Compressed Oxygen Cylinder Industrial Grade Gas

Refrigerant Gas Distributor: Refrigerant Gas Suppliers™’s Compressed Oxygen Cylinder is designed to support a wide range of industries and applications. Refrigerant Gas Distributor: Refrigerant Gas Suppliers™ industrial-grade oxygen vigorously supports the combustion of many materials, such as copper, brass, and stainless steel.

Oxygen is widely used as a fuel gas for cutting, welding, brazing, and soldering. The use of oxygen gives higher flame temperatures than if air is used.

Compressed Oxygen Cylinder Features

• Supplied with a 99.5% purity rating
• Colourless and odourless
• Does not burn but supports and accelerates combustion
• Non-toxic at atmospheric pressure

Compressed Oxygen Cylinder Benefits

• Vigorously supports combustion. Introducing oxygen to conventional air-fuel flames increases the temperature of the flame.
• It is used as an ingredient in some shielding gas mixtures due to its ability to help stabilise the arc and reduce surface tension.
• When cutting, a 1% reduction in purity increases oxygen consumption by 25% and reduces the cutting speed by a similar amount.

Compressed Oxygen Cylinder Cylinders & supply

Industrial oxygen cylinder sizes include the compact, portable E cylinder, which contains 0.68 m3 of gas and weighs just 7kg.

For customers needing significant industrial oxygen capacity and security of supply Refrigerant Gas Distributor: Refrigerant Gas Suppliers™’s Manifolded Cylinder Pallet (MCP) is the ideal solution. The MCP securely houses 15 cylinders in a robust and compact steel frame and can provide 165.50m³ of gas.

Oxygen: Specifications

Material Compatibility

Oxygen vigorously supports the combustion of many materials that will not normally burn in the air.

Copper, brass, and high-quality stainless steel are the most commonly used metals and are compatible with oxygen. However, most lubricants are not compatible; oil and grease can ignite spontaneously, burning with explosive violence, and should not be used with oxygen.

Oxygen must never be used with polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) tape, as it will cause combustion.

Standard PTFE tape contains oil; oxygen reacts violently with oil and may spontaneously burn with an explosive force. Refrigerant Gas Distributor: Refrigerant Gas Suppliers™ does not recommend the use of PTFE or other thread sealing components in conjunction with any gas cylinder valves or regulators.

Applications and Uses

Widely used with fuel gas for cutting, welding, brazing, and soldering. The use of oxygen gives higher flame temperatures than if air is used.

In oxy-cutting, an oxy-fuel flame preheats the steel to its ignition temperature. A jet of gaseous oxygen flows onto the red-hot steel, generating more heat and melting the steel. The steel in contact with the oxygen jet is oxidised, creating metallic slag, which is blown from the cut, allowing more steel to react with the oxygen.

In plasma and laser-cutting steel, an arc or laser beam is used to heat the steel to its ignition temperature. Oxygen is then used in the same way as with oxygen-cutting to create an exothermic reaction and to blow away any metal oxide or slag.

Thermal lancing oxygen is used in conjunction with the steel lance to create a high-temperature melting process capable of drilling or cutting through materials such as concrete, brick, stone, and most metals.

High-purity oxygen is used in laboratories, process-control operations, metal analysis instruments, and semi-conductor production.

Used as an assist gas in lasers for cutting mild steel.