Repsol selects Honeywell Ecofining™ Know-how for biofuel manufacturing in Spain.
Honeywell introduced that Repsol has licensed Honeywell Ecofining™ know-how to supply renewable fuels from feedstocks equivalent to used cooking oil and waste animal fats at Repsol’s facility in Puertollano, Spain. Repsol is designing this plant to transform roughly 240 thousand metric tons every year (KMTA) of waste feeds/feedstocks to renewable diesel and different merchandise.
The Honeywell UOP Ecofining™ course of will present Repsol with an environment friendly and excessive yield resolution to supply renewable fuels and petrochemical precursors from residual feedstocks.
Berta Cabello, Repsol’s Director of Renewable Fuels stated:
Renewable fuels are a key pillar in our dedication to attain internet zero emissions by 2050 and Honeywell is offering us with the cutting-edge Ecofining know-how to perform this.
“This will probably be Repsol’s second plant solely devoted to producing 100% renewable fuels, permitting us to guide the marketplace for these merchandise within the Iberian Peninsula the place we have already got greater than 20 service stations supplying 100% renewable diesel.”
Barry Glickman, vice chairman and common supervisor, Honeywell Sustainable Know-how Options stated:
Honeywell’s Ecofining know-how will enable Repsol to economically convert waste feeds into renewable fuels and scale back its carbon footprint.
“Renewable Diesel and SAF can considerably scale back greenhouse fuel emissions in comparison with typical diesel or aviation gas.”
The Honeywell UOP Ecofining™ course of, developed along side Eni SpA, can convert plant-based waste oils, animal fat and different waste feedstocks to renewable diesel and SAF.
Honeywell now gives options throughout a variety of feedstocks to satisfy the quickly rising demand for renewable fuels, together with SAF. Along with Honeywell UOP Ecofining, Honeywell’s renewable fuels portfolio contains Ethanol to Jet know-how and the just lately introduced Honeywell UOP eFining™, which converts inexperienced hydrogen and carbon dioxide into e-fuels.
Honeywell just lately dedicated to attain carbon neutrality in its operations and amenities by 2035. This dedication builds on the corporate’s monitor document of sharply lowering the greenhouse fuel depth of its operations and amenities in addition to its decades-long historical past of innovation to assist its clients meet their environmental and social targets. About 60% of Honeywell’s 2022 new product introduction analysis and growth funding was directed towards ESG-oriented outcomes for purchasers.1
Repsol is a world multi-energy firm that’s main the vitality transition with its ambition of attaining zero internet emissions by 2050. The corporate is remodeling its seven industrial complexes in Spain, Portugal, and Peru into multi-energy hubs by means of state-of-the-art tasks that may scale back their carbon footprint and can allow the corporate to be a benchmark within the manufacturing of renewable fuels and renewable hydrogen by 2030.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 know-how firm that delivers industry-specific options that embody aerospace services; management applied sciences for buildings and {industry}; and efficiency supplies globally.
Our applied sciences assist plane, buildings, manufacturing vegetation, provide chains, and staff grow to be extra related to make our world smarter, safer, and extra sustainable. For extra information and knowledge on Honeywell, please go to www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
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Repsol Selects Honeywell Ecofining™ Know-how For Biofuel Manufacturing In Spain, DES PLAINES, Ailing., OCTOBER 3, 2023
