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Green Chemistry

C1 advances mild CO-to-methanol process

by Alex Scott
March 28, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 10

 

People in orange hoodies pose in front of a methanol pilot plant.
Credit: C1
C1 says its pilot plant operates at lower temperature and pressure than conventional methanol plants do.

The Berlin-based start-up C1 says it has completed a 20-day continuous test showing that its developmental homogeneous catalyst can convert 95% of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into methanol in a single pass. The process was run at mild conditions of 2,000 kPa and 120 °C and is five times as efficient as standard methanol production, C1 says. The firm says the efficiency matched predictions from quantum chemical simulations.

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