An oxygen plant with capacity of 50m3/hr will be able to generate 200 oxygen cylinders per day. The cost of the oxygen plant is around INR1.95 crore. It is fabricated and manufactured with the latest cryogenic technology. The unique feature of cryogenic technique is that it is able to generate liquid oxygen with purity up to 99.7%, which is considered the highest concentration possible.
The industries prefer the cryogenic technology, notwithstanding the cost, because it is the most cutting-edge and generating liquid oxygen (LOX) has many advantages which are not available if you choose other technologies such as pressure swing adsorption even though it is cheaper. Cryogenic process is considered the most efficient technology and can generate oxygen in both liquid and gaseous forms. Moreover, storing and transporting LOX is easy besides it is less likely to leak compared to gaseous oxygen.
How costing of an oxygen plant is decided?
Oxygen plant manufactured with the cryogenic technology is built with the high quality materials and components. Air separation unit (ASU) is the most important part of the cryogenic based plants which contributing around 60% of the cost. ASU is the heart of the O2 plant as generation of high purity oxygen depends on its performance.
High grade stainless steel is used for manufacturing and fabricating the column since the very operation of the plant machinery is dependent on. Oxygen plant cost is mainly dependent on the ASU and air compressor. Moreover, the performance of the plant would definitely depend on the quality of the air separation column and the air compressor.
The plant is fully automated with the world-class PLC system. All the processes of air separation are automatic requiring little no manual inputs. It is equipped with a high quality self-diagnostic system that sounds an alarm when something goes wrong within the plant machinery. The operator sitting in the control room notices it and sets it right.
