Stephen B. Harrison
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Hydrogen at speed and scale
Maximator GmbH is part of the German-based Schmidt Kranz Group, a family-owned business which has evolved through four generations from building tractors to the manufacture of state-of-the-art hydrogen fuelling stations.
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Carbon dioxide purity and CCS
Stephen B. Harrison explains the essential link to a safe and sustainable CCS sector.
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Resato Intenational: From hydraulics to hydrogen mobility
Hydrogen mobility is growing rapidly, but what industries are well placed to migrate into hydrogen mobility? Stephen B. Harrison learns more about this opportunity, in an exclusive interview for gasworld with Resato International.
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Solid oxide electrolysis grows up at CSIRO
gasworld speaks exclusively to Dr. Ani Kulkarni of Australia’s CSIRO to find out how his team’s R&D programme will enable solid oxide electrolysis (SOE) to contribute to decarbonisation of the energy and chemicals sectors.
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Managing enterprise risk
Safety beats in the heart of industrial gases. There are inherant hazards in our operations and a primary role of management is to minimise the risk that these hazards would escalate to become accidents. Some risks have the potential to blow the whole company off course – these are referred ...
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Covid-19 and climate change – the defining challenges of our generation
There are many actions in place around the world right now to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. The idea is to flatten the curve of the infection rate and limit the impact of the potentially fatal Covid-19 illness that it causes. As with Covid-19, we also need to ...
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Horses for courses
To win the Kentucky Derby or the Grand National, you would want to be riding a thoroughbred racehorse. On the other hand, to cross the Sahara, enduring days without water, you might prefer to ride a camel. Speaking of business ownership models in the industrial gases sector, picking the right ...
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10 minutes with…Dr. Werner Ponikwar
Just south of Munich is a suburb where Carl von Linde began his work to develop refrigeration cyclesIn this location today stands The Linde Group’s business, engineering and technical complex at Pullachseveral leading members of the Linde Hydrogen FuelTech team. gasworld spoke exclusively to one such individual, Dr. Werner Ponikwar, ...
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10 minutes with…Laurent Carme
McPhy is an example of a company managing the transformation in hydrogen as it prepares for a profitable future with a purpose, as Stephen B. Harrison discovered in an exclusive interview for gasworld.
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Clean air on the oceans
There are fewer things more invigorating than standing on a beach and taking a few deep breaths of fresh air. But how can we be sure that this sea breeze is a clean one, free of harmful pollutant gases?
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Going green in Germany
Putting a century of expertise into practice with hydrogen as a transport fuel, by Stephen B. Harrison.
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Toughening up on refrigerant gases in 2020
Two months into 2020 and tougher legislation and punishments are coming into play for the refrigerants gases business in the wake of both the F-Gas regulation and the illegal imports associated with it.
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Process gases: Leading the search for sustainable alternatives
Throughout this year gasworld has covered ‘Helium Shortage 3.0’ with reports of price increases of up to 100%. Such price volatility is a real incentive to search for sustainable alternatives!
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New applications for sustainable development
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all Member States of the United Nations (UN) in 2015. Specialty gases are enabling many new applications which underpin the SDGs and are thereby making these goals a tangible reality.
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Going digital down under
Case studies in digitising industrial and medical gases, by Stephen B. Harrison.
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Specialty gases
What makes a specialty gas special? In some cases, it is a high purity, premium grade of a regular product such as nitrogen. It can also be due to its application in the laboratory and R&D applications, where specialty gases are often used. Or, it might be an exotic chemical ...
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10 minutes with… Marcel Tijhuis
Take 10 minutes out with Marcel Tijhuis, Senior Business Developer at Gasunie, as he discusses the German LNG Terminal and the market it will serve.
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An introduction to...Digital oxygen measurement
Experts at the Swiss instrumentation and process automation expert ABB are breathing new life into an established technology to measure the most traditional of all industrial gases: oxygen.
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Detecting danger
It is a sad fact that mining is one of the more dangerous civilian professions that has existed since the onset of industrialisation. However, the good news is that great strides are being taken to improve the safety of miners all around the world.
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Gas chromatography enabling fair trade in LNG
A primary function of the FLNG facility is to separate and liquefy the hydrocarbons into LNG, natural gas liquids (NGL) and condensate. As with many process operations, the first step is to quantify the task in hand, namely gas analysis, writes Stephen B. Harrison.