![]() ![]() The new Air Liquide plant, however, will have the technology and flexibility in place to further reduce their carbon emissions at the plant, while still producing its hydrogen gas. While this natural gas steam-methane process still leaves a carbon footprint, its plant-emissions are as much as 50 percent less compared to other plants using traditional sources of non-renewable energy. ![]() The Air Liquide hydrogen fuel plant under construction in North Las Vegas, Nevada – photo: Tom Glynn But in order to produce hydrogen as a gas, these plants traditionally use natural gas in a steam-methane process to produce it. When hydrogen gas is used as a fuel, its output of water vapor means its carbon-emissions are at zero. The hydrogen plant is expected to become operational by early 2022, producing hydrogen that will serve as fuel for light and heavy-duty vehicles in the transportation sector. This hydrogen is not for the traditional industrial markets, but rather for the mobility and transportation fuel market that is mostly on the west coast.” “The project in Nevada is our first large-scale investment specifically for these new markets in the US. “ is very much built around the industrial use of hydrogen: things like refineries, electronics, agricultural products and not really as an energy vector or transportation fuel,” said Dave Edwards, director and advocate for hydrogen energy at Air Liquide. Although hydrogen production plants have been in existence for years, mostly for industrial and refinery purposes, Air Liquide’s plant will be the first of its kind to direct its hydrogen gas toward the transportation fuel market. The Air Liquide hydrogen fuel plant under construction in North Las Vegas, Nevada - photo: Western States Hydrogen AllianceĪir Liquide, an international industrial gas company, projects their new hydrogen plant in North Las Vegas will finish construction in November of this year. ![]()
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