Start a Business of Methanol Making Plant
What is a Methanol?
Methanol, also known as methyl
alcohol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood
spirits, is a chemical with the formula CH3OH. Methanol acquired the
name "wood alcohol" because it was once produced chiefly as a
byproduct of the destructive distillation of
wood. Modern methanol is produced in a catalytic industrial process directly
from carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen.Methanol
is the simplest alcohol, and is a light, volatile, colorless, flammable liquid
with a distinctive odor very similar to that of ethanol.
What is a Methanol plant?
Methanol (CH3OH) is produced from synthesis gas, natural gas
or other hydrocarbons utilizing flexible PPE designed and fabricated
equipment.PPE has designed, fabricated and installed methanol plants utilizing
a variety of feedstocks including conventional sources such as natural gas and
syngas and non-conventional sources such as biowaste.PPE offers a range of equipment options to generate methanol designed
for your specific application. We can provide skid-mounted modular plants or
large-scale on-site plants.PPE offers a range of equipment options to generate
methanol designed for your specific application. We can provide skid-mounted
modular plants or large-scale on-site plants.
Process
of Methonal making plant?
The Uhde
low-pressure synthesis loop consists of a recycle compressor, feed/effluent
exchanger, methanol reactor, final cooler, and crude methanol separator. The
crude methanol, which is condensed downstream of the methanol reactor, is separated
from unreacted gas in the separator and routed via an expansion drum to the
crude methanol distillation. Water and minor quantities of by-products formed
in the synthesis are removed by an energy saving Uhde-designed three-column
distillation system.
Typical consumption
figures (feed plus fuel) range from 29 to 33 GJ per metric ton of methanol
produced. Waste heat from the syngas unit that fed this facility was being used in the Methanol Plant. Additional steam for
heating will need to be made available if the plant is not linked to a syngas
unit as before.Uhde claims that the simple addition of a pre-reactor will
increase this unit’s capacity by 20%.
Major Equipment used
Compressor: Built
in 1995. This centrifugal compressor operates with make-up gas (MUG) on
one side and recycle (REC) gas on the other side. It compresses
50,000 Nm3/hr of make-up gas from 19 bar at 44 °C to 44 bar at 117
°C. It compresses 285,000 Nm3/hr of recycle gas from 37 bar at
37 °C to 42 bar at 49 °C. It has a 4,000 kW electric drive motor.
Activated
Carbon Reactor: 2.2 m diameter and 9.4 m tall. Constructed of carbon
steel. Rated for 54 bar at 160 °C. Fixed bed with 5 m3 of
activated carbon and 19 m3 of Al2O catalyst type R 10/20.
Deoxo Reactor: 2.2 m diameter and 4.3 m tall. Constructed of carbon steel
with stainless steel lining. Rated for 54 bar at 230 °C. The deoxo
reactor uses BASF Puristar palladium-based catalyst type RO-20/47 (catalyst has
been removed and reclaimed).
Guard Bed
Reactor: 2.2 m diameter and 7.7 m tall. Constructed of carbon
steel. Rated for 54 bar at 250 °C. The guard bed reactor utilizes a
zinc oxide-based catalyst on top of 22 m3 of a BASF Puristar
copper-based catalyst type R3-15.
Methanol Reactor: 4.0 m diameter and 12.5 m tall.
Constructed of carbon steel shell with stainless steel tubes rated for 54 bar
at 270 °C. The tubes are packed with a copper-based BASF catalyst type S 3-86. The
temperature in the catalyst tubes is monitored at the top and bottom by 12
thermocouples. The tube side operates at 45 bar and 250 °C. The
shell side produces 36 – 43 bar steam.
Crude Methanol Storage Tank: 3.8 m diameter by 21 m tall. It
holds 250 m3 and is constructed of carbon steel. It is
rated for 0.5 bar and 70 °C.
Topping Column: 3.5 m diameter at the bottom and 1.2 m
diameter at the top. It is 33.5 m tall with 48 sieve trays. Both
the column and the trays are constructed of carbon steel. The column
operates at 3.5 bar and 130 °C.
Refining Column 1: 2.3 m diameter and 40.4 m tall with 73
sieve trays. Both the column and the trays are constructed of carbon
steel. The column operates at 6.5 bar and 250 °C.
Refining
Column 2: 3.0 m diameter and 39.5 m tall with 68 sieve trays.
Both the column and the trays are constructed of carbon steel. The column
operates at 0.25 bar and 110 °C.
Pure
Methanol Storage Tanks (2): 2.8 m diameter by 22 m
tall. They hold 129 m3 and are constructed of carbon
steel. They operate at 0.25 bar and 35 °C.
Market Analysis of Methonal Making plant
CROP plants sprayed with diluted methanol, or wood
alcohol, showed significantly greater yields while requiring less water than a
comparison group of plants, two researchers say.Methanol spraying, however,
does not boost the growthof all plants. Corn, sorghum and the weeds, Johnson
and Bermuda grass, were unaffected. In addition, because the methanol appears
effective only when sprayed under very bright light, winter crops and crops
grown in less sunny areas are unlikely to benefit.Normally when plants use sunlight
to make sugars during photosynthesis they use carbon dioxide as their source of
carbon. But in the early 1980's, Dr. Nonrandom and Dr. Benson
found that algae, when given methanol as a carbon source, could grow twice
as fast, producing twice as many carbon-containing molecules like sugar and
proteins.Market value of methanol making plant is very high.Its a
good obtains to start a business in methanol making plant.
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