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News Release from: Davy Process Technology
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 January 2008
Methanol technology for 6260 tpd plant
in Wyoming
Medicine Bow Fuel and Power has selected Davy Process Technology and Johnson Matthey Catalysts to supply methanol technology for a 6260 short ton per day plant in Wyoming
The Medicine Bow Project is proposed to be a greenfield, mine-mouth, industrial gasification facility producing methanol and gasoline in Carbon County, Wyoming, USA The project will cover the supply of a methanol technology licence, and basic engineering design of the plant, which will use Carbon Basin coal via intermediate methanol to produce gasoline that meets critical energy needs in an environmentally responsible manner
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 5 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The advanced methanol synthesis technology that is to be used by the plant has been chosen from an extensive portfolio of syngas and methanol synthesis processes developed and marketed by Davy Process Technology and Johnson Matthey Catalysts (both part of the Process Technologies Business of Johnson Matthey) for use in gas and coal to chemicals plants.
Davy Process Technology has a global business in chemicals technology development and technology licensing.
The company has its headquarters in London and has a Technology Centre in Stockton-on-Tees, UK.
It owns a range of proprietary process technologies such as methanol, Fischer Tropsch, SNG, butanediol, detergent alcohols, Oxo alcohols, industrial amines and ethyl acetate.
As a supplier of both precious and base metal catalysts, Johnson Matthey Catalysts offers products for a diverse range of industries: from fuel cells and environmental catalysts to petrochemicals, edible oils and specialist oil and gas purification.
In addition Johnson Matthey also supplies a full range of catalysts for synthesis gas (syngas) and methanol and is able to custom manufacture Fischer-Tropsch catalysts.
Medicine Bow Fuel and Power is a wholly owned subsidiary of DKRW Advanced Fuels, a development-stage hydrocarbon conversion company focused on the commercial development, construction, ownership and operation of facilities designed to convert lower-value hydrocarbons into products that traditionally have been produced by crude oil.
By utilizing proven coal gasification and liquefaction technologies, they plan to convert more abundant resources, primarily solid hydrocarbons such as coal, into competitively priced products such as gasoline and diesel.
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