India’s Deendayal Port Authority (DPA), Kandla, has published a tender for the establishment of the country’s inaugural port-based biomethanol production facility on an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) basis.
According to DPA, once operational, the site is to manufacture around 10 tonnes of biomethanol per day. The production will involve converting biomass into fuel via oxy-steam gasification, which is a thermochemical process that turns solid fuels such as biomass and waste into a synthesis gas (syngas) using a combination of oxygen and steam as the gasifying agent.