Honeywell to deploy AliphaJet biofuels

Honeywell Process Solutions will invest its engineering services and equipment to accelerate the commercial deployment of AliphaJet’s renewable drop-in biofuels, it announced Wednesday at the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative Expo in Washington.

AliphaJet will use Honeywell Controls, instrumentation and advanced solutions, including its Experion Process Knowledge System 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," Honeywell Process Solutions VP-Americas Tracey Haslam said.

AliphaJet’s catalytic method for making biofuel from products, such as plant and animal triglycerides and/or fatty acids, removes all oxygen from the renewable oils without needing large amounts of hydrogen gas or co-location at a traditional oil refinery. 

The company said its process can also produce renewable drop-in diesel fuel, gasoline and other hydrocarbon molecules. The method has the ability to use renewable oil feedstocks from plants, animal processing or 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).