Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed a medical oxygen generating plant that can be remotely operated using Intelligence of Things (IoT). Dehradun-based Indian Institute of Petroleum has developed the plant modifying an existing Pressure Swing Absorption (PSA) technology.
This 100 litres/minute (LPM) Pressure Vacuum Swing Adsorption (PVSA) plant delivers 0.2 tons per day of medical grade oxygen at 5 atmospheres pressure.
This medical oxygen generating plant is couple to Liquid Oxygen (LOX) and cylinder-based gas (GO2) systems.
The medical oxygen generating plant has achieved Oxygen purity level of 96% against a specification requirement of 90-96.
Price in India
The 500 LPM (1 ton per day) plants price set in Rs 60-70 lakh range.
The first 120 plants will be deliver by July end under the aegis of DRDO with funding from PM CARES.
Payback period of the new plant is about 1.2 years compare to cylinders.
What Medical Oxygen Generating Plant does?
Dr Anjan Ray Said :
“The plant is more compact; uses about 10 percent less power. Its operating cost is half of the same number of cylinders and does not require manpower to move around cylinders. It can be adapt using IOT to remote operations anywhere in the country or abroad, even from my laptop in Dehradun,”
Unlike cryogenic oxygen plants, the newly developed one costs much lower initial capital and economical even at 100 litres per minutes (5-10 L per bed normally needed, up to 20L per bed for severely affected ICU patients).
National Chemical Laboratory Pune another laboratory under CISR and multinational Bharat Forge Limited, Pune are involve in the integration of the pilot plant and its installation and validation support.
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