Tata Steel plans to set up a 10-tonnes-per-day pilot plant at its Kalinganagar facility in Odisha to produce methanol using blast furnace flue gases. The success of this pilot plant could pave the way for significant methanol production in India. The project aims to explore the possibility of combining carbon dioxide from steel mill blast furnaces with hydrogen from electrolysers to produce methanol. This will enable Tata Steel to test the feasibility of this process and potentially pave the way for a more sustainable approach to methanol production in the country.
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Atanu Mukherjee, the CEO of Dastur Energy, which specializes in carbon technologies, including carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), has expressed a very optimistic outlook on methanol’s future. Mukherjee believes that methanol will become the next big thing, much larger than bioethanol.
Dastur Energy has recently been awarded a $7.5 million (₹60 crore) contract from the US Department of Energy for a carbon capture project in Texas. The company is also involved in the Tata Steel pilot methanol plant, indicating its involvement in carbon capture and methanol production technologies.
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