Worley has secured a contract to design a renewable methanol facility for Liquid Wind.
The front-end engineering design (FEED) services contract, including project cost estimate, is for a power-to-fuel project in Sweden.
Liquid Wind plans to build its first commercial scale eMethanol facility in Ornskoldsvik, in northern Sweden to produce 50,000 tonnes of renewable methanol every year.
The feedstock for the facility will use biogenic carbon dioxide from a biomass-fired power plant and combine it with green hydrogen, made from renewable electricity and water, to produce eMethanol.
This provides an alternative to fossil fuels and a potential pathway to reduce carbon emissions by over 90% in marine transportation.
eMethanol can also be used as a building block in the production of other sustainable chemicals, including acetic acid, formaldehyde and olefins, helping to contribute to the decarbonisation of industries such as adhesives, solvents and plastics.
Liquid Wind plans to build 500 facilities by 2050.
The focus will be on designing operations for scalability through intelligent replication of facilities, to “reach the scale needed to reduce carbon emissions significantly”.
Worley will make this possible through a standardised design concept that can be replicated and utilised in Liquid Wind’s future developments.
“Worley has extensive, relevant experience and we are confident it will be a valuable partner in developing standardised and replicable eMethanol facilities,” said Claes Fredriksson, CEO and founder of Liquid Wind.
“Its experience with a modular approach will support in keeping costs down and increasing our speed to market.
“As well as enabling the rapid replication of facilities, which is needed to meet the growing demand for carbon-neutral liquid fuel”.