Air Products, the leading global supplier of hydrogen to refineries to assist in the production of cleaner burning transportation fuels, has unique experience in the hydrogen fueling industry. The company’s varied fueling applications provide an opportunity to assess consumer experiences, evaluate product performance, and advance product improvements.
In fact, in certain market applications, hydrogen fueling rates of over 15,000 refills per year are occurring at several individual sites. The company has placed over 130 hydrogen fueling stations in the United States and 19 countries worldwide. Cars, trucks, vans, buses, scooters, forklifts, locomotives, planes, cell towers, material handling equipment, and even submarines have been fueled with trend-setting technologies that involve Air Products’ know-how, equipment, and hydrogen. Use of the company’s technology is increasing and is currently used for over 370,000 hydrogen fills per year.
This expertise was not obtained overnight. Air Products has more than 50 years of hydrogen experience and is on the forefront of hydrogen energy technology development. The company has an extensive patent portfolio with over 50 patents in hydrogen dispensing technology. Air Products provides liquid and gaseous hydrogen, and HCNG (hydrogen/ compressed natural gas) fueling, and has developed a variety of enabling devices and protocols for fuel dispensing at varied pressures. Hydrogen for fueling stations can be delivered to a site via truck, produced by natural gas reformation, biomass conversion, or by electrolysis, including electrolysis that is solar and wind driven.
In a February 13, 2012, Department of Energy news release posted to www.energy. gov, US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said, “The United States is competing in a global race for the clean energy jobs of the future. The choice we face as a nation is simple: do we want the clean energy technologies of tomorrow to be invented in America by American innovators, made by American workers, and sold around the world, or do we want to concede those jobs to our competitors? We can and must compete for those jobs.”
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