Clean methanol, made from waste.
We build modular plants that intercept municipal waste on its way to the landfill and turn it into methanol — the clean fuel ships, refineries and chemical makers already buy by the million tons.
WATUS
The Waste Advanced Thermal Unit System — our full waste-to-methanol technology, and three things that make it work.
One reactor, not two plants
WATUS combines pyrolysis and reforming in a single vessel, running continuously — where every other approach needs two separate plants.
It tunes itself
A closed AI loop scans the feedstock, predicts the right settings, pre-tunes the reactor and learns as it runs — and keeps the plant safe.
Built for waste
Designed from first principles for messy, real municipal waste — not a clean-feedstock process bent to fit. Ready for patent.
WATUS reactor
A single vessel that combines conversion steps usually handled by separate units, and runs as a continuous process. Waste goes in; the syngas it produces is then cleaned and sent on to methanol synthesis.
Part of every Methanolis plant · ready for patent
Methanol
AA-grade methanol — the clean liquid fuel and chemical building block that ships, refineries and chemical makers already buy by the million tons. This is what every plant makes first.
CH₃OH
DME
Dimethyl ether — a clean-burning diesel and LPG substitute made directly from our methanol. Drops into existing engines and distribution, and burns with no soot.
CH₃OCH₃
SAF
Sustainable aviation fuel through the methanol-to-jet pathway — for the part of transport that can't electrify. The same molecule we already make, upgraded to fuel that flies.
For hard-to-decarbonize aviation
ARChem
Our own process simulator — built in-house. It lays out every plant, solves the full mass and energy balance, and feeds the AI that runs the reactor. So what we deploy commercially is a proven model, not a paper one.
Built by us · validates every module before it's built
Four things lined up at once.
01 Methanol is short
A real supply gap opened in 2025 driven by trade and market shocks, and prices have stayed strong.
02 Clean fuel earns a premium
California, Oregon, Washington and the EU all pay extra for low-carbon fuel — credits that stack on top of the methanol price.
03 Landfilling now costs money
California penalizes operators for landfilling organic waste — turning their problem into our feedstock.
04 AI runs the plant lean
What used to need a large engineering team now runs with a small one — making small, distributed plants finally economical.
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