DME could possibly bring a new technical innovation to the energy field, as fuel for motor vehicles and for power generation. DME can be produced from the synthesis of gases (CO & H2) produced by coal or biomass gasification as well as by natural gas reforming. Theerefore, DME is remarkable as a clean utilization method for coal in regards to global environmental protection.
DME is strongly expected to be a method of handling natural gas as a liquid, and also as a fuel in the field of new energy as well as chemicals.
DME is a clean fuel, which is pure, hydrogen rich, with low CO2 emissions and is suitable for the environmentally friendly energy utilization in the 21st Century. Moreover, DME is easy to handle as liquid at nomal ambient temperature, and it can be used as an alternative fuel to LPG, a clean and economic fuel for the power generation, diesel engines and fuel cells. DME could possibly bring a new energy revolution for exhaust gas problems, drastically reducing both particulates and nitrogen oxides (NOx).
Since its establishment in September 2000, the Japan DME forum (JDF) has made an effort toward finding solutions to general problems in the production, transportation, storage and utilization of DME. JDF organizes Asian DME Conference, and the 4th Conference was held in Kitakyushu City on November 12-14, 2007.
We will make further efforts in regards to these activities resulting the creation of a new industrial field.