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SAF Process Flowsheets & Simulations

Explore 2 validated, solved SAF simulation flowsheets in MaximaLabs — real components: ethanol, ethylene, water, 1_decene, hydrogen, n_decane. Open any one directly in your browser.

Solved via: PENG-ROBINSON.

ETOH FEED
Dehydrate
WSEP
Water Byproduct
Oligomerize
H2 FEED
MIX
Hydrogenate
Fractionate
Light ENDS
SAF Product
LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels, Soperton, Georgia, USA

Sustainable Aviation Fuel via Alcohol-to-Jet

Bio-ethanol is catalytically dehydrated to ethylene, oligomerized toward a decene-range olefin, then hydrogenated to n-decane — a real synthetic paraffin in the SAF/jet-range carbon-number band.

11 unit ops • PENG-ROBINSON

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OIL
H2feed
MIX
HDO
HC
Hpsep
Recycle H2
Water KO
SOUR Water
Letdown
Lpsep
Offgas
feed
dist
btms
Qc
Qr
NAPH COL
Naphtha
feed
dist
btms
Qc
Qr
JET COL
SAF JET
Renewable Diesel
Renewable-fuels refinery, Norco, Louisiana, USA

Renewable diesel & SAF: HEFA hydrotreating train

The HEFA (Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids) pathway to sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel from fats/oils/greases: a triglyceride feed (triolein) plus a large hydrogen excess is hydrodeoxygenated (HDO) to n-paraffins + propane + water, the paraffins are hydrocracked/isomerized toward the jet range, the H₂-rich recycle gas and the HDO process water are knocked out, the light ends are stabilized, and a two-column fractionation splits the product into light naphtha, a jet-range SAF cut, and renewable-diesel bottoms.

17 unit ops • PENG-ROBINSON

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