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Production of renewable methanol does not depend on agricultural resources, as hydrogen and carbon dioxide are the primary inputs. CRI's emissions-to-liquids production process is based on three main modules, carbon dioxide purification, hydrogen generation and the methanol synthesis and purification
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which has the same energy density and oxygen content as E85 gasoline. CRI has run fleet tests with a range of lower blends and higher blend options in cars from different manufacturers, including 100% methanol in special flexible fuel vehicles manufactured by Geely. Renewable methanol is compatible
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or, alternatively, hydrogen captured from industrial waste gases. The technology is trademarked by CRI as
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305:, China. The plant recycles approximately 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide and 20,000 tons of hydrogen from waste streams at the nearby petrochemical complex, producing 100,000 tons of low-carbon methanol annually. This methanol produced at this facility is used to manufacture
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followed by the catalytic step. Unlike some other power-to-fuel technologies, which use carbon dioxide and hydrogen as inputs, CRI's emissions-to-liquids process also does not require the carbon dioxide to be 'shifted' prior to the synthesis step.
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recognizes renewable methanol as a renewable transport fuel from non-biological sources, which means that it can be used as an advanced renewable transport fuel under the EU's renewable fuel blending mandates.
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and began production in early May 2019. The system successfully demonstrated the technology’s ability to operate with intermittent and fluctuating renewable energy supply as well as heterogeneous CO
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research programme funded MefCO2 consortium to build a renewable methanol demonstration plant in
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was a technology development project that ran from 2014-2019. The project demonstrated the application of CRI’s ETL technology, which produced methanol from CO
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