SPAN Hydrogen

INDUSTRIES

Built for continuous-process industry.

Serving the industries that cannot afford to stop — hydrogen that must be pure, available and economical, engineered for each process.

Glass & Float Glass

The challenge

The tin bath atmosphere demands uninterrupted high-purity hydrogen — a supply break is a production break measured in days, not hours.

How SPAN helps

Redundancy-first generation and buffer design, purity engineered for atmosphere control, and commissioning planned around your campaign schedule.

Where hydrogen works in this industry

  • Tin bath protective atmosphere (N₂/H₂ forming gas)
  • Fire polishing of glass surfaces
  • Forming-gas blending and distribution
  • Specialty and optical glass production
Typically specified
  • 99.999% purity
  • continuous duty
  • N₂/H₂ atmosphere integration

Metals & Heat Treatment

The challenge

Bright annealing, sintering and controlled atmospheres need stable hydrogen flow and dew point — and cylinder logistics quietly inflate cost per part.

How SPAN helps

On-site generation sized to furnace cycles, drying to specified dew point, and changeover engineering from cylinder banks with zero production risk.

Where hydrogen works in this industry

  • Bright annealing of stainless and specialty steels
  • Sintering of powder-metal components
  • Controlled-atmosphere brazing
  • Galvanising line atmospheres
Typically specified
  • stable flow control
  • low dew point
  • cylinder changeover plan

Electronics & Semiconductors

The challenge

Trace oxygen and moisture are defects waiting to happen.

How SPAN helps

Instrument-grade purification with auditable measurement points, and materials selection to protect purity from generator to tool.

Where hydrogen works in this industry

  • Wafer processing and epitaxy atmospheres
  • Reducing atmospheres for reflow and annealing
  • Forming-gas leak detection
  • Display and component manufacturing
Typically specified
  • 99.999%+
  • ppm-level O₂/H₂O control
  • purity audit trail

Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals

The challenge

Hydrogenation steps need dependable pressure and documentation your quality and safety teams can stand behind.

How SPAN helps

Pressure-guaranteed distribution design, HAZOP participation and documentation aligned to your validation practices.

Where hydrogen works in this industry

  • Catalytic hydrogenation of API intermediates
  • Selective reduction — nitro groups to amines
  • Hydrogenolysis and deprotection steps
  • Specialty chemical synthesis feedstock
Typically specified
  • pressure stability
  • GMP-aware documentation
  • safety studies

Edible Oils & Food

The challenge

Hydrogenation at food-grade expectations, with utilities and space already stretched.

How SPAN helps

Compact plant layouts, food-industry-appropriate materials and integration with existing utility blocks.

Where hydrogen works in this industry

  • Hydrogenation of edible oils and fats
  • Sorbitol and sugar-alcohol production
  • Modified atmosphere applications
Typically specified
  • food-grade practice
  • compact footprint
  • utility integration

Power Plants

The challenge

Generator cooling hydrogen is a small volume with an outsized impact on availability.

How SPAN helps

Right-sized on-site generation and storage for make-up and purging, replacing cylinder dependence at remote sites.

Where hydrogen works in this industry

  • Turbo-generator rotor cooling make-up
  • Purging and refilling during maintenance outages
  • Cylinder replacement at remote and captive plants
Typically specified
  • generator-cooling purity
  • remote-site reliability
  • low maintenance

Green Mobility & Refuelling EMERGING

The challenge

Pilots and captive fleets need refuelling-ready hydrogen without betting the site on unproven design.

How SPAN helps

Generation and storage engineered to refuelling-readiness standards, designed to scale as your fleet does.

Where hydrogen works in this industry

  • Fuel cell vehicle refuelling stations
  • Material handling and forklift fuel cells
  • Captive fleet and pilot programmes
  • Refuelling-readiness compression and storage
Typically specified
  • 350/700-bar readiness pathway
  • phased capacity
  • compliance-first design

Research & Laboratories

The challenge

Analytical instruments and R&D facilities need lab-grade hydrogen in small, variable volumes — where cylinder logistics are outsized for the demand.

How SPAN helps

Compact on-demand generation sized for analytical and research loads, with the consistent purity instrumentation depends on.

Where hydrogen works in this industry

  • Carrier gas for GC and GC-MS analysis
  • Fuel gas for flame ionisation detectors
  • Catalyst studies and materials research
  • Pilot-scale process development
Typically specified
  • lab-grade purity
  • on-demand supply
  • compact footprint

Your industry has its own hydrogen economics.

The Readiness Assessment models them for your plant specifically.