China olefin synthesis

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The second feedstock factor is the use of coal in China. The quantity is vast and the cost is low, both of these positive factors being offset by logistics (it is stranded coal) and concern about the quality of both the feedstock and the impact of the low quality on the environment. Oil has been the feedstock of choice for most of the world since WWII or earlier, except for a few countries, notably South Africa where political factors forced the development of an entire chemical industry based on coal. It has been remarkable to see the development of a chemical industry in China based on coal in perhaps just 10 or 15 years. Coal to olefins (CTO) is a realily there. Synthesis gas is produced from coal and then used to make methanol, which is then converted to olefins (ethylene or propylene). Coal to olefins is happening fast in China, it is happening widely (over three dozen projects are described), and it is likely to be as significant or more significant than the North American shale gas phenomenon. 

Dr. Baitao Li received her Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2003, under the supervision of Professor Fujimoto Kaoru her dissertation focused on the synthesis of oxygenates from middle olefin in heterogeneous systems. In the same year, she eommeneed post-doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Tomishige Keiichi at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, where she worked on syngas production from methane reformation. She currently is at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, in Guangzhou, China. She has published many papers in the Journal of Catalysis, Catalysis Today, Applied Catalysis, etc. Her research interests he in synthesis and applications of catalytic materials, and the evaluation of catalytic reaction mechanisms by computational chemistry. 

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