Logan Energy has unveiled a mobile compression trailer, which aims to accelerate the uptake of hydrogen as a low-carbon vehicle fuel in the UK.
The trailer unit, the size of a horse box, can be attached to a vehicle and taken to wherever hydrogen needs to be moved from one cylinder to another. Its automated compressor ensures a vehicle, or cylinder, can be filled in one go with no attendance required.
The product has been developed in response to demand from the hydrogen sector and particularly transport. Bus companies are increasingly using hydrogen in their efforts to achieve net zero emissions, after establishing that battery electric vehicles cannot meet the requirements of all routes.
Logan Energy is already providing trailers to end users and is in serial production to deploy many more trailers not only to bus companies, but also HGV users, and for other commercial applications.
The compression trailer will be unveiled at the All Energy 2022 conference in Glasgow today, while Logan Energy chief executive Bill Ireland is a speaker at the event.
“The compression unit has been designed with safety and security in mind, using our specific hydrogen engineering expertise,” he commented.
“Our aim was to build something that overcame the barriers that many companies have getting access to hydrogen equipment where and when they need it.”
The company, based at Wallyford in East Lothian, has seen headcount rise from 25 to 50 in the last 18 months.
Also, within the last year, three experts have joined its board, including former SSE chief executive Ian Marchant as chair, ahead of plans to increase international expansion.
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