Methanol

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MAN @ 40th Annual World Methanol Conference, Barcelona 15-17.11.2022

wiki/MAN_Energy_Solutions

 

IMO Symposium on alternative low- and zero-carbon fuels for shipping, London, 21.10.2022 (7h Video)

 

2022/11/24 Methanol as an alternative fuel for container vessels

 

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2022/12/20 Blue World Technologies starts series production of methanol fuel cells

2022/12/20 Ørsted takes over Europe’s largest e-methanol project

2022/12/20 Ørsted takes final investment decision on FlagshipONE project

Ørsted hat mehrere Methanol Projekte, Hauptabnehmer ist Maersk (Orsted is part of a wider push by Maersk to source at least 730,000 tonnes of green methanol per year by end of 2025).

"FlagshipONE" in Örnsköldsvik, Schweden, 70 MW, 50.000 Tonnen Methanol pro Jahr, Production ab 2025

      (bis 2030 sollen 10 Flagships entstehen)

"Project Star" an der US Golfküste, 675 MW, 300.000 Tonnen

"Green Fuels for Denmark" in Kopenhagen, 1300 MW

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2022/12/28 Iberdrola to invest more than €1.1B to build a green hydrogen and methanol plant in Australia; Bell Bay Powerfuels .. 100 MW .. at Bell Bay in northern Tasmania (Australia) .. circa 200,000 tonnes per year in the first phase of development, rising to 300,000 tonnes in its second phase. First production is scheduled for 2025.

 

2022/12/26 NTPC and Tecnimont sign MOU to explore possibility to develop Green Methanol Production .. Green Methanol Production facility at NTPC project in India .. capturing carbon from NTPC power plants and converting it into a green fuel

 

2022/12/28 Green Seas: How Vale’s methanol-fuelled bulker giants could slash emissions by 90%

 

2022/12/26 Wärtsilä Hybrid Propulsion System With Methanol Engine To Power Four Future-Proof Heavy Lift Vessels

 

2022/12/26 RIX’ M2H2 reformers produce hydrogen-on-demand for new towboat .. for use on Hydrogen One, the world’s first methanol/hydrogen fuel cell-powered towboat (mit PEM Zellen von PowerCell)

 

Power generation from flat-tube solid oxide fuel cells by direct internal dry reforming of methanol: a route for simultaneous utilization of CO2 and biofuels, 2022/12

 

Renewable methanol production from green hydrogen and captured CO2: A techno-economic assessment, 2023/02 .. pre-feasibility study of a power-to-fuel plant configuration designed for the production of 500 kg/h of renewable methanol .. a levelized cost of methanol (LCoM) of 960 €/t (about 175 €/MWh)

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Billigere und weniger energieintensive CO2 Extraktion und damit auch billigeres grünes Methanol.

Bei 50$ CO2-Steuergutschrift (45Q tax credit) bekommt man das CO2 für das Methanol umsonst. Ein neues Syntheseverfahren benötigt kein gereinigtes CO2.

2023/01/23 Scientists unveil least costly carbon capture system to date

.. PNNL researchers recently developed a capture solvent that breaks the long-standing $50/tonne CO2 cost barrier. This critical target brings the $50/tonne 45Q tax credit within reach for fossil power plants pursuing near-zero emissions targets .. it may be several years before it is ready for commercial deployment .. Commercial systems soak up carbon from flue gas at roughly $46 per metric ton of CO2, according to a DOE analysis .. that figure has now dropped to just below $39 per metric ton of CO2 .. The new system is the first to create methanol from "dirty" CO2.

 

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, pnnl.gov/carbon-capture

Energy-effective and low-cost carbon capture from point-sources enabled by water-lean solvents, Journal of Cleaner Production 2023

≤ $40/tonne CO2 Point-Source Carbon Capture with Three Water-Lean CO2BOL Solvents, GHGT-16 Proceedings 2022/12

.. PNNL’s current leading CO2 BOL derivative, EEMPA is a promising post-combustion carbon capture because of its low energy- and cost-penalty (19% cheaper than NETL’s baseline technology) .. In this study, we introduce a lower viscosity diamine analogue of EEMPA (Figure 1a), N-(2-ethoxyethyl)-3-morpholinopropan-1-amine (EEDIDA, Figure 1b), and an aminopyridine (3-methoxy-N-(pyridin-2-ylmethyl)propan-1-amine, (MPMPA, Figure 1c), and assess their performance for post-combustion CO2 capture.

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Da kann man auch gleich Methanol tanken. Eine Besonderheit ist nur die extreme Reinheit des Wasserstoffs wie sie für manche PEM Zellen notwendig ist. Jede Methanoltankstelle könnte so aber auch Wasserstoff abgeben.

