Pilot plants and commercial plants start working in these five years.
The catalysts for these plants are Cu/Zn systems quite similar to those for metanol production
from Syn-Gas (H2 + CO), and reaction temperature is also close.
A pilot plant of Mitsui Chemicals (started working on May 2009) (Japan) realized 95% H2 and CO2
conversion and 99.8% methanol selectivity by single path