LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.,
Jan. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Air
Products (NYSE: APD), a global leader in providing hydrogen fueling
and related technology and infrastructure, celebrated the
grand opening of the largest capacity hydrogen fueling station for
transit buses in the United States
today in Santa Ana,
California along with project collaborators: the Center for
Transportation and the Environment (CTE), Orange County
Transportation Authority (OCTA),
California Air Resources Board (CARB), South Coast Air Quality
Management District (SCAQMD), New Flyer and Trillium.
The new fueling station, located at OCTA's bus depot, is equipped with Air
Products' SmartFuel® hydrogen fueling technology,
design, and equipment. OCTA's
current hydrogen fuel cell electric bus fleet is comprised of 10
buses, but the station is built for future growth. It has a
bus fueling capacity for up to 50 buses, which corresponds to
fueling up to 1,500 kilograms (kg) of hydrogen in an eight-hour
time period. The station can fuel transit buses with an average of
28 kg of hydrogen per bus in a time frame of 6 to 10 minutes per
bus, while also providing back-to-back bus fueling for up to 30
buses and simultaneous fueling capability with multiple fueling
lanes.
"This station sets a new milestone for bus fueling capacity and
demonstrates other continuing innovations in hydrogen fueling.
While we have designed and built hydrogen fueling stations around
the world for transit agencies, this station brings our advanced
fast-fill technology to transit buses by taking advantage of
our unique cryogenic compressors and specifically designed cooling
system as well as our liquid hydrogen supply position," said
Eric Guter, general manager,
Americas Growth Platforms at Air Products.
This hydrogen fueling project is the result of several
organizations working together to usher in the next phase of zero
emissions transit vehicles in the U.S. "We would like to
congratulate our project collaborators for joining together for
such a notable accomplishment and CARB for providing critical
funding for this project," said Guter.
"Funds from the state's landmark cap-and-trade program help
forward-looking transit agencies like OCTA — and their partners such as Air Products
— secure clean energy to modernize and transform their fleets,"
Jack Kitowski, chief of CARB's
Mobile Source Control Division, said. "A zero-emission public bus
fleet dramatically reduces tailpipe emissions from buses in
low-income communities and provides multiple benefits, especially
for transit-dependent riders. Fleets that transition to clean
energy sources like hydrogen reduce energy consumption and
greenhouse gas emissions and help achieve cleaner air for all of
us."
CTE, a nonprofit that advocates for clean, sustainable,
innovative transportation and energy technologies, is managing the
project. CTE and OCTA secured
$12.47 million, more than half of the
funding for the project, from CARB through California Climate
Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of
cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions,
strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the
environment, particularly in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Additional funding came via California's Senate Bill 1, overseen by the
California Department of Transportation, and from the SCAQMD's
Clean Fuels Fund.
"CTE has been working with Air Products for over a decade
building hydrogen stations around the US," said Dan Raudebaugh, CTE's Executive Director. "This
station in Orange County, built in
partnership with Trillium, is real game changer for the
zero-emission bus industry."
Air Products has a long history of offering a full suite of
hydrogen fueling solutions with its SmartFuel®
technology, ranging from turn-key hydrogen fueling stations with
maintenance, to equipment supply, to hydrogen fuel production and
supply. At Santa Ana, Air Products
designed and jointly installed the hydrogen fueling station,
supplied most of the major equipment, will substantially maintain
the station, and will supply the hydrogen for fueling the buses.
Air Products will deliver liquid hydrogen to the station, where it
will be vaporized and compressed into a high-pressure gas using its
proprietary cryogenic hydrogen compressors, before being dispensed
with Air Products' fueling dispensers into the buses. Trillium was
project manager, provided site preparation, some equipment,
installation and first-line maintenance.
Air Products has been fueling buses with hydrogen for over 20
years and recently installed a 1,000 kg/day hydrogen bus fueling
station in Asia, as well as a
200kg/day station in Europe. Air Products has also been
involved with bus projects with Transport for London, and with SARTA in Canton, Ohio. The new OCTA station is Air
Products' third hydrogen bus fueling station in the U.S.
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.
Air Products has more than 60 years of hydrogen
experience and an extensive patent portfolio in hydrogen
dispensing technology. Air Products provides liquid and gaseous
hydrogen and a variety of enabling devices and protocols for fuel
dispensing at varied pressures. Hydrogen for these stations can be
delivered to a site via truck or pipeline, produced by natural gas
reformation, biomass conversion, or by electrolysis, including
electrolysis that is solar and wind driven.
About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE: APD) is a world-leading industrial gases
company in operation for nearly 80 years. Focused on serving
energy, environment and emerging markets, the Company provides
essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications
expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining,
chemical, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food and
beverage. Air Products is also the global leader in the supply of
liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment. The Company
develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's
largest industrial gas projects, including gasification projects
that sustainably convert abundant natural resources into syngas for
the production of high-value power, fuels and chemicals.
The Company had fiscal 2019 sales of $8.9
billion from operations in 50 countries and has a current
market capitalization of about $50
billion. More than 17,000 passionate, talented and committed
employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products'
higher purpose to create innovative solutions that benefit the
environment, enhance sustainability and address the challenges
facing customers, communities, and the world. For more information,
visit www.airproducts.com.
NOTE: This release may contain forward-looking statements
within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are
based on management's reasonable expectations and assumptions as of
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,
2019.
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