Building Mission-Critical Hydrogen Compressors
Learn how PDC Machines is helping advance the hydrogen economy by manufacturing mission-critical hydrogen compressors for fueling and mobility applications. In this video, discover how reliable compressor performance, system uptime, and product quality support hydrogen-powered vehicles, transportation fleets, and other clean energy initiatives. See how Swagelok fluid system solutions help ensure leak-tight operation and long-term reliability, enabling customers to confidently meet the growing demands of hydrogen infrastructure while delivering a seamless experience for end users adopting alternative energy technologies.
Video Transcript
Our biggest growing business right now is the hydrogen fuel economy, where people are transitioning from internal combustion engine vehicles to electrified vehicles, with hydrogen being an energy carrier.
Our compressors are fueling cars, buses, trucks, forklifts, drones, trains, anything that has to do with mobility. Our compressors have something to do with it.
In the regions that we serve, the heavy-duty market, including heavy-duty trucks and delivery vehicles, is what we see as the next frontier of the hydrogen economy. We believe that will transform the economy.
Quality, number one, means uptime for our customers. Our customers are in mission-critical situations, whether it’s in the transportation industry, the logistics industry, or the medical gas industry. Those customers depend on our machines to support their operations and move gas from one place to another, whatever the application is.
Being able to supply a world-class product, whether domestically or internationally, with the highest-quality product is of the utmost importance for PDC, our brand image, and our customers.
Our relationship with Penn goes back to our beginning and founding. Swagelok is the only brand and partner that we use throughout our tube fitting systems. It’s not a supplier-vendor-customer relationship; we view Penn as a partner for everything. We use them for our tube fittings, valves, and instrumentation fittings. We use them all over the products that we make.
Quality means uptime, and uptime means a positive customer experience for people who are making the energy transition. If you need to make that leap from an internal combustion engine, you need to reduce or flatten the convenience change for the customer.
If the customer cannot fuel, if it takes too long, or if the station is down because of a leak or quality issue, it reflects poorly on the industry at a time when you need to have a seamless transition for people to adopt something that could be transformative on the clean and zero-emission side.
Generally speaking, people don’t want to sacrifice convenience. They want to show up at a gas station and always be able to pump.
We really see it as an even rise throughout the world, from renewables, whether it’s biogas, solar, or wind, to a green fuel going into a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. We’re really seeing all areas rise somewhat evenly.
