Industrial gas: hydrogen
Air Products SAS
No company knows refinery hydrogen like Air Products, nor has any company spent as much time developing hydrogen as a fuel.
With over 60 plants and over 500 miles of pipeline, Air Products is the world's largest producer of outsourced hydrogen to oil refineries, which use hydrogen to get the most out of every barrel of oil in making cleaner burning transportation fuels. And with nearly 100 hydrogen fueling stations located in the U.S. and around the world today, we are leveraging our vast hydrogen experience and resources to advance hydrogen fuel cell technology to make the hydrogen economy a reality.
Refinery Hydrogen
While our hydrogen is used in the production of numerous consumer and industrial products, the largest volume application is "refinery hydrogen," and we are the leading global supplier. Oil refineries use hydrogen to make lower sulfur, cleaner burning transportation fuels.
The average barrel of processed crude oil has become heavier (a higher carbon-to-hydrogen ratio) and more sour (more sulfur). Through a chemical reaction, hydrogen lightens heavier crude and enables the removal of sulfur. This allows oil refineries to produce higher value product mixes, such as gasoline, and meet increasingly tighter low-sulfur fuel specifications globally. Air Products' refinery hydrogen is playing a key role in producing transportation fuel that's easier on the environment.
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