Landfill Gas to Methanol

William H. Wisbrock

President, Biofuels of Missouri, Inc., St. Louis

CONTENTS

Landfills and Landfill Gas………………………………………………………………………………. 51

Methanol, Present, and Future………………………………………………………………………… 53

Landfill Gas to Methanol……………………………………………………………………………….. 54

Renewable Methanol……………………………………………………………………………………… 56

New Uses for Domestic Methanol…………………………………………………………………… 57

Abstract An explanation of how market forces, governmental mandates, and tax incentives have placed the use of landfill gas as an alternative energy source into a growing industry in the United States. Also included is a description of the opportunities and challenges that face this emerging domestic energy industry, along with a description of the Acrion Technology CO2 Wash process that cleans landfill gas, so that it can be utilized for the manufacture of methanol.