Bio-methanol Manufacturing Using Farming Biogas By-Products

2022年，一家传统的厌氧消化（AD）沼气厂（JJ Power Ltd）和农业技术市场的其他行业代表与PuriFire Labs接洽，设计和开发一种新的、更有效的、高成本效益的方法，从AD沼气厂的AD消化原料中分离二氧化碳排放，这是制造生物基材料生物甲醇（绿色甲醇）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、低碳、循环的生态系统，并将产量升级为生产生物甲醇，为传统生产提供一种替代方案。其目标是通过整合其专有的碳捕获和利用（去除二氧化碳原料）和水热气化（产生氢原料）技术来实现催化升级。甲醇是一种透明的液体化学品，用于成千上万的日常用品，包括塑料，油漆，化妆品以及船舶，汽车和电力部门的燃料/能源。甲醇传统上是由煤或天然气生产的，然而，随着人们对可持续性的兴趣日益浓厚，越来越多的项目利用可再生原料，如农业废弃物、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。甲醇是一种清洁燃烧、可生物降解的燃料，是一种有吸引力的替代燃料，可用于为车辆和船舶提供动力、烹饪食品和家庭供暖。这项创新制造技术/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和其他最终用户（包括农业和海洋（下游市场））的接触。这是为了确保关键的利益相关者对设计思想、构建的交付做出贡献，确保产品满足这些关键客户群体的需求。这种方法将嵌入到项目未来的实验开发设计阶段，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的农业场所、厌氧消化沼气工厂和碳捕集设施转化为生物甲醇制造设施。根据我们的知识和研究，目前英国没有生物乙醇的生产商。该项目将加速低碳生物甲醇的商业化，由PuriFire实验室作为技术供应商，与上游和下游的领先行业合作伙伴合作。

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.