LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.,
Oct. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Air Products' (NYSE: APD) hydrogen fueling technology plays
a key role in a new educational hydrogen fuel cell vehicle campaign
just unveiled by Toyota. Based largely on an iconic film,
celebrating its 30th anniversary today, in which a
trash-fueled car transports its two stars back in history and into
the future, Toyota's "Fueled by the Future" campaign focuses on its
new hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle, the Mirai, and the
technology used to fuel the vehicle today, which is a technology
field largely led around the world by Air Products.
The Toyota video released today is timed to the exact date set
on the time machine in the original movie, as well as the Mirai
on-sale date, and shows that the concept behind the mythical
trash-powered car is already a reality today thanks to the
innovation of companies like Air Products and Toyota.
Recreating many familiar scenes from the movie, Toyota's "Fueled
by the Future" video explains how companies like Air Products are
turning trash into hydrogen to fuel cell cars like the new Mirai. A
second video, "Behind the Science," was created to explain the
technology in a little more detail. Both videos show an Air
Products steam methane reformer, which produces large-scale
quantities of hydrogen, as well as an Air Products
SmartFuel® hydrogen fueling station for filling
vehicles. While Air Products' appearances in the videos are brief,
the company's role in hydrogen production and dispensing technology
is a key component of the success of hydrogen-powered fuel cell
vehicles. The videos can be viewed at
https://ssl.toyota.com/mirai/fueledbyeverything.html.
"Hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles are hitting the
nation's roads now, and thousands more are on the way as automobile
manufacturers are initially targeting the California market," said Ed Kiczek, Air Products' global business
director‒Hydrogen Energy Systems. "Air Products is excited about
the critical role we play in providing the fueling infrastructure
required to support both today's hydrogen-powered vehicles and the
major vehicle rollout expected over the next year. It is a
privilege to collaborate with Toyota on this promising technology,
which is making an impact by reducing pollution and increasing
energy security."
In California, Air Products is
supplying fueling stations with hydrogen made from eligible
renewable sources. In compliance with California's hydrogen infrastructure program,
at least 33% of the hydrogen dispensed at the company's automotive
fueling stations in the state is renewable.
Air Products has developed, and successfully demonstrated, other
renewable production technologies that can produce hydrogen,
including one such project that converted biogas from municipal
wastewater to hydrogen. Feedstock sources such as agricultural,
food and brewery wastes, in addition to landfill gas, all contain
hydrogen and can be used to produce renewable fuel. If all of these
available streams were converted to hydrogen, they could provide
fueling for up to 200 million fuel cell vehicles in the U.S. and
point to sustainable energy independence.
Air Products has taken a leadership position in the development
of hydrogen supply and fueling infrastructure—with unparalleled
distribution and dispensing capabilities—to enable the successful
commercialization of these vehicles around the world. The company's
SmartFuel hydrogen fueling stations provide hydrogen fueling at 700
bar (10,000 psi) and include the company's advanced high pressure
distribution systems and consumer-friendly retail hydrogen fuel
dispenser, which mirrors traditional consumer gasoline fueling and
payment practices and is readily available to meet consumer
expectations of refilling hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles in a
safe, fast, reliable, and familiar manner. 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 driven by renewable energy sources such as
solar and wind.
Use of the company's fueling technology is increasing and is
already used in conducting approximately 1,000,000 hydrogen fills
per year. The company has been involved in over 200 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' technologies. Details on Air
Products' hydrogen fueling station technologies can be viewed at
www.airproducts.com/h2energy.
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.
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,
2014.
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