Honeywell has released its Emissions Control & Reduction Initiative (ECRI), which is designed to help customers achieve carbon neutrality across the value chain. Initially, the ECRI will focus on upstream, midstream, and downstream operations to target fugitive methane emissions, which the Environmental Protection Agency says are more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere.
The initiative, which will be available to customers by Q4 2022, aims to provide early detection of fugitive methane emissions using its portfolio of fixed, portable, and personal gas detection solutions along with gas cloud imaging cameras. By combining these tools, Honeywell will be able to determine the precise location of leaks and will help create data trends which will allow users to address risks as early as possible, minimising production losses and boosting sustainability.
“The Emissions Control and Reduction Initiative expands on Honeywell’s wide range of ready-now technologies that are helping our customers meet their sustainability goals,” said Ujjwal Kumar, president of Honeywell Process Solutions. “With our pedigree in gas detection and breadth of solutions, Honeywell is providing customers with a holistic and proactive approach to emission reduction that they’ve never had before.”
Honeywell noted that the potential of the ECRI works in tandem with the company’s Leak Detection & Repair testing methods, which work to improve reporting accuracy and allow users to detect production losses more quickly.
Honeywell has made new sustainability commitments beyond its goal to become carbon neutral in its facilities and operations by 2035. It is now pledging to develop a “science-based target” which includes scope 3 emissions as well as participation in the US Department of Energy’s Better Climate Challenge. The company notes that since 2004, it has reduced the greenhouse gas intensity of its operations and facilities by 90%.
