Hydrogen remains a solid growth platform for the industrial gas industry. Industrial gas companies continue to supply large quantities of hydrogen that are used by oil and gas refineries, basic and specialty chemical manufacturers, and food processors to what is known...
“Tomorrow’s Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet” by Peter Hoffmann, with a Foreword by Senator Byron L. Dorgan (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, London, England, 2012) is a “revised and expanded edition” of Hoffmann’s classic published...
The continuing worldwide helium shortage has led to higher prices and uncertain supply for many helium users. Gas suppliers have been forced to limit shipments to contracted customers and even cut off supply to noncontract customers. One result of this...
Zeus Development Corporation’s World LNG Fuels 2013 Conference & Exhibition was held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas on January 21–23. Eight hundred people representing 450 companies attended the event, 54 presenters and speakers participated in the...
Last year, I estimated total 2012 world production of Kr would be 97 million liters, production of Xe at 10.5 million liters, and Ne production at about 625 million liters. In my follow up plant-by-plant analysis, I found that the...
Delivering the Pittcon 2013 Wallace H. Coulter Keynote Lecture on Wednesday, March 20— “How The Higgs Boson Saved Us from a Cold, Dark, Lifeless Universe” — will be R. Michael Barnett. A senior physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and...
“Fast Cars, Slow Change” could be the motto of many automakers. At least that’s Tiger Optics LLC’s (tigeroptics.com) observation when it comes to engine emissions monitors. While other industries have rapidly embraced cleaner and more efficient methods for quality assurance and...
The specialty gas industry is about 50 years old. During that time, there has been rapid innovation in production processes, instrumentation, cylinders, valves, distribution, and engineering. For example, Ultra High Purity (UHP, Grade 5.0) gases used to be produced in a...
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are numerous, varied, and ubiquitous, emanating mostly from industrial plants, although the natural world also emits a measure of naturally occurring chemical compounds. The risks associated with industrial VOCs are complicated by the fact that hazardous concentrations are...
In response to several recent chemical explosions, on February 3, 2012, the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services (DFS) promulgated the Hazardous Materials Processing regulation (527 CMR 33). Any facility that conducts physical or chemical processing of a hazardous material, regardless of quantity,...
