LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.,
Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Air
Products (NYSE: APD) is using its diverse portfolio of hydrogen
fueling technologies to fill five new hydrogen fuel cell powered
buses that transport riders daily on the Alameda-Contra Costa
Transit District (AC Transit) bus system in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. AC Transit looked to Air
Products for solutions to provide hydrogen and infrastructure
technology to get the newest generation of zero emission buses on
the road quickly. AC Transit expects to increase its hydrogen
fuel cell bus fleet to 12; the largest single site deployment of
hydrogen fuel cell buses in the United
States.
"AC Transit should be very proud of its growing hydrogen bus
fleet and being a leader in the U.S. in the conversion to this zero
emission mode of mass transit transportation. We're pleased
to be fueling their buses and bringing several of our patented
fueling technologies together to support this large scale fueling
application," said Nick Mittica,
commercial manager - Hydrogen Energy Systems at Air Products.
"At this site, we've been able to show our broad suite of
unique hydrogen delivery technologies that no one else in the world
has to offer. These capabilities give us a competitive
advantage when considering varied hydrogen sources as well as the
methods of hydrogen delivery." Mittica added that the Air
Products technologies in place at AC Transit were relatively easy
to permit and presented no large infrastructure issues.
"Air Products has clearly demonstrated to us and our industry
that the technology and know-how exists to effectively fuel
heavy-duty transit buses on a large scale. We've been
impressed at how quickly the Air Products team stepped up to
support our fueling needs by installing a 500 kg mobile fueling
station within days," noted Jaimie
Levin, AC Transit's director of Alternative Fuels Policy and
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Program manager.
Air Products has two self-contained mobile fuelers and
additional high-pressure storage capacity, all at approximately 350
bar (5,000 psi), at AC Transit's Oakland,
Calif. operating division. The station employs a new
hydrogen delivery concept capable of dispensing either liquid or
gaseous hydrogen, at very high pressure, depending on a specific
customer's need.
For the complete news release and photos, visit
www.airproducts.com/PressRoom/CompanyNews/Archived/2010/21Dec2010.htm.
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Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are
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the date of this release regarding important risk factors. Actual
performance and financial results may differ materially from
projections and estimates expressed in the forward-looking
statements because of many factors not anticipated by management,
including risk factors described in the Company's Form 10K for its
fiscal year ended September 30,
2010.
SOURCE Air Products