Methanol has many applications. And the supply of methanol is like any commodity on the world market. Though bio-methanol is not available on the market in a reliable way. So applications that should rely on a sustainable bio-methanol feed stream are at this stage not existing.
BPS has a basic design, ready to build, for a bio-methanol plant. We plan to create a capacity of 2.5 ton/hr bio-methanol. We will locate the plant at Chemelot in Geleen, The Netherlands. The plant is skid mounted and can be moved to any desirable location.
We call this the pre marketing phase of our project. As we are up to a high profit installation in future. This installation will have modifications downgrading the facility of the use of solid biomass, related to the high profit design. The result is a significantly reduced CAPEX.
As the design of the bio-methanol plant is an assembly of proven chemical technology, there is still for financing partners a remaining investment risk. The low CAPEX design uses the gasifier and the methanol synthesis as in the original design published in the business plan. But all utilities are taken from the Chemelot site and the feedstock will be biomass in the liquid phase, rather than solid type biomass. So only two trucks are at the site. One bringing in the liquid biomass and one taking out the bio-methanol.
Our request is to come in contact with potential users of bio-methanol. That will need a sustainable delivery of bio-methanol. Of course as the highly profitable unit is operational at due time early adaptors of the bio-methanol may ask for a rewarding scheme. Especially if their contribution now reduces the risk estimate of the financial partners.