Honeywell has been awarded a contract by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop mature technology for Fuel Burn Reduction and test aviation biofuels for use in Honeywell Gas Turbine Engines.

The agreement is valued at approximately $27 million over the five-year life of the agreement, cost shared with the FAA. Honeywell will use its TECH7000 turbofan test engine as the basis for its research. The TECH7000 is a turbofan technology demonstrator that is based on Honeywell’s HTF7000 propulsion engine. The five-year contract, awarded under the FAA’s Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise (CLEEN) Program, covers a 12-month base period and four 12-month option periods.

CLEEN is a joint FAA-industry program focused on reducing current levels of aircraft noise, greenhouse gas emissions, and fuel burn and advancing alternative fuels for aviation use. CLEEN will accelerate maturation of engine and airframe technologies to meet NextGen environmental goals and enable greater mobility. Fuel burn reduction technologies matured in this contract will enable higher engine cycle efficiency through increased operating pressure and turbine inlet temperature.

For more information, read the press release.

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that Honeywell Green Jet Fuel™ produced using its Green Jet Fuel process technology powered a Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopter flown by the Royal Netherlands Air Force.

The flight, which is the first helicopter flight using sustainable aviation biofuels to date, was conducted at Gilze-Rijen Airbase, the home of the Royal Netherlands’ combat helicopter fleet. Natural oils from algae and used cooking oil were converted into Green Jet Fuel using process technology developed by Honeywell’s UOP. The aviation biofuel was blended in a 50 percent mixture with traditional jet fuel, and this blend was used to power one of the Apache’s engines for a series of test maneuvers. No modifications were made to the engine or airframe for the flight.

Honeywell Green Jet Fuel has been used in four previous commercial biofuel demonstration flights, including a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines demonstration flight in November 2009. The fuel has also been demonstrated in fixed-wing flights with the U.S. Air Force and Navy as part of a joint program for alternative fuels testing and certification under the U.S. Defense Energy Support Center (DESC).

The process technology was originally developed in 2007 under a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to produce renewable military jet fuel for the U.S. military. The process produces an aviation biofuel that can be blended seamlessly with petroleum-based fuel. As part of a 50 percent blend with petroleum-derived jet fuel, Green Jet Fuel is a drop-in replacement that requires no changes to the aircraft technology and meets all critical specifications for flight.

For more information, read the press release.

Honeywell’s UOP announced that Jim Rekoske has been named vice president and general manager for its Renewable Energy and Chemicals business.  Rekoske will succeed Jennifer Holmgren who is retiring from UOP after 23 years of service to the company.

Rekoske joined UOP in 1996 and has served in a number of R&D and business positions, including, engineering manager, technical director for UOP’s Catalysts, Adsorbents and Specialties business in the area of petrochemicals, director of technology for Universal Pharma Technologies (a UOP joint venture), and, most recently, senior manager, catalysis research and development.

He is the inventor or co-inventor named on 20 U.S. patents, with another 10 patent applications pending.  He was also recently awarded the 2010 Herman Pines Award from the Chicago Catalysis Club in recognition of his numerous technical breakthroughs in catalysis science.

Rekoske earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware. He also earned an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. 

For more information, read the press release.

More than 300 of Honeywell’s key customers, partners, leaders, and employees attended Honeywell China’s Technology Day, an opportunity for visitors to learn about the company’s great positions in good industries and differentiated technologies.

Honeywell’s products and solutions related to building and industrial controls, energy efficiency and generation, turbocharging, and aerospace were exhibited and interacted with at the event.

Shane Tedjarati, President and CEO of Honeywell China and India, spoke at Technology Day and emphasized the company’s expanding global presence to bring new product development, manufacturing, and service closer to customers.

“The world is placing great importance on China as the platform for global growth and this offers us good opportunities ahead,” said Tedjarati. “Together with all of you here, we have braved through the difficult times and will definitely do the same to capture the great opportunities that are to come.”

Honeywell’s guests were also invited to the Shanghai World Expo where they were introduced to the Honeywell safety, security, and energy efficiency technologies chosen to protect the properties at the World Expo 2010. A VIP tour was conducted at the USA Pavilion, where Honeywell is a sponsor and is enabling the 6,000 square meter venue to optimize energy efficient technologies for visitors’ comfort and safety.

For more information, watch Shane Tedjarati on CNBC discuss Honeywell’s presence at the World Expo and how China is the fastest growing region for the company.

The world is using more energy than ever. By the year 2030, worldwide energy use could increase as much as 44%. Honeywell offers energy efficiency options that could, if immediately and comprehensively adopted, reduce U.S. energy consumption by 20 to 25%.  

In order to showcase the breadth and depth of these technologies, Honeywell has launched a new website – www.honeywellenergyefficiency.com.  This interactive website is organized to allow users to search for Honeywell products and technologies by sector (residential, industrial, commercial, and transportation), and by energy-related challenge (consumption, conservation, generation, alternatives, protection).

Nearly 50% of Honeywell’s product portfolio delivers energy efficiency benefits.  This new website demonstrates how these technologies are helping make the world safer and more secure, more comfortable and energy efficient, and more innovative and productive.

