Linde to demonstrate its leading role in clean fuels at HANNOVER MESSE trade show (news with additional features)

(DGAP-Media / 04.04.2014 / 08:30)

Linde to demonstrate its leading role in clean fuels at HANNOVER MESSE
trade show

Munich, 4 April 2014 - Technology company The Linde Group will be
presenting the latest advances in eco-friendly energy carriers at HANNOVER
MESSE 2014. It will be focusing in particular on hydrogen and liquefied
natural gas (LNG).

High demand for Linde's hydrogen fuelling technology

This year, Linde will once again be the exclusive supplier of hydrogen for
the fuel-cell cars operated by the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) in
Hanover. CEP partners Daimler, GM/Opel, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota and
Volkswagen/Audi will be inviting exhibition visitors to take a test drive
in their zero-emission vehicles. The cars will be refuelled with green
hydrogen supplied by a mobile refuelling unit developed by Linde. The
production of hydrogen from raw glycerol or biogas has the potential to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions by between 50 and 80 per cent compared to
conventional hydrogen production processes, once it has been brought onto
an industrial scale.

Leading in hydrogen technology for 100 years

Linde can draw upon a long-standing and comprehensive expertise in the
hydrogen sector. The company has been producing hydrogen on a large scale
for its industrial customers for over a century. Around 25 years ago, Linde
was one of the first companies to recognise hydrogen's potential as a clean
fuel and to invest in developing the necessary technology to be able to
realise it. Today, Linde is a leading supplier of hydrogen refuelling
solutions and boasts unique selling propositions such as the
easy-to-maintain ionic compressor and the cryo-pump. As a founding member
of influential initiatives like CEP and "H2Mobility" Linde continues to
promote hydrogen as an environmentally-friendly energy carrier. Its
benefits - a large operating range combined with quick refueling - are
convincing ever more companies, organisations and public institutions to
bet on hydrogen.

New "HyFIVE" project gives boost to European drive for hydrogen

The latest example of the growing hydrogen following is the pan-European
"HyFIVE" project, founded in London on 3 April 2014. Kit Malthouse, Deputy
Mayor of London, was present when five leading car manufacturers as well as
energy consultancies, gases companies, the Greater London Authority and the
Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU, Brussels) signed up to a
EUR 38 million agreement. The partners will work on developing the
technology and infrastructure that will allow hydrogen vehicles to become a