St1 Nordic Refinery Makes use of Honeywell Expertise To Produce Sustainable Aviation Gas – Biorefinery designed to supply 200k tons of renewable gasoline per yr will present SAF to regional airways.
Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) has at present introduced that the St1 Refinery has began utilizing Honeywell’s EcofiningTM know-how to supply sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF). The biorefinery in Gothenburg, Sweden will present SAF to regional airways, together with Braathens Regional Airways. The manufacturing of SAF with Ecofining know-how additionally helps Honeywell’s alignment of its portfolio to 3 highly effective megatrends, together with the vitality transition and way forward for aviation.
The Gothenburg plant will produce 200,000 tons of renewable fuels yearly and may make the most of versatile feedstocks, together with used cooking oil, animal fat, and tall oil fatty acids from paper and pulp mills. Along with SAF, the biorefinery will produce biodiesel, bio-naphtha, and bio liquid petroleum gasoline. St1 reported the fuels produced on the biorefinery will cut back street and air site visitors emissions by about 500,000 tons of CO₂ yearly in comparison with fossil fuels1.
Miika Eerola, St1 Head of Refining, Tasks & HSSE, mentioned:
The Gothenburg biorefinery is a big milestone in our vitality transition roadmap and an essential step in St1’s journey in direction of extra sustainable vitality manufacturing.
“With Honeywell’s Ecofining know-how helps us taking an essential step towards realizing our imaginative and prescient of changing into the main producer and vendor of CO2-aware vitality,”
The SAF produced at St1’s facility will assist the European Union’s ReFuelEU initiative, which requires aviation gasoline to include a mix of at the least 2% SAF starting in 2025. The required share progressively will increase over time, finally rising to 70% by 2050, contributing to the European Inexperienced Deal’s purpose of local weather neutrality that follows the identical timeline.
Honeywell helped pioneer SAF manufacturing with its Ecofining course of, which was developed in collaboration with Eni S.p.A. and has been used to supply SAF commercially since 2016. The corporate now provides options throughout a variety of feedstocks to satisfy the quickly rising demand for renewable fuels, together with SAF. When blended with conventional jet gasoline, SAF can cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions by as much as 80% in comparison with standard fossil fuels.2
Barry Glickman, vp and Common Supervisor of Honeywell Sustainable Expertise Options, mentioned:
For greater than a decade, our Ecofining know-how has been an innovator within the renewable vitality sector.
“In partnership with St1, we’re proud to be supporting the worldwide vitality transition and the European Union’s ReFuelEU initiative by offering a confirmed know-how for decreasing CO2 emissions.”
Greater than 50 websites globally have licensed Honeywell’s SAF applied sciences, with refineries projected to exceed a mixed capability of greater than 500,000 barrels of renewable gasoline per day when totally operational.3 Past SAF, Honeywell’s renewable fuels portfolio additionally contains Ethanol to Jet know-how and eFining™, which converts inexperienced hydrogen and carbon dioxide into e-fuels.
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St1 Nordic Refinery Makes use of Honeywell Expertise To Produce Sustainable Aviation Gas – Biorefinery designed to supply 200k tons of renewable gasoline per yr will present SAF to regional airways. supply
