Union Minister Puri said India to set up coal-to-methanol plants

Guwahati: Work is underway to set up coal-to-methanol plants in the nation utilizing native innovation, Association Priest of Petrol and Flammable gas Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday.

BHEL (Hyderabad and Trichy), Thermax, and IIT Delhi are dealing with the task, the Association serve said while initiating the demo run of an Inland Water Vessel controlled by Methanol mixed Diesel (MD15) on the Brahmaputra here.

The low-carbon boat ride was finished on a 50-seater engine send off marine vessel named ‘SB Gangadhar’ by Puri and Association Priest of State for Petrol and Flammable gas Rameshwar Teli.
Methanol is a savvy elective marine fuel, more affordable than other marine energizes and is practical as far as creating shoreside stockpiling and bunkering foundation, Puri said.

Assam Petrochemical Restricted (APL), Namrup, right now creates around 100 TPD of Methanol and is executing another venture for the development of 500 TPD of Methanol, Puri said at the occasion, coordinated as a piece of the approach the India Energy Week 2023 (IEW 2023) to be held in Bengaluru from February 6 to 8 next.
NITI Aayog’s ‘Methanol Economy’ program is pointed toward lessening the nation’s oil import bill, ozone depleting substance (GHG) emanations, and changing over coal holds and metropolitan strong waste into methanol.

The expense to switch vessels over completely to run on methanol is essentially not exactly other elective fuel changes with no requirement for costly fumes gas after treatment and as a fluid fuel, just minor adjustments are required for existing stockpiling and bunkering framework to deal with methanol.

Mixing of 15% methanol in fuel can bring about basically a 15 percent decrease in the import of gas/unrefined petroleum.
What’s more, this would cut down GHG emanations by 20% as far as particulate matter, subsequently further developing the metropolitan air quality, he said.

Methanol is a low-carbon hydrogen transporter fuel delivered from high debris coal, rural buildup, CO2 from nuclear energy stations and flammable gas.
Albeit somewhat lower in energy content than petroleum and diesel, methanol can supplant both these fills in the vehicle area (street, rail and marine), the energy area (containing DG sets, boilers, process warming modules, farm trucks, and business vehicles) and retail cooking (supplanting LPG [partially], lamp oil and wood charcoal.

India Energy Week-2023 is the principal significant occasion under India’s G20 Administration, which follows Top state leader Narendra Modi’s vow at the worldwide environment culmination, COP26, to slice India’s discharges to net zero by 2070.