Technical snag halts oxygen production in Sterlite Copper’s plant
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N. RAJESH The euphoria triggered by the generation of oxygen in Sterlite Copper’s oxygen plant for saving the COVID-19 patients was short-lived as an unexpected technical snag in the oxygen plant paralysed roduction late Thursday night.
Consequently, the planned second load of oxygen from the plant on Thursday night could not be realised. The plant, after being idle for nearly three years, started generating oxygen since Wednesday evening and the first tanker with the 4.80 tonnes of oxygen produced in the plant took the life-saving gas to Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital only on Thursday morning. It was expected that the plant, which would generate 5 to 6 tonnes a day for the first few days, would produce 35 tonnes of oxygen from Saturday / Sunday (May 15 / 16).
Sterlite sends first load of Oxygen to Tirunelveli hospital
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Chennai, May 13 : The Sterlite plant at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu has dispatched its first load of oxygen to nearby Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital on Thursday. The vehicle carrying 4.82 KL of oxygen was flagged off by Tuticorin district collector, Dr K. Senthil Raj from the Sterlite premises.
The district collector who is the monitoring committee chairman appointed by the state government on the directive of the Supreme court said that the quality check of the 4.82 KL of oxygen was done in the quality control laboratory within the Sterlite premises.
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Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital will be the first beneficiary
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The first tanker with 4.80 tonne oxygen being dispatched from Sterlite Copper’s oxygen plant on Thursday, May 13, 2021,
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Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital will be the first beneficiary The first tanker with 4.80 tonnes of medical-grade oxygen from Sterlite Copper’s oxygen plant was dispatched at 7.10 a.m. on Thursday.
“The medical-grade oxygen with 98.60% purity from Sterlite Copper’s oxygen plant was sent to Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital,” said K. Senthil Raj, District Collector and chairperson of the State government-appointed monitoring committee for overseeing oxygen production from this plant.
Collector meets IPRC officials for oxygen
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