Designing a new method to remove carbon dioxide as an environmental pollutant and produce methanol

Abstract

Carbon dioxide is one of the flue gases emitted from fossil fuels that are harmful to the environment and humans. Producing valuable methanol from syngas is a proper method to recover CO2 without requiring pretreatment. In this study, a new method is developed to produce methanol from flue gases emitted from fossil fuels. This process is simulated using Aspen Plus 8.0 software, and the results are compared with the data obtained by previous researches. Results confirmed the accuracy of the calculations and efficiency of the newly designed process. The purity of the produced methanol and the operational conditions are improved in this simulation.