Commit To Commercialize Renewable Drop-in Jet Biofuels At A
Dinner Hosted By Former President Jimmy Carter
Honeywell said Tuesday it plans to invest engineering services
and equipment to accelerate the deployment of a renewable biofuel
process developed by AliphaJet ... a collaborative venture between
SynGest and Unitel Technologies.
At a dinner hosted by former President Jimmy Carter with Jack
Oswald, CEO of AliphaJet, and Tracey Haslam, Americas vice
president, Honeywell Process Solutions, the former President
endorsed the collaboration of large and small business to
commercialize renewable drop-in biofuels.
“Efforts like these fulfill the energy policies we
launched in the 1970s,” he said. “I am optimistic about
the future of renewable fuels now that breakthrough technologies
available from Honeywell and AliphaJet promise to unlock the use of
renewable drop-in fuels.”
AliphaJet will use Honeywell controls, instrumentation, and
"advanced solutions" including its Experion Process Knowledge
System (PKS) and UniSim process simulators and field
instrumentation.
“AliphaJet’s ability to produce drop-in jet fuel on
a small and widely distributed basis is the perfect complement to
our own in-house technologies,” said Tracey Haslam, Americas
vice president, Honeywell Process Solutions.
“We are very happy that Honeywell has joined our team and
is investing in the commercialization of this technology,”
said Jack Oswald, CEO of AliphaJet. “Honeywell’s vote
of confidence aligns AliphaJet’s and Honeywell’s
technologies in the lead position in this emerging
field.”
AliphaJet has developed and demonstrated a highly cost-effective
catalytic method for making jet biofuel from renewable products
such as plant and animal triglycerides and/or fatty acids. Unlike
other smaller scale technologies, the AliphaJet process removes all
of the oxygen from the renewable oils without the need for massive
amounts of expensive hydrogen gas or co-location at a traditional
oil refinery. The AliphaJet process offers significant CAPEX and
OPEX advantages including those obtained by deploying processing
plants close to the feedstock sources.
The AliphaJet process can also produce renewable drop-in diesel
fuel, gasoline and other hydrocarbon molecules usually derived from
fossil fuel oil. It can use a variety of renewable oil feedstocks
obtained from plants, animal processing or emerging oil production
methods such as algae and genetically modified organisms:
seeds/vegetables (camelina, pennycress, palm, soy, corn), animal
fats (beef, chicken), algae (Sapphire, Solazyme), GMO (Amyris, LS9,
Genomatica).