Explore how Honeywell technologies and solutions are making an impact all around you.

This Earth Day – and every day – Honeywell is committed to addressing some of the world’s toughest challenges linked to energy efficiency, production, and management.

In fact, roughly 50 percent of Honeywell’s portfolio delivers energy efficiency benefits, including: 

• Avionics that allow planes to use more efficient flight profiles that burn 10% less fuel, while safely doubling the capacity of the skies.
• Building controls and programmable thermostats that help reduce energy usage by 20-30% without sacrificing comfort.
• Demand response technology that enables utilities to remotely lower home thermostats to reduce energy demand during peak periods, a key component of the Smart Grid.
• High-quality, drop-in replacement Honeywell Green Diesel™, which can be used within today’s fuel infrastructure and offers up to 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
• Turbochargers that allow engines one-third smaller to produce the same power as full-size engines, but with 25% less fuel and emissions.

And, that is only a small sample. In fact, if the U.S. and Europe just aggressively adopted existing Honeywell technologies – nothing that would have to be invented, just products and services already in existence – they could save 20-25% of current energy consumption.

Being a responsible steward of the environment is important to Honeywell’s global growth.  We’re committed to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 30%, increasing energy efficiency by 20%, and reducing hazardous waste generated per dollar of revenue by 15% by 2012. And, we are on target to meet these goals. 

For more information about the importance of sustainability and energy efficiency at Honeywell, visit the company’s Sustainability or Energy Efficiency websites, or watch Honeywell Chairman and CEO Dave Cote’s message to the Business Roundtable about the company’s commitment to a sustainable future.

Honeywell launched “Add Honeywell,” a new website that demonstrates how the company’s technologies and innovations are making the world safer and more secure, more comfortable and energy efficient, and more innovative and productive.

Through the use of 3-D animation, dynamic videos and photos, and easy navigation, the site demonstrates Honeywell’s technologies in aerospace, homes, refineries, commercial buildings, automobiles, and a broad range of other sector-specific applications.  “Add Honeywell” features hundreds of facts and statistics about the company’s differentiated technologies.

For more facts and information on Honeywell, visit www.AddHoneywell.com.

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, has received the “Biofuels Digest Company of the Year Award” for achievement in Processing Technology.

According to the Biofuels Digest article on the award, UOP received the recognition because of the company’s significant licensing activity for its hydroprocessing technology, utilized in converting renewable oils into renewable jet fuel.

UOP has been delivering cutting-edge technology to the petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries for more than 90 years.  It launched its Renewable Energy & Chemicals business in 2006 to develop and commercialize efficient and profitable ways to produce high-quality fuels and chemicals from natural oils and wastes. 

“Though UOP has long been a leading supplier to oil refineries, they have clearly set a new standard in bringing advanced biofuels to the next level with their hydroprocessing technology, which has provided fuel for a number of flight tests by commercial airlines and the military over the past two years,” said Biofuels Digest editor Jim Lane.

UOP, which also ranked #12 out of more than 1400 eligible companies in the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” for 2009-10, will be recognized at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. on April 27 and 28, 2010.

For more information, read the announcement in Biofuels Digest.

Honeywell Chairman and CEO Dave Cote appeared on CNBC’s “Mad Money” where he talked about energy efficiency and the U.S. economy with TV show host and respected money manager, Jim Cramer.

Cramer believes the U.S., led by large corporations that provide energy-related products and supply jobs, will emerge from this economic crisis stronger than before.

“Honeywell is more profitable than anyone could have imagined it would be at this point in the business cycle and this isn’t just any old industrial company,” said Cramer. “Honeywell’s products uniquely involve the controlling and saving of energy. That’s the story here.”

Nearly 50 percent of Honeywell’s product portfolio company-wide is linked to energy efficiency and renewable energy. Simply by using the Honeywell technologies available in the marketplace today, the U.S. alone could reduce energy consumption by 15 to 20 percent and play a key role in curbing and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

“We need to be driving energy efficiency in the [U.S.] for two big reasons,” said Cote. “The first one is economic security. You get economic security by making sure that you’re as self-sufficient as possible in energy. The second one is you need low-cost power for an economy to compete, and energy efficiency is the lowest cost power you can get.”

For more information, watch the full interview.

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that its renewable jet fuel process technology was used to convert second-generation, renewable feedstocks to green jet fuel for a biofuel demonstration flight by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

UOP’s process technology was used to convert oil from camelina, an inedible plant, to green jet fuel for the flight. One engine of a Boeing 747 was powered by a fuel mixture consisting of a 50/50 mix of the green jet fuel and traditional petroleum-derived jet fuel.

The flight, which took place at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, is the first green jet fuel demonstration flight in Europe and the first test flight to carry a select group of observers. UOP’s process technology was also used to produce jet fuel used in previous test flights conducted in the U.S., Japan and New Zealand. Test results from earlier demonstration flights showed that green jet fuel produced using UOP’s process technology performs as well, if not better, than jet fuel made from petroleum.

For more information, read the press release.