KNB News Desk
Srinagar 20 May (KNB): An Army official on Thursday said that the Oxygen plant of Enn Dee Gases located in Rangreth has been restored after lying out of action for five years.
According to the Army official, the oxygen plant has the capacity of filling 700 cylinders of oxygen per day. “It was vital to make this plant serviceable to increase the oxygen production capacity in the valley,” said the official.
“On being requested by the Civil Administration, Chinar Corps mobilised its resources to transport the required spare parts from Mumbai. The spare parts reached within just two days by an Indian Air Force plane. The moment necessary spares arrived at the plant, a team of technicians from Corps Zone Workshop, Rangreth along with civil technicians worked tirelessly to make the plant serviceable within four days,” said the Army official.
They further said that the plant was in a state of disuse for five years and had multiple problems in all subsystems like the Heavy Duty Air Compressor, the Chiller and even the Columnar Air Separator, which are vital parts of the plant.
“Once all the defects in the existing sub systems were rectified, the new Oxygen Filling Manifold was fitted by the technicians. The plant has been tested thoroughly and has been found to work satisfactorily,” the official said. (KNB)