Very low investment costs for methanol steam reforming
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The investment cost currently assumed for methanol steam reforming appears unrealistically low at 18016 EUR/MW H2. Carels et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.06.128) report investment costs of 4000 €2024/(kg H2/h) for methanol steam reforming in the supplementary material, Table 7, based on several literature sources. Using the hydrogen LHV of 33.33 kWh/kg, this corresponds to approximately 120012 €2024/MW H2. Although this value refers to 2035, it appears considerably more realistic than the current assumption.
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Locate the current methanol steam reforming investment-cost assumption in the repository and compare its units and value with Carels et al. (2025), supplementary Table 7, using the hydrogen LHV cited in the issue. The work is done when the assumption is corrected to a justified value and any relevant data validation still passes.
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