Fire Suppression
When generating power with coal, natural gas, oil or renewable energy, carbon dioxide and nitrogen can reduce the risk of fires and extinguish them.
Power
Gases and technologies to improve efficiency and safety
As a world leading industrial gas company, Air Products has supported the power industry for decades. Whether you’re generating electricity with coal, natural gas, oil or renewable energy, Air Products’ industrial gas solutions and advanced separation technologies can help improve energy efficiency and safety at your power generation plant, which can lead to increased capacity and savings.
- Avoid and suppress fires in solid handling systems with carbon dioxide and nitrogen
- Improve safety by inerting or blanketing flammables with an inert gas, like nitrogen or carbon dioxide
- Increase throughput and burn materials at higher temperatures by adding oxygen to a boiler's air stream
- Increase power generated without changing steam input by using hydrogen for turbine generator cooling
Applications
Inerting and Blanketing
Inerting and blanketing can be used to store flammable and quality sensitive materials for improved safety.
Oxygen Enrichment
Adding oxygen to a boiler’s air stream in the Power industry, through oxygen enrichment, can increase throughput and burn materials at higher temperatures.
Syngas Solutions
Gasification converts fossil or biomass based hydrocarbons into syngas for making various downstream derivatives.
Turbine Generator Cooling
By using hydrogen to cool turbine generators in the power industry, you can increase the amount of power generated without changing steam input.
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Gases
Air Products gases, typically provided in gaseous and liquid form, enable customers in a wide range of industries to improve their environmental performance, product quality, and productivity.
Carbon Dioxide
Our experienced applications teams across the globe can use their industry and application knowledge to provide you with a compressed or liquid carbon dioxide supply and technology solution to meet your unique needs.
Hydrogen
Valued for its reactive and protective properties, and used by many industries such as electronics, foods, glass, chemicals, refining and more can benefit from its unique properties to improve quality, optimize performance and reduce costs.
Nitrogen
Useful as a gas, for its inert properties, and as a liquid for cooling and freezing. Virtually any industry can benefit from its unique properties to improve yields, optimize performance and make operations safer.
Oxygen
In addition to its use as a respiratory gas for healthcare applications, its strong oxidizing properties benefit many industries by improving yields, optimizing performance, lowering costs and reducing carbon footprint compared to other fuels.
Temporary Gas Supply
For over 40 years, customers have come to rely on our AirProducts Express Services (APEX) for safe, reliable and fast temporary gas supply. When you need short-term or emergency industrial gas supply-particularly during plant turnarounds or start-ups, peak demand periods, planned or unplanned maintenance activities-you need help quickly to remain online and productive.
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Related Industries
Air Products offers thousands of products and services to a variety of different industries. This scope and experience has enabled us to develop a deeper understanding of the demands of these industries, and of your particular needs.
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