Blast at Oxygen Plant of Govt Medical College in Kashmir injuries two technicians

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Dec

Mujib Mir

A blast at the oxygen plant of Government Medical College (GMC), Baramulla, injured two technicians on Monday morning, hospital sources said.

According to the eyewitnesses, a huge blast was heard inside the oxygen plant of GMC Baramulla. The blast rocked the oxygen plant located in the backyard of the Government Medical College (GMC) here around 10:40 am, causing panic among employees working around.

Police officials said two technicians were injured in the explosion and have been shifted to GMC Soura, while they are stated to be out of danger.

According to the doctors, a blast occurred in the oxygen plant of GMC and two technicians were injured. "One technician called Asif Ahmad Mir son of Ghulam Hassan Mir resident of Srigufwara was hit on his legs due to splinters while another Tahir Ahmad Bhat son of Ghulam Hassan Bhat resident of Baramulla got injured in the chest," said a doctor at GMC.

Oxygen is a colourless, odourless, nonpoisonous gas that makes up about 20% of the air we breathe. Oxygen plants produce oxygen for industrial and medical use by using decomposition methods to break down chemicals.

Oxygen plants provide a constant flow of high purity oxygen. Oxygen production plants produce oxygen from atmospheric air. The plants are designed for non-hazardous locations.

The oxygen supply system is organised in a cascade type of oxygen plant by dividing the oxygen to be supplied into 3 stages. The first stage consist of Air separation Unit, which serves as the supplier of oxygen for the second and third stages via its contaminants free oxygen outlet.

Because it uses the physical phenomena of high temperature low pressure distillation process and vacuum evaporation process, the Air separation Unit offers minimum product contamination and zero liquid discharge. It can separate oxygen from air, nitrogen, CO2 and other gases. The second stage mainly consists of Oxygen Concentrator with Dehumidifier. Its main function is to increase purity of produced oxygen through combustion-absorption process, low temperature pressure swing adsorption with dehumidifier process, and compression or absorption process. It relies on the chemical content difference between air and purified oxygen through certain processes such as pressure swing adsorption method to produce clean oxygen in high quality at high purity. Through this arrangement, during the summer period especially, it helps to reduce power consumption when plants are short of water.

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Bhartiya Cryogas has been in the oxygen plant manufacturing business since 1988 and has more than 20 year of experience in servicing, production and technology. The company is the first company to enter into this manufacturing business in India. The company is counted amongst top oxygen plant manufacturer in India.

Bhartiya Cryogas Pvt. Ltd. offers installation, maintenance and safety contracts for Air separation plants using our innovative technology for producing oxygen from air at multi mega tonnes per annum capacities. We have successfully completed the design, engineering, fabrication, supply and erection of Oxygen (Air Separation) Plants in India as well as abroad.