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COVID19 Specific Engineering Solutions by TCE
As the impact of the Pandemic was being felt for Gaseous Oxygen distribution across the country
from March 2020 onwards, and while the teams leveraging the existing LPG bottling and distribution
were working on rewiring our operations and network was also detailed and shared with PESO.
taking other prudent measures, there was a deep • OXYGEN Generation PSA Plant Scale:
sense of responsibility towards contributing To leverage the existing infrastructure in the country,
the concept of conversion of PSA Nitrogen plant to PSA
to the fight against the Pandemic. Our key Oxygen plants was developed by TCE and successfully
currency is the intellectual horsepower, thought piloted along with IIT Bombay. Close to 75+ PSA Nitrogen
leadership and innovative mindset of our talents, plants (more expected to add up to 100+) are currently
we took a firm resolve to use this currency and being converted for Oxygen generation.
contribute effectively to the cause. To date, close • OXYGEN Plant Critical Raw Material:
to 15,000+ consulting person-hours have been Jointly as a team, Tata Consulting Engineers, Tata
Chemicals and IIT-Bombay were able to garner
devoted to fighting the Pandemic. Our efforts GOI support for emergency airlift of Zeolite from
focused on ideating, conceptualising, designing, Germany with the support from BASF leadership. The
engineering, and enabling various innovative Implementation of this concept is being done with
initiatives as a Pro-Bono activity by TCE. the help of the Ministry of Environment entity Central
Pollution Control Board (CPCB) as assigned by the GOI
The ongoing Pandemic second wave requires urgent actions and project managed by TCE.
towards enhancing the country’s healthcare, medical oxygen • OXYGEN Generation using O2 Concentrator:
generation, and distribution capacity. Our teams have made Prototyped opensource design (www.oxikit.com) in
humble efforts towards contributing our bit on this critical less than five (05) working days with benchmark results
requirement, focusing on Agility, Indigenisation aligned to of 10-20 LPM with 90-94% oxygen concentration.
self-reliance, quality and cost competitiveness. Our actions have Necessary design changes and process refinements
leveraged collaboration, teamwork, and partnerships externally were incorporated to ensure benchmarked results
to achieve more together in the shortest possible time.
under Indian conditions. Except for the Zeolite, locally
available Indian parts for the prototype were used. The
Emergency COVID-19 Infrastructure: Opensource oxygen concentrator design is actively being
Our teams from TCE and our subsidiary Ecofirst worked on explored by startups, entrepreneurs and MSME’s across
war footing to conceptualise and design both modular India.
units for COVID-19 patients and emergency jumbo • OXYGEN Infrastructure within Hospitals:
COVID-19 hospital structures. We also collaborated with the Our teams are assisting various Central efforts, State
Group Companies and multiple External Firms to provide Governments, Startups, NGOs and Hospitals on all of
these concepts and solutions for implementation and the above topics. We are also providing consultancy for
actual rollout. new PSA Oxygen plants, hospital oxygen infrastructure,

1. OXYGEN – Engineering LIFE pipelines and related checklists and audits. We have
responded to more than 3000+ requests for information
• OXYGEN Ventilators: and support in the last three weeks.
An engineering, feasibility and viability study was
conducted on multiple ventilators, and a viable
opensource ventilator was identified. The learnings were
shared with group entities for evaluation and appropriate
next steps were suggested for mass manufacturing
related tie-ups.
• OXYGEN Distribution Supply Chain:
To enable last-mile oxygen distribution and supply chain
logistics, TCE researched and presented the concept of
conversion of cylinders such as Co2, CNG, LPG (for gas)
etc. Suitable precautions, colour coding and planning

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