HONEYWELL INTRODUCES NEW, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY THAT PRODUCES LOW-COST, HIGH QUALITY RENEWABLE FUELS FROM BIOMASS
Mumbai, India, October 2025 – Honeywell
(NASDAQ: HON) today introduced a
breakthrough technology
that converts agricultural and forestry waste into ready-to-use renewable fuels
for hard-to-abate sectors, such as the maritime industry. The technology
produces lower-carbon marine fuel, gasoline and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
from inexpensive and abundant biomass sources like wood chips and crop
residues.
For ship operators, these ready-to-use or
“drop-in” fuels provide a cost-effective and lower-carbon alternative to
traditional heavy fuel oil. With higher energy density than many current
biofuel alternatives, this renewable marine fuel can extend a vessel’s range
without requiring costly engine upgrades.
“Honeywell’s Biocrude Upgrading technology tackles key
challenges in renewable fuel production—cost and feedstock availability—by
converting low-cost, locally available residues such as forest and agricultural
waste into lower-carbon fuels at reduced production costs,” said Ranjit
Kulkarni, Vice President and General Manager, Energy and Sustainability
Solutions, Honeywell India. “The innovation reinforces our commitment to
advancing India’s energy transition through scalable, sustainable, and
economically viable solutions that help industries meet the nation’s
clean energy goals.”
Plant and agricultural waste can be converted
into lower carbon biocrude at the feedstock collection sites, which keeps
transport costs low. Honeywell’s new process technology enables biocrude to
then be refined at major facilities to produce marine fuel, gasoline or SAF.
This helps solve long-standing challenges with converting biocrudes into fuels
with performance comparable to conventional fuel.
Biocrude
Upgrading process technology can be delivered in the form of a prefabricated
modular plant. As a result, Honeywell can help customers reduce risk and
accelerate project timelines by simplifying site construction activity.
The introduction of Honeywell’s
Biocrude Upgrading process technology comes as shipping companies seek to reduce their carbon footprints due
to customer demands and regulatory drivers. Since the 1960s, heavy fuel
oil—residual products from the refining of gasoline, diesel, and kerosene—has
been the principal energy source for the maritime sector and a main source of
its roughly 3% contribution of global greenhouse gas emissions[1].
For more than a decade, Honeywell has
provided process technologies for renewable and alternative fuels using various
feedstocks. The new Biocrude Upgrading technology is complementary to its
renewable fuels portfolio, which includes EcofiningTM, Ethanol to
Jet technology, Fischer-Tropsch (FT) Unicracking™ technology and UOP eFining™,
a process that converts green hydrogen and carbon dioxide into e-fuels. Learn
more about Honeywell’s renewable fuels portfolio here: https://uop.honeywell.com/en/industry-solutions/renewable-fuels.
Honeywell will spotlight this and other transformative
technologies at the Honeywell Growth
Symposium 2025, taking place on 30-31
October in Bengaluru, India. The event will bring together business
leaders, technology experts and Honeywell’s senior leadership to explore
emerging technologies, co-innovate solutions, and shape the future of
sustainable growth in the region.
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