Bio-methanol Manufacturing Using Farming Biogas By-Products

于二零二二年，一间传统厌氧消化（AD）沼气厂（JJ Power Ltd）及农业科技市场的其他行业代表与PuriFire Labs接洽，以设计及开发一种新的、更有效及具成本效益的方法，将二氧化碳排放物从AD沼气厂的AD厌氧消化原料中分离出来，作为制造生物基材料生物甲醇（绿色甲醇）的过程的一部分。 PuriFire将利用AD沼气厂试验场的副产品，创建一个具有成本效益的低碳循环生态系统，并升级产出以生产生物甲醇，为传统制造提供替代方案。其目的是通过整合其专有的碳捕获和利用（以去除二氧化碳原料）和水热气化（以产生氢气原料）技术来实现这一目标。 甲醇是一种透明的液体化学品，用于成千上万的日常产品，包括塑料，油漆，化妆品以及海洋，汽车和电力部门的燃料/能源。传统上，甲醇是由煤炭或天然气生产的，然而，随着对可持续性的兴趣越来越大，越来越多的项目正在利用可再生原料，如农业废物，污水，可再生电力和捕获的二氧化碳来生产绿色甲醇，可分为生物甲醇或电子甲醇。 绿色甲醇是一种清洁燃烧、可生物降解的燃料，使其成为车辆和船舶动力、烹饪食物和家庭供暖的有吸引力的替代燃料。 这种创新制造技术/工艺的设计在该项目的可行性和工业研究阶段受到影响，包括最终用户与沼气行业的接触以及其他最终用户，包括农业和海洋（下游市场）。这是为了确保关键利益相关者对设计思维、构建交付做出贡献，确保产品满足这些关键客户群体的要求。 这一方法将被嵌入到项目未来的实验性开发设计阶段，包括将设计和规格与市场和监管需求相匹配，并考虑农村社区和城市设施的潜在用户的经济问题，以确保价格点不排除目标市场。 该项目将展示如何将全球所有农业用地、厌氧消化沼气厂和碳捕获设施转化为生物甲醇生产设施。 根据我们的知识和研究，今天英国没有生物甲醇生产商。该项目将以PuriFire Labs为技术提供商，与上下游领先的行业合作伙伴合作，加速低碳生物甲醇的商业化。

In 2022, PuriFire Labs were approached by a traditional anaerobic digestion (AD) biogas plant (JJ Power Ltd), and other industry representatives from the agritech market to design and develop a new, more effective, highly cost-efficient approach to separating CO2 emissions from AD digestate feedstock at an AD biogas plant, this as part of the process to manufacture the bio-based material bio-methanol (green methanol). PuriFire will use by-products from an AD biogas plant trial site to create a cost-effective, low-carbon, circular ecosystem and upgrade the outputs to produce bio-methanol, providing an alternative to the traditional manufacture. The aim is to achieve this by integrating their proprietary carbon capture and utilisation (to remove the carbon dioxide feedstock) and hydrothermal gasification (to generate the hydrogen feedstock) technologies for catalytic upgrading. Methanol is a clear liquid chemical used in thousands of everyday products, including plastics, paints, cosmetics, and fuels/energy in marine, automotive, and electricity sectors. Methanol is traditionally produced from coal or natural gas, however, with increasing interest in sustainability, more projects are utilising renewable feedstocks such as agricultural waste, sewage, renewable electricity, and captured CO2 to produce green methanol, which can be classified as either bio-methanol or e-methanol. Green Methanol is a clean-burning, biodegradable fuel, making it an attractive alternative fuel for powering vehicles and ships, cooking food, and heating homes. The design of this innovative manufacturing technology/process was influenced in the feasibility and industrial research stages of this project, including end user engagement with the biogas industry and other end users including agriculture and marine (downstream market). This to ensure key stakeholders are contributing to the design thinking, delivery of the build, ensuring the product meets the requirements of these key customer groups. This approach will be embedded in the experimental development design phases of the project going forward, including matching design and specifications to market and regulatory needs, and looking at the economic issues of potential users based in rural communities as well as in urban facilities, to ensure price-point does not exclude target markets. This project will demonstrate how all agricultural sites, anaerobic digestion biogas plants and carbon capture facilities globally can be converted into bio-methanol manufacturing facilities. As per our knowledge and research, there are no producers of biomethanol in the UK today. The Project will accelerate the commercialisation of low-carbon bio-methanol with PuriFire Labs as the technology provider in collaboration with leading industry partners on the upstream and downstream sides.