<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper presents energy technology installations for combined production of methanol and electricity for distributed generation. The technical and economic study is based on mathematical modeling using a system of computer-aided construction of programs and optimization with the models. The results of the effect of fuel composition on methanol and electricity production are presented. The competitiveness of the obtained methanol is assessed. The studies were carried out for various electricity and coal costs. The thermal efficiency of such installations is more than 60 %. At present methanol produced at energy technology installations is competitive with expensive diesel fuel delivered from other areas.</p></abstract>

The paper presents energy technology installations for combined production of methanol and electricity for distributed generation. The technical and economic study is based on mathematical modeling using a system of computer-aided construction of programs and optimization with the models. The results of the effect of fuel composition on methanol and electricity production are presented. The competitiveness of the obtained methanol is assessed. The studies were carried out for various electricity and coal costs. The thermal efficiency of such installations is more than 60 %. At present methanol produced at energy technology installations is competitive with expensive diesel fuel delivered from other areas.

Clean Coal Technologies for Electricity and Synthetic Liquid Fuel Production for Distributed Generation

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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The paper presents energy technology installations for combined production of methanol and electricity for distributed generation. The technical and economic...

Clean Coal Technologies for Electricity and Synthetic Liquid Fuel Production for Distributed Generation

Published Online: Sep 23, 2020

Page range: 124 - 135

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2020-0060

Keywords
Coal, co-production, methanol, modeling, synthetic fuel

© 2020 Elina Tyurina et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Clean Coal Technologies for Electricity and Synthetic Liquid Fuel Production for Distributed Generation

Published Online: Sep 23, 2020

Page range: 124 - 135

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2020-0060

KeywordsCoal, co-production, methanol, modeling, synthetic fuel

© 2020 Elina Tyurina et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Coal, co-production, methanol, modeling, synthetic fuel