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Air Products Acquires Steam Reforming Company
21 August 2008
Air Products has acquired Harvest Energy Technology, Inc. (HET), a developer of steam reforming hydrogen generation technology for industrial and energy applications, to enhance its overall global hydrogen product offerings. Terms of the deal for the company based in Sun Valley, California are not being disclosed.
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| HET hydrogen production flowchart. Click to enlarge. |
Air Products has teamed with Harvest’s on-site reformer technology previously for two US Department of Energy (DOE) hydrogen energy station and vehicle fueling projects. The demonstration projects located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and in State College, Pennsylvania at The Pennsylvania State University, provided testing grounds for the successful combination of the two companies’ technologies and also provided early insight to potential industrial system applications.
We have worked with Harvest on several hydrogen fueling projects for smaller scale systems. The combination of Air Products’ hydrogen pressure swing adsorption capabilities with Harvest’s reformer technology provides the lowest cost hydrogen available for the merchant market in this production range. Beyond fueling stations, we have already identified several global industrial applications for the system’s capabilities, enhancing our offerings to the steel, glass, metals processing, and photovoltaic markets. This highly packaged on-site hydrogen generation technology allows for easy field installation and is an important addition to the Air Products portfolio of hydrogen delivery options.
—David Guro, the generated gases global product manager for Hydrogen Generation and Purification at Air Products
Since 1998, Harvest has delivered more than 20 fuel processors to clients located throughout the world.
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Posted by: Henry Gibson | August 25, 2008 at 11:39 PM
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Take a high energy fuel per cubic foot and then convert it to a low energy fuel per cubic foot and then compress it so that it can run a vehicle at a very low total efficiency.
Hydrogen is most conveniently stored in hydrocarbons. If absolutely necessary capture the CO2 instead of trying to store Hydrogen. PHEV!! not H2!! ..HG..