Steel Guru: Construction Starts on Coal to Methanol Plant in Inner Mongolia


 
 
"Interfax-China reported that Inner Mongolia Yidong Coal Group Co Ltd., a large coal producer in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, started building a coal-to-methanol plant on May 11th (2009)."
 
Presuming you to have followed our dispatches, you'll know that methanol can be used directly as a liquid fuel for internal combustion engines; and, that it can, as in Exxon-Mobil's "MTG" process, with the help of available zeolite catalysts, be converted into gasoline.