DRDO offers spinoff tech from Tejas onboard oxygen system to hospitals fighting COVID-19
DRDO offers spinoff tech from Tejas onboard oxygen system to hospitals fighting COVID-19, mop tejas
A spin-off from a critical technology that might aid future pilots of Indian Air Force (IAF) flying the sunshine Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas with non-stop supply of oxygen while undertaking long-endurance missions is now being offered to hospitals combating coronavirus.
This product to fly out from the hangars of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is within the sort of a Medical Oxygen Plant (MOP), is an offshoot technology from the Onboard Oxygen (OBOX) generation system being developed for Tejas.
The MOP technology is developed by Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory (DEBEL), a life sciences wing of DRDO situated in Bengaluru’s C V Raman Nagar.
MOP utilizes pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technique and molecular sieve technology to get oxygen directly from atmospheric air.
The OBOX technology for Tejas being developed by DEBEL has been approved by the Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (CEMILAC), workplace mandated to certify the …