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Sustainability Definitions
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), is a process that captures carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel sources post-combustion to either reuse or store it before it can escape to the atmosphere. CCUS involves capturing the CO2 and converting it to chemicals or compressing and injecting it deep into contained geological formations, where it is safely stored.
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CARBON CAPTURE
By implementing Honeywell UOP’s proven technologies for the capture of CO₂ and hydrogen purification, we will enable our customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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HONEYWELL CO₂ SOLUTIONS
Blue hydrogen is hydrogen produced from natural gas by either steam methane reforming (SMR), autothermal reforming (ATR) or partial oxidation (POX) combined with carbon capture. The carbon capture can occur on a pre-combustion stream (flue gas). The separated CO2 would then be safely sequestered underground in geologic formations.
BLUE HYDROGEN
Honeywell Rebellion is a single end-to-end platform provider of intelligent, visual monitoring solutions that help maximize safety, operational performance, emissions mitigation and compliance in the energy sector. The Gas Cloud Imaging system uses proprietary hyperspectral imaging technology coupled with machine learning analytics to pinpoint leak sources and measure the volumes and concentrations of leaks.
REBELLION™ GAS CLOUD IMAGING (GCI)
Honeywell’s breakthrough Solstice® hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) technology is used in various applications, including refrigerants for supermarkets, air conditioning for cars, blowing agents for insulation, propellants for personal and household care and solvents for cleaning solutions.
SOLSTICE®
Carbon accounting is the process by which organizations quantify their greenhouse gas emissions, so that they may understand their climate impact and set goals to limit their emissions. In some organizations, this is known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory.
CARBON ACCOUNTING
The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol is an international agreement that reduces the consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
KIGALI AMENDMENT
The carbon cycle is the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment: the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.
CARBON CYCLE
A carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gas emissions caused by an individual, event, organization, service, place, or product, and is expressed as CO2 equivalent.
CARBON FOOTPRINT
The amount of carbon dioxide by weight per unit of energy consumed. A common measure of carbon intensity is weight of carbon dioxide per British thermal unit (Btu) of energy. When there is only one fossil fuel under consideration, the carbon intensity and the emissions coefficient are identical. When there are several fuels, carbon intensity is based on their combined emissions coefficients weighted by their energy consumption levels.
CARBON INTENSITY
Carbon neutral means some emissions are generated but offset somewhere else to make overall emissions zero. This can be done by balancing emissions of carbon dioxide with its removal from the atmosphere either through carbon sinks or carbon capture and storage.
CARBON NEUTRALITY
Peak carbon is the point when global emissions switch from increasing to decreasing.
PEAK CARBON
Carbon sequestration is the process capturing and storing produced carbon dioxide. It is one method of decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to reduce global climate change. Types of carbon sequestration include biological, geological, technological, and industrial.
CARBON SEQUESTRATION
The COP is the main decisions-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC is an agreement between 197 parties: 196 States of the United Nations and the EU. Representatives of these member countries meet annually to set global direction on climate policy, like those established by The Paris Climate Accords, adopted in 2015, to keep the rise in mean global temperature to well below 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
CONFERENCE OF PARTIES (COP)
Honeywell is accelerating the development of a catalyst-coated membrane (CCM) that is expected to help green hydrogen make an impact within hard-to-abate sectors. We understand the growing demands, the intricacies of hydrogen production and how to innovate technology that supports energy transition goals.
CATALYST-COATED MEMBRANE
Honeywell is a proven leader in developing membrane technologies, and our latest technology has been validated in lab tests by third-party hydrogen electrolyzer technologies.
Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) are drop-in fuel blending components derived from renewable or waste-based feedstocks that, relative to petroleum-based aviation fuels, provide reduced carbon dioxide emissions.
SAFs represent an important market for the bioeconomy because they can be produced from multiple biomass feedstocks and conversion pathways, and are compatible with existing aviation engines, distribution infrastructure, and storage facilities.
SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUEL (SAF)
Honeywell’s new low-flow battery technology can deliver flexibility and extended duration for utilities. The battery stores energy that can be used to manage renewable power intermittency, to supply power in the event of an outage and to mitigate congestion when power grids are at capacity.
LONG-DURATION ENERGY STORGE
The new flow battery uses a safe, non-flammable electrolyte that converts electricity to chemical energy to store for later use while meeting the current environment, reliability and safety objectives of utilities.
UniSim Design Suite is a process simulation software package which helps industries improve productivity and profitability throughout an engineering project or plant asset lifecycle. Powerful simulation & analysis tools, along with the integrated approach to engineering solutions provided by UniSim Design, enable companies to improve designs, optimize production and enhance decision-making. Process models are at the core of advanced online & offline applications for operational monitoring and, process optimization, operator training, and cloud-enabled services.
UniSim Design features include flowsheeting capabilities for traditional oil & gas and downstream process plants as well as for Green H2 production and CO2 emissions assessments.
UNISIM® DESIGN
Introduced in the late 1990s, HFCs are now used throughout the world as refrigerants in air conditioning to cool cars, homes, and buildings, in home and commercial refrigeration, in foam insulation, and as aerosol propellants and solvents. Therefore, the international community has come together to phase down the use of HFCs across the globe.
HYDROFLUOROCARBON (HFC)
A circular economy is an industrial system that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design. It replaces the end-of-life disposal with restoration, shifts towards the use of renewable energy, and aims for the elimination of waste through the superior design of materials, products, systems, and business models.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Climate change can be a natural process where temperature, rainfall, wind and other elements vary over decades or more. In millions of years, our world has been warmer and colder than it is now. But today we are experiencing rapid warming from human activities.
CLIMATE CHANGE
A carbon dioxide equivalent or CO2 equivalent, abbreviated as CO2-eq, is a measurement used to compare the emissions from various greenhouse gases based on their global-warming potential (GWP) by converting amounts of other gases to the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide with the same global warming potential.
CO2 EQUIVALENT
An electrolyzer is a system that used electricity to break water into hydrogen and oxygen in a process called electrolysis. Through electrolysis, the electrolyzer system creates hydrogen gas. The oxygen that’s left over can be released into the atmosphere or can be released into the atmosphere or can be captured or stored to supply other industrial processes or even medical gases in some cases.
The hydrogen gas can be either stored as a compressed gas o r liquified, and since hydrogen is an energy carrier, it can be used to power any hydrogen fuel call electro application – whether it’s trains, buses, trucks, or data centers.
Hydrogen can also be burned in gas turbine engines, diesel engines and turbine engines, diesel engines and used as fuel in existing fired heaters.
ELECTROLYZER
Energy storage captures the energy produced at one time for use later to reduce imbalances between energy demand and energy production.
ENERGY STORAGE
Environmental sustainability is defined as responsible interaction with the environment to avoid depletion or degradation of natural resources and allow for long-term environmental quality. The practice of environmental sustainability helps to ensure that the needs of today’s population are met without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to meet their needs
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
ESG means using Environmental, Social, and Governance factors to evaluate companies and countries on non-financial risk factors that can impact long-term market performance.
E, the environmental criterial, includes the energy a company takes in and waste it discharges, the resources it needs, and the consequences for living beings as a result.
S, the social criteria, addresses the relationships a company has and the reputation it fosters with people and institutions in the communities where it does business.
G, the governance criteria, is the internal system of practices, controls, and procedures a company adopts to govern itself, make effective decisions, comply with the law and meet the needs of external stakeholders.
ESG – ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE
Biodiesel – Also known as fatty acid methyl ester of FAME, is an oxygenated fuel created through a method called transesterification with methanol. This process improved the fuel properties of the oils and fats, which are then blended with petroleum diesel at a 5% o 20% ration.
Renewable diesel – Renewable diesel is a biomass-derived transportation fuel suitable for use in diesel engines. It meets the ASTM D975 specification for petroleum in the United States and EN 590 in Europe.
