03.08.2021  INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT OF LENINGRAD NPP

The Leningrad NPP is ready to provide monthly supply of up to 100 tons of liquid oxygen for medical purposes

The Leningrad NPP (a branch of Rosenergoatom) has established a daily shipment of liquid oxygen to companies capable of converting it into a state for medical use.

The station is ready to supply up to 100 tons of liquid oxygen every month. This volume will be enough to ensure continuous operation for one hour for 275,000 portable ventilators with a capacity of 2 liters with a minute ventilation of the lungs of 10 liters / min.

“The main products that we shall develop to ensure the safe operation of power units are gaseous and liquid nitrogen. Oxygen for us is rather a by-product that has become vital during the pandemic, - explained Andrey Abramov, deputy head of the support systems department. “The oxygen produced by the Leningrad NPP fully complies with all the requirements of GOST”.

The production of liquid oxygen is carried out on the basis of the nitrogen-oxygen station of the supply systems shop of the Leningrad NPP, equipped with the necessary equipment and staffed with competent personnel. Currently, two units are in operation at the Leningrad NPP.

According to doctors' average estimates, a COVID department with 80 beds requires from 0.6 to 1 ton of liquid oxygen per month, which is converted into gaseous oxygen through a gas generator.

The Rostov NPP also followed the path of oxygen production for medical needs, completing in June this year the procedures necessary to launch the production of medical oxygen and its delivery to regional medical institutions. Now the plant is ready to supply oxygen directly to healthcare facilities. Volgodonsk nuclear scientists will also produce medical oxygen on the basis of the company's nitrogen-oxygen station, which is equipped with the necessary equipment and staffed with trained personnel. The maximum capacity of the equipment is 40 cubic meters per hour. This volume is enough for the operation of one ventilator for about 3 days.


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