Indian Navy designs ‘Oxygen Recycling System’ to mitigate current oxygen crisis

New Delhi, May 20

Indian Navy has designed an Oxygen Recycling System, ORS  to mitigate the current oxygen crisis.

The Diving School of the Southern Naval Command of the Indian Navy has conceptualised and designed the System to alleviate the existing Oxygen shortage.

It is designed to extend the life of the existing medical oxygen cylinders two to four times, using the fact that only a small percentage of oxygen inhaled by a patient is actually absorbed by the lungs, the rest being exhaled along with carbon-dioxide.

Ministry of Defence in a statement said that the system is now being progressed for clinical trials in accordance with existing guidelines, which are expected to be completed expeditiously, after which the design will be freely available for mass production in the country.

It said, all components used in the ORS are indigenous and freely available in the country.

The overall cost of the ORS prototype has been capped at 10 thousand rupees against an envisaged saving of three thousand rupees per day due to the recycling of oxygen.