{"id":22404,"date":"2024-04-12T03:17:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22404"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:58:45","slug":"methanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/methanol\/","title":{"rendered":"Methanol"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Methanol<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It appears as a <strong>colorless fairly volatile liquid<\/strong> with a faintly sweet pungent odor like that of ethyl alcohol.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as <strong>wood alcohol<\/strong>. It can completely mix with water.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Production:<\/strong> Preparing methanol is based on the <strong>direct combination<\/strong> of <strong>carbon monoxide<\/strong> gas and <strong>hydrogen<\/strong> in the presence of a catalyst. Increasingly, syngas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide derived from biomass, is used for methanol production.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lower production costs<\/strong>\u2014Methanol is cheap to produce relative to other alternative fuels.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improved safety<\/strong>\u2014Methanol has a lower risk of flammability compared to gasoline.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Increased energy security<\/strong>\u2014Methanol can be manufactured from a variety of domestic carbon-based feedstocks, such as biomass, natural gas, and coal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Applications:<\/strong> Used to <strong>make chemicals<\/strong>, to remove water from automotive and aviation fuels, as a solvent for paints and plastics, and as an ingredient in a wide variety of products.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Syngas?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an abbreviation for synthesis gas, which is a mixture comprising carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen. &#8211; The syngas is produced by gasification of a carbon-containing fuel to a gaseous product that has some heating value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/us-news\/hand-sanitisers-recalled-in-us-as-fda-warns-methanol-exposure-could-cause-coma-blindness-101712750900821.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Hand sanitizers recalled in US as FDA warns methanol exposure could cause coma, blindness<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methanol appears as a colorless fairly volatile liquid with a faintly sweet pungent odor like that of ethyl alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}