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Liquid Sunshine to Construct 75,000 MT/Year Bio-Methanol Plant in Guangxi
China-based green energy developer Guangdong Liquid Sunshine plans to build a 75,000 mt/year bio-methanol plant in Guangxi Province.
The facility will be located in Tiandong County and is expected to begin construction later this year, Johnson Matthey said in a statement on its website on Monday.
It marks the company’s first commercial-scale bio-methanol project and forms part of a broader push to scale up low-carbon fuel production.
Johnson Matthey has been selected as the technology partner and will provide methanol synthesis technology to convert gasified biomass into bio-methanol.
The project is also positioned to support early maritime decarbonisation efforts, with green methanol increasingly seen as a viable alternative marine fuel.
Bio-methanol is a cleaner alternative to grey methanol produced from fossil feedstocks such as natural gas or coal, as it is derived from biomass waste.
A potential second phase could further expand output by producing e-methanol using captured carbon dioxide and hydrogen, increasing low-carbon fuel capacity without additional biomass feedstock.
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