KROHNE has been highlighting its process instrumentation portfolio engineered for the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) market.
The portfolio enables producers to manage challenging feedstocks, hydrogen service, and demanding process conditions ranging from pretreatment through the final downstream process.
As SAF projects move from first-of-a-kind plants toward larger-scale deployment, engineers are under pressure to upscale the process while maintaining reliable, economically viable production assets.
The SAF value chain brings together two distinct domains: conventional oil and gas refining and the production of renewable feedstocks such as used cooking oil, edible oils, ethanol and biogas.
This combination introduces process complexity across the entire process chain, including feedstock pretreatment, hydrotreatment and isomerisation, hydrogen management and custody transfer.
“The SAF industry brings together two very different worlds,” said Yannick Farine, industry manager biofuels and bioenergy at KROHNE. “Success depends on understanding the behaviour of renewable feedstocks upstream while also meeting the demands of downstream refining. Our goal is to help customers optimize processes, reduce maintenance and build SAF plants they can rely on for years to come.”
