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Air Liquide leads $14 million hydrogen energy project at Canadian airports

Source: Air Liquide

20/04/2009

Air Liquide is leading a $14 million hydrogen energy project to demonstrate an array of innovative hydrogen energy and fuel cell technologies operating on the site of the Montréal – Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport and another international airport to be announced at a later date.

The project was announced today at the Montreal airport. This project is a collaboration between Air Liquide Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and Québec’s Agence de l’efficacité énergétique (AEE), with the involvement of 14 other companies.

The project will involve an array of hydrogen-powered technologies and the fuelling infrastructure that supplies them. In Montreal, these technologies will help serve the airport’s 12.8 million passengers each year through transportation in shuttle buses, as well as passenger and utility vehicles, and through hydrogen generated stationary and auxiliary power applications. Air Liquide will provide the hydrogen and install a unique station to fuel several vehicles at the same time at 350 and 700 bar pressures and to refill portable hydrogen tanks.

“We are very pleased, and very proud, to participate in this pilot world leading project with Air Liquide, said James Cherry, president and CEO of Aéroports de Montréal. “We are committed to offering all the support necessary for the success of this project; we will provide a location for the fuelling station and we will be among the most active users ourselves of hydrogen-powered vehicles.”

“We are extremely proud to lead this major innovative project The confidence entrusted in Air Liquide by both levels of government and by the airport is a great testimony to Air Liquide’s leadership and expertise in this field,” said Luc Doyon, president and CEO of Air Liquide Canada. “Air Liquide’s initiative and leadership in this project represents another step in our strategy to actively develop Canada’s hydrogen energy supply and infrastructure. The two buses and nine other vehicles converted to hydrogen in this project will not emit any pollutants or greenhouse gases. ”