Comprehensive Methanol Science

Comprehensive Methanol Science: Production, Applications, and Emerging Technologies, Four Volume Set covers different aspects of the methanol industry including its production from fossil fuels, CO₂, and renewable sources to its applications as a clean-burning fuel and fuel additive, an energy carrier, and a chemical intermediate. Methanol is a key building block in the production of various chemicals and is regarded as one of the most promising potential energy sources. It can be used not only as a fuel and fuel additive in combustion-based vehicles, but it also is a promising energy carrier in fuel cells and can be synthesized from several feedstock, including natural gases, coal, oven gas, biomass, and CO₂. Best of all, when methanol is produced from waste or captured CO₂, it is a net carbon-neutral fuel and can aid in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fighting climate change.

This all-encompassing reference will provide readers with detailed insights into the production and applications of methanol. Economic assessment and environmental opportunities and challenges will be covered. Comprehensive Methanol Science: Production, Applications, and Emerging Technologies serves as an excellent resource for students and professors in chemical engineering, methanol engineers and researchers, and energy sector research and development companies.

• Comprehensively discusses all aspects of methanol from production to transportation and utilization from scientific, industrial, environmental, and economic viewpoints
• Covers all common industrial processes to produce methanol in one place with economic assessment and environmental challenges
• Describes novel and green methods for producing methanol with higher efficiency and lower environmental side effects accompanied with economic analysis
• Reviews all possible products obtained from methanol, particularly methanol conversion to energy
• Includes the details and concepts of as-presented patents regarding methanol production and conversion[W(1] [C(2]
• Maximizes research efficiency by collating the most important and established information into one concise resource with consistently formatted chapters