Heat‐Transfer Equipment

Methanol, besides becoming an important transportation fuel together with its derived product dimethyl ether (DME), is an essential starting material for the petrochemical and chemical industry. Most of the 70million tonnes of methanol consumed yearly are still used for the production of a large variety of diverse chemical products and materials, including basic chemicals such as formaldehyde, acetic acid, and methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE), as well as various polymers, paints, adhesives, construction materials, and others. With the development of new technologies to produce methanol most significantly via the chemical hydrogenative recycling of CO2 the commercial methanol-to-olefin process (MTO) processes will gain increased significance, allowing the production of light olefins from non-fossil-fuel sources and their subsequent conversion to synthetic hydrocarbons and their various products. With decreasing oil and gas reserves, it is inevitable that synthetic hydrocarbons will play a major role in the future.