Hyderabad: Amid the acute scarcity of medical oxygen in hospitals throughout the nation within the struggle in opposition to Covid, the Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) is importing 11 cryogenic tanks from Bangkok (Thailand). These tanks that can assist to enhance the availability of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) to hospitals had been supplied by MEIL to Telangana State freed from value.
The first batch of three tanks landed on the Begumpet Air power Station right here on Saturday, and the remaining 8 tanks might be reaching right here in few days.
Each cryogenic tank may provide 1.40 crore litres of medical oxygen, and 15.40 crore litres from all of the 11 tanks.
In addition to the highest administration of MEIL, Telangana Finance Minister T. Harish Rao, a crew of senior officers belonging to the advisory committee fashioned below the Telangana authorities’s Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar have been supervising the entire operation.
The Union Defence and External Affairs Ministry which has been supervising the entire operation has granted permission for the graceful transport of those Tankers from Bangkok. A Defence particular flight that took off from Chandigarh has picked up the tanks from Bangkok earlier than reaching Hyderabad.
MEIL which on the forefront of bridging the hole between the availability and demand for medical oxygen within the struggle in opposition to the pandemic by supplying free oxygen to hospitals, has now imported these cryogenic tanks for the state authorities for current and future use.
“Transporting liquid oxygen for medical purposes from the manufacturing plants to the hospitals is riddled with bottlenecks. Now, these 11 cryogenic tanks will help the state government to cater to the needs of the hospitals that are in dire need of oxygen,” P. Rajesh Reddy, Vice-President MEIL stated.
While the Cryogenic tanks will reduce brief the time by facilitating the majority motion of medical oxygen to well being care items, the MEIL’s initiative to import has additionally truncated the time of manufacture of cryogenic tanks which might have taken three months to fabricate one tanker.
The MEIL administration which has stored all its different operations on maintain and concentrating on augmenting oxygen provide to each the Telugu States has taken up the procurement of cryogenic tanks as a precedence.
MEIL provided 3 crore litres of Oxygen.
So far, to increase the supply of medical oxygen MEIL is producing oxygen from its manufacturing unit in Bollarum around the clock and supplying it to hospitals within the sibling states of Telangana and AP and likewise in Odisha.
Empty Cylinders every with a capability of seven,000 litres of liquid oxygen had been stuffed and provided freed from value to not less than 10 hospitals on daily basis.  On common 400 cylinders are being provided from MEIL’s Bollarum facility. From May 9, 2021, to May 21, 2021, MEIL has provided 29,694 Metric Tons of LMO which interprets to 3 crore litres of oxygen.
About Cryogenic Tanks
Cryogenic liquids like oxygen and nitrogen are saved within the tank with temperature up to (-196°C) with an choice for high and low stress. The cryogenic air separation achieves excessive purity oxygen of greater than 99.5%. The ensuing excessive purity product will be saved as a liquid and/or stuffed into cylinders. These cylinders may even be distributed to prospects within the medical sector.
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