Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** advanced energy materials LLC…

Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** advanced energy materials LLC proposes to demonstrate the production of methanol from biogas. Adem will study the feasibility of its catalyst and the process for conversion of biogas to syngas and further reforming of syngas to methanol. Ultimately, adem plans to demonstrate an economically viable modular process using the skid mounted unit to produce methanol at 3,000 - 5,000 ton/year (for phase II).at present biogas is just flared, frequently used in low value applications such as heating, and/or upgradation to natural gas which requires an expensive CO2 separation process. Biogas, a sustainable and renewable gaseous fuel (EPA, 2014), is suitable for direct conversion into syngas (H2 and CO) via reforming. CO2 removal from resulting syngas is not required and can be converted to methanol, which avoids cost related to gas purification. However, there are technical challenges such as: (I) the reforming catalysts (supported NI catalysts) are thermally unstable and are not resistant to coke formation which leads to their deactivation and metal sintering. (II) traditional conversion of syngas to methanol is expensive. In order to overcome these challenges, adem developed a straightforward, medium pressure thermocatalytic process for biogas conversion to syngas and an atmospheric pressure microwave plasma catalytic process for syngas conversion to methanol involving their in-house designed and produced catalyst materials. Preliminary data shows that adem's catalyst is highly promising with high coke resistance and high activity for 500 H of testing.