New Catalyst Turns CO2 Into Valuable Methanol With Unprecedented Efficiency

A new catalyst built from isolated indium atoms allows scientists to convert CO2 into methanol more efficiently while revealing the hidden chemistry that drives the reaction.
Nature

Methanol Production from Methane Using Methanotrophs

Methanol production from methane employing methanotrophs represents a rapidly evolving intersection of microbiology, chemical engineering and renewable energy research. This bioconversion approach ...
Nasdaq

KBR & Johnson Matthey Unite for Ammonia-Methanol Production

KBR, Inc. KBR has inked a deal with Johnson Matthey (JM) to license a groundbreaking ammonia-methanol co-production process. Notably, this co-production process will combine KBR's proprietary PURIFIER ...
New Atlas

Methane converted into methanol at room temperature – just add light

Scientists have developed an efficient new way to convert methane into methanol at room temperature. The technique could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide a cleaner way to make key ...
Business Wire

M2X and SCGC Partner to Reduce Methane Emissions, Streamline Production of Methanol from Stranded Gas

ROCKLEDGE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--M2X Energy, a startup company with process technology that converts stranded natural gas into low-carbon methanol, and SCG Chemicals (SCGC), a leading petrochemicals ...
pv magazine International

What must be done to use solar and wind in power-to-methanol

The application of renewable energy power generation technologies in power-to-methanol projects will become viable only if the chemical industry will make processes for methanol production more ...
C&EN

C1 advances mild CO-to-methanol process

The Berlin-based start-up C1 says it has completed a 20-day continuous test showing that its developmental homogeneous catalyst can convert 95% of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into methanol in a ...
Power Engineering

Large-scale commercial production of green fuels

The e-fuel economy takes another important step towards industrialization. Construction is about to start on Europe’s largest commercial plant to produce green methanol for marine purposes. Siemens ...

Methanol-tolerant microbial strain could make sustainable biomanufacturing more economically viable

A research team affiliated with UNIST has engineered a microbial strain capable of rapidly growing in high concentrations of ...
Business Facilities

St. James Parish Gets $2.2-Billion Methanol Complex

Gov. John Bel Edwards and South Louisiana Methanol CEO Paul Moore announced the company plans to pursue a $2.2 billion capital investment in a new methanol complex in St. James Parish. Preliminary ...
Duluth News Tribune

Green methanol: A carbon dioxide pipeline alternative?

BISMARCK — A company that wants to help ethanol producers harness their carbon dioxide emissions to produce an additional renewable fuel says its technology is a viable alternative to proposed carbon ...