Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a product supply agreement with Big River Steel, LLC. Under the terms of the agreement, Air Products will operate an air separation unit (ASU) producing multiple industrial gases and a PRISM hydrogen generator. The onstream target for all the units is July 2016.
The ASU will provide pipeline oxygen, nitrogen and argon, and the PRISM unit will provide pipeline hydrogen for the new hot rolled steel facility.