Gas feedstock for 2500 tpd methanol plant

[JmanTexas]

What is the natural gas feedstock requirement for a 2,500 TPD Methanol Plant.

 

[MortenA]

Syn gas from methane:
CH4 + H2O → CO + 3 H2

MeOH from syngas:
CO + 2 H2 → CH3OH

This gives you that one mol of CH4 gives you one mol of MeOH

Mol weight CH4: 16
Mol weight CH3OH: 32

So Since 1 kg MeOh contains 1000/32=31.25 mol, 31.25*16=500 g CH4 and 2500 TPD then becomes 1250 TPD CH4

OK this is ideal so you may have to make some allowance for unwanted side reactions and other losses. I dont know what these can be but i believe the efficiency is very high.

Best regards

Morten

 

[TD2K]

Google is your friend

http://lurgi.com/website/fileadmin/...oshures_Flyer/englisch/0312e_MegaMethanol.pdf