Turning CO₂ into methanol: Multilayer machine learning speeds up search for better catalysts

Finding high-performing catalysts, which are used to accelerate processes from chemical manufacturing to energy production, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Science Daily

Scientists turn CO2 into fuel using breakthrough single-atom catalyst

Researchers have created a cutting-edge catalyst that turns CO2 into methanol more efficiently than ever before. Instead of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Science Daily

Methanol synthesis: Insights into the structure of an enigmatic catalyst

To render the production process more efficient, it would be helpful to know more about the copper/zinc oxide/aluminium oxide catalyst deployed in methanol production. To date, however, it hasn't been ...
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 ...
EurekAlert!

Thousand-ton scale demonstration of solar fuel synthesis starts operation in Lanzhou, China

The methanol produced by such type of PV-E-C (photovoltaic-electrolyzer-catalysis) process is a true kind of "green methanol." Unlike the methanol production from coal or natural gas which emits CO2, ...
New Orleans City Business

Top Construction Projects: 3. Yuhuang Chemical methanol plant

The Yuhuang Chemical Methanol Plant in St. James Parish begins to take shape, with an expected completion date of the end of 2020. Photo courtesy Yuhuang Chemical Inc. Project description: A world ...