Bengaluru: Researchers from Jawaharlal Nehru Center for sophisticated scientific research (JNCASR) and their collaborators have developed a strong mobile oxygen concentrator that can be used in rural settings and deployed quickly in an emergency at any location.
Shows that overcoming the oxygen crisis requires two types of solutions – 5-10 liters per minute (LPM) O2 concentrators that are personalized for use at home and 500-LPM plants for large hospitals – researchers say that while plants for hospitals are strong, they cannot Moving and deployed in a bad setting of resources, while personal concentrators are too fragile for sustainable use in hospital settings.
The team from JNCASR, an autonomous institution under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), determined to overcome this challenge and develop a new solution called ‘Oxyjani’.
“Oxyjani is based on the principles of adsorption swing pressure technology (PSA).
The team replaces Lithium Zeolites (LIX) which is usually used in oxygen concentrators, with sodium zeolite which does not produce toxic solid waste and can be produced in India,” DST said inside A statement.
Vice President Venkaah Naidu has examined Oxyjani during his visit to Jncasr in Bengaluru on Monday.
This new technology called “group concentrator” has the resistance of large PSA crops, portability of personal concentrators, and also affordable, said DST.
This device is in the range of 30-40 LPM, which can potentially be used in the ICU.
In this multi-group initiative, SV was written, Meher Prakash, Prof.
Santosh Ansumali from Jncasr, and collaborator, Prof.
Arvind Rajendran from the University of Alberta and Arun Kumar (Ewiwave Digitech) executed the efforts of developing oxyjani with the help of Ritwik Das (MS students).
“Technical advice provided by Prof.
M Eswaramooorthy, Prof.
Tapas Maji, and Prof.
Sridhar Regahaman, while Prof.
Gu Kulkarni, President, Jncasr and Prof.
Amitabha Bandyophyay from IIT Kanpur.
Financial assistance for prototypes is provided through JNCASR and IIT Kanpur.
Zeolite material obtained Through donations from Honeywell Uop, Italy, “DST added.