In addition to showcasing its industrial gas solutions at its booth, Air Products will host a presentation titled “World-Scale Gas Processing – Ready for Decarbonizing Ironmaking” at 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, May 7, as part of the Decarbonization: Blast Furnace Session. During this session, Anand Makwana, Senior Principal Research Engineer at Air Products, and Candice Silvestre, Manager of Blue Hydrogen and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Technology at Air Products, will delve into operational and under-construction low-carbon hydrogen plants designed to meet both current and future steelmaking requirements, alongside insights into blast furnace gas processing options. Implementing these solutions could potentially lead to a noteworthy 75 percent reduction in direct carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a typical steelmaking facility.
With its extensive expertise in gas supply and technology spanning decades, Air Products stands as a global leader in industrial gas provision, dedicated to enhancing the operational efficiency of metals producers worldwide. Offering a comprehensive range of gases, including but not limited to argon, carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and gas blends, Air Products provides a diverse selection of supply mode options and purity levels tailored to meet the unique requirements of each operation. Furthermore, Air Products extends a wide array of technical services and pioneering gas-based technologies aimed at driving cost reduction, enhancing productivity, and mitigating the environmental footprint of production processes.
Decarbonization remains a paramount focus for Air Products, which, as the world’s largest hydrogen producer and a trailblazer in the low- and zero-carbon hydrogen sector, is dedicated to assisting iron and steel producers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and engineering, procurement, and construction professionals in navigating the intricacies of decarbonization with confidence. Leveraging safe, reliable, and clean hydrogen solutions alongside advanced carbon capture and storage technologies, Air Products is committed to deploying $15 billion by 2027 in clean energy projects across the globe, thus accelerating the transition towards a sustainable energy landscape.
About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 80 years focused on serving energy, environmental, and emerging markets. The Company has two growth pillars driven by sustainability. Air Products’ base business provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food. The Company also develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world’s largest clean hydrogen projects supporting the transition to low- and zero-carbon energy in the heavy-duty transportation and industrial sectors. Additionally, Air Products is the world leader in the supply of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment, and provides turbomachinery, membrane systems and cryogenic containers globally.
The Company had fiscal 2023 sales of $12.6 billion from operations in approximately 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of over $50 billion. Approximately 23,000 passionate, talented and committed employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products’ higher purpose to create innovative solutions that benefit the environment, enhance sustainability and reimagine what’s possible to address the challenges facing customers, communities, and the world
