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Honeywell UOP focuses on enhancing operational efficiency and reliability, improving yields, reducing emissions, modernizing assets, and supporting the transition to lowercarbon solutions, including renewable fuels and energy-efficient operations. Additionally, it offers connected digital tools and technical services to optimize plant performance and workforce productivity. Honeywell UOP’ s technologies are integral to producing 90 percent of the world’ s biodegradable detergents, 70 percent of polyester, 60 percent of gasoline, 50 percent of renewable fuels and 40 percent of globally processed LNG.
Tell us more about the collaboration between Honeywell UOP, Aramco, and KAUST and the new crude-to-chemicals( CTC) process you are working on? This collaboration brings together Aramco’ s downstream expertise, Honeywell UOP’ s skills in catalytic process design and scale-up, and KAUST’ s scientific research to deliver practical industrial solutions. Working together allows us to develop and expand the CTC process more effectively than any organization could alone.
By merging industrial know-how, research, and commercial drive, the collaboration speeds up the development and deployment of the CTC pathway. Each partner’ s strengths help turn scientific progress into reliable, scalable solutions that meet market needs, make better use of resources, and support a shift to lower-carbon operations. This integrated approach ensures new innovations are not only created but also put into action, leading to more sustainable and cost-effective production at scale.
Each partner’ s strengths help turn scientific progress into reliable, scalable solution
How is the new CTC pathway expected to improve fuel efficiency, carbon utilization and process economics, enabling more costeffective production at scale? The CTC pathway achieves these improvements by converting crude oil directly into light olefins and other highdemand chemicals, rather than moving through the multiple intermediate steps associated with traditional refining. This more direct conversion approach improves fuel efficiency, enables better utilization of carbon within the system and strengthens overall process economics.
A key benefit of this approach is its ability to extract greater value from each barrel of crude by reducing the number of processing stages required. These improvements translate into a streamlined process with fewer energy-intensive operations and more effective use of carbon, ultimately supporting higher yields and more favorable cost structures.
How will Honeywell’ s expertise in catalytic process design and commercial deployment accelerate development and drive real-world application? We specialize in catalytic process design and commercial scale-up, efficiently turning advanced chemical engineering concepts into practical technologies to accelerate industrial adoption. This enables us to create catalyst systems and processes tailored for efficient integration into large-scale petrochemical operations, ensuring research innovations can be reliably engineered, validated, and scaled.
By combining this technical strength with the capabilities of our partners, we can drive the technology toward real-world application more quickly and effectively, helping unlock meaningful efficiency, emissions and valuecreation benefits for the sector.
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