PSA Medical Oxygen Generation Plant
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the planning for the management of oxygen generation with the right equipment for the right time is vital to a hospital or alternate medical care application. To avoid on the dependency of the oxygen cylinders from outside, the hospitals all across the globe look for onsite oxygen generation and have already implemented the change to produce their own medical Oxygen Onsite. Medical Oxygen Generators produce gaseous oxygen from compressed air on site and offer a cost-effective, reliable and safe alternative to traditional oxygen gas supplies such as cylinders or cryogenic liquid.
Air contains 21% Oxygen, 78% Nitrogen, 0.9% Argon and 0.1% other trace gases. OXY An Oxygen generator separates this oxygen from Compressed Air through a unique process called Pressure Swing Adsorption(PSA). The Pressure Swing Adsorption process for the generation of enriched oxygen gas from ambient air utilises the ability of a synthetic Zeolite Molecular Sieve to absorb mainly nitrogen. While nitrogen concentrates in the pore system of the Zeolite, Oxygen Gas is produced as a product. OXY Oxygen generation plant’s use two vessels filled with Zeolite Molecular sieve as adsorbers. As Compressed Air passes up through one of the adsorbers, the molecular sieve selectively adsorbs the Nitrogen. This then allows the remaining Oxygen to pass on up through the adsorber and exit as a product gas. When the adsorber becomes saturated with Nitrogen the inlet airflow is switched to the second adsorber. The first adsorber is regenerated by desorbing nitrogen through depressurisation and purging it with some of the product oxygen. The cycle is then repeated and the pressure is continually swinging between a higher level at adsorption (Production) and a lower level at desorption (Regeneration).
