Hydrogen Fueling Station Coming To Flint
Lehigh Valley, Pa.-based Air Products Co. Tuesday announced that it had signed a contract with Sorensen Gross Construction Services to build a hydrogen fueling station in Flint to fuel a hydrogen fuel cell bus owned by Flint's Mass Transportation Authority.
The station, which will be part of the MTA's alternative fuels test program, is to be onstream in April 2012.
"This agreement continues to reinforce our leadership in the evolution of mass transit," said Bob Kelly, business development manager for Hydrogen Energy Systems at Air Products. "Air Products has a proven record of working with the mass transit industry and is selected for these types of projects because of its technical capabilities in design and, specifically, its record of executing major projects in a safe and timely manner."
Air Products will supply its hydrogen compression, storage and dispensing technology to fuel the bus with hydrogen produced from an electrolyzer provided by Proton OnSite. Details on Air Products' portfolio of hydrogen fueling station technologies are provided at www.airproducts.com/h2energy.
Air Products has been involved in several recent mass transit fueling projects. These include: fueling five new hydrogen fuel cell powered buses that transport riders daily on the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) bus system in the San Francisco Bay Area in California (2010); commissioning its fueling station in London to fuel a fleet of five hydrogen buses as part of the Transport for London Project (2010), and the same station will fuel the first fleet of London hydrogen taxis planned for 2012; and fueling a fleet of more than 50 hydrogen fuel cell shuttle vehicles that transported athletes and government officials at the Asian Games and Asian Para Games in Guangzhou City, China (2010). The China project was similar to Air Products filling hydrogen buses at a fueling station in the Beijing Hydrogen Park during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which marked the first demonstration project for new-energy vehicles in China.