2023/02/25 China’s first integrated methanol-to-hydrogen and hydrogen refueling service station now in operation

.. can produce 1,000 kilograms of hydrogen a day, with a purity of 99.999% .. The storage and transportation cost of methanol is also much lower than hydrogen, making methanol-to-hydrogen an attractive hydrogen production technology.

 

2023/02/22 Geely-Backed Low-Carbon Methanol Plant Put into Operation .. The plant uses an emissions-to-liquids (ETL) technology from Icelandic company Carbon Recycling International (CRI).

 

2023/02/23 Mexican building materials company Cemex has signed an agreement with green fuel producer ETFuels, to transform carbon emissions from Cemex’s Alicante cement plant in Spain into green methanol.

 

2023/02/27 Kickoff of hydrogen and methanol fuel cell production by SFC Energy AG and FC TecNrgy Pvt Ltd. during the meeting of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Prime Minister Narendra Modi

 

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2023/03/01 Methanol boxship orders growing more rapidly than all other fuel types

.. MAN Energy Solutions, one of the key engine suppliers for this type of propulsion, said earlier this month that the interest in methanol as a fuel has surged and represents more than 30% of all its current, open pipeline projects across a broad range of vessel segments.

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Bei der Ethanolproduktion fallen große Mengen CO2 an

2023/03/26 Is green methanol an alternative to CO2 pipelines? .. Several Iowa farmers are optimistic CapCO2 could ‘solve the pipeline issue’ .. Some renewable fuels advocates say carbon dioxide pipelines are the only way to save Iowa’s ethanol industry, but Jeff Reints doesn’t buy it.

 

CapCO2 Solutions accelerates the biogenic CO2 economy with 3 complementary innovations

.. Carbon Capture as a service

.. Biogenic CO2 Digital marketplace

.. Consortium builder.

 

Die Technologie kommt von Real Carbon Tech .. we achieve 100% process efficiency in a single cycle with a much smaller reactor. Our sea container does the job of convetional chemical plants.

 

2023/03/09 First Order for G80 Dual-Fuel Methanol Engine (MAN)

 

Z.Z. gibt es 80 Projekte für grünes Methanol mit 10 Mrd Liter Jahreskapazität bis 2027.

Davon 18 Projekte in China, 11 in Dänemark.

methanol.org/renewable

 

 

 

2023/03/07 Equinor aims to restart Europe's largest methanol plant at Tjeldbergodden in about four weeks

wiki/Tjeldbergodden

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Eine Methanol-Produktion bei Raumtemperatur würde Energie sparen.

Room-Temperature CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol over Air-Stable hcp-PdMo Intermetallic Catalyst, JACS 2023/03

Zitat

ABSTRACT: CO2 hydrogenation to methanol is one of the most promising routes to CO2 utilization. However, difficulty in CO2
activation at low temperature, catalyst stability, catalyst preparation, and product separation are obstacles to the realization of a
practical hydrogenation process under mild conditions. Here, we report a PdMo intermetallic catalyst for low-temperature CO2
hydrogenation. This catalyst can be synthesized by the facile ammonolysis of an oxide precursor and exhibits excellent stability in air
and the reaction atmosphere and significantly enhances the catalytic activity for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol and CO compared
with a Pd catalyst. A turnover frequency of 0.15 h−1 was achieved for methanol synthesis at 0.9 MPa and 25 °C, which is comparable
to or higher than that of the state-of-the-art heterogeneous catalysts under higher-pressure conditions (4−5 MPa).

 

Enzyme-inspired catalyst helps to convert methane into methanol, nature 2023/04

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2023/03/27 Greener maritime power will be cheaper than fossil fuel by 2025

.. In 2025, following the introduction of emissions reduction, the cost of low-sulphur fuel is set at €130/MWh, while LNG is €92/MWh and methanol is €244/MWh. However, with the inclusion of methane slip and other methane emissions from the production and fuel transport process, the picture is substantially altered. .. On that basis, methanol looks cheaper by comparison in all years.”

 

23/03/15 NABU Methanol Studie Zusammenfassung, pdf

.. The study concludes that methanol as a marine fuel and energy carrier bears low environmental risks compared to other potential fuels.

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2023/04/20 Methanol as fuel heads for the mainstream in shipping

 

2023/04/20 LEGO, Novo Nordisk agree to buy green methanol for plastic production .. world's first large-scale plant starts operations next year .. European Energy, which is developing the plant in Aabenraa, Denmark .. The plant will begin producing 32,000 tonnes of e-methanol.

