RES Group Industries : Energy & Chemical: Dimethyl Ether (DME) Plant Design

DME is a promising clean fuel that can be produced from variety of feed sources including natural gas, biomass, coal and CBM. Global energy, engineering and trading companies have considerable interest in the development and commercialization of DME. RES played a leading role in the design of commercial scale DME plant.

Process Experience

Shown above is a block diagram of KOGAS' Direct DME Process. RES has been selected to provide key engineering and process technology services in bringing this process to commercialization.

RES' Project Experience

» Commercial scale process design ranging from 300,000 to 1 million tons per year capacity
» Capital and operating cost estimation of several commercial plant designs
» Competitive analysis of Direct and Indirect processes from major licensors
» Analysis of DME production cost
» DME market size and readiness analysis
» DME project feasibility in several sites around the world
» Review of DME business model
» Competitive analysis of potential DME producers
» Conceptual process design and economic analysis of utilizing biomass, coal bed m and stranded gas as a feedstock
» Feasibility study of DME FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading)

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