The advantages of liquid sunlight methanol continue to be highlighted, and the rapid development of the industry will be the general trend.

Methanol is an important chemical raw material that can be used to produce green fuels, hydrogen storage materials, basic chemical products and other fields. The development of methanol economy is a key way to accelerate the realization of my country’s dual-carbon goals and the sustainable development of energy. At present, there are five main categories of methanol preparation methods in China, namely, coal-to-methanol; coal gas or shale gas to prepare methanol; coal or gas as raw materials to prepare methanol through low-emission or zero-emission technology; biomass as raw material to prepare methanol; Carbon dioxide and water are used as raw materials to synthesize methanol through artificial photosynthesis. Among them, methanol synthesized through artificial photosynthesis is called liquid sunlight methanol, which is one of the emerging products in the methanol market.

Liquid sunlight methanol is a type of green and clean methanol energy. Its production principle refers to the process of producing green hydrogen through photolysis of water by sunlight, and then using the green hydrogen to convert carbon dioxide into methanol. Liquid sunshine methanol uses water and carbon dioxide as raw materials. The high-concentration carbon dioxide produced during the production of methanol can be collected and reused, realizing carbon recycling and achieving the goal of sustainable development of the methanol industry. At present, my country is the world’s largest carbon emitter. Domestic carbon dioxide emissions will exceed 10 billion tons in 2021. Against this background, the development of liquid sunlight methanol will be a key way to help accelerate the realization of domestic dual-carbon goals.

At the same time, as methanol is a green fuel, vigorously developing the liquid sunlight methanol industry is an important way to alleviate my country’s dependence on foreign oil and improve fuel self-sufficiency; at the same time, under the current background of the booming domestic photovoltaic and wind power industries, the development of liquid sunlight methanol economy has become a solution The key way to effectively connect and absorb huge amounts of photovoltaic and wind power. Overall, the advantages of liquid sunlight methanol are increasingly highlighted, and it will be a general trend to vigorously develop the liquid sunlight methanol economy in the future.

According to the “China Liquid Sunshine Methanol Industry Market Monitoring and Future Development Prospects Research Report 2022-2026” released by the Industrial Research Center At present, many domestic and foreign companies and institutions have laid out liquid sunlight methanol research and development tracks, such as the North-C-Methanol project of the Swiss Proman Company, the commercial green methanol plant project developed by CRI in cooperation with Statkraft and Finnfjord, and the Lanzhou New District Petrochemical Group The liquid solar fuel synthesis demonstration project developed in cooperation with the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Lanke High-tech liquid sunlight hydrogenation station demonstration project, etc.

Industry analysts people said that vigorously developing the liquid sunlight methanol economy is to solve the problem of light energy and wind energy consumption in my country and to improve the self-sufficiency rate of liquid fuel. , an important way to accelerate the realization of domestic dual-carbon goals, and the future development of the industry is promising. However, the domestic green sunshine methanol industry is still in the preliminary development stage, and it will still take time to start the commercialization process in the future. The main factors currently restricting the development of my country’s liquid sunlight methanol industry include the relatively low efficiency of converting green hydrogen into green hydrogen through light energy and the relatively high technical cost of carbon dioxide hydrogenation to synthesize methanol. There is still huge room for growth in the industry in the future.