Annealing
Whether you are annealing ferrous or nonferrous metals, our atmosphere solutions ensure your full satisfaction
Interested in hydrogen for your application?
Hydrogen (H₂)
The cleanest burning and most efficient fuel
Hydrogen Mode of Supply Selector Tool
Whether an industrial, food, pharmaceutical or specialised requirement, use this guide to see the various options which may be suitable.
Ask the Expert
“My process requires high pressure hydrogen, what's the most efficient method of supply?”
Our engineers can easily assess your operation and recommend the optimal supply mode, but Air Products is uniquely positioned to offer our patented Cryogenic Hydrogen Compression (CHC) technology for increased efficiency typically in the 50,000 to 1 million scf/day range.
Supply Options
Air Products can help you determine the most economical supply option for your particular application and geographic location. Industrial gases are typically provided in gaseous and liquid form through a variety of supply systems
Cylinders
The traditional solution for low-volume gas supply. Cylinders can be supplied in a full range of sizes, pressures and gas purities for a range of gases and gas mixtures.
APEX Temporary Emergency Gas Services
Short-term or emergency industrial gas supply for start-ups, peak demand periods, planned or unplanned maintenance activities, and plant or pipeline turnarounds.
Bulk Supply
Delivered by truck and stored on your site either as a liquid in cryogenic tanks or as a gas in high-pressure tubes based on your volume, desired pressure, purity level, flow rate, and operating pattern.
On-site Hydrogen Gas Generation
On-site gas generation helps sustainability-minded customers lower their carbon footprint, boost energy efficiency, increase throughput, enhance end product quality, and improve environmental performance.
Pipeline Supply
Located in major industrial locations around the world, pipelines offer customers with large product demands a range of benefits, including reliable, safe and flexible supply in a cost-effective way.
Air Products is a World-Leading Hydrogen Supplier
- Extensive pipeline supply network
- Key enabler in global energy production
- Large dedicated on-site plant development
- Large-scale on-site hydrogen plants
- World's largest producer of outsourced hydrogen to oil refineries
- A leader in hydrogen fuelling infrastructure development
- Industry leader in safety
- World-class customer service
Applications
Atmosphere Control
Industrial gases can be used for atmosphere control in glass manufacturing to help prevent reactions that are detrimental to the glass forming process.
Brazing
Air Products' Brazing Atmosphere Solutions maintain atmosphere composition to optimize part strength and integrity.
Carburizing, Nitriding, and Hardening
Air Products’ Atmosphere Solutions are available for carburizing, neutral hardening, carbonitriding, nitriding and nitrocarburizing.
Catalyst Regeneration
Hydrogen and nitrogen are widely used in the process of renewing a catalyst or making it reusable after it has accumulated reaction residues such as coke.
Cutting and Polishing for Glass
Enhanced combustion for more efficient glass cutting and polishing
Fiber Optics
Air Products has a wide range of gases, including helium, hydrogen, and nitrogen, as well as related equipment and services for use in this segment
Flat Panel Displays
Innovative gas solutions that can help you on the next generation of display manufacturing
Hydrogen for Mobility Applications
In the road transport sector, fuel cell vehicles use hydrogen to power an electric motor, or hydrogen internal combustion engines (H2 ICE) combust hydrogen to power vehicles. In glass production, blends of nitrogen and hydrogen are used to purge and capture any oxygen that is present, to prevent oxidation and glass defects. Air Products offers liquid hydrogen and compressed hydrogen gas in a variety of purities and various modes of supply around the world, thanks to our network of pipelines, hydrogen manufacturing plants and transfil facilities.
Air Products' leadership in hydrogen bus fuelling is demonstrated by our involvement in projects around the world.
These vehicles turn hydrogen into electricity, are non-polluting and up to three times more efficient than petrol and diesel engines.
Hydrogen fuel cells can help enhance material handling operations through superior performance that helps to increase productivity.
The technology presents the opportunity to reduce air emissions and provide efficient and quiet power for a variety of marine applications.
Using hydrogen fuel cell trains provides an economical, efficient and environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional diesel engine trains.
Fuel cell technology in medium and heavy-duty vehicles offer a wide array of environmental benefits.
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H2 Recovery Technologies
PRISM® Membrane and Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) technologies are used to recover hydrogen from H2 containing offgas streams found in many refineries and chemical plants. Our industry specialists can help you assess which technology is best for your operations.
Learn more about our PRISM Membranes and PSA Hydrogen Purification technologies.
SDS Library
Our Safety Data Sheet (SDS) library allows you to search and find the SDS you need--in the language you select.