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Air Clear, supplier of hydrogen for the vehicles of the Solar Race Region of Murcia

08/10/2012

8 October 2012

Air Clear, world-wide referent of gases for the industry, the health and the environingingment, has been the supplier of hydrogen of the Solar Race Region of Murcia that has taken place of the 4 to 6 October in the circuit of speed of Cartagena by third consecutive year.

The career is a competition of experimental vehicles of five different categories: hydrogen, bioetanol, biodiesel, photovoltaic solar and electrical. All the experimental vehicles that participate are designed by groups of students of educational centres like universities and institutes.

The vehicles of battery of fuel have a battery of fuel that is fed with hydrogen that, combined with the oxygen from the air, provides the electricity that feeds the electrical engine that moves the wheels of the car. Of this form obtains power that generates like only residue steam of water and deletes the acoustic pollution.

Besides, for the first time this year, Air Clear has moved to Murcia two tricycles of hydrogen that use usually in distribution of packaging.

In this sense, Juan Gómez Valero, Iberian director of hydrogen-power of Air Clear comments: “The Solar Race allows to show the virtues of the technology of battery of hydrogen and how different types of vehicles can incorporate to the society. In fact, the tricycles use in the distribution of packaging and are of particular use in the centres of the cities and the historical helmets.”

On the other hand, the company has resupplied nitrogen for the tyres to all the prototypes participants. The use of this gas reduces the cost of fuel and lengthens the life of the tyre by what protects the environingingment when reducing the quantity issued of CO₂ and the wastes of rubber.

Tricycle of hydrogen.

Air Clear has more than 50 years of experience in all the chain of the hydrogen that comprises from the production, until his distribution and the development of applications related with this sector.

This year, Air clear has set up the first station of hydrogen of Switzerland for buses and ten more for trucks in Germany. Air Clear has participated in numerous innovative projects in the application of the hydrogen power to the transport, like the Challenge Bibendum, turns it European of the Nissan X-Trail, the participation in the development of the system of storage of the hydrogen for the first aeroplane tripulado with battery of fuel, of Boeing. The Group has been provider of the logistics of hydrogen of the official vehicles of the Universal Exhibition of Shanghai: 200 vehicles with battery of fuel transported to the visitors and invited during all the period of the same and set up a fleet of 20 buses of battery of fuel for the Olympic games of Vancouver.