HIF Global initiates engineering for US SAF facility, selects technology from Johnson Matthey and Honeywell
In Texas, HIF Global announced agreements with Johnson Matthey and Honeywell to conduct preliminary engineering for HIF’s first SAF facility in the United States. The facility would produce approximately 11,000 barrels per day of eSAF.
Meg Gentle, Executive Director of HIF Global, said, “eFuels are a replacement for fossil fuels and are a necessary solution for decarbonizing global transportation. At HIF Global, we have already demonstrated the capability to produce eMethanol for marine transport and eGasoline for road transport with the 2022 start-up of the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration Facility in southern Patagonia, Chile, where the wind is blowing all the time. Together with Johnson Matthey and Honeywell, we intend to deliver an eFuel solution for airplanes before 2030.”
Johnson Matthey’s technology will use green hydrogen and recycled CO2 to produce eMethanol which can be used in the shipping and chemical industries or upgraded into other eFuels including eSAF. Johnson Matthey’s technology is currently producing eMethanol at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration Plant in Chile.
The Honeywell UOP eFining technology processes eMethanol into a light olefin stream utilizing Honeywell’s methanol to olefins process, which is then oligomerized, hydrogenated and finally fractionated to produce eSAF.
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