Northwest Innovation Pauses Permitting For Planned Tacoma Methanol Project

摘要

Tacoma— Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW), citing public concerns, has asked the city of Tacoma, Wash., to pause the environmental review of its proposed Tacoma methanol plant (PCN, 28 Sept 2015, p 3). NWIW, led by a partnership between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Double Green Bridge Hong Kong, has plans to build a two-phase, $3.4-billion natural gas-to-methanol plant that will include up to four production lines, each with a capacity of 5,000 t/d. The project is expected to use Johnson Matthey's ultra-low emissions reforming technology, which will emit substantially lower greenhouse gas and other air pollutants than conventional technologies for reforming natural gas to methanol.