Telemetry in the world of gases started with diffusion in the late of 1990s. First installations were focused on the remote monitoring of liquid oxygen tanks in hospitals, then telemetry began to be extended to...
Most customers who are supplied with liquid nitrogen use the product in gaseous form. If there is a continuous gas requirement, the tank facilities installed at the customer’s site can be managed in a way...
With an estimated population of more than 56 million in 2018, the medical market need – and potential – in South Africa is certainly significant.
Clinical use of oxygen dates back to the late eighteenth century in France and England. The first low-pressure oxygen-storage cylinders, made of iron and brass, appeared in Europe in the late 1860s for use in...
Industry 4.0 is widely acknowledged as heralding the next Industrial Revolution. We are on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work and relate to one another, all...
The SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) is an essential part of the modern firefighter’s equipment.
Make or buy. When a requirement for industrial gases is identified, that is the question – whether to own the equipment and operate it to ‘make’ your own gases or contract for an over-the-fence supply...
Everyone in the engineering world knows that pressurised oxygen demands special care as it poses a serious risk of fire. But some of pressurised oxygen’s more complex properties are easily misunderstood or overlooked within increasing...
Both the words ‘standard’ and ‘safe’ have played an important part of my life working with gas cylinder packages over the past several decades. So you can imagine my joy when the Editor requested that...
Since the China government started to tackle the problem of excess capacity in various industries seriously, and implemented supply side reform a few years ago, many production sites have been cracked down and closed.
