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Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)

Accelerate Your Sustainable Fuel Journey

With extensive renewable process expertise and sustainable innovations, Ecolab helps industrial businesses achieve high quality fuels while maintaining reliable and efficient operations. Through unparalleled collaboration among key players such as Delta Air Lines, Xcel Energy Bank of America, and Ecolab.  

We are committed to:

  • Accelerating the adoption of low carbon SAF by enabling the integrated value chain from feedstock, processing and refining to blending and use through environmental and water stewardship

  • Enabling reliable and efficient production through our biodiesel and biorefinery treatment portfolio 

  • Innovating to meet future production pathway and blending demands

  • Partnering with key players to address the challenges of sustainable aviation fuel production and treatment
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Collaborating for Success

Ecolab is a proud anchor member of the Minnesota SAF Hub. Led by the GREATER MSP Partnership, the Minnesota SAF Hub is the United State’s first large-scale hub committed to scaling production of sustainable aviation fuel. 
Read Ecolab Coalition AnnouncementOther Ecolab Minnesota SAF Hub News

Sustainable Aviation Fuels​

The aviation industry is entering a new age with a focus on reducing carbon footprints and bolstering sustainable operations. Aviation fuels has been in the global media recently, gaining attention with new laws being enacted. Decarbonizing aviation fuels is becoming a priority for airlines as incentives and laws are put in place to promote sustainable aviation fuel production.

Nalco Water provides customers with deep renewable process knowledge, focused innovation, and net zero carbon focused strategies and solutions resulting in the assurance that Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production operations will be reliable and cost efficient. 

Aviation Fuel Additives

SAF as jet fuel is posing new challenges in application and blending of the products from renewable diesel refining.  Nalco Water provides customers with deep renewable process knowledge, focused innovation, and net zero carbon focused strategies and solutions resulting in the assurance that SAF production operations will be reliable and cost efficient. Our corrosion, lubricity, antistatic, antioxidant, biocide, and metal deactivator offerings help produce high quality fuels throughout the value chain.

Biorefinery Treatment

Most SAF is produced from renewable feedstock refining as Hydrotreated Esters and Fatty Acids (HEFA). Nalco Water offers a comprehensive approach, providing an integrated suite of solutions for production sites as they rise to the challenge of processing renewable feedstocks into sustainable fuels. Our holistic offering includes a portfolio of solutions for feedstock stability & pre-treatment, refinery processing & wastewater processing, and fuel additives to meet required specifications for sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel. 

Innovative Routes to SAF

New pathways like ethanol-to-jet and methanol-to-jet are being developed and scaled up. As these technologies and Power to Liquids are being developed, Nalco Water is partnering with refiners to enable reliable and efficient operations.