooperation Between the Countries on Energy Issues

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The US-China Electric Vehicles Initiative builds on the first-ever US-China Electric Vehicle Forum in September 2009. A US-China task force will create a multi-year roadmap to identify R&D needs as well as issues related to the manufacture, introduction and use of electric vehicles. Joint technical roadmap.

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