Uses Of Oxygen

Industrial Use:

• Oxygen is used to improve the yield of a large number of petrochemical processes.
• Oxygen can be used pure in chemical oxidation reactions such as the production of ethylene oxide (EO), propylene oxide (PO), ethylene dichloride (EDC), vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), titanium dioxide (TiO2), ferric sulfate and also for the debottlenecking of air based processes such as those in the production of acrylonitrile and purified terephtalic acid (PTA).
• O2 is also used in the production of synthesis gas (H2/CO).
• Mainly used for the glass melting and generally for all oxy-combustion process..
• As in the iron and steel industry (Decarburization of hot metal to produce steel, and to enrich blast furnace air), oxygen is used in non ferrous primary production, secondary smelting etc,With acetylene or LPGs, oxygen allows to boost the flame properties in flame torches and burners (flame temperature, specific flame output power).
• Biological water purification, clean waste incineration, ozone synthesis.

Uses in Food Industry

Oxygenation of fish-breeding tanks

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Uses Of Nitrogen

Industrial Use:

• Nitrogen can be used for blanketing, as well as for storage for protecting raw materials or finished products in liquid form from the formation of peroxides and/or gum, and from contamination by oxygenated components
• Nitrogen is used as an inert gas especialy to create, in combination with hydrogen, a reductive atmosphere over the tin bath in the float glass process
• Nitrogen is used as a carrier gas in gas chromatography, Nitrogen is the balance gas of the calibration gas mixtures for environmental monitoring systems and industrial hygiene gas mixtures
• Nitrogen is largely used as purge, dryier or blanket gas for analyzers or chemical reactors (under gaseous state or at low temperature liquid state)
• Heat treatment of various metals
• Nitrogen is a component of the special mixtures used in CO2 Lasers

Medical Use

Low-temperature preservation of living tissues and cells.

Uses in Food Industry

Liquid nitrogen is the mostly used cryogenic fluid, to chill, freeze or store food products. Gaseous nitrogen is commonly used in contact with foodstuffs to avoid oxidation or micro-organism growth by inerting of liquids. Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) preserves and protects foods ( pure nitrogen or mixed with CO2).

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Uses Of Dissolved Acetylene

Industrial Use:

• Acetylene is a combustible gas used mainly in the automatic lubrification for glass bottle production moulding. It is the fuel gas in Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (AAS). Acetylene is the most effective and versatile fuel gas, enabling manual applications such as welding, brazing, cutting, straightening or any other localized heating process.

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Uses Of Medical Air

Medical Use

Used in hospitals with artifical breathing apparatus, used in underwater diving & self contained breathing apparatus.

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Uses Of Medical Oxygen

Treatment of respiratory insufficiencies and resuscitation, in hyperbaric oxygen changes for treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Uses Of Carbon Dioxide

Industrial Use:

• Carbon dioxide is used in chemistry for controlling reactor temperatures.
• Carbon Dioxide is typically used for environment protection.
• It is used for red fume suppression during scrap and carbon charging, for nitrogen pick-up reduction during EAF tapping and for bottom stirring.
• In the non ferrous metallurgy, carbon dioxide is used for fume suppression during ladle transfer of matte (Cu/Ni production) or bullion (Zn/Pb production)
• Small amount of liquid CO2 can be used in recycling of waters from Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)
• The well known CO2 lasers are feed with some special grades of carbon dioxide
• CO2 is also employed to neutralize alkaline effluents
• It is used under supercritical conditions for purifying or dying polymer, animal or vegetal fibers

Medical Use

CO2 produces close-to-physiologic atmospheres for the operation of artificial organs. Carbon dioxide is used as a component in a mixture of oxygen or air as respiratory stimulant to promote deep breathing. It is also used for the surgical dilation by intra-abdominal insufflations.

Uses in Food Industry

CO2 is used in the food business in Carbonation of fizzing beverages such as soft drinks, mineral water or beer, Packaging of foodstuffs, its inerting and bacteriostatic properties being used successfully in nitrogen mixtures (Modified Atmosphere Packaging or MAP), to increase the shelf life of many food products. As cryogenic fluid in chilling or freezing operations or as dry ice for temperature control during the distribution of foodstuffs. Caffeine is removed from coffee using supercritical CO2

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Uses Of Argon

Industrial Use:

• Inert Gas – Argon is used in some high-temperature industrial processes, where ordinarily non-reactive substances become reactive. Used in electric bulbs, welding, cutting and in various types of metal inert gas welding such as tungsten inert gas welding, as well as in the processing of titanium and other reactive elements. An argon atmosphere is also used for growing crystals of silicon and germanium. Argon is also available in aerosol-type cans, which may be used to preserve compounds such as varnish, polyurethane, paint, etc. for storage after opening

Medical Use

Cryosurgery procedures such as cryoablation use liquefied argon to destroy cancer cells. In surgery it is used in a procedure called “argon enhanced coagulation” which is a form of argon plasma beam electrosurgery.Blue argon lasers are used in surgery to weld arteries, destroy tumors, and to correct eye defects.

