ESTECH has entered into a partnership with MissionGreenFuels to support their vision of contributing to global climate goals and advancing Danish research, innovation, growth, and export potential within the green fuels sector—an essential driver of the green transition.
The MissionGreenFuels partnership includes more than 100 partners across large industrial companies, SMEs, universities, and knowledge institutions. MissionGreenFuels provides a platform that ensures flexibility, optimal use of resources, and socioeconomic transparency—achieved through the industrialisation and upscaling of flagship projects, as well as through research, innovation, demonstration activities, and knowledge sharing.
Through this collaboration, ESTECH—together with project partners DTU, Elplatek, VandCenter Syd and Torm—has secured financial support from Innovation Fund Denmark for the Power-to-X-based Carbon Capture and Methanol Production for Wastewater Decarbonization project, known as WURTZ.
The WURTZ project aims to demonstrate an innovative Power-to-X process that converts biogenic CO₂ into green methanol, supporting circular carbon utilization. The solution integrates electrochemical carbon capture—part of ESTECH’s CAPPOW technology, which purifies emissions from the wastewater facility at VandCenter Syd in Odense—with DTU’s BioReFuel methanol plant, an advanced methanol synthesis system, in a compact, modular setup. In this system, CO₂ emissions from the treatment process are transformed into high-purity green methanol using advanced capture technologies and a retrofitted Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) platform, which is being upgraded by Elplatek and DTU for methanol synthesis.
The process will be demonstrated at pilot scale, with methanol production assessed for purity, efficiency, and market potential. Key partner TORM, a global shipping company, is exploring green methanol as a marine fuel—supporting emission reductions both on land and at sea.
This project merges two innovative technologies to produce green methanol, offering a modular and scalable solution for small- and mid-scale CO₂ emitters.
Additionally, it significantly contributes to the operation and optimisation of ESTECH’s CAPPOW technology—short for Carbon Capture and Power-to-X—which combines carbon capture and hydrogen production via electrolysis powered entirely by green electricity.
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