Davy Process Technology and Johnson Matthey Catalysts announced today that they have entered into contracts to supply basic engineering design and a methanol technology license to Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC, for its Carbon County, Wyoming plant. The estimated 6,260 short-ton/d Medicine Bow Project will produce gasoline from intermediate methanol, which will be derived from the state’s Carbon Basin-area coal reserves.
According to the firms, this greenfield, mine-mouth, industrial gasification facility will produce methanol and gasoline in an environmentally responsible manner. The advanced methanol-synthesis technology to be used has been chosen from a portfolio of syngas and methanol synthesis processes developed and marketed by Davy Process Technology and Johnson Matthey Catalysts for use in gas- and coal-to-chemical plants.
Both Davy Process Technology and Johnson Matthey Catalysts are part of the Process Technologies Business of Johnson Matthey Plc (London, U.K.; http://www.matthey.com/). Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of DKRWAdvanced Fuels LLC (Houston, Tex.; http://www.dkrwadvancedfuels.com/).