Covid Pandemic: Army Engineers Find WayTo Convert Oxygen Into Low Pressure Gas

To resolve the problem of transporting liquid oxygen in enormous cryogenic tanks, a crew of Indian Army engineers have completed the duty of changing it into low stress oxygen gasoline and guaranteeing its availability at sufferers’ beds, thus offering instant reduction to Covid affected folks.

Under the steering of Major General Sanjay Rihani, the engineers crew put collectively for early execution of an innovation to make sure that oxygen is made accessible with out the usage of gasoline cylinders, thus obviating the necessity to refill them continuously, Defence Ministry sources stated.  

Over a interval of seven days, the crew in-direct session and materials help from CSIR and DRDO, put collectively a working answer utilizing vaporisers and liquid oxygen cylinders. In order to make sure steady conversion of liquid oxygen into oxygen gasoline on the requisite stress and temperature on the Covid mattress, the crew used a self pressuring liquid oxygen cylinder of small capability (250 litres) and processed it by a specifically designed vaporiser and immediately usable outlet stress with requisite leak proof pipeline and stress valves. 

A prototype with two liquid cylinders able to feeding oxygen gasoline for 40 beds for a interval of two to 3 days has been made practical at Base Hospital, in Delhi Cantonment. The crew has additionally examined a cell model to cater for typical shifting necessities in hospitals.

The system is economically viable and is secure to function because it obviates excessive gasoline stress within the cylinders and doesn’t require any energy provide to function. The system is able to replication in a fast timeframe.