據MRCHUB網站10月11日莫斯科報道，據路透社報道稱，霍尼韋爾國際公司表示，該公司將推出一項可以增加乙醇生產的低碳燃料供應的技術。

霍尼韋爾的技術可以提高可持續航空燃料（SAF）的生產效率，以降低成本。航空業被認為是最難脫碳的行業之一，因為燃料不容易被其他能源替代。煉油廠一直在努力增加SAF的產量，以降低排放。

霍尼韋爾UOP可再生燃料資深業務負責人凱文·奧尼爾（Kevin O'Neil）表示，隨著對SAF需求的增加，我們一直在尋找不同的方法，以經濟的方式生產更多SAF，使人們能夠大規模采用并生產，以取代航空和柴油燃料池的重要部分。

該公司表示，根據所用乙醇原料的類型，其技術與以石油為基礎的航空燃料相比，在整個生命周期內可以減少80%的溫室氣體排放。在美國，乙醇主要由玉米制成。

該公司新聞稿稱，使用霍尼韋爾技術的SAF工廠可以進行模塊化異地安裝，從而降低成本，加快安裝速度，減少勞動強度。該新聞稿稱，通過這種方法，生產商可以比傳統建設快一年多的時間建立新的SAF產能。該技術還將使煉油廠和其他燃料生產商能夠將現有或閑置的設施轉換為SAF生產廠。

2021年9月，美國發起了一項計劃，到2030年將SAF年產量提高到至少達30億加侖，到2050年擁有足夠的SAF以100%滿足航空燃料需求，目前預計約為每年350億加侖。最近的《通貨膨脹削減法案》(一項氣候法案，包括對低碳燃料的激勵)也可能會加速對SAF原料的需求。

郝芬 譯自 MRCHUB

原文如下：

Honeywell announces new ethanol-to-jet fuel technology

Honeywell International Inc will roll out technology that could increase supplies of lower-carbon fuel produced from ethanol, the company said, as per Reuters.

Honeywell's technology can increase production efficiency of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to lower costs. The airline sector is considered one of the most difficult to decarbonize as fuel cannot be easily replaced with other kinds of power. Oil refiners have been trying to increase production of SAF to try to lower emissions.

"As demand for SAF has increased, we've been looking at different ways to make more SAF economically that people can adopt and adopt at large-scale and produce to displace significant fractions of the jet and diesel pools," Kevin O'Neil, senior business leader for renewable fuels at Honeywell UOP, said.

The company says, depending on the type of ethanol feedstock used, that its technology can cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% on a total lifecycle basis compared with petroleum-based jet fuel. Ethanol is primarily made from corn in the United States.

SAF plants using Honeywell's technology can be modularized offsite, enabling lower costs and faster and less labor-intensive installation, the company's news release said. Through this approach, producers can build new SAF capacity more than a year faster than traditional construction, the release said.

The new technology would also enable oil refiners and other fuel producers to convert current or idle facilities into SAF production plants, it said.

In September 2021, the Administration launched an effort to boost output to at least 3 billion gallons of SAF per year by 2030 and have enough SAF by 2050 "to meet 100% of aviation fuel demand, currently projected to be around 35 billion gallons a year." The recent Inflation Reduction Act, a climate bill that includes incentives for lower-carbon fuels, is also likely to accelerate demand for SAF feedstocks.