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CARBON CAPTURE & UTILISATION
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The foundation stone for a first of its
kind CO -to-methanol pilot plant with
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a capacity of 1.4 tonnes per day (tpd) Bromine, HBr, CaBr , NaBr
was unveiled virtually by Dr. Abhay
Karandikar, Secretary, Department 2
of Science and Technology (DST),
Government of India, at Thermax Ltd.’s n-Propyl Bromide
premises in Pune, Maharashtra.

The unveiling was done in the Iso Propyl Bromide
presence of Dr. Anita Gupta, Adviser
and Head, Dr. Neelima Alam, Asso-
ciate Head, and other officers of the Phosphorus Tribromide
Climate, Energy and Sustainable
Technology (CEST) Division of DST.
This project, supported by DST, is
to be implemented in collaboration Phosphorus Oxybromide
between the Indian Institute of Techno-
logy, Delhi (IIT-D) and Thermax, un-
der a public-private partnership (PPP) Ethyl-2-Bromobutyrate
mode, with an overall project cost of
around Rs. 31-crore.

Methanol is a low-carbon hydrogen 1-Bromo,3-Chloropropane
carrier fuel produced from high
ash coal, agricultural residue, CO
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from thermal power plants and natural
gas. Although slightly lower in energy
content than petrol and diesel, metha-
nol can replace both these fuels in the
transport sector (road, rail and marine), on a policy for the introduction of 15% the feasibility and commercial viabi-
the energy sector (DG sets, boilers, methanol-blended diesel, which will lity of the CO -to-methanol conversion
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process heating modules, tractors, and help substantially reduce the import of process, demonstrating decarbonisation
commercial vehicles) and retail cook- crude oil. in the coal-based thermal sector, which
ing. It is also a key starting material for accounts for approximately 30% of
the chemical sector. Dr. Gupta informed that this con- emissions.
sortium project in PPP mode between
IIT-Delhi and Thermax will serve as She further stated that the findings
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