To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, action must also be taken in the transportation sector. One option is to power the existing vehicle fleet with renewable fuels instead of fossil fuels, using methanol-to-gasoline (MtG) for this purpose.
October 7, 2025 | Research, Publications
Research Report Published: MtG Fuel – Stability and Emissions Behavior
The BMWE funded a research project on this topic, which has now been completed after a three-year period.
As part of the project, the potential of renewable synthetic gasoline fuels produced using the methanol-to-gasoline (MtG) process was investigated. The goal was to develop alternative MtG fuel grades that are compatible with existing infrastructure and enable a significant reduction in CO₂ and exhaust emissions in the transportation sector. To this end, various catalysts and process conditions for MtG synthesis, as well as various upgrading methods such as hydrogenation, hydroisomerization, and distillation, were employed to specifically influence product quality.
Read the details in DGMK Research Report 851, „The Influence of MtG Qualities on Fuel Stability and Emissions Behavior.“ The report is available free of charge from the DGMK.
Project partners
- OWI Science for Fuels gGmbH affiliated Institute of the RWTH Aachen
- Freiberg University of Mining and Technology (TU Bergakademie Freiberg) Institute for Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering Chair of Reaction Engineering
- RWTH Aachen University TME Chair of Thermodynamics of Mobile Energy Conversion Systems
IGF project 01IF22377N was funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy as part of the „Industrial Collaborative Research“ program, pursuant to a resolution of the German Bundestag.