World’s largest plant for making methanol fuel from CO2 opens in China

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World’s largest plant for making methanol fuel from CO2 opens in China

The first commercial-scale plant for making methanol from carbon dioxide will save an estimated 500,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year compared with making methanol from coal

By Michael Le Page

4 November 2022

Shunli methanol plant — The Shunli plant in Anyang, China
Carbon Recycling International

The world’s is now up and running in China.

Methanol – a liquid also called wood alcohol – is used for the production of chemicals such as plastics and as a fuel. It is usually made from coal or natural gas, but making it from waste CO₂ will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“We estimate the emissions avoidance to be greater than 500,000 tonnes of CO₂ or equivalent per year,” says Ómar Freyr Sigurbjörnsson of Carbon Recycling International (CRI),…

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