Fuel cell technology has long promised the dream of quiet, reliable, and clean generation of electricity. Improvements in fuel cell technologies coupled with an increasing need for stand-alone and on-vehicle generation of electrical power are turning many of those dreams into...
Infrastructure continues to be identified as a major challenge in developing the hydrogen energy economy across a number of end markets. Early technology demonstration programs sponsored by federal, state, and local agencies have provided hydrogen infrastructure developers with the opportunity to...
Hydrogen remains a solid growth platform for the industrial gas industry. Industrial gas companies continue to supply large quantities of hydrogen that are used by oil and gas refineries, basic and specialty chemical manufacturers, and food processors to what is known...
“Tomorrow’s Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet” by Peter Hoffmann, with a Foreword by Senator Byron L. Dorgan (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, London, England, 2012) is a “revised and expanded edition” of Hoffmann’s classic published...
The continuing worldwide helium shortage has led to higher prices and uncertain supply for many helium users. Gas suppliers have been forced to limit shipments to contracted customers and even cut off supply to noncontract customers. One result of this...
On June 19, 2012, Jeff Serfass, Managing Director at California Hydrogen Business Council and President of the Hydrogen Education Foundation, welcomed top hydrogen and fuel cell industry executives, including Cryo- Gas publisher, J. R. “Buzz” Campbell, to The Washington Fuel Cell Summit...
There is a buzz in the transportation sector and it’s all about natural gas (NG). The industrial gas business, and its related production, distribution, and applications businesses, develop, design, and build equipment directly applicable to compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied...
Hydrogen-based transport took another step forward this week when industrial gases and engineering company BOC undertook the UK’s first-ever refuelling of a 700 bar hydrogen passenger vehicle.
UOP, a Honeywell company, announced that it has been selected by Haldor Topsoe to provide technology to purify hydrogen from a steam reforming unit to be installed at the Antipinsky Refinery in Tyumen, Russia.
With Germany set to have a supply network of at least 50 public hydrogen filling stations by 2015, it’s been revealed that Air Liquide is to design and build 10 of those stations in the...
