BOC Adds Compressed Hydrogen Capacity At Quebec Plant.Business Editors MISSISSAUGA, Canada--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2002 BOC (Bell Operating Company) One of 22 companies that was formerly part of AT&T and later organized into seven regional companies. See RBOC. Canada Ltd. has commissioned a compressed gas facility at its Magog, Quebec Magog is a small city in southeastern Quebec, Canada at the confluence of Lake Memphremagog, with the Rivière au Saumon and the Magog River in the Regional County Municipality of Memphremagog. , hydrogen plant. The new facility will supply one million cubic feet a month of gaseous gas·e·ous adj. 1. Of, relating to, or existing as a gas. 2. Full of or containing gas; gassy. hydrogen in cylinders and tube trailers to customers throughout central and eastern Canada Eastern Canada (also the Eastern provinces) is the region of Canada generally considered to be east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces:
BOC's hydrogen plant in Magog produces some 15 tons a day of high purity hydrogen. Until now, all of that hydrogen was liquefied and delivered in tanker trucks to customers in Canada and the U.S. "New applications for hydrogen have boosted demand for the gas. This investment enables BOC to satisfy that demand with a high quality source of compressed hydrogen. It also allows us to strengthen our position as a supplier in this exciting growth market," said Dean Coates, vice president, finance and administration, BOC Canada. Hydrogen is used in a range of industrial applications, including metals manufacturing, oil refining, electricity generation and electronics manufacturing This article presents a typical manufacturing process of an electronic assembly. Component manufacturing Components such as resistors, capacitors and integrated circuits are generally made by specialized contractors. . And as more companies research hydrogen's use as an alternate fuel to replace gas or diesel combustion engines, laboratory demand for the gas also has risen. This expansion is the latest in a string of investments BOC has made in hydrogen over the past few years. "Hydrogen is a key element of BOC's growth strategy," said John Carolin, global director, hydrogen energy, BOC. "It's a rapidly expanding market, worth some $2 billion today and growing at 15-20% per year. We've got proven hydrogen production Hydrogen production is commonly completed from hydrocarbon fossil fuels via a chemical path. Hydrogen may also be extracted from water via biological production in an algae bioreactor, or using electricity (by electrolysis) or heat (by thermolysis); these methods are presently not , storage and distribution expertise; we're participating in a number of vehicle refueling demonstration projects; we're also involved in several venture capital efforts involving fuel cell related technology development. Hydrogen is the fuel of the future; BOC will be right there with it," Carolin said. The BOC Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BOX), the worldwide industrial gases, vacuum technologies and distribution services company, serves two million customers in more than 50 countries. It employs some 43,000 people and had annual sales over $6 billion in 2001. Further information about BOC Canada may be obtained at http://www.bocgases.ca; further information about The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at www.boc.com. |
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