Phelan Green Chooses Honeywell Technology for Landmark eSAF Facility

Green Fuels Phelan Green Chooses Honeywell Technology for Landmark eSAF Facility

2026-04-08 Source: Press release Honeywell 2 min Reading Time

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Phelan Green has selected Honeywell UOP’s Fischer Tropsch Unicracking process technology for its eSAF facility in Saldanha bay, South Africa. On completion, the project is expected to be one of the world’s first commercial-scale eSAF production facilities supplying more than 140,000 tons of eSAF to the EU and UK markets.

Phelan efuels will deploy Honeywell UOP’s Fischer Tropsch Unicracking process technology, which uses FT liquids and waxes made from CO2 to create eSAF that complies with aviation industry standards.(Source: Pixabay) — Phelan efuels will deploy Honeywell UOP’s Fischer Tropsch Unicracking process technology, which uses FT liquids and waxes made from CO2 to create eSAF that complies with aviation industry standards.
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Cape Town/South Africa – Phelan Green, through its clean fuels subsidiary Phelan efuels, has recently announced that it has selected Honeywell’s renewable fuel process technology for its planned electro sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) facility in Saldanha Bay, Western Cape, South Africa.

Phelan efuels will deploy Honeywell UOP’s Fischer Tropsch (FT) Unicracking 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 sustainable aviation fuel 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.”

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The new facility forms a core part of the Phelan Green Hydrogen Project, a R47 billion (approximately 2.5 billion dollar) private investment that has been formally recognized 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 tons 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 sustainable aviation fuel production in South Africa.”

Construction of the Saldanha Bay facility will commence in Q4 2026 and will support thousands of local jobs across multiple phases, helping to position the country as a competitive export hub for next-generation aviation fuels.

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