Honeywell UOP/Johnson Matthey join forces to advance sustainable fuels
Johnson Matthey (JM) and Honeywell UOP, 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’s market-leading expertise in fuel upgrading technologies. 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 eFining technology & JM’s methanol technologies, including eMERALD e-methanol technology to provide an end-to-end solution for methanol to jet.
M and Honeywell 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, US, which has a planned capacity of 600,000 tonnes/year.
JM and Honeywell have also shown that by integrating JM’s eMERALD and Honeywell UOP eFining technologies, additional SAF production worth over US$200 million can be delivered over the life of a typical CO₂-to-methanol SAF plant.
This MoU builds on JM and Honeywell UOP’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.
