Scotland-based Howden, a provider of mission-critical air and gas handling products, technologies, and services, has signed a contract to provide five hydrogen diaphragm compressors for Atura Power’s, a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation, Niagara Hydrogen Centre in Ontario, Canada.
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The facility, powered by renewable hydroelectricity, is estimated to produce 20 MW of green hydrogen in Niagara Falls, Ontario, where the energy will be used to power electrolyzers to produce hydrogen.
According to Howden, its hydrogen compressors will take hydrogen from the electrolyzers and compress it for on-site, short-term mobile storage.
The project is expected to provide industrial consumers with low-carbon hydrogen for immediate consumption and will also be transported and blended into the fuel stream at Atura Power’s Halton Hills Generating Station,…