Phelan eFuels has selected Honeywell UOP’s Fischer Tropsch (FT) Unicracking™ process technology for its e-SAF facility in Saldanha Bay, South Africa. The process uses FT liquids and waxes made from CO2 to create e-SAF that complies with aviation industry standards.

The new facility forms a core part of the Phelan Green Hydrogen Project, a R47 billion (approximately €2.4 billion) private investment that the South African government has designated as a nationally strategic green industrial development. Once operational, the project will be one of the world’s first commercial-scale e-SAF production facilities supplying more than 140,000 tons (10,000 tonnes) of e-SAF to the EU and UK markets.

“We selected Honeywell’s Fischer Tropsch Unicracking process technology because it provides a proven, bankable pathway to produce sustainable aviation fuel at scale. This project is a major milestone for Phelan Green and for South Africa’s emerging e-fuels economy, and demonstrates our commitment to industrial development, job creation and innovative energy projects that are at the cutting edge of emission reduction,” said Chairman Paschal Phelan.