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A groundbreaking experiment is expected to help The nation now has plans to industrialize its homegrown coal-to-petrochemicals technology after the success of a project using the world's first 10,000-ton DMTO (dimethyl ether/methanol-to-olefin) industrialization equipment. DMTO is a technology that uses coal or natural gas as a substitute for crude oil to produce olefin produces, such as ethylene and propylene. Sources said there is already a lot of interest in the technology from firms both in The experiment took place in Northwest China's Yuan Chunqing, acting governor of "The success of the DMTO industrialization experiment means we can explore a new way of developing the olefin industry and reduce oil imports, which is significant to our energy safety," Yuan said. The experiment began in February and received an investment of 86.1 million yuan (US$10.6 million) from the Shaanxi Xinxing Coal Chemical Industrial Co Ltd, a government-backed enterprise. "The success of the experiment lays a solid foundation on which to increase the equipment's annual production ability to the million-ton level," said Li Chunlin, an official with the Shaanxi Provincial Commission of Reform and Development. Li said an industrialization program processing 3 million tons of methanol per year would be carried out in Yulin in the northern part of the province. Preliminary work was already under way. "Our DMTO technology has a promising market and dozens of enterprises from home and abroad have contacted its owners to seek technology transfer," Li said. (
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