Hydrogen

With Air Products latest hydrogen fuel cell contract, the firm is set to breach the 1,000 unit milestone.

Air Products and ExxonMobil have established a new world-scale hydrogen production plant in Rotterdam. The world-scale facility is pitted to improve energy efficiency by 15% and reduce CO2 emissions by 200,000 tons per year.

AGA Gas AB and Sandvik have signed a long-term contract for hydrogen gas supply to several of Sandvik’s production units in Sweden.

Last month saw the hydrogen electrolyser plant specialist, NEL Hydrogen, win four contracts worth a combined €15m. The move reaffirmed the company’s stature as a world leader in its sphere, according to reports.

The Linde Group has announced plans to construct and operate a new hydrogen plant in the Jilin Chemical Industrial Park (JCIP) in Northeast China. Investment in the first phase amounts to €42m.

BOC, who recently opened the UK’s first open-access hydrogen filling station, has emphasised its ongoing commitment to hydrogen by announcing plans to double capacity at its Teesside, UK facility.

The technology company The Linde Group has been awarded a contract to supply hydrogen to the combustion chamber test facilities run by Germany’s national research center for aeronautics and space (DLR) in Cologne.

Now onstream for over a month, the Air Products hydrogen fueling station at the Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) facility in Fountain Valley, CA continues to make news. Most recently it was the United States Department of Energy (www. energy.gov) that...