What Could a Methanol Plant Look Like

The way of reasoning required to arrive at an optimum plant concept under the given circumstances may best be impressed upon the reader by presenting and discussing a complete metlianol plant producing SOOOtpd of methanol from Dakota lignite. 

For this purpose, the following aspects are of prime importance  

If the LURGI Low-Pressure Methanol Process discussed in this paper is replaced by another methanol process, the pros and cons of the individual process steps may of course be different 

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What Could a Methanol Plant Look Like ... 

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