Need for Comprehensive Study on Methanol:Mainly as one of power generating fuels

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Oil supply has been rapidly un-stable since the so-called second oil crisis.Electric power companies in Japan will convert their fuels from oil to other alternatives in their existing oil-fired power stations in the near future.Conversions to LNG, Coal and COM (coal-oil-mixture) have been studied or made, but they have their own drawbacks.In addition to existing oil-fired plants, the companies will be required to develop alternative fuels other than nuclear, LNG, coal, hydro, and geothermal to provide newly-built power plants with fuels.<BR>Methanol is thought to be one of main alternatives for oil.It is clean fuel like LNG.We can easily transport and store it, and produce from natural gas by conventional technol-ogy.Process for producing it from coal has been developed.There are abundunt natural gas reserves even outside OPEC countries, and we have huge brown coal or lignite reserves which can not be used otherwise as well as hard coal (btituminous or sub-bituminous coal).<BR>It is necessary, however, for us to study following items in order to commercialize the utilization of methanol as a fuel for power generation-----supply potential, economics, envi-ronmental impact and technology for utilization.
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