Published by Todd Bush on November 10, 2022
ANYANG, China and REYKJAVÍK, Iceland, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's first commercial scale CO2-to-methanol plant has started production in Anyang, Henan Province, China. The cutting-edge facility is the first of its type in the world to produce methanol — a valuable fuel and chemical feedstock — at this scale from captured waste carbon dioxide and hydrogen gases.
The Shunli CO2-to-Methanol plant in Anyang, China. CRI’s 84-tonne ETL reactor (left) and approximately 70-meter-tall distillation column (right)
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The Shunli CO2-to-Methanol plant in Anyang, China. CRI's 84-tonne ETL reactor (left) and approximately 70-meter-tall distillation column (right)
The plant's production process is based on the Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL) technology developed by Carbon Recycling International (CRI) and first demonstrated in Iceland. The new facility can capture 160,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, which is equivalent to taking more than 60,000 cars off the road. The captured carbon dioxide is then reacted with the recovered hydrogen in CRI's proprietary ETL reactor system with the capacity to produce 110,000 tonnes of methanol per year. The successful start-up marks the end of a two-year project and months-long commissioning phase. Following sign-off by the CRI's technical service team, the plant operations are now in the hands of Shunli, the project company (majority-owned by the Henan Shuncheng Group).
This flagship plant represents an important milestone in the ongoing development of carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technology as well as the progression in industry towards a circular carbon economy. The ETL process uses emissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, producing liquid methanol — from carbon dioxide that is recovered from existing lime production emissions and hydrogen that is recovered from coke-oven gas. Methanol production and use has grown rapidly in China in recent years and this new production method offers an alternative to the traditional coal-based methanol currently manufactured in China, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality.
Björk Kristjánsdóttir, CEO of CRI, emphasizes the importance of the plant's start-up, "We are proud to have successfully realized this important project and to bring our environmentally friendly, ETL technology into the global market. We take great pleasure in being able to offer our proven technical solution to produce a valuable product directly from CO2 emissions. This technology can support large scale reduction of carbon emissions and help facilitate the energy transition." CRI's second project in China was announced last year and is already well on its way. It is expected to come online in the second half of 2023.
For further information about Carbon Recycling International, visit: www.carbonrecycling.is
SOURCE Carbon Recycling International
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