The first solar fuel synthesis project was launched

The use of electrolytic hydrocarbon and CO2 hydrogenated methanol process
relying on the Chinese Academy of Sciences Dalian Chemical Institute Li Can academician team building Lanzhou New Area Petrochemical Industry Investment Co., Ltd. academician expert workstation last week officially landed in Lanzhou New Area, the first liquid solar fuel synthesis demonstration project in China also entered the start-up phase.
Lanzhou New Area liquid solar fuel synthetic carbon dioxide hydrosynthetic methanol technology development project, that is, solar energy and other renewable energy electrolytic water hydrogen and carbon dioxide hydrosynthetic methanol technology development project, by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Dalian Chemical Institute Li Can academician team to provide core technology - solar electrolytic water catalytic hydrogen process, Dalian Chemical Institute, Lanzhou New Area Petrochemical Industry Investment Co., Ltd., Suzhou Gaomei New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. It is reported that at present, Lanzhou New Area Petrochemical Group has completed the project site selection and site clearing work, identified the photovoltaic power generation plant construction program and scale, the implementation of water, electricity, gas and other infrastructure support, has the project construction conditions
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The project, with a total investment of about 80 million yuan, is proposed to build an annual output of 1000 tons of methanol plant, mainly composed of solar photovoltaic power generation, electrolytic hydrocarbon, carbon dioxide capture and carbon dioxide hydrosynthetic methanol four system units. The project, which will demand about 1,500 tons of carbon dioxide and 200 tons of hydrogen per year, is scheduled to be completed in August 2019. After the stable operation of the device, the scale of co2 hydrogenated methanol is expanded to 3000 tons/year according to performance appraisal and calibration.
The project is China's first demonstration project of solar fuel production, the project will be completed using renewable clean energy solar power generation to electrolyte hydro-hydrogen, hydrogen and carbon dioxide reaction synthetic methanol and other fuels and chemicals, to achieve carbon dioxide emission reduction and sustainable use of carbon resources. The project has the effect of light cooperation in the dark reaction, is an important way of solar liquid fuel, its process in the domestic current similar research the highest level of synthesis, is the first real sense of the domestic realization of the use of solar energy and other clean energy production of methanol project.
Lanzhou New Area Petrochemical Industry Investment Co. , Ltd. related to the person in charge told reporters that, as the first liquid solar fuel synthesis demonstration project in China, the project construction has no precedent to follow, in the process of project progress will inevitably appear a variety of problems, such as 10 MW photovoltaic power plant layout scale, photovoltaic power generation is not The effect of stability on hydrogen production equipment, catalyst dosing, catalyst activity and whether methanol synthesis device has special requirements, the purpose of the construction demonstration project is to find problems and shortcomings as soon as possible and solve them one by one, to obtain the world-leading experimental data, for China's future research on related aspects to lay the foundation.
, hydropower hydrolytic hydrogen is a more convenient way to produce hydrogen, but the conversion process requires a lot of energy, the cost is too high, can not be applied on a large scale. By using solar photovoltaic electric energy electrolyte water to extract hydrogen, we can realize the efficient use of renewable clean energy, and explore a reasonable way to consider environmental protection, economy and other factors.