埃克森美孚甲醇制航空燃料技术为SAF生产提供新途径

中国石化新闻网讯 据烃加工2022年7月5日报道，美国最大的上市石油公司埃克森美孚公司7月5日宣布了一项独特的工艺技术，这个独特工艺技术可以使可再生甲醇制造可持续航空燃料(SAF)成为可能。埃克森美孚公司专注于利用新技术和基础设施发展低排放航空燃料业务。

埃克森美孚公司正在研发可再生甲醇制航空燃料的技术，当可再生甲醇作为原料时，这个技术将生产SAF。这是埃克森美孚公司从其他生物饲料中生产SAF的一整套技术解决方案的拓展。

埃克森美孚公司低排放燃料业务主管鲁斯·格林表示：“可再生甲醇生产的SAF可以在帮助航空业实现向净零碳排放的未来转型方面发挥重要作用。到2050年前实现这一目标需要多方面的解决方法，包括与航空器相关技术的进步、基础设施和运营的改变以及SAF供应的大幅增加。我们的工艺技术可以是朝着这个方向迈出的重要一步。”

埃克森美孚公司在开发具有优势的专有工艺技术和催化剂以生产社会需要的能源产品方面有着悠久的历史。埃克森美孚公司正在利用其核心能力开发一种将甲醇制SAF的解决方案。生物质和废物气化产生的甲醇，以及低碳氢气和捕获的二氧化碳，可以使用埃克森美孚公司的甲醇制航空燃料专有工艺技术和催化剂转化为SAF。

埃克森美孚公司的初步估计表明，这种解决方案比其他选择有更高的航空燃料产量。埃克森美孚公司的解决方案还提供了使用混合醇作为原料的灵活性，并生产可再生柴油和低碳化学品原料。

埃克森美孚公司催化剂和许可有限责任公司总裁詹姆斯·里奇说：“甲醇制航空燃料技术是可扩展的，适用于当今世界规模工厂生产的甲醇的转化。”埃克森美孚公司对可再生航空燃料进行鉴定的工作已经开始。

此外，埃克森美孚公司拥有可用于将其他可再生生物饲料，如用过的食用油、动物脂肪和植物油转化为可再生航空燃料的工艺技术和催化剂。

李峻 编译自 烃加工

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ExxonMobil methanol to jet technology to provide new route for SAF production

ExxonMobil announced a unique process technology to enable the manufacture of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from renewable methanol. ExxonMobil is focused on growing its lower-emission fuels business by leveraging technology and infrastructure.

ExxonMobil is engineering proprietary methanol to jet technology that will produce SAF when renewable methanol is used as feedstock. This expands upon ExxonMobil’s suite of technology solutions that are engineered to manufacture SAF from other biofeeds.

“SAF produced from renewable methanol can play an important role in helping the aviation industry achieve the transition to a net-zero future. Reaching that goal by 2050 will require a multi-faceted approach, including advancements in aircraft-related technology, changes to infrastructure and operations, and a dramatic increase in SAF supply. Our process technology can be an important step in this direction,” said Russ Green, ExxonMobil’s lower-emission fuels venture executive.

Proprietary Methanol to Jet Technology ExxonMobil has a long history of developing advantaged proprietary process technologies and catalysts to make energy products that society needs. ExxonMobil is leveraging its core capabilities to develop a solution that converts methanol to SAF. Methanol derived from the gasification of biomass and waste, as well as from lower-carbon hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide (CO₂), can be converted into SAF using ExxonMobil’s methanol to jet proprietary process technology and catalysts.

Preliminary estimates by ExxonMobil suggest that this solution has a higher yield of jet fuel than other options. The ExxonMobil solution also provides the flexibility to use a mix of alcohols as feedstock and produce renewable diesel and lower-carbon chemical feedstocks.

“Methanol to jet technology is scalable and suitable for the conversion of methanol produced from today's world-scale plants. The work necessary to qualify the resulting renewable jet fuel pathway has already started,” said James Ritchie, president of ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC.

Additionally, ExxonMobil has process technology and catalysts that are available to customers today which convert other renewable biofeeds, such as used cooking oils, animal fats, and vegetable oil, into renewable jet fuel.