How Green is Why Methanol

Hydrogen from Methanol? as a precursor

Using renewable methanol, the resulting hydrogen is very green! The
carbon intensity for hydrogen generated from renewable methanol to Hydrogen?
(four different production pathways) is shown in the graph in comparison
to both the European Union and US standards for green hydrogen.

25.00
EU Sustainable Hydrogen, 3kg CO2e/kg H2
USA Clean Hydrogen, 2kg CO2e/kg H2
20.00

15.00
kg CO2e/kg H2

10.00

5.00

0.00

-5.00
Renewable Methanol
-10.00
from wind from from organic from from Hydrogen

power & municipal waste & forest biomethane natural gas by water
captured CO2 solid waste residue from animal (conventional electrolysis,
(e-methanol) manure & solid methanol) grid electricity
sewage waste

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 There is more hydrogen in a cubic The Synthetic Carbon Cycle
metre of methanol than there is in a Renewable feedstocks may be readily converted into methanol using
well-established, commercial processes, establishing a synthetic, or
cubic meter of liquid hydrogen! artificial, carbon cycle that mimics the carbon cycle essential to the
Compressed and liquified gases must be stored in cylinders or natural world.
spheres due to the high pressure
• Heavy steel or composite tanks
• Poor volumetric packing density 69g CO2 e/MJ methanol
removed from the environment

CO2 , CO, H2 Methanol

(Syngas) Synthesis

CH3OH

Methanol is liquid under all typical environmental conditions -

it is not stored under pressure. Therefore, lightweight steel or CO2 returned to the environment
Emissions of GHG:
plastic conformal tanks may be used to achieve high volumetric Primarily CO2 and CH4 CH4 emissions avoided
and gravimetric packing density. • CH4 is 28 x more potent than CO2

69g CO2/MJ methanol released upon generation of hydrogen

Methanol + Water Globally, more than 35 commercial-scale plants are producing renewable
methanol from a range of feedstocks including municipal solid waste,
Methanol biogas, and carbon dioxide waste streams.

Liquid H2 - No Tank Biogenic feedstocks contain methane in addition to carbon dioxide.

By converting these feedstocks to methanol, methane emissions are
H2 @ 35 Mpa + Tank avoided and the resulting carbon intensity is very low, even negative.
Carbon dioxide that is captured from industrial waste streams or directly
H2 @ 70 Mpa + Tank from the atmosphere may also be converted to methanol (so-called
e-methanol), also with a very low carbon intensity.
Ammonia - No Tank

Ammonia + Tank

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160

kg hydrogen/cubic meter