CO₂ Sequestration Recycling Applications

APPLICATIONS:
Below are the application areas in which our technology can provide immediate impact. If your organization is currently doing work in any of these areas and you require a low cost method of producing methanol we should talk.

Flue Gas Carbon Recycling:
Flue gas emission from power plants are the largest source of man made  CO₂ contributing to global warming .  With our technology we are able to separate this CO₂ from the flue gas stream and convert it into valuable methanol to the tune of 260 gal of methanol per ton of CO₂.

Industrial Ethanol Production:
Ethanol is produced from the fermentation of sugars from crops such as corn and sugar cane in the presence of the yeast  Saccharomyces cerevisiae . For each bushel of corn, 2.73 gallons of ethanol is produced along with 17.3lbs of CO₂. For the most part the CO₂ is scrubbed out of the fermentation tank and release into the atmosphere.  This release is considered carbon neutral since the carbon being released was collected by the plant during its life.

The typical 40 MGPY ethanol plant releases 115,000 tonnes of fermentation tank CO₂ each year.  Enough CO₂ to produce 28,000,000 gallons of biomethanol using our technology. This can add an extra $0.20 per gal of ethanol produced or $8,000,000 directly to the bottomline. 

Further, a small biomethanol synthesis system processing 5,000 tonnes of CO₂ will produce enough methanol to be used as a denaturant, saving the ethanol plant almost $1,000,000 per year on gasoline.

Alternatively, methanol can be dehydrated over a catalyst to create a gaseous fuel call Dimethyl ether - a non-toxic replacement for natural gas in boilers.  In fact, 9,000,000 gallons of methanol will produce enough DME to replace all the natural gas required by a 40 MGPY ethanol plant for a potential savings of $13,000,000/yr depending on the cost of natural gas.

Boiler CO₂ from ethanol production is also a significant source of CO₂ emission. For every MMBTU of natural gas consumed to synthesize ethanol, approximately 117 lbs of CO₂ is produced.  In addition 36,000 BTU of energy is required to synthesize 1 gallon of ethanol.  Therefore a 40 MGPY ethanol plant would put out 76,473 MT of CO₂  and a 60 MGPY ethanol plant would produce 114,710 MT of CO₂ from its boiler each year. 

Transportation Refueling:
M85 is a GEM fuel that consists of 85% methanol and 15% gasoline. Methanol produce from exhaust gasses can be a source of displacing petroleum based fuels such as gasoline. Further since there are no major methanol refineries in North America the life cycle emissions of imported methanol is significantly higher that that produced locally using our technology.

Methanol Fuel Cell Regeneration:
Our technology is unique in that its both upward & downward scalable.  The technology can be optimized to produce millions of gallons of methanol per day or only a few drops.  Making it ideal as a technology that regenerates methanol for fuel cells and fuel cell chargers by recycling the byproduct  CO₂into methanol with the simple addition of water. The methanol regeneration process can be initiated manually or it can be automated.  What this means is that the cost of operating a fuel cell for off-grid power could potentially be on par or less than the costs of plugging into the electric grid.

At COORGA our motto is, "we don't make fuel cells, WE MAKE FUEL CELLS BETTER".

Dimethylether Production For Fleet Use:
DME is a gaseous fuel made from the dehydration of methanol. DME has similar physical properties as propane, but is less flammable and is non-toxic.  DME  has a high cetane number and is ideal as a replacement for diesel that would reduce emissions from fleets such as local transit buses as well as tractor trailer transports.

Gasoline and Higher Order Hydrocarbon Production:
Exxonmobil developed and commercially operated a synthetic gasoline refinery in the early '80s in which methanol was dehydrated over ZSM-5 catalyst to produce higher hydrocarbon fuels such as low sulphur gasoline, butane and propane. This commercial operation produced synthetic fuels for almost 20 years until the rise in the price of methanol made the practice uneconomical.