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Methanol is used as fuel and also in the manufacture of polymers, paints and glues.<\/p>\n

But it has a pretty heavy environmental footprint.<\/p>\n

Now an Edmonton company, Quantiam Technologies, is developing a clean  way to make methanol from captured carbon dioxide and hydrogen.<\/p>\n

As Dr. Peter Unwin explains,  this project is one of 24 supported by the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation’s Grand Challenge.<\/p>\n

DR PETER UNWIN:<\/span> Conventionally, methanol is produce in large plants from natural gas.  And the natural gas is first turned into a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide which is called SYNGAS.  And then this SYNGAS is converted into methanol at high pressures and it produces about ¾ of a tonne carbon dioxide emissions for every tonne of methanol that you make.  So we’re developing here at Quantiam a catalytic technology which will produce methanol from carbon dioxide captured from the air or industrial smokestacks and from renewable hydrogen which will be produced by splitting water using sunlight. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to Dr. Peter Unwin, University of Alberta solar expert Dr. Jillian Buriak is working on the new hydrogen catalyst technology.

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