Indian Navy’s innovation: Provides ‘Oxygen on Wheels’ and designs O2 recycling system

‘Oxygen Recycling System’ (ORS) to alleviate the present Oxygen (O2) shortages has been specifically designed and conceptualised by the Diving College of the Southern Naval Command.

The Indian Navy has offered an ‘Oxygen on Wheels’ plant which has been designed by the Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam, to the COVID Care Centre, Palasa.

Extra in regards to the Oxygen on Wheels

‘Oxygen on Wheels’ is a novel initiative and has been launched by the Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam. A PSA Oxygen Plant was built-in on a cellular platform. This has been performed to assist serve distant hospitals. This was launched formally at Visakhapatnam by Vice Adm AB Singh, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Jap Naval Command.

A workforce of specialists from the Naval Dockyard Visakhapatnam has helped join the Oxygen pipeline within the COVID Well being Care Centre at Palasa.

It will present oxygen around the clock, and 12 sufferers within the hospital can use this at one time. The Naval workforce has additionally skilled the hospital employees in working the plant.

Primarily based on the request by the civil administration, the Naval Dockyard designed this method. It was formally inaugurated on the Palasa, Covid Care Centre by Sreediri Appalaraju, minister of Animal Husbandry & Dairy Growth & Fisheries on Could 25, 2021.

Indian Navy makes an Oxygen Recycling system (ORS)

‘Oxygen Recycling System’ (ORS) to alleviate the present Oxygen (O2) shortages has been specifically designed and conceptualised by the Diving College of the Southern Naval Command.

Why the Diving College?

It has been designed by Lt Commander Mayank Sharma of Diving College, and patented. The Indian Navy earlier this month has utilized for the patent.

Based on the Indian Navy, the Diving College has the experience on this it’s based mostly on the fundamental idea which is utilized in a few of the diving units that are utilized by the college.

As reported earlier, an identical thought on a miniaturised lab mannequin was demonstrated to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, earlier this month throughout the Mixed Commanders Convention at Kevadia.

Extra in regards to the ORS

This method will assist in extending the lifetime of the present medical O2 cylinders two to 4 occasions.

How does it try this?

Through the use of solely a small share of O2 inhaled by a affected person is definitely absorbed by the lungs, and the remainder is exhaled together with carbon-dioxide (CO2) produced by the physique. This exhaled O2, based on the Indian Navy could be reused, offered the exhaled CO2 is eliminated. And that is potential through the use of the ORS which provides a second pipe to the affected person’s current O2 masks. This second pipe then sucks out the air exhaled by a affected person through the use of a low-pressure motor and non-return valves.

The exhaled gases, CO2 carbon dioxide and O2, are then fed right into a Bacterial Viral Filter and Warmth and Moisture Exchanger Filter (BVF-HME filter), that is performed to soak up any viral contaminants. After this, the gases move via a high-grade CO2 scrubber with a Excessive Effectivity Particulate Air (HEPA) filter, which absorbs CO2 and different particulates. This permits the enriched O2 to move via unaffected, which then is pumped again into the inhalation pipe of the affected person’s face masks. This helps in decreasing using O2 from the cylinder.

The workforce of specialists at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Know-how (SCTIMST) at Thiruvananthapuram discovered each the design and the idea possible. Earlier this month, an ‘Preliminary Analysis Certificates’ was accorded by the Director, SCTIMST.

This method goes in for medical trials and the design will probably be accessible free for mass manufacturing. The general price of the ORS prototype has been capped at Rs 10,000/- and is predicted to assist save Rs 3,000 per day because of the recycling of O2.