The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has selected Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG) and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company (MGC) to conduct joint research on the effective recycling of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from the refinery at Tomakomai City, Hokkaido Japan.
To produce methanol from captured CO2, the companies will conduct research activities for CO2 Capture and Utilization (CCU), expected to run until February next year. The captured carbon dioxide will be combined with hydrogen obtained from water electrolysis within the existing CCS facilities or as refineries’ by-product.
The scope of the research includes conducting economic feasibility and its future outlook, basic engineering for optimizing plant configuration, and performance assessment of key components of the proposed facilities with relevant technology survey.
Supply chain expertise will be provided by MGC related to methanol production. The process technology for methanol production also provided by the company in cooperation with MHIENG. For a number of large-scale methanol plants, MHIENG will leverage its track record of EPC(Note). MHPS’ experience will be deployed with EPC for a variety of business.
