China's refining and chemical industry needs to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the carbon four industry chain

Recently, ethanol gasoline has received unprecedented attention. The national promotion of fuel ethanol will affect the refining and chemical industry, especially the carbon four industry with methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) as its main product. Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the carbon four industry chain.

Recently, China issued the "Implementation Plan on Expanding the Production of Biofuel Ethanol and Promoting the Use of Ethanol Gasoline for Vehicles". It is proposed that by 2020, the use of ethanol gasoline for vehicles will be promoted nationwide, and full coverage will be realized. The market-oriented operation mechanism will be initially established. The advanced bio-liquid fuel innovation system was initially constructed, and the 50,000-ton plant of cellulose fuel ethanol was demonstrated. The development of the biofuel ethanol industry reached the international advanced level.

Almost in sync with the policy launch, the car ethanol gasoline (GB19351) and the car ethanol gasoline blending component oil (GB22030) standard update, and upgraded to the mandatory standard by the recommended standard.

The introduction of the new policy of ethanol gasoline will bring a severe test to the refining industry. With the gradual expansion of domestic ethanol gasoline production and use, it will change the existing gasoline production equipment supporting structure of refining and chemical enterprises, and increase the cost of the entire refining industry.

The New Deal means that by 2020, almost all of the market will be ethanol gasoline for vehicles, and there is basically no motor gasoline. The refinery no longer produces motor gasoline products, all of which are converted into ethanol gasoline blending component oils for the production of vehicles. The formation of the final product form of the market will be moved from the refinery to the ethanol gasoline blending center.

The New Deal seems to have only added a gasoline component, but it will have a huge overall impact on the refinery, including a series of problems such as gasoline quality upgrades, asset and resource utilization, and economic efficiency accounting. Specifically, gasoline production, grade structure, MTBE outlet, and refinery processing routes will change. Subsequent impacts cannot be ignored. For example, changes in the main body of market-marked products have a linkage effect on related industries, which in turn affects the refining industry.

The new policy of ethanol gasoline for the refining industry is reflected in market demand, product structure, supporting facilities and other aspects. Among them, the full application of ethanol gasoline will further squeeze the gasoline consumer market.

Ethanol gasoline has an impact on oil upgrades. The previous standard for ethanol gasoline for vehicles requires that the oxygen content of ethanol gasoline should not exceed 0.5%. This means that MTBE and etherified gasoline will not be used as a gasoline high-octane blending component. The upgrading of VI standard gasoline quality will face new challenges in reducing olefins and increasing octane.

The use of ethanol can increase the cost of refining companies while reducing operational flexibility. Refining companies, logistics (vehicles, tanks), and gas stations need to invest in new equipment (fuel pumps, underground storage tanks).

In the face of challenges, the New Deal will continue to promote the green development of the industry. The refining and chemical industry should give full play to the advantages of integrated refining and chemical development, rely on the reconstruction and expansion of large-scale ethylene projects and large-scale ethylene projects, strengthen the optimization and integration of public works systems, accelerate the elimination of backward production capacity and facilities, and implement refining Resource integration and optimization between chemical industry chains, improve resource utilization efficiency, and achieve coordinated development of refining and chemical industry.

In recent years, as a gasoline additive, MTBE has made great progress, and even became a major source of refinery profits for a period of time, and is also the best choice for methanol utilization and octane increase. The promotion of ethanol gasoline will end the MTBE gasoline additive market and will have a profound impact on the development of the carbon four industry chain.

Carbon four products are important by-products in petroleum refining, petrochemical and coal chemical industry, among which MEBT is one of the main carbon four products. MTBE is an important way to utilize isobutylene in the carbon four industry chain. MTBE will be discontinued in 2020, a large amount of isobutylene needs to be found, and high-octane gasoline addition components need to be supplemented.

Carbon four industry chain enterprises need to lay out in advance to develop new technologies for high value-added processing and utilization of isobutylene, and effectively support the sustainable development of refining and chemical enterprises.

The development of isobutylene indirect alkylation technology will be an important direction for the transformation of MTBE enterprises. The indirect alkylation technique dimerizes isobutylene to isooctene and then hydrogenates to isooctane. Isooctane is a high-octane gasoline component with good application prospects. At present, foreign indirect alkylation technology is represented by UOP, CDTECH and IFP companies, and several sets of devices are in operation.

The oxidation of isobutylene to methyl methacrylate (MMA) technology is also worthy of attention. China's MMA technology adopts the traditional acetone cyanohydrin method, which restricts the rapid development of the industry. The domestic import volume of MMA is increasing year by year. Using isobutylene as raw material, the development of new process technology for MMA production has broad application prospects.

In addition, China should strengthen the development of new high-end polyisobutylene (HRPIB) technology. Polyisobutylene produced by isobutylene is a colorless, odorless, non-toxic, viscous or semi-solid material, heat-resistant, oxygen-resistant, weather-resistant, acid-resistant and alkali-resistant, with good chemical properties, after lubricating oil additives and polymer materials. It has a wide range of applications in the fields of processing, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, and food additives.

The carbon four industry should accelerate the progress of catalyst technology and process technology and accelerate the pace of application of new technology industries. The exploration of new processes and new catalysts will also bring new business opportunities.

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