Methanol is used as a blending agent for gasoline fuel according to Rigdon.
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For example, the US Department of Defense has a major program in methanol-based fuel cells.
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Further, the distribution system would be much easier for methanol than CNG or LNG.
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Producing the methanol itself obviously requires energy as well, so it looks like a wasteful step.
That's why consumer electronics makers are developing PEM cells that run on the more convenient methanol.
Police reportedly found methanol, commonly used to mix bootleg alcohol, in whiskey on the yacht.
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These are cars that can use gasoline, alcohols (ethanol or methanol from whatever source) or some combination.
An international team has now published details of an efficient, low-temperature method for generating it from methanol.
In more normal situations operators will inject methanol or mono-ethylene glycol to serve as antifreeze in production systems.
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It should also consider methanol fueling infrastructure subsidies similar to those given to the fueling infrastructure for ethanol.
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Is the fact that the methanol is a liquid, thus easier to transport and store, really that valuable?
Producing hydrogen to produce methanol just seems odd when we could, more efficiently, just use the hydrogen itself.
Miniaturized direct methanol fuel cells are different batteries in that they create power instead of simply storing it.
Fumio Ueno of Toshiba says that once developed, the uses of miniaturized direct methanol fuel cells have endless possibilities.
Then he adds methanol and lye to convert the kitchen waste into biodiesel.
It gobbles up gas as feedstock to make chemicals such as methanol and ammonia, a vital ingredient of fertiliser.
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It involves spraying a tiny (0.15x0.15mm) area of a fingerprint with an electrically charged mixture of methanol and water.
So taxpayers funded a 40 MGY wood-based ethanol plant and they are instead getting a 4 MGY wood-based methanol plant.
The transportation market for natural gas is tiny now and can be huge with conversion of natural gas to methanol.
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This methanol can now be added to standard diesel and gasoline, just as ethanol is, and used in standard vehicles.
If it is ultimately fuelled by methanol, it needs a chemical reactor, known as a reformer, to release the hydrogen.
But the method has its downsides, including how passengers will be able to take small amounts of flammable methanol on airliners.
Publicly traded Mechanical Technology has recruited Gillette to produce methanol fuel cartridges and has an agreement with Samsung Electronics to build prototypes.
Current methods used to release the gas from methanol require high temperatures (above 200C) and high pressures, which limits the potential applications.
When the bus's fuel processing system converts methanol to hydrogen, it also produces carbon dioxide, but at lower levels than diesel engines.
Gasoline engines can be modified to run on methanol at modest cost.
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According to Calder, one congener, methanol, is probably most responsible for symptoms.
Health risks after drinking methanol include kidney failure, blindness, seizures and death.
District magistrate Narayan Swarup Nigam told AFP that methanol, sometimes used as a fuel, had been found in at least 20 victims.
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Recharging the fuel cell will simply require inserting another canister of methanol.
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