Phelan Green selects Honeywell technology for eSAF facility

Phelan eFuels will deploy Honeywell UOP’s Fischer Tropsch (FT) Unicracking^TM process technology, which uses FT liquids and waxes made from CO₂ to create eSAF that complies with aviation industry standards.

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

The new facility forms a core part of the Phelan Green Hydrogen Project, a R47 billion (approximately US$2.5 billion) private investment that has been formally recognised by the South African government as a nationally strategic green industrial development. Once operational, the project will be one of the world’s first commercial-scale eSAF production facilities supplying more than 140 000 t of eSAF to the EU and UK markets.

“Honeywell’s technologies are designed to enable scalable, efficient, and flexible production of low-carbon fuels,” said Rajesh Gattupalli, President of Honeywell UOP. “In this case, our Fischer Tropsch Unicracking process technology will help support Phelan eFuels’ goal to encourage commercial scale SAF production in South Africa.”

Construction of the Saldanha Bay facility will commence in 4Q26 and will support thousands of local jobs across multiple phases, helping position the country as a competitive export hub for next-generation aviation fuels.

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