RENEWABLE DIESEL VS BIODIESEL
The UOP Ecofining™ process, developed with Eni SpA, converts non-edible natural oils, animal fats and other waste feedstocks to Renewable Diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), which is comparable to petroleum-based counterparts. Honeywell SAF meets the ASTM D7566 specification for Aviation Fuel under Annex A2 for HEFA-SPK.
UOP currently has licensed 24 Ecofining™ units in eleven countries around the world, processing 12 different types of renewable feedstocks.
UOP RENEWABLE JET FUEL PROCESS
The single-stage Honeywell UOP Ecofining™ process produces high-cetene transportation fuels chemically identical to petroleum-based diesel. This process uses a combination of catalysts within a single reaction stage to remove oxygenates and other contaminants from the feedstock and then isomerize the feed to improve that cold-flow properties of the distillate product.
SINGLE-STAGE ECOFINING
A battery energy storage system (BESS) is an electrochemical device that charges (or collects energy) from the grid or a power plant and then discharges that energy at a later time to provide electricity or other gride services when needed.
BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM
Honeywell’s BESS Platform leverages best practices for energy management such as energy arbitrage and demand management to deliver flexibility and optimize energy cost.
The co-processing of renewable feedstocks with fossil equivalents in distillate hydrotreating units can result in fuel streams with renewable content and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Hydrotreating is a critical step in the refining process where hydrogen and proprietary catalysts are used to pre-treat petroleum and other products to remove sulfur, nitrogen, metals and other contaminants before conversion into transportation fuels. Hydrotreating helps produce cleaner-burning gasoline and diesel that meets increasingly stringent fuel regulations.
HYDROTREATING CO-PROCESSING
Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are called greenhouse gases, including CO2, methane, N2O, and fluorinated gases.
GHG (GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS]
“Grey” hydrogen: produced industrially from natural gas, which generates significant carbon emission.
“Blue” hydrogen: produced from natural gas and the CO2 is captured and either sequestered or re-purposed.
“Green” hydrogen: produced by electrolysis of water using electricity from renewable sources with no CO2 emissions.
HYDROGEN: All the colors
International Sustainability and Carbon Ceritifcation (OSCC) us a globally applicable sustainability certification system and covers all sustainable feedstocks, including agricultural and forestry biomass, circular materials (such as waster plastics), and bio-based materials (such as renewables).
ISCC CERTIFICATES
An organization that sets out the basic legal framework and principles for international climate change cooperation with the aim of stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs).
UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change)
Compilation and evaluation of the inputs, outputs, and the potential environmental impacts of a product system throughout its life cycle. The comprehensive examination of a product or service’s environmental aspects and potential impacts throughout its lifetime, including raw material extraction, transportation, manufacturing, use, and disposal.
LCA (Life Cycle Analysis)
Low carbon energy system means an energy system based on low carbon energy sources that have a minimal output of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.
LOW CARBON ENERGY SYSTEM
A membrane is a semi-permeable film of various materials, types and construction. It allows some things to pass through but stops others. These things could be different molecules, ions, or other small particles.
MEMBRANE
Net zero refers to balance between the amount of GHG emissions produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere. Somewhat stricter than carbon-neutral, a net zero GHG condition applies to a system that has offset all GHG emissions with an equal amount of carbon dioxide sequestration from the atmosphere.
NET ZERO
Emissions are broken down into three categories by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol in order to better understand the source.
Scope 1 – All direct emissions from the activities of organization or under their control. Including fuel combustion on site such as gas boilers, fleet vehicles and air-conditioning leaks.
Scope 2 – Indirect GHG emissions associated with the purchase of electricity, steam, heat, or cooling. Although scope 2 emissions physically occur at the facility where they are generated, they are account for in an organization’s GHG inventory because they are a result of the organization’s energy use.
