DELHI, India, June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- India's first
solar-powered renewable fuelling station, supplied by Air Products
(NYSE: APD), was inaugurated recently at an event with chief guest
Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister
for Power, Coal, and New and Renewable Energy, in conjunction with
Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary,
Minister of New and Renewable Energy.
Part of a mass public transport bus fueling and vehicle
demonstration program, the SmartFuel® station generates 100 percent
renewable hydrogen from solar energy via an electrolyzer. It
is located at the Solar Energy Center near Delhi and part of a project managed by the
National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE). The project was
also implemented by India's
University of Petroleum and Energy
Studies (UPES) and funded by the Ministry of New and Renewable
Energy (MNRE) of the Government of India.
"As a member of industry, Air Products is proud to be involved
in a program that has received such crucial validation and support
from public sector, educational institute and the regulatory
authorities," commented Ravi
Subramanian, business development manager-Asia for Air Products' Hydrogen Energy
Systems. "This project is an important, progressive step towards
unlocking the potential of hydrogen as a sustainable transportation
fuel and alternative energy source, not just for India but the rest of the world."
UPES is executing this project and it is entirely funded by
MNRE. "Although this is a demonstration project, this will be a
major stepping stone for India to
move towards the hydrogen economy," says Dr. Niranjan Raje, former director of Indian Oil and
the Principal Investigator for this project.
With the addition of this SmartFuel® station, Air Products now
has three hydrogen fueling stations operating in India. Air Products India installed, and in
January 2012 commissioned, a hydrogen
fueling dispenser in Pragati Maidan, Delhi to serve a fleet of hydrogen powered
auto rickshaws. The three-wheeled hydrogen-powered fleet transports
visitors at the Pragati Maidan, where many large public exhibitions
are held. Air Products was also a key player in the opening of
India's first hydrogen/HCNG
fueling station several years ago at a research and development
center in Faridabad, south of New
Delhi.
Worldwide, Air Products is the leading supplier of hydrogen to
refineries to assist in producing cleaner burning transportation
fuels and 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 over 1,000,000
hydrogen fills per year. The company has been involved in over 180
hydrogen fueling projects 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 technologies. Details on Air Products'
hydrogen fueling station technologies can be viewed at
www.airproducts.com/h2energy.
Air Products has more than 60 years of hydrogen experience and
an extensive patent portfolio in hydrogen dispensing technology.
The company 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, or produced by natural gas reformation,
biomass conversion, or by electrolysis, including electrolysis
driven by renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.
About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a leading industrial gases company.
For nearly 75 years, the company has provided atmospheric, process
and specialty gases, and related equipment to manufacturing markets
including metals, food and beverage, refining and petrochemical,
and natural gas liquefaction. Air Products' materials technologies
segment serves the semiconductor, polyurethanes, cleaning and
coatings, and adhesives industries. Over 20,000 employees in 50
countries are working to make Air Products the world's safest and
best performing industrial gases company, providing sustainable
offerings and excellent service to all customers. In fiscal 2014,
Air Products had sales of $10.4
billion and was ranked number 276 on the Fortune 500 annual
list of public companies. For more information, visit
www.airproducts.com.
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fiscal year ended September 30,
2014.
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