L&T to ship 22 oxygen turbines to hospitals dealing with acute scarcity

In view of the speedy rise in Covid-19 circumstances and rising demand of medical oxygen, infrastructure main Larsen and Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday introduced to ship 22 oxygen turbines to numerous hospitals throughout the nation the place there may be acute scarcity. The supply of oxygen turbines to hospitals will begin from May 15.
L&T had sourced parts for the oxygen turbines from varied components of the world and it could be assembled at L&T’s Hazira Manufacturing advanced in Surat.
L&T CEO S N Subrahmanyam stated, “This is an unprecedented situation, and we are extremely pained by the consequences of the dire shortage of oxygen. Nothing could be more important than human life and L&T is committed to stand by the nation. Our teams in India and abroad have, with single-minded attention in the last few days, been able to procure the oxygen generators and other components to assemble PSA (pressure swing absorption technique)units.”.
The items will take in air from the environment earlier than changing into the medical grade oxygen and later pumping into the pre-existing pipes within the hospitals, stated the corporate.
Sources stated that after testing, these items will likely be dispatched to the hospitals that are having acute scarcity in several components of the nation. Each unit has a compressor, dryer, oxygen generator and two storage tanks.
The items work on the plug-and-play precept. Once all of the constituent components are fabricated, the compressor permits the air to succeed in a specific strain inside a couple of minutes. The generator then begins pumping oxygen into pipes. Each of the items has a capability starting from 500 – 1,000 LPM litres per minute (LPM).
A 1,000 LPM machine can serve 100-plus beds concurrently.