The creation of captive fleets running on hydrogen improves productivity whilereducing CO2emissionsin the place of use. One of the main applications, which is showing strong growth, is for物流仓库的叉车车队。
Forklifts running on hydrogen emit no greenhouse gases.用于燃料电池,氢气与空气中的氧气相结合,产生电力,仅排出水。它为遗留叉车提供了可持续的替代品,通过组合增加的灵活性和提高生产力来满足关键物流挑战。
Hydrogen technology allows forklifts to remain in use non-stop.Long stoppages for recharging are no longer necessary。甚至更好:燃料电池叉车的性能在整个使用过程中恒定,直到氢气耗尽。电池由于电荷耗尽时,电池损失电源。
最后,the lifespan of a fuel cell is longer: around10年, compared with 5 to 6 years for an electrical battery.
Prelocentre – which provides a fruit and vegetable logistics service for the Grand Frais chain in France – uses hydrogen to run all goods handling devices in Prelocentre, its warehouse in Saint-Cyr-en-Val near Orléans. A European first!
In a suburb of Lyon, Philippe Giroux makes the most of a quiet moment to read the trade press. An article catches his attention: more and more warehouses in the USA and Canada are using forklift trucks that run on hydrogen. When used in a fuel cell, hydrogen generates clean energy as it combines with air to produce electricity, and water is the only waste emission. Hydrogen can be produced using natural gas – biogas or other – as well as by water electrolysis. As CEO of Prelocentre, the exclusive logistics service provider for the French distributor Grand Frais, Philippe Giroux is very interested!