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Honeywell offers proven carbon capture technologies to Indonesian industries
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o help meet the requirements of Indonesia’s recently enacted carbon capture regulation, Honeywell has offered a full suite of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) solutions that support high carbon emission industries.
Honeywell said in a statement on Tuesday that Indonesia was the first country in Southeast Asia to provide a regulatory framework to facilitate the implementation of CCUS technologies to capture and contain carbon dioxide (CO2).
The company added that its CCUS solutions provided end-to-end emissions management for high carbon emission industries, such as oil and gas, energy, cement, steel, refineries, chemicals and petrochemicals.
Through Honeywell’s CCUS solutions, companies can detect, measure, monitor and mitigate more than 20 greenhouse gases.
Steven Lien, Honeywell President Southeast Asia and Chief Commercial Officer High Growth Regions, said: “Honeywell technologies are ready now to capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes and store them underground or utilize them for other purposes, such as enhanced oil recovery or the production of synthetic, sustainable fuels.
"Both pre- and post-combustion carbon capture can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support the transition to a low-carbon economy.”
Through installed projects worldwide that utilize Honeywell’s CO2 technology, its customers currently have the capacity to capture 40 million tonnes of CO2 per year, or equivalent to the emissions of more than 8.6 million cars.
Honeywell said its key carbon capture offerings include chemical solvents like the AmineGuard™ Process, AmineGuard™ FS Process and Benfield ACT-1, physical solvents like the Selexol™ Process as well as cryogenics and membranes, such as Separex™ Membrane Systems and Ortloff CO2 Fractionation.
Indonesia has many industrial sources of CO2, including coal-fired power plants, natural gas processing plants, oil refineries and chemical plants.
It also has numerous geological resources with the potential to become carbon capture storage locations, and several industrial projects have been initiated with the majority targeted to go onstream before 2030.
Dr. Luky Yusgiantoro, Executive Advisor to the Chairman of the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Task Force (SKK Migas), stated: "Indonesia has geological formations that can be used to store carbon emissions permanently with the right technology.
"Decarbonizing upstream and heavy industries is a critical step to realizing Indonesia’s net zero emissions [NZE] goal by 2060.”
He added: “The recently introduced [Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources] regulation MEMR No. 2/2023 is aimed at motivating and facilitating upstream industries in Indonesia to reduce carbon emissions. SKK Migas will continue to play an active role in the deployment of CCS/CCUS in Indonesia in the operational areas of the upstream oil and gas sector.”
Honewell UOP Indonesia country manager Sofia Subur said: “Other Indonesian heavy industries can also accelerate decarbonization journey and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions today by adopting proven technologies that best fit their business such as leak detection and remediation, and energy efficiency and optimization.
"By deploying the right technologies and solutions, non-upstream heavy industries can do their part now to reduce their carbon emissions".
Other Honeywell technologies that can help Indonesia achieve its NZE targe include blue hydrogen through carbon capture; renewable fuels from e-methanol/ethanol, biomass and fats, oils, greases; battery energy storage system; and plastics circularity through advanced chemical recycling.
