Honeywell UOP and Johnson Matthey (JM), two global leaders in sustainable technologies, 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, the companies said in a news release. 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, USA, which has a planned capacity of 600,000 metric tonnes per year. 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.
