7 January 2019
ABOUT Air Products’ SmartFuel® technologies
Air Products, the leading global supplier of hydrogen to refineries
to assist in producing cleaner burning transportation fuels,
has vast experience in the hydrogen fueling industry.
In fact, several sites today for certain hydrogen fueling applications
are fueling at rates of over 75,000 refills per year.
Use of the company’s fueling technology is increasing
and is used in over 1,500,000 hydrogen fills per year.
The company has been involved in
over 250 hydrogen fueling projects
in the United States and 20 countries worldwide.
Cars, trucks, vans, buses, scooters, forklifts, locomotives,
planes, cell towers, material handling equipment,
and even submarines have been fueled with
trend-setting Air Products’ SmartFuel® technologies.
DETAILS
the leading global hydrogen provider,
today announced plans to build
a second liquid hydrogen production facility in California
to meet increasing product demand
from several customer markets, including
the growing fleet of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV)
in the state.
Project development work is already underway
with an anticipated facility onstream
during the first quarter of 2021.
Liquified hydrogen is delivered in trailers
to customers in industries including:
electronics, chemical and petrochemical, metals,
material handling, float glass, edible fats and oils,
and utilities, as well as to
hydrogen fueling stations where it is re-gasified
for fueling hydrogen powered fuel cell vehicles.
This is the second new liquid hydrogen plant
in the United States (U.S.) Air Products has announced
in the past few months.
In September 2018, Air Products announced plans to build
a new liquid hydrogen plant at its La Porte, Texas facility
which will be supplied hydrogen from
Air Products’ extensive Gulf Coast pipeline network.
The La Porte project is also anticipated
to be onstream in 2021.
Air Products has
existing liquid hydrogen production assets operating in
* New Orleans, Louisiana and Sacramento, California
in the U.S.;
* Sarnia, Ontario, Canada; and
* Rotterdam in The Netherlands.
President, Americas at Air Products
“Current customer demand for liquid hydrogen
is driving the need for this new investment
as we are experiencing growth
from many traditional market segments,
for which a reliable source of this product is vitally important.
Additionally, this new capacity will be available
for the steadily increasing demand
from hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,”
“We are committed to meeting
the product needs of our customer base
and as more and more hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
are driven on the roads and highways of California,
we will continue to evaluate additional capacity needs
and make investments to meet demand,”
Recent evidence of this commitment
to the reliable supply of hydrogen
for the California FCV market includes
a newly commissioned expansion doubling the size of
Air Products’ Wilmington hydrogen transfill system,
and the commissioning of new hydrogen transfill systems
in Long Beach and Santa Clara for vehicle fueling,
Air Products has also increased
the number of dual-phase trailers, capable of
both transporting and off-loading hydrogen
to a fueling station, transfill station
or customer supply tank.
All these investments increase
hydrogen supply chain reliability.
In addition, Air Products is in the evaluation phase of
adding further renewable hydrogen capacity
from multiple sources in preparation
for California’s increased FCV demand.
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