Honeywell UOP, Johnson Matthey partner to cut costs and boost deployment of sustainable fuels
- Honeywell UOP and Johnson Matthey are combining expertise to provide a comprehensive end-to-end solution to produce fuels from a wide variety of feedstocks.
- The new partnership builds on an existing partnership in low carbon (CCS-enabled) hydrogen.
Honeywell UOP and Johnson Matthey (JM) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to offer an end-to-end solution for businesses developing alternative fuels from a wide range of feedstocks including municipal solid waste, residual biomass, biogas and CO₂ (captured and renewable).
The partnership brings together JM’s leading syngas solutions and Honeywell UOP market-leading expertise in fuel upgrading technologies. By bringing together the two technologies, Honeywell and JM expect to drive down operating costs and accelerate the deployment of viable projects producing fuels via Fischer-Tropsch (FT) or methanol routes.
The FT route will combine JM and bp’s co-developed FT CANS™ technology, with Honeywell’s FT Unicracking™ technology refining the product to a “drop-in” sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) that, once blended, complies with strict aviation industry standards. The methanol route will bring together Honeywell UOP eFiningTM technology & JM’s methanol technologies, including eMERALDTM e-methanol technology to provide an end-to-end solution for methanol to jet.
Honeywell and JM have a strong and growing pipeline of projects. The joint offering has already been selected for DG Fuels' proposed FT CANS SAF plant in Louisiana (U.S.) which has a planned capacity of 600,000 tpy. Honeywell and JM have also shown that by integrating JM’s eMERALD™ and Honeywell UOP eFining™ technologies, additional SAF production worth over $200m can be delivered over the life of a typical CO₂-to-methanol SAF plant1.
This MoU builds on Honeywell UOP and JM's existing partnership in CCS-enabled hydrogen – which brings together JM’s LCH™ technology and Honeywell’s leading carbon capture technology to:
- produce low carbon intensity hydrogen at scale
- and integrate Honeywell UOP’s technologies into JM’s CLEANPACE™ offering to decarbonise existing synthesis (syngas) gas plants.
1SAF cost savings are based on a 4000tpa SAF production at a SAF price of 2071 USD/Ton using Honeywell and JM's integrated offer when compared with Honeywell and JM's previous unintegrated offering. Calculations are based on a typical plant lifetime of 25 years.
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