In order to augment oxygen-related infrastructure in railway hospitals, a plant having 500 litres per minute (LPM) oxygen generation capacity was inaugurated at the Northern Railway Central Hospital, New Delhi, under the CSR initiative. It was commissioned in the presence of Ashutosh Gangal, General Manager Northern Railway and Ravindra Kumar Jain MD/DFC and officials of Northern Railway Central Hospital.
Providing a 500 litres per minute (LPM) oxygen generation plant at the Northern Railway Central Hospital, New Delhi under the CSR initiative was assigned to DFCCIL. It was provided in a record time of less than a month from the time DFC committed to set it up and to its actual installation.
This plant works on the pressure swing absorption (PSA) technology in which a special absorbent material is used to separate gases based on their molecular characteristics and absorb the target gas at high pressure and ambient temperature. The gas is then absorbed at lower pressure. The total requirement of oxygen of the hospital in normal times is about 1,500 LPM and this plant will help fulfil 30 per cent of the baseload and about 10 per cent in peak Covid times.