2023/03/27 European Energy orders electrolyzer from Stiesdal

stiesdal.com .. hydrogenelectrolyzer

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2023/04/20 Global initiatives shaping the future of green methanol production .. global methanol demand was approximately 88 million mt in 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 3% .. "Looking ahead, the increase in methanol production is expected to see a progressive shift to renewable methanol, with an estimated annual production of 250 million mt of e-methanol and 135 million mt of biomethanol by 2050," IRENA said in its 2021 outlook .. There are more than 80 renewable methanol projects already on cards with several more expected in the years to come. More than 8 million mt/year of renewable methanol is expected to be produced by 2027.

 

Caterpillar liefert die Methanol-Motoren für Svitzer (Schlepper Sparte von Maersk)

2023/04/18 Svitzer turns to Caterpillar to switch its fleet to methanol

 

2023/04/20 World’s First Methanol-Fueled Containership Launched

 

Wärtsilä beliefert Van Oord

2023/04/21 Wärtsilä Methanol Engines Ready to Power Van Oord’s Next-Gen Jack-Up

 

2023/03/06 E-methanol truck proves groundbreaking possibilities

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2023/04/26 INTERVIEW: Proman to go all-in on methanol for future shipping fleet .. to operate six MR dual-fuel tankers capable of running on methanol, of which four already in operation and two scheduled for delivery by early 2024 .. Proponents said methanol propulsion is cheaper than LNG .. S&P Global expects methanol to account for 34.3% of potential low-carbon bunker supplies in 2030.

 

2023/04/28 'Hydrogen derivatives will power half of all UK shipping needs by 2050, but pure H2 will not play a role'

 

Strom saisonal speichern im Methanoltank. Der Vergleich mit Wasserstoffspeicher (Stahltank) ist knapp und hängt vom Einzelfall ab.

Design and operational optimization of a methanol-integrated wind-solar power generation system, science 2023/04

.. The round-trip efficiency reaches 41.5%, and the levelized cost of electricity is 0.148 $/kWh .. In terms of regions with larger fluctuation of renewable energy, methanol-based energy storage is more cost-effective than hydrogen energy storage.

 

PHP: Power to Hydrogen to Power

PMP: Power to Methanol to Power

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Statt Methanol in Wasser und CO2 umzusetzen kann man ihn auch zu Formaldehyd umsetzen, das man dann industriell verwerten oder wieder "aufladen" kann. Leider ist Formaldehyd etwas problematischer im Umgang und man kann nur einen Teil der bei der Verbrennung möglichen Energie nutzen.

CH3OH → CH2O + H2 ;    ΔH = 84 kJ/mol

CH3OH + ½ O2 → CH2O + H2O ;    ΔH = -159 kJ/mol

CH3OH + 3/2 O2 → CO2 + 2 H2O ;   ΔH = -725 kJ/mol

 

2023/05/02 IIT Guwahati’s new ‘pincer catalyst’ can produce green hydrogen from methyl alcohol .. This development makes methanol a promising ‘Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier’ (ohne CO2 freizusetzen)

 

Recent developments on methanol as liquid organic hydrogen carrier in transfer hydrogenation reactions, 2021 .. Surprisingly, methanol, with its high H/C ratio and availability from renewable feedstock is overlooked compared to other sacrificial hydrogen donors

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2023/06/14 Methanol aus Stahlwerks-Abgasen, Pilotanlage zur Methanol-Produktion nimmt Betrieb am Stahlwerk in Duisburg auf. .. Pilotphase ab Juli, Industrie-Anlage ab 2024.

 

2023/06/14 Growing interest in methanol bunkering by global players

 

2023/06/08 Methanol statt Wasserstoff – was geht besser? .. Mehrere Werften planen, den alternativen Sprit zu nutzen. Ihr Vorbild: die größte Reederei der Welt.

2023/05/31 Ørsted produziert in Schweden E-Methanol als Schiffstreibstoff .. In Schweden hat der Bau der „FlagshipONE“ genannten Anlage zur Produktion von Methanol als Treibstoff für Schiffe begonnen. Mit der Inbetriebnahme im Jahr 2025 würden dort jährlich rund 50.000 Tonnen produziert .. „größte E-Fuels-Anlage Europas“ .. 70-Megawatt-PEM-Elektrolyseur von Siemens Energy .. Liquid Wind will bis 2026 die Finanzierung für weitere zehn Projekte sichern. Hinter dem Unternehmen stehen Investoren wie Alfa Laval, Carbon Clean, Elyse, HyCap, Siemens Energy, Topsoe und Uniper.

