Tag: Methanol

Maersk Dual Fuel Ships Won’t Decarbonize Methanol

Major shipping firm A.P. Moller — Maersk continues to invest in green methanol and dual-fuel ships to burn it in. The firm made the choice for green methanol as its decarbonization strategy and is executing. While I think that green methanol is merely the best of the also-ran alternatives for ...

Methanol in the Moonshine

During the American Prohibition, moonshine was responsible for over 750 deaths and more than a hundred thousand cases of blindness or paralysis in New York City alone. Over eighty years later, in early 2019, several outbreaks of toxic alcohol poisoning lead to hundreds of de...

Which Solvent is Better for Chromatography: Methanol or Acetonitrile?

Acetonitrile and methanol are both used as solvents in liquid chromatography (LC) or high-performance LC (HPLC) systems. Even though they share many characteristics, acetonitrile is generally preferred as a solvent over methanol because it tends to give a better signal from an evaporative light...