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Air Products planned to increase its production of hydrogen by 38 percent in 2006
26/07/2005
on July 26, 2005
air products, parent company of Metal carbides and largest producer of hydrogen in the world, plans to increase by 38 per cent of this gas production during the fiscal year 2006.
This increase is a consequence of the increasing demand from refineries oil, supply of hydrogen by pipeline through third-party vendors.
To achieve this goal, Air Products be devoted 40 per cent of its annual investment (close to $ 1 billion) to the construction of five new plants of hydrogen in North America. These plants will be located in Convent (Louisiana), Baytown, Texas), Port Arthur, Texas), Sarnia (Ontario) and Edmonton (Alberta). To increase the capacity of production that feeds the gas of Air Products, reliability and availability of supply of hydrogen will also be more elevated.
The fact that the refineries are using an increasingly heavy oil, along with the American and European legislation that calls for reducing the sulphur content of petrol and gas oils, increases their need for hydrogen.
