China Made Breakthrough in CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol

发布日期:2017/06/06  来源:中国气协  本站有 人浏览

Chinese Academy of Sciences released recently that Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Huayi (Group) Company cooperated to perform the research and development of the industry technology, CO2 hydrogenation to methanol, in recent two years. Based on completion of the single-tube tests of continuous operation for nearly 1,200 hours, the research and development team and the design departments completed the 100,000~300,000 tons/year CO2-methanol technology package recently. At present, 10 national invention patents were applied as for this technology, and the catalyst performances and the single-tube test results exceed the current public reporting level.
Renewable energy power generation and CO2-methanol conversion may be utilized to produce low-carbon transport fuels, and this is an effective solution. This technology may be used to collect carbon and process methanol by hydrogen oxygen synthesis, and combustion of methanol produces carbon,oxygen and hydrogen, so that a cycle may be formed to continuously generate green clean energy. 
CO2-methanol may bring about three major industry values:
1) Hydrogen and syngas may be recycled during the industrial production processes, which react with CO2 to produce methanol, thus, the product values may be increased and carbon emissions may be reduced.
2) The utilization rate of a power plant may be improved, and the excess electricity from mismatching between supply and demand, may be utilized for electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen, and then hydrogen and CO2 are synthesized into methanol, thus, the peak-valley may be balanced, the utilization ratio of the plant may be improved, and the carbon emissions may be reduced.
3) The renewable energy powered hydrogen production let CO2 be converted into methanol to form low-carbon transport fuels without carbon emissions.
CO2-methanol may realize the recycling of hydrogen and carbon, and it may be linked with the new energy electrolytic hydrogen production and the chlorine industry to realize the storage of hydrogen resources.