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2023/07/12 Evergreen confirms massive $5 bln deal for 24 methanol-fueled containerships

2023/07/12 Maersk can’t find enough green fuel to power its carbon-neutral ships .. Maersk will need over 450,000 tons of green methanol a year to run the 12 low-carbon ships it has on order .. Maersk invests in green methanol manufacturing

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2023/07/27 China’s first methanol bunkering ship gets green light (Zhejiang Seahead)

2023/07/27 PHOTOS: World’s 1st green methanol-fuelled boxship arrives in Singapore for bunkering (Moller Maersk)

2023/07/28 SunGas funding $2bn green methanol plant for Maersk ships .. 400,000 metric tons of green methanol per year .. to begin construction in late 2024 with commercial operations starting in 2027.

2023/07/28 OCI Global and X-Press Feeders sign green methanol offtake agreement .. OCI Hyfuels will supply X-Press Feeders with green methanol in the Port of Rotterdam from 2024.

 

2023/07/27 SFC Energy starts production of hydrogen and methanol fuel cells in India

 

arte.tv: Revolution auf dem Wasser. Wie kann die Schifffahrt grün werden?

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Montauk Renewables US61218C1036 produziert Biogas und verkauft das anfallende CO2 an EE Nord America (Tochter von European Energy).

2023/08/08 Montauk Renewables to provide CO2 for e-methanol production

2022/12 EE North America to develop 10 GW of Renewable Energy Projects in the U.S. by 2026

europeanenergy .. 2023/06/green-finance-report-2022-vfinal.pdf

 

2023/08/08 How green methanol can help us decarbonise .. The engineers, from Siemens Energy, showed for the first time that green methanol produced from sustainable sources could power a gas turbine engine.

 

2023/08/09 We're Gonna Make It - Clean Methanol Gains Momentum as a Shipping Fuel of the Near-Future

 

Improving Biomethanol Synthesis via the Addition of Extra Hydrogen to Biohydrogen Using a Reverse Water–Gas Shift Reaction Compared with Direct Methanol Synthesis, 2023/08/11 .. The fermentation of molasses to produce biomethanol via the production of biohydrogen (H2 and CO2) was studied.

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2023/08/17 Projekt „Leuna100“ soll grünes Methanol für die Industrie liefern .. Ein Konsortium um das Berliner Start-up C1 will grünes Methanol für die Schiff- und Luftfahrt herstellen. Für das Projekt, das im August 2023 im Chemiepark Leuna startet, stellt C1 einen neuen Katalysator und einen speziell designten Reaktor bereit.

 

carbon.one: "Durch quantenchemische Simulationen und Laborexperimente haben wir ein neues, ultra-effizientes Katalyseverfahren für grünes Methanol entwickelt. Es ermöglicht die Produktion von hochreinem, grünem Methanol zu einem wettbewerbsfähigen Preis aus nicht-fossilen Rohstoffen, bei niedrigem Druck und niedrigen Temperaturen."

 

2023/01 Maersk investiert in C1

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2023/01/31 Backing Up the Power Grid With Green Methanol .. Today in the journal Joule, Brown and Johannes Hampp, a doctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in Germany, report that storing energy as methanol can be cost effective. The key is to integrate equipment producing hydrogen, methanol, and electricity, all of which are being commercialized or are in industrial development.

Ultra-long-duration energy storage anywhere: Methanol with carbon cycling, Joule 2023/10 .. we introduce the term ultra-long-duration energy storage (ULDES) for storage that can cover durations longer than 100 h (4 days) .. Methanol is liquid at ambient temperature and pressure, and can thus be stored in large aboveground tanks, just as oil products are today, at costs of around 0.01–0.05 €/kWh.

 

Farizon hat den M100 Methanol-LKW G2M mit Verbrennungsmotor herausgebracht. In China sind die Treibstoffkosten um 36% günstiger als bei einen vergleichbaren Diesel-LKW. Die Methanol-Infrastruktur ist allerdings auf bestimmte Regionen begrenzt.

Video 2023/10 Could Methanol-powered Trucks Help Solve The Climate Crisis? - Farizon G2M - An ICA Special

 

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2023/11/07 Blue World Technologies und AGCO Power entwickeln Methanolantrieb für E-Traktor

.. Prototyp zur Reichweitenverlängerung für den elektrischen Traktor Fendt e100 Vario

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Am 5.11.2023 um 11:14 von reko:

just as oil products are today, at costs of around 0.01–0.05 €/kWh.

Wann soll das wie passieren? Derzeit ist der Preis um Faktor 2 bis 10 höher, jedenfalls in Europa. Welches Fertigkungsverfahren soll diese krasse Kostenreduktion mit sich bringen? Wer stellt dafür Anlagen her?

