Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy (PDF)

1 Introduction 2 Coal in the Industrial Revolution, and Beyond 3 History of Oil and Natural Gas 4 Fossil Fuel Resources and Uses 5 Diminishing Oil and Gas Reserves 6 The Continuing Need for Hydrocarbons and their Products 7 Fossil Fuels and Climate Change 8 Renewable Energy Sources and Atomic Energy 9 The Hydrogen Economy and its Limitations 10 The 'Methanol Economy': General Aspects 11 Methanol as a Fuel and Energy Carrier 12 Production of Methanol from Syn-Gas to Carbon Dioxide 13 Methanol-Based Chemicals, Synthetic Hydrocarbons and Materials 14 Future Perspectives

George A. Olah, PhD, was born 1927 in Budapest Hungary. He obtained his doctoral degree at the Technical University of Budapest. In 1956, Olah left Hungary and moved to the US, where he and his coworkers discovered carbocation and hydrocarbon chemistry in superacids. For his discoveries, he was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Institute at the University of Southern California. He has published more than 1300 scientific papers and authored or edited 15 books. He holds more than 120 patents. His current research interests are in the hydrocarbon chemistry and energy areas covering various aspects of methanol economy. He has received innumerable awards and accolades, including the 2005 Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society.

Alain Goeppert, PhD, was born in 1974 in Strasbourg, France. After obtaining his technician diploma in chemistry from the University Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, he received his Diplom-ingenieur degree from the Fachhochschule Aalen, Germany. He then returned to Strasbourg to study the reactivity of alkanes in strong acid systems under the direction of Prof. Jean Sommer at the Université Louis Pasteur, and earned his PhD in 2002. After this, he joined the groups of Professors Olah and Prakash at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute as a research associate, supported partially by a Lavoisier fellowship of the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères Français. His current research centers on the transformation of methane and CO2 into more valuable products and CO2 capture technologies.


G. K. Surya Prakash, PhD, was born 1953 in Bangalore, India. After his B. S (Bangalore Univ.) and M. S (IIT, Madras) degrees from India he came to US in 1974 and obtained his Ph. D degree from the University of Southern California (USC) under the direction of Professor Olah in 1978. He is currently a Professor and Olah Nobel Laureate Chair in Hydrocarbon Chemistry at the

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