PSA oxygen generators at hospitals not a panacea, says Moloy Banerjee

In an interview with Jyoti Mukul, Moloy Banerjee, head of gases-South Asia, Linde South Asia, talks about capacity building and the merits of setting up PSA plants to meet medical oxygen demand

Industrial gas producers had to quickly ramp up their medical oxygen production capacity in India due the devastating second wave of Covid-19. Among those supplying a sizeable percentage of medical oxygen was Linde Plc through its subsidiaries Linde India and Praxair India. In an interview with Jyoti Mukul, Moloy Banerjee, head of gases-South Asia, Linde South Asia, talks about capacity building and the merits of setting up pressure swing adsorption (PSA) plants to meet medical oxygen demand. Edited excerpts:

What were the challenges when demand for oxygen increased over the last year, especially since the second Covid wave was not