Methanol Synthesis¶

This dataset contains techno-economic data on methanol synthesis plants without reforming (from H₂ and CO₂).

Aggregated parameters¶

All data in this dataset can be aggregated via the NOSLAG workflow, which yields the following parameters:

ⓘvariable	CAPEX	Emissions|CO2	Input|Captured CO2	Input|Electricity	Input|Hydrogen	Lifetime	OCF	OPEX Fixed	OPEX Variable	Output Capacity|Methanol	Output|Heat	Output|Methanol
unit	EUR_2024	kg CO2	t	MWh	t_H2	year	dimensionless	EUR_2024/yr	EUR_2024	t_MeOH/year	MWh	t_MeOH
value	417.0	56.5	1.43	0.503	0.196	20.0	0.913	20.9	20.8	1.0	0.58	1.0

Raw data¶

The table below contains the raw data contained in this dataset. The raw data has not be normalised or harmonised in any way and should closely resemble the data as it is reported by the respective sources. You can also find this data in the GitHub repo in this file: posted/database/tedfs/Tech/Methanol Synthesis.csv

ⓘsource	source_detail	component	period	variable	reference_variable	value	uncertainty	unit	reference_value	reference_unit	comment
Perez-Fortes-2016	Table 3	#	2014	CAPEX	Output Capacity|Methanol	496.5		EUR_2014	1	t_MeOH/year
Nyari-2020	Table A4	#	2018	CAPEX	Output Capacity|Methanol	209.5		EUR_2018	1	t_MeOH/year	Calculated manually from: CAPEX = PEC * 6.32, (as stated in the paper) and 5kt/d plant.
Bos-2020	Table S8	#	2020	CAPEX	Output Capacity|Methanol	169		EUR_2020	1	t_MeOH/year	Calculated manually from: CAPEX = PEC * 6.32, (as stated in the paper) and 5kt/d plant. No cost basis cited, assumed to be year of publication.
Grahn-2022	Table 3	#	2025	CAPEX	Output Capacity|Methanol	700		EUR_2019	1	kW_MeOH_LHV
Grahn-2022	Table 3	#	2040	CAPEX	Output Capacity|Methanol	300		EUR_2019	1	kW_MeOH_LHV
Perez-Fortes-2016	Table 3	#	2014	OPEX Fixed	Output Capacity|Methanol	11		MEUR_2014/a	440	kt_MeOH/year
Nyari-2020	Table 5	Admin	2018	OPEX Fixed	Output Capacity|Methanol	0.94		EUR_2018/a	1	t_MeOH/year	Reported as OPEX Fixed relative (0.45%), manually converted to OPEX FIxed. Nyari misquotes the result from Collodi (2017). admin + overhead component = 30% * (direct_labour + om). Here we have only the 30% * om = 0.45% of TPC .
Nyari-2020	Table 5	Operation & Maintenance	2018	OPEX Fixed	Output Capacity|Methanol	3.14		EUR_2018/a	1	t_MeOH/year	Reported as OPEX Fixed relative (1.5%), manually converted to OPEX Fixed. Operation and maintenance. Percentage of the total plant cost (TPC)
Nyari-2020	Table 5	Tax	2018	OPEX Fixed	Output Capacity|Methanol	2.10		EUR_2018/a	1	t_MeOH/year	Reported as OPEX Fixed relative (1%), manually converted to OPEX Fixed. In fact, this comprises insurance + taxes. Percentage of the total plant cost (TPC)
Grahn-2022	Table 7	#	2025	OPEX Fixed Relative		4		percent
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