Cryostar USA West held a successful demonstration of its pioneering LNG fuelling station for gas powered vehicles at its base in Santa Fe Springs, CA in May. Visitors to the demo included companies attending the Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, which was held concurrently at the Long Beach Convention Centre.
The launch is indicative of how Linde Group member Cryostar is leveraging over three decades of cryogenic equipment design and manufacture in a bid to capture a larger slice of the natural gas-based vehicle fuelling market in North America.
Cryostar has already developed refuelling stations to deliver both LNG and compressed natural gas (CNG), and aims to cover the entire natural gas supply chain. It has stations already operating in Europe and equipment operating at three stations in Southern California. Now the company aims to roll out its new LNG/LCNG fuelling station design tailored to US customers.
The new fuelling station features a skid-mounted cryogenic transfer pump that delivers LNG from the customer’s storage tank to the vehicle via a dispenser. The pump skid has two control loops, both executed by a Siemens PC-based controller.
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