An alternative for captive fleets and remote sites

The establishment of captive fleets running on hydrogen can increase productivity while reducing CO? emissions at the point of?use. The main applications concern the forklift fleets of logistics warehouses or luggage transport vehicle fleets used at airports.?Both are high growth hydrogen energy markets.

A silent solution that allows for greater autonomy, hydrogen is also particularly suitable for providing energy to stationary?network equipment located remotely (or awaiting connection). This is particularly the case for mobile phone masts.

Blue Hydrogen: Air Liquide's commitment

Blue Hydrogen is an Air Liquide program whose goal is to gradually decarbonize its production of hydrogen dedicated to energy applications.

In practical terms, Air Liquide has made a commitment to produce at least 50% of the hydrogen necessary for these applications through carbon-free processes by 2020 by combining:

• Biogas reforming
• The use of renewable energies, through water electrolysis
• The use of technologies for the capture and upgrading of carbon emitted during the process of producing hydrogen from natural gas

Even when it is produced from natural gas, hydrogen is a virtuous energy: for equal distance traveled, hydrogen cars allow to reduce GHG emissions by 20% compared with internal combustion vehicles and don’t produce any fine particles.