Haldor Topsoe to Build a Methanol Plant Making Biogas Upgrading Cost Effective
Haldor Topsoe will build a 10 kilogram per hour methanol plant to demonstrate the company’s electrified and extremely compact eSMR Methanol technology for cost-competitive production of sustainable methanol from biogas.
The eSMR Methanol technology exploits the full carbon potential of biogas by utilizing the 40 percent CO2content which is routinely separated and vented today. The technology heats the process using green electricity from wind turbines or solar panels instead of natural gas.
The demonstration plant will be located at Aarhus University’s research facility in Foulum, Denmark, and receives funding from EUDP – Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program.
By Haldor Topsoe, Biomass Magazine