Scope 3 – The result of activities from assets not owned or controlled by the reporting organization, by that the organization indirectly impacts in its value chain. Scope 3 emissions include all GHG emissions sources associated with a product throughout its useful life that are not within an organization’s scope 1 and 2 boundaries.
EMISSIONS
Electrolysis produces hydrogen-rich gases that contain moisture and traces of oxygen. Honeywell UOP purification technologies are used to produce hydrogen with a moderate or high purity from these gases.
GREEN HYDROGEN PURIFICATION
Honeywell’s Experion® Energy Control System is the same control system that is well known in the automation and process control industry. We are adding control algorithms, energy prediction capability and advanced battery scheduling, and targeted towards the renewable ebergy market, including energy storage.
Experion® Energy Center is an advanced remote operations energy management platform. It is a unified suite consisting of battery energy storage systems (BESS), microgrid and renewable energy control, SCADA remote operations, and advanced analytics – all designed to meet today’s unique energy needs.
EXPERION® ENERGY CENTER
Biogas is a renewable stream than can be used as a fuel, for heating, or to generate electricity while producing less greenhouse gas emissions than fossil counterparts.
BIOGAS
Grey hydrogen is hydrogen produced using fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal without deploying carbon abatement technologies. Technologies like steam methan reforming or autothermal reforming are used to split natural gas into H2 and CO2, but the CO2 is not captured and is released into the atmosphere.
GREY HYDROGEN
The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at COP 21 in Paris on December 12, 2015, and entered into force on November 4, 2016. Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.
To reach this long-term temperature goal, countries aim to reach global peaking to greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible to achieve a carbon-neutral world by mid-century.
PARIS AGREEMENT
RPF is the product of the Honeywell waste plastics pyrolysis process. RPF is made by converting mixed waste plastics via pyrolysis into oil that closely resembles conventional petroleum fractions, such as naphtha and distillates.
RPF is used to displace virgin petroleum-based feeds from conventional petrochemicals processing, primarily steam crackers, to produce new building blocks for plastics. As such, the recycled plastics made from RPF are substitutable building blocks for virgin plastics. By using mixed waste plastics to make RPF, it reduces the amount of plastic needing to go to landfills.
RPF (Recycled Polymer Feedstock)
Renewable energy, often referred to as energy sources that are replenished by solar power or heat from the earth’s core over non-geological timescales. This term can be used for wind power, wave power, solar power hydroelectric power, geothermal power, ocean thermal power and energy from biomass sources that are grown sustainably.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Renewable identification numbers (RINs) are credits the US EPA uses to track and enforce compliance with the renewable fuels mandates set by the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) program in the US.
RINs are records of individual batches of renewable fuel that are blended into US gasoline and diesel pools. RINs are created whenever a batch of renewable fuel is refined. Each batch receives a unique identification number. RINs become usable as credits (“released”) once the renewable fuel is blended into gasoline or diesel int eh US. Once released, RINs can be traded.
RINs (Renewable Identification Numbers)
The stack is the heart of a battery energy storage system. It converts chemical energy (and vice versa) through an electrochemical reaction involving an anode and a cathode. A stack consists of several battery cells connected in series/parallel combination.
STACK
An energy attribute certificate (EAC) provides official documentation that one MWh of renewable electricity has been added to the grid. Purchasing an EAC entitles the buyer to make the only claim on consumption of that renewable energy and its associated environmental benefits. EACs go by different names in different countries such as renewable energy certificate (REC) in the U.S. and guarantee of origin (GO) in Europe. When a company uses EACs to document the renewable electricity delivered or consumed, those EACs are canceled in the registry to avoid double counting.
ENERGY ATTRIBUTE CERTIFICATE (EAC)
Targets are often considered ‘science-based’ if they are in line with what the latest climate science deems necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement – limiting global warming to well-below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C, helping prevent the worse impacts of climate change.
SCIENCE-BASED TARGETS
Biogas is a mixture of gases, primarily consisting or methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste, and food waste.
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