| abstract |
An environmentally beneficial method of producing methanol from various sources of carbon dioxide, including fuel gas from fossil fuel-fired power plants, industrial exhaust gas or the atmosphere itself. There is also an electrolyte comprising an anode in one cell part and a metal cathode electrode in the other cell part, and an aqueous solution containing methanol and one or more alkylammonium halides, alkali carbonates, or combinations thereof. Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide in a separate electrochemical cell containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen that are used to produce methanol during the subsequent production of oxygen at the anode in the cell. Conversion of carbon dioxide to produce a reaction mixture containing. |