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use-gas-equivalencies-calculator continues . “ I manage licensing activity and technology development and deployment for sustainable aviation fuels ( SAF ). These technologies enable quantities of materials to be produced at scale to reduce carbon emissions in that sector and support their goal of becoming carbon neutral .”
Honeywell UOP offers multiple routes to market using a variety of feedstocks , including Ecofining™ technology that utilizes fats , oils and greases , the recently launched Ethanol to Jet technology and the latest breakthrough technology , called Honeywell UOP eFining™ that uses eMethanol from green hydrogen and recycled CO₂ .
“ The Ecofining™ technology is wellestablished ,” Kevin explains . “ It ’ s technology that we ’ ve been licensing since the early 2000s , with our first license in 2007 . The first US plant came into production in 2013 , and we ’ ve since licensed a further 50 around the world . We ’ re seeing significant demand for this technology and it ’ s one that ’ s become commercially mature . “ Ecofining was the first wave of sustainable fuel technology and now , Ethanol to Jet is following suit . Our Ethanol to Jet technology is a combination of a couple of different processing steps . It starts with feedstock ethanol which is widely available in certain parts of the world . The US produces more than 17 billion gallons per year of ethanol as a gasoline blending component and is the world ’ s main producer , followed by Brazil . So , there ’ s a lot of infrastructure in existence . While the ethanol produced right now is mostly blended with gasoline in the US , as we transition away from gasoline powering internal combustion engines to electric cars , we ’ ll see a surplus of ethanol available that can easily be diverted to jet fuel .
“ There needs to be additional processing to take the ethanol that ’ s currently produced to make jet fuel , but the necessary processing steps are well established . We ’ ve got extensive experience with those different steps to convert ethanol to jet fuel efficiently , economically , and at scale .
“ The market is already adopting this technology which we began offering in late 2022 . We sold three licenses last year and have several other customers pursuing licenses with us . Our innovation in SAF technology continued and in May 2023 , we introduced Honeywell UOP eFining™ . Without using any kind of fossil or other hydrocarbon source , green hydrogen can be produced from renewable electric power . We then convert green hydrogen into methanol that becomes jet fuel using the eFining technology . Converting methanol to olefins is a well-established technology that we ’ ve deployed for several years to produce petrochemical olefins . We can take the olefins - and rather than converting them into petrochemicals - they can be turned into jet fuel using processing steps that are very similar to those of our Ethanol to Jet technology . It ’ s a combination of the same proven technologies ,” he explains .
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