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Home / Products & Industries / Catalysts / Syngas Catalysts / Methanol synthesis
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Methanol Synthesis - Increasing plant efficiency and lifetime productivity

Methanol is an important platform molecule for chemicals and energy. Not only is it a C1 building block for base chemicals (e.g. formaldehyde), but also a starting material for innovative processes like methanol to olefin (MTO) and methanol to propylene (MTP). Furthermore, methanol has clearly arrived in the energy sector, and plays an increasingly important role in fuel blending, ship fuel, methanol to gasoline (MTG), power to methanol (PTM), and other projects addressing the general need for higher sustainability.

Clariant has been developing, producing, and marketing highly active and selective catalysts for methanol production for well over 50 years, continuously improving catalyst performance to serve changing market needs.

We offer a complete range of methanol synthesis catalysts and technologies and support you with comprehensive technical services to ensure their optimal performance. Our customers benefit from higher lifetime productivity, lower by-product formation, and reduced feedstock and energy consumption.

Since the early 1970s, Air Liquide Engineering & Construction and Clariant Catalysts have been in a strategic collaboration, which has led to many innovations over the last 50 years. Our close partnership allows us to offer customers turnkey solutions for highly efficient methanol production.

Clariant’s portfolio of methanol process catalysts also include:

  • ActiSorb™ series adsorbents and HDMax™ catalystsfor feed purification
  • ReforMax™ series catalysts for pre-reforming, steam methane reforming and autothermal reforming

Our Portfolio

Methanol Synthesis

  • MegaMax 800
    MegaMax™ 800 is a state-of-the-art methanol synthesis catalyst that offers much higher activity than previous solutions – even at low reactor temperatures and pressures.
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  • MegaMax 900
    MegaMax™ 900 is Clariant’s latest generation of methanol synthesis catalysts.
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  • MegaZonE
    Clariant’s efforts to continuously improve methanol catalyst performance are not limited solely to catalyst formulation, but also focus on the overall process and how the catalysts can be optimally utilized in the complete reactor system.
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Green methanol: powering the sustainable energy transition

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Green methanol

Green methanol is rapidly emerging as a cornerstone solution in the global energy transition, offering a renewable and sustainable alternative to conventional fossil-based methanol. As a versatile liquid energy carrier, green methanol is projected to experience substantial growth over the next two decades, creating viable decarbonization pathways across multiple industries.


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Our ReforSafE services

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OUR EYE INSIDE YOUR FURNACE

Clariant Catalysts provides high-tech monitoring and catalyst solutions to help Syngas plants to perform at their full potential to be competitive. Our ReforSafETM is an advanced technical service solution for a comprehensive reformer survey and performance optimization.

 

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Learn more about our methanol and sorbent catalysts

Watch how our MegaMax catalysts increase methanol production

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Watch how our sorbents protect methanol synthesis catalysts

Clariant Video ActiSorb MegaGuard - Protecting methanol synthesis catalysts 2023 EN
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Read our latest articles and news

  • Articles and Publications
    Technical Article Supporting a clean fuels society Hydrocarbon Engineering November 2023.pdf
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  • Articles and Publications
    Article MegaZonE NitrogenSyngas 202109 EN
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  • Clariant & Air Liquide present MegaZonE™: Novel catalyst layering technology for enhanced methanol synthesis performance
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  • Clariant’s MegaMax® 800 catalyst achieved an outstanding performance at CNOOC’s Davy methanol plant in Hainan, China
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  • Clariant contributes to China's carbon neutrality goal with innovative MegaMax® catalyst for CO2-based methanol synthesis
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  • Clariant’s MegaMax® 800 catalyst set production record at Baofeng Energy’s methanol plant
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  • Clariant Catalysts powers Ineratec’s green fuel production technology
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  • Impressive start for Clariant’s MegaMax® 800 methanol synthesis catalyst in Yinchuan, China
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