Honeywell has launched its UOP eFining technology, a ready-now solution for producing low-carbon sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The eFuels company, HIF Global, intends to deploy the new technology to produce eSAF at its second US eFuels facility.
According to a communication from Honeywell, the HIF eSAF project is expected to be the world’s largest eSAF facility, recycling approximately two million tonne of captured CO2 to make about 11,000 barrels per day of eSAF by 2030. Its UOP eFining is a methanol-to-jet fuel (MTJ) processing technology that can convert eMethanol to eSAF reliably and at scale.
The technology is efficient, resulting in high-yield eSAF production at a lower cost relative to comparable technologies. The UOP eFining technology can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 88% compared to conventional jet fuel. When blended with conventional jet fuel, eSAF is a drop-in replacement fuel requiring no aircraft technology or fuel infrastructure changes.
The technology offers a highly integrated design that can process flexible feedstocks using commercially proven processes, resulting in operational reliability, minimised capital expenditures, and low energy intensity.
Honeywell’s eFining is the latest technology in a line of offerings driving the aviation sector's decarbonisation. The company offers multiple routes to market using a variety of feedstocks, including Ecofining technology which uses fats, oils and greases and the recently launched ethanol-to-jet technology.
Lucian Boldea, President and CEO, Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies, noted that the ability to use readily abundant CO2 to produce SAF is a transformational opportunity for this market.
“Adding UOP eFining to our existing Ecofining and ethanol to jet technologies, Honeywell now offers multiple routes to market to meet the rapidly growing demand for renewable fuels including SAF,” he said.
Renato Pereira, CEO, HIF, USA, said that both companies aim to transform recycled CO2 into a useful feedstock to replace fossil fuels in the very hard-to-abate aviation sector.
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