Success in the renewable fuels industry is determined by the operator’s ability to procure the right feed at the right price. The key investment risk is in having to bet on the availability and price of the specific chosen feed.UniFuel has developed a patented “Flexiforming” chemical platform that converts alcohols, light olefins or renewable naphtha into drop-in fuels (SAF, renewable gasoline, BTX) and chemicals, designed to retrofit into existing refineries and give feedstock flexibility.
UniFuel’s core technology is called Flexiforming — a single‐stage, all gas‐phase reactor (≈10 atm, ~400 °C) built on established zeolite catalysts. It can convert a wide variety of feedstocks: fuel-grade ethanol, methanol, other alcohols; renewable naphtha; LPG; light olefins from FCC dry gas. From those feeds it produces drop-in fuels (including sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”), gasoline) and aromatics such as BTX (benzene, toluene, xylene).
In terms of performance, the pilot demonstrated for the ethanol-to-jet route that Flexiforming uses ~75% less energy and ~33% less hydrogen than competing ETJ (ethanol-to-jet) routes, cutting processing costs by up to ~50%.
Key features of technology:
- Co-processing of fossil + renewable feeds
- Retrofit into existing refinery equipment (e.g., idle hydrotreaters or reformers)
- Lower capex, lower emissions
- 100% drop-in, no blending needed
Feed/product flexibility
