据氢能源新闻5月25日消息称，国际工业气体公司液化空气公司现在预计，其位于拉斯维加斯北部的内华达州氢燃料工厂将于2021年11月完工。

　　这个新工厂将专门为氢气运输燃料市场服务。

　　液化空气公司主管、氢能倡导者Dave Edwards解释道：“氢气生产在很大程度上是围绕氢的工业用途而建立的：诸如炼油厂、电子产品、农产品，而不是作为能源载体或运输燃料。内华达州的项目是我们第一个专门针对美国这些新市场的大规模投资。这种氢不是用于传统的工业市场，而是用于主要在西海岸的交通和运输燃料市场。”

　　如果内华达州氢燃料工厂的建设如期在11月完成，它将于2022年初开始运营。届时，该公司将开始生产氢气，用于轻型和重型运输部门车辆的燃料。

　　内华达州的氢燃料工厂将以可再生天然气为动力生产蓝色氢气。

　　Edwards解释道：“尽管氢气作为一种燃料比汽油或柴油要好得多，但(它的生产过程)仍然对环境造成了影响，需要加以解决。我们在拉斯维加斯北部的第一笔投资是使用类似的技术，但我们有能力用可再生天然气取代天然气，并减少原料的碳足迹。”

　　液化空气公司打算将垃圾填埋气、沼气和废水处理气作为工厂的可再生天然气燃料来源。这样，虽然氢气生产不会是零排放的，但它仍然有助于大幅减少碳足迹，目标是能够在设施的整个生命周期内实现净负碳足迹。

　　朱佳妮 摘译自 氢能源新闻

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　　New Nevada hydrogen fuel plant to begin operations in early 2022

　　International industrial gas company Air Liquide (EPA stock symbol AI) now expects that its new Nevada hydrogen fuel plant in North Las Vegas construction will be completed by November 2021.

　　This new plant will be constructed specifically for serving the H2 transportation fuel market.

　　“[Hydrogen production] is very much built around the industrial use of hydrogen: things like refineries, electronics, agricultural products and not really as an energy vector or transportation fuel,” explained Air Liquide director and advocate for hydrogen energy Dave Edwards. “The project in Nevada is our first large-scale investment specifically for these new markets in the US. This hydrogen is not for the traditional industrial markets, but rather for the mobility and transportation fuel market that is mostly on the west coast.”

　　If the Nevada hydrogen fuel plant’s construction is completed as expected in November, it will be slated to begin operations in early 2022. At that time, it will start H2 production to be used as fuel for both light-duty and heavy-duty transportation sector vehicles.

　　The Nevada hydrogen fuel plant will be powered by renewable natural gas to produce blue H2.

　　“Even though hydrogen as a fuel is considerably better than gasoline or diesel, [its production process] still has an environmental footprint that needs to be addressed,” explained Edwards. “Our first investment in North Las Vegas is to use similar technology, but we have the ability to displace the natural gas in the process with renewable natural gas and reduce the carbon footprint of our feedstock.”

　　Among the renewable natural gas sources that Air Liquide intends to use as its plant’s fuel sources include landfill gas, biogas, and waste-water treatment gas. In this way, while the H2 production won’t be emissions-free, it will still help to considerably reduce the carbon footprint, with the goal of being able to achieve a net negative carbon footprint over the lifetime of the facility.

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