MOSCOW (MRC) -- Johnson Matthey announced an agreement to supply cutting-edge technologies, equipment and advisory services to the world’s first methanol plant to harness energy from the wind, the Haru Oni project in Patagonia, Chile, said the company.
The project is being developed by Siemens Energy in partnership with Johnson Matthey and several other major corporations, and it will become the first integrated and commercial large-scale plant to produce climate neutral e-methanol and e-gasoline.
Johnson Matthey will license methanol technology and supply the engineering, catalyst, and equipment for the project. The unit designed by Johnson Matthey will take atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) as feedstock for conversion to e-methanol. The CO2 used by the unit will be recovered by direct air capture and combined with green hydrogen, produced from water via proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysis.
In the initial pilot phase, the unit will be capable of producing about 900,000 liters/year of e-methanol as early as 2022, the company says. Its capacity will increase to about 55 million liters/year of e-fuels by 2024, and about 550 million liters of e-fuels by 2026, sufficient for about 220,000 gasoline vehicles at 50 liters' use per week, Johnson Matthey says.
As MRC informed earlier, Johnson Matthey (JM; London, U.K.) has secured a multiple licence win for China’s Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group’s latest project to develop five of the largest single-train methanol plants in the world. Located at Baofeng’s Ordos City complex in Inner Mongolia, PRC, the plants have a planned capacity of 5 x 7,200 metric tons (m.t.) per day, and mark the fourth project on which Baofeng has selected Johnson Matthey as its collaboration partner for methanol technology.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC"s ScanPlast report, Russia"s estimated PE consumption totalled 2,220,640 tonnes in 2020, up by 2% year on year. Only shipments of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) increased. At the same time, polypropylene (PP) shipments to the Russian market reached 1 240,000 tonnes in 2020 (calculated using the formula: production, minus exports, plus imports, excluding producers" inventories as of 1 January, 2020).
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