Oxair, an Australian specialist in the supply of gas generation equipment to international markets, explains the benefits of automatic on-site nitrogen (N2) generators and why they were chosen for the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project.
N2 is used in multiple applications every day, with organisations often relying on the gas being shipped to them in cylinders, which can prove expensive and logistically challenging for remote locations due to conditions on route and storage space, not to mention the health and safety risks for staff manually moving the cylinders from one place to another.
A N2 generator offers a continuous flow of the gas for industrial sectors where its vital such as food packaging and processing to keep items fresher for longer, mines and chemical plants for displacing oxygen (O2) to prevent explosions in highly dangerous atmospheres and pharmaceutical production where almost every major drug class contains some N2, even antibiotics and anaesthetics.
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