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vor 28 Minuten von cfbdsir:

Wann soll das wie passieren? Derzeit ist der Preis um Faktor 2 bis 10 höher, jedenfalls in Europa. Welches Fertigkungsverfahren soll diese krasse Kostenreduktion mit sich bringen? Wer stellt dafür Anlagen her?

Die Zahl 0,01–0,05 €/kWh bezieht sich auf die Lagerkosten ("can thus be stored .. at costs of around 0.01–0.05 €/kWh"). Die sind nicht anders als für Ölprodukte. Man vergleiche mit Akkuspeicher 100$/kWh.

Methanolerzeugungsanlagen werden derzeit geplant und gebaut. Bisher sind erst Nullserienanlagen mit naturgemäß höheren Kosten in Betrieb - Economy of Scale. Sinn dieser Anlagen ist es günstigen Strom zu nutzen. In Europa hat Spanien Potential für Offgridanlagen. Alternativ kann kostenloser Überschußstrom genutzt werden.

Hersteller habe ich hier schon oft genannt.

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Achso. Dann nehme ich das zurück.

 

Der derzeitige Methanolpreis pro kwh liegt etwas höher (ca 10-20%) als der von Diesel (vor Steuern versteht sich). Daher ist Methanol als Brennstoffzellenkraftstoff überaus interessant. Methanolinfrastruktur ist schon vorhanden wenn man Zapfsäulen auf Methanol umstellt. Z.B. SuperPlus aus dem Sortiment nimmt und dafür Methanol über die gleichen Tanks und Zapfsäulen anbietet. Allerdings sind Methanolbrennstoffzellenfahrzeuge auch teurer als Wasserstofffahrzeuge. Mittelfristig müssten sie aufgrund der billigen Tanks (identisch mit einem Benzin- oder Dieseltank) kostengünstiger sein als Wasserstofffahrzeuge. Methanol wäre auch insofern attraktiv, weil er sich analog zu Ethanol Benzin beimischen ließe und sich daher in Benzinern verfeuern ließe. Aufgrund der Lambdasondensteuerung dürfte es keine Gemischbildungsproblem geben.

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Am 27.12.2022 um 11:50 von reko:

2022/12/20 Blue World Technologies starts series production of methanol fuel cells

2022/12/20 Ørsted takes over Europe’s largest e-methanol project

2022/12/20 Ørsted takes final investment decision on FlagshipONE project

Ørsted hat mehrere Methanol Projekte, Hauptabnehmer ist Maersk (Orsted is part of a wider push by Maersk to source at least 730,000 tonnes of green methanol per year by end of 2025).

"FlagshipONE" in Örnsköldsvik, Schweden, 70 MW, 50.000 Tonnen Methanol pro Jahr, Production ab 2025

      (bis 2030 sollen 10 Flagships entstehen)

"Project Star" an der US Golfküste, 675 MW, 300.000 Tonnen

"Green Fuels for Denmark" in Kopenhagen, 1300 MW

Wer baut die Anlagen zu welchem Preis?

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2023/12/06 Fuel cells maker Blue World raises EUR 11m in fresh funds .. in a transaction led by the venture arm of local shipping company AP Moller-Maersk A/S .. In addition to the investment, Maersk has placed an order for a methanol fuel cell pilot system for auxiliary power to be built on one of its methanol-powered container ships on order.

(Pressemeldung)

 

2023/12/01 Ørsted announces breakthrough funding partners for FlagshipONE .. EU-Catalyst Partnership, which consists of the European Commission, Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, and the European Investment Bank (EIB), have vowed to support Ørsted’s FlagshipONE project in Örnsköldsvik .. Breakthrough Energy Catalyst will acquire a 15 percent equity interest in FlagshipONE and provide a grant to the project, subject to the fulfillment of funding conditions. .. The company is also developing a 300,000 tonnes/year e-methanol project in the US Gulf Coast area, which was recently awarded funding by the US Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the US ‘Hydrogen Hubs’ initiative.

 

2023/11/27 COP28: Jean Pütz argues for green methanol as a global energy source .. New book "Prosperity and Economic Growth without Regrets: Climate Rescue Yes – Deindustrialization No", Jean Putz with Andreas Dripke, 124 pages, Diplomatic Council Publishing, ISBN 978-3-98674-104-4 (es gibt auch eine deutsche Fassung ISBN-13: 9783986740948)

Interview mit DC Mitglied Jean Pütz

 

2023/12/07 COSCO unterzeichnet Vertrag für Methanol-Nachrüstungen