Nature

Methanol Production from Methane Using Methanotrophs

Methanol production from methane employing methanotrophs represents a rapidly evolving intersection of microbiology, chemical engineering and renewable energy research. This bioconversion approach ...
New Atlas

Methane converted into methanol at room temperature – just add light

Scientists have developed an efficient new way to convert methane into methanol at room temperature. The technique could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide a cleaner way to make key ...

New Catalyst Turns CO2 Into Valuable Methanol With Unprecedented Efficiency

A new catalyst built from isolated indium atoms allows scientists to convert CO2 into methanol more efficiently while revealing the hidden chemistry that drives the reaction.
Science Daily

Breakthrough process for directly converting methane to methanol

The direct oxidation of methane -- found in natural gas -- into methanol at low temperatures has long been a holy grail. Now, researchers have found a breakthrough way to accomplish the feat using a ...

Methanol-tolerant microbial strain could make sustainable biomanufacturing more economically viable

A research team affiliated with UNIST has engineered a microbial strain capable of rapidly growing in high concentrations of ...
Business Wire

M2X and SCGC Partner to Reduce Methane Emissions, Streamline Production of Methanol from Stranded Gas

ROCKLEDGE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--M2X Energy, a startup company with process technology that converts stranded natural gas into low-carbon methanol, and SCG Chemicals (SCGC), a leading petrochemicals ...
C&EN

C1 advances mild CO-to-methanol process

The Berlin-based start-up C1 says it has completed a 20-day continuous test showing that its developmental homogeneous catalyst can convert 95% of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into methanol in a ...
The Advocate

$1.2 billion methanol plant to be built in Braithwaite

A $1.2 billion methanol manufacturing plant will be built in northern Plaquemines Parish, one of several such facilities to locate in southeastern Louisiana in recent years. Castleton Commodities ...
The Columbian

Kalama methanol backers weigh options

Northwest Innovation Works hopes to build a methanol plant at the downstream end of the Port of Kalama. Daily News files LONGVIEW — Methanol proponents say they’re committed to seeing the $1.8 billion ...
Business Wire

Modular Plant Solutions Named Exclusive Modularization Provider for Arbor Renewable Gas, Partnering to Create the World’s First Industrial Scale Green Gasoline Plant

Company’s Methanol-To-Go® Plant Will Be Instrumental in Waste Wood Biomass to Methanol to Renewable Gasoline Production HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Modular Plant Solutions (MPS), a global engineering ...
tdn

Kalama methanol backers weigh options

Methanol proponents say they’re committed to seeing the $1.8 billion plant through in spite of a state board’s reversal on Friday of two major permits needed for the project. While the Port of Kalama ...