It's tricky to set up Oxygen plants

28

Oct

PRAKSHI RAWAT

PSA oxygen plants will be installed in a matter of a few days, but importing equipment will take several weeks. According to experts, establishing a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Oxygen Plants may only take a couple of days, but importing the equipment may take weeks. On Sunday, the Centre approved the installation of 551 PSA plants underneath the PM CARES Fund in principle.

According to R Venkataraman (a technical expert), the PSA oxygen plant system can indeed be functional within two days after importing the required equipment, which is largely from Germany. PSA oxygen plant and cryogenic oxygen plants, he explained, were the two types of oxygen plants. The former is preferred in hospitals, whereas both of these are employed in enterprises. The former is quicker to install, but a cryogenic plant would take 6 months to a year. Cryogenic oxygen plants require lots of area and a lot of power. PSA systems are easier to assemble and require 10x10 or 20x10. The bulk of PSA systems will be supplied from Germany.

It takes manufacturers a couple of weeks to produce and distribute it, whereas installation might take only a few days, said Dr. Somanath Chatterjee, Medical Director of Prakriya Hospital. The greater difficulty, though, is that even the majority of the firms have a four- to six-week number of work.

Every day, the state has sought 1,500 metric tons of oxygen. The Centre has allocated 300 mt of oxygen to the state these days. Because the number of instances is growing, the state has the right 500 to 600 metric tonnes of oxygen by and 1,500 tons by the beginning. Bengaluru would be responsible for the vast majority of the demands.

According to Venkataraman, air compression machines absorb air from the atmosphere and then separate nitrogen (78.09%), argon (0.93%) and oxygen (20.95%). “It compresses to different temperatures and transforms it to a liquid, which will then be kept in a cryogenic tank and transferred. Because transportation of oxygen in gaseous form is extremely expensive, it is converted into a liquid. Afterwards, the liquid is passed through with a vaporizer, which turns this into gas. Depending on need and, the gas will be pumped into a medicinal or manufacturing pipe. While industrial oxygen has a pure of 99.5%, medical oxygen will also have a purity of around 95 %.