Mitsui, Celanese joint mission starts CO2-to-methanol production

Fairway Methanol, a U.S.-essentially based 50-50 joint mission (JV) between Japan’s Mitsui & Co. and U.S. Celanese Company, has begun the production of methanol by the utilization of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from vegetation surrounding the mission’s facility.

In accordance to Mitsui, Fairway Methanol is anticipated to clutch 180 thousand metric hundreds CO2 and set 130 thousand metric hundreds low-carbon methanol per twelve months, which leads its annual production ability to 1.63 million metric tons per twelve months.

This methanol production, the utilization of switch-derived CO2, is regarded as one of many carbon clutch and utilization (CCU) projects that Mitsui has undertaken.

The concept that at the abet of these projects considers CO2 as a resource that will also be reused as a raw fabric, thus realizing carbon recycling and helping to decrease CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, Mitsui acknowledged, along with that this mission provides the firm with one more low-carbon answer in its methanol industry portfolio, following the bio-methanol production at Fairway Methanol and the e-methanol production at Photo voltaic Park Kasso, Denmark.

To remind, Mitsui agreed to agreed to set a stake in European Energy’s photo voltaic park and e-methanol production facility Kasso in Denmark abet within the summer of 2023.

Kasso’s e-methanol is a low-carbon methanol produced by synthesizing green hydrogen made by feeding renewable-essentially based electrical energy into an electrolyzer and green carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from biomass sources, and its e-methanol industry produces up to 42,000 hundreds e-methanol yearly.