Uses in Food Industry

Preservative – Argon is used to displace oxygen and moisture-containing air in packaging material to extend the shelf-life of the contents

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Uses Of Air

Industrial Use:

• Air is used to calibrate environmental emission monitoring, industrial hygiene monitors and trace impurity analyzers and as balance gas for some calibration mixtures. It is also used as combustion gases for gas chromatograph detectors (flame ionization or FID, flame photometric or FPD) and atomic absorption (or AAS spectrophotometers. For various industries, it is used for pneumatic functioning of machineries.

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Uses of Helium

Industrial Use:

• Helium gas is used as an inert gas in the arc welding process, and because of its low specific gravity and non-flammability it’s often used in lighter than air applications such as filling of balloons and blimps, high purity grade of helium can be used as Carrier gas for Gas Chromatography.
  Mixture of helium and oxygen are used as a breathing gas in deep sea diving.

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Uses Of Dry Ice

• Storage and transportation
• Special Effects
• Laboratories

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BGAS offers calibration gas mixtures custom-made to specific requirements, filled in cylinder or customer-owned cylinder. We provide any composition of gas mixtures specified by the customer with concentration that ranges from less than 1 ppm to 50% vol., by employing sophisticated blending techniques.

BGAS can provides Gas Mixtures Such as:

• Laboratory Gas Mixtures: Oxygen / Hydrogen / Hydrocarbons (CnHm) In Nitrogen or Helium.
• Welding, Fuel, Furnace and Food Grade Gas Mixtures: Carbon Dioxide/ Carbon Monoxide / Helium in Argon or Nitrogen.
• Pollution control, Medical and Exhaust Gas Mixtures: Hydrogen / Carbon Monoxide / Carbon Dioxide / Propane in air or Nitrogen
• Sterilizing Gas Mixtures. (Ethylene Oxide in Carbon Dioxide / Halocarbon R12).
• Respiratory Gas mixture (Carbon dioxide / Oxygen / Helium)
• Blood Gas Analysis Gas mixture (Carbon dioxide / Oxygen / Nitrogen)
• Spirometry Gas Mixture (Carbon dioxide / Oxygen / Nitrogen)
• Instrumentation Gas mixture (Oxygen / Nitrogen)
• Fuel Gas mixture for FID (Hydrogen / Helium)
• Working gas for ECD (Methane / Argon)
• Spectrometry Gas mixture (Methane / Hydrogen / Argon)
• Shield Gas mixture for Spectrometers (Argon / Hydrogen)
• CO₂Laser Gas mixture (Carbon dioxide / Nitrogen / Helium)
• Excimer Laser Gas mixture (Fluorine / Hydrogen chloride / Hydrogen / Helium)
• Incandescent lamps Gas mixture (Nitrogen / Argon)
• Arc shielding gas for Welding (Carbon dioxide / Helium / Hydrogen / Argon)
• Leak detection Gas mixture (Helium / Nitrogen)

Other compositions can be prepared upon request. We would be pleased to receive any inquiry regarding gas mixtures not included in the above list.

It has the ability to maintain very low temperatures far below the freezing point of water (extremely cold) which makes it extremely useful in a wide range of applications, primarily as an open-cycle refrigerant, including:

• It is used for quick freezing of foods such as ice cream and cold juices. This use is common because of the rapid cooling feature, as well as the addition of presentation and show effect to foods that characterize the restaurant or cafe
• Cryopreservation of biological samples such as sperm, eggs, and animal genetic samples. Its common in horse stables to preserve biological samples
• In cryotherapy for removing unsightly or potentially malignant skin lesions such as warts and actinic keratosis
• In cryogenics
• For the immersion, freezing, and transportation of food products
• To freeze water and oil pipes to work on them in situations where a valve is not available to block fluid flow to the work area; this method is known as a cryogenic isolation
• To shrink-weld machinery parts together

With our specialized knowledge and experience in industrial and medical gases.

BGAS provides many services in industrial, medical gases field such as:

• Nitrogen Purging & pressure test
• Hydrotest
• Analysis Service
• Clusters
• Stainless steel Containers
• Aluminum Alloy Containers
• Sandblasting of cylinders, tonners & cryogenic tanks.
• Painting of cylinders, tonners & cryogenic tanks.
• Testing & fixing of high pressure cylinder valves.
• Repairing high pressure cylinder valves)

With a large storage capacity and extensive transmission network, we guarantee our customers a steady and reliable supply of gases.