Due to the basic national conditions that China is abundant in coal but short of oil, this technology will

become an
alternative to the traditional EO/EG process using oil as raw material in the foreseeable future.

The feasibility of the production of ethylene glycol through hydration of ethylene oxide which is
produced by the direct Direct Synthesis from SynGas. The raw material cost is by far the
leading factor in the cost of production of ethylene glycol and the major process decisions were
all geared toward maximizing selectivity to our desired products, and minimizing the total
amount of wasted ethylene
This process seams very feasible according to this preliminary economic analysis, but a
few further studies can be done to improve the profitability further. This process can be
optimized to reduce the overall amount of heating and cooling used in the process, which could
potentially save a few million dollars per year, but would probably require a small increase in the
capital investment. Also, the carbon dioxide stream exiting the CO2 stripper could be purified
and sold to offset the cost of production for another few million dollars savings per year.
The technology for synthesizing ethylene glycol from synthesis gas/industrial vent gas, instead of petroethylene, whose use of raw materials is a more scientific, more reasonable, and economically superior to the use of
petroleum.