Table 8. Mass and Energy Balances of Methanol Synthesis and Literature Data.

	present study MOH full capacity	present study MOH half capacity	Pérez-Fortes et al. (2016)57	Kiss et al. (2016)36
reactor model approach	equilibrium	equilibrium	kinetics	kinetics
temperature [°C]	220	220	210	250
pressure [bar]	31	31	76.4	50
operation	adiabatic	adiabatic	adiabatic	isothermal
Mass Balance (t/t MeOH)
inputs
CO2	1.43	1.40	1.46	1.38
H2	0.20	0.20	0.20	0.19
impurities	0.09	0.14	0.00	0.00
total	1.71	1.74	1.66	1.57
outputs
methanol	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
H2O	0.58	0.58	0.57	0.59
vented gases	0.14	0.16	0.09	0.00
total	1.71	1.74	1.66	1.59
Energy Balance (MWh/t MeOH)
electricity	0.19	0.22	0.17	0.55
hot utility	0.39	0.47	0.44	0.61
cold utility	1.73	1.80	0.86	1.79
CO2 conversion per pass [%]	15.03	14.23	21.97	21.50
overall CO2 conversion [%]	95.94	95.82	93.85	not reported
MeOH purity [mol %]	99.00	99.00	99.96	99.98