Honeywell has launched its new SAF process technology and solution in China and valued China’s low-carbon transformation as a key direction, and hope to find better business paths and platforms here.

The company has recently signed multiple memorandums of understanding with local partners to boost SAF technological development and production at various sites across China.

Among them, Honeywell and Tianjin Free Trade Zone have agreed to jointly explore opportunities for SAF production in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, combining the city’s location and industrial advantages with Honeywell’s ready-now technology and equipment.

In September last year, Honeywell announced its cooperation with Zhejiang Jiaao Enprotech Stock Co., Ltd. to build an SAF production facility in Lianyungang City, east China’s Jiangsu Province. The facility will produce SAF by making use of kitchen waste oil and animal fat as the main raw materials.

Compared with traditional fuels, using kitchen waste oil and animal fat as raw materials can greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“China provides a suitable place to apply many of our pioneering technologies and solutions, and allows these technical routes to be verified,” Honeywell stated.

Honeywell’s implementation in the Chinese market will also provide a strong reference point for other markets, helping to increase the confidence and impetus of technology application globally.

LIGHTING DESIGNERS CAN INTEGRATE THE BEST TECHNOLOGY

NZS 20086 is a complementary standard to be used in conjunction with the existing standard NZS 4243.2 – Energy efficiency – Large buildings – Part 2: Lighting. Together this helps provide greater scope to lighting designers, architects and engineers around different types of lighting controls you can have and ways to estimate and measure the effect of adaptive lighting. Following these standards helps to evaluate design ideas and technology options holistically, before a project reaches the approval stage.

BUILDING ENERGY PROFESSIONALS HAVE THE RIGHT METRICS

Building energy and carbon assessment-and-verification professionals will have fit-for-purpose metrics and calculation methods for standards-based evaluation and reporting.

SAVING MONEY AND MEASURING ENERGY USE

Decision making can be informed through the evaluation energy use, operational carbon emissions and costs in terms of existing or prospective buildings.

For building owners, there could be financial benefits in optimising lighting operations and potentially reducing overall energy consumption.

For state sector stakeholders working to the Carbon Neutral Government Programme (CNGP) 2025 deadline, energy savings could reduce the number of carbon credits required.

ENERGY REGULATORS CAN REPORT AGAINST PROGRAMMES

The new standard will help achieve public policy objectives by providing reporting methods in line with the CNGP and Building for Climate Change (BfCC) programmes.

LIGHTING EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS CAN GIVE MORE INFORMED ADVICE

The new standard supports “accounting rules” for objective business case compilation and a basis for calculating a project’s net present value in order to justify an investment in controls technology. Investors, suppliers and customers should all benefit.

INSTALLATION CONTRACTORS CAN OFFER THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY

Electrical contractors and smart building systems integrators will be able to add value to their services by using the methods as commissioning and continuous improvement frameworks.

CHANGING HOW SPACES ARE LIT

What’s clear is that the way we light buildings is changing. Lighting that is appropriately located, of the correct light level, and suited to the needs of users can reduce energy wastage, drive down carbon emissions and costs and provide metrics to inform choices. With NZS 20086 as the standard, lighting will work smarter, more efficiently and more effectively.

The revised standard also takes into consideration emerging products on the market, as well as the societal behavior of hot water consumption.

The revised standard will assist manufacturers, suppliers and governments by providing a clear and consistent basis for consumer guidance, regulation and support programs for the assessment of energy consumption by heated water systems.

The amendments made are now reflective of the rapid technological advances in market and have also consolidated previous amendments to create a straightforward standard to minimize confusion within industry.

REVISED STANDARDS

AS/NZS 4234, HEATED WATER SYSTEMS – CALCULATION OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION

AS/NZS 4234:2021 Sup 1:2021, HEATED WATER SYSTEMS – CALCULATION OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION – PARAMETERS AND OUTCOMES FOR SOFTWARE SIMULATIONS (SUPPLEMENT TO AS/NZS 4234:2021)