绿电变燃料！内蒙古百万吨级绿色甲醇项目首批产品交付 从兴安盟运抵韩国釜山Green Power into Fuel! First Batch from Inner Mongolia's Million-Tonne Green Methanol Project Delivered from Hinggan League to Busan, South Korea

According to Green Fuel International Business Network, on September 10, the first batch of products from Inner Mongolia's 1.45-million-tonne green methanol project from green hydrogen was officially loaded and delivered in Hinggan League. As a green and low-carbon advanced technology demonstration project of the NDRC, this marks the successful attainment of full production at Inner Mongolia's mega green power-to-hydrogen project and the achievement of a complete engineering and industrialization closed loop for the full industry chain technology route of wind power green hydrogen coupled with biomass gasification for methanol production. Green methanol is a clean alternative fuel recognized by the international shipping industry, and this delivery completed full-chain verification from renewable energy collection to terminal green product output, marking a key commercial step in the conversion of green power.

It is understood that the first batch of delivered products totaled 16 trucks, loaded and dispatched from the Hinggan League Economic and Technological Development Zone, transported by road to Yingkou Port in Liaoning for shipment by sea, and finally arriving in Busan, South Korea, for delivery to international shipping customers as low-carbon power fuel for ocean-going vessels. What was shipped this time is the 250,000-tonne-per-year green methanol product of phase I of the project. The project has a total planned capacity of 1.45 million tonnes, started construction in 2024, is being built in three phases, and is expected to be fully completed by the end of 2027, making it the world's largest wind power-to-hydrogen coupled biomass gasification-to-methanol project.

The project is located in the Hinggan League Economic and Technological Development Zone of Inner Mongolia, in the transition zone from the Greater Khingan Mountains to the Songnen Plain, an area with excellent wind energy resources and also rich agricultural and forestry biomass resources, where agricultural waste such as corn stalks serves as an important low-carbon carbon source raw material. Relying on this resource combination, the project builds a zero-carbon industrial path of "wind and solar new energy power generation - green power water electrolysis for hydrogen production - low-carbon biomass gasification - green hydrogen coupled methanol synthesis," innovatively adopting "wind-hydrogen-storage-biomass" multi-energy synergistic coupling technology to produce green methanol meeting the EU ISCC standard using wind power and corn stalks as raw materials.

From the process perspective, the entire system is divided into four major modules: wind farms produce green power, the green power is fed into electrolyzers for water electrolysis to produce green hydrogen, locally collected agricultural and forestry biomass waste is gasified to obtain carbon-containing syngas, and the green hydrogen is coupled with the biomass gasification syngas and reacted in a synthesis unit to generate green methanol. This process integrates volatile wind power with biomass waste resources, addressing the pain points of high carbon source cost and difficult acquisition in the simple carbon dioxide hydrogenation to methanol route while also achieving resource utilization of agricultural and forestry waste. The project's innovatively developed intelligent synthesis process of volatile green hydrogen coupled with low-carbon gasification effectively adapts to the intermittency and volatility of wind power, achieving stable, large-scale conversion of low-density wind and biomass energy into high-density, standardized, storable and transportable green chemical energy.

The biggest engineering difficulty lies in the contradiction between the volatility of wind power and the continuous, stable production of chemical facilities. Wind power output changes with seasons, day and night, and wind speed; the load of the electrolysis hydrogen production units fluctuates accordingly, while methanol synthesis units have strict requirements for the composition and flow stability of feed gas. The project is equipped with an energy storage system and an intelligent control platform, relying on automated control strategies to smooth wind power output fluctuations and achieve dynamic matching between new energy power generation and continuous chemical production; this flexible control scheme is also one of the project's core technological innovations.

The market and certification links are equally critical. At present, full-chain green certification of the project's products, ISCC EU and ISCC PLUS carbon footprint certification, and China's first RFNBO green hydrogen certification for green methanol have all been secured; the full-life-cycle greenhouse gas emission reduction data of the products has international recognition, which is also the basic condition enabling the products to be supplied directly to overseas shipping companies. Commercially, the project has signed long-term green methanol supply agreements totaling more than 750,000 tonnes with global leading shipping companies such as Maersk Group and Hapag-Lloyd, locking in long-term orders in advance and making it one of the earliest domestic enterprises to achieve large-scale international long-term contracting for green methanol.

Industry insiders believe that the core value of this project lies in verifying the engineering feasibility of converting renewable energy from "electron energy" into "molecule energy" on site. Methanol is liquid at normal temperature and pressure and can directly reuse existing tank trucks, storage tanks, terminals and other storage and transportation systems without building new dedicated hydrogen infrastructure, greatly reducing capital investment in storage and transportation. As the International Maritime Organization's carbon intensity indicator continues to tighten and the EU Emissions Trading System raises compliance requirements for the shipping industry, green methanol, as one of the marine low-carbon fuels closest to industrialization, is seeing demand released at an accelerating pace. The commissioning and delivery of this project provides a replicable solution for new energy conversion and high-value utilization on site for regions rich in wind and solar resources.