Hydrogen

A prerequisite for the climate-friendly generation of hydrogen is the use of renewable energies. Pepperl+Fuchs offers a wide range of components that optimize the energy yield in wind and solar plants—from encoders and inductive sensors on the rotor blade of a wind turbine to inclination sensors that align solar collectors perfectly with the sun.

To achieve the highest possible yields in the industrial production of green hydrogen, several PEM cells are stacked. To ensure that no errors occur here, various products from Pepperl+Fuchs are suitable for supporting automated production of PEM stacks.

Transporting hydrogen is technically challenging. Not only because it is an explosive gas, but also because it must be compressed for transport. Various products and solutions from Pepperl+Fuchs are used both in gas pressure control and measurement systems and on the gas tanker to monitor valve positions and ensure reliable signal transmission.

Hydrogen plays an important role when it comes to replacing fossil fuels in industry, for example, in the particularly energy-intensive production of chemicals, cement, or steel. Pepperl+Fuchs offers the industry various sensor solutions for monitoring valves on transport pipelines and smart glasses to support their maintenance, as well as interface technology for burner control and identification solutions for AGVs operated with hydrogen.

While the actual refueling process at a hydrogen filling station is not much different from that at a conventional filling station, there are many things that run differently in the background: from the delivery of the hydrogen to its storage and dispensing at the pump. Pepperl+Fuchs offers products and solutions that enable safe processes and convenient refueling.