Status and Development of Coal Basis Methanol in China

The development tendency of advanced coal chemical engineering and energy structure in China are analyzed in this paper. Spread and application of methanol fuel for substitute the gasoline (or part substitute) have an important role in adjustment energy structure, relaxation supply and demand contradiction of petroleum. The coal basis methanol technology is mature and low cost. At the same time, the methanol automobile technology had been developed at matured level. Status and development of methanol market in domestic and abroad is analyzed. The result is indicated that, the chemicals are fast in China however the demand is not large. But the methanol fuel market is very large. At present, supply and demand of methanol is balance. However, a large part of production plants are small scale and it cannot form the scale benefit. Therefore, product competition ability is lower with abroad product. A task of top priority is that, to develop the large-scale methanol production plant with an obvious economic benefit is necessary.