Nitrogen is a versatile gas used in food freezing and chilling, heat treating metals, providing inert atmospheres for chemicals and electronics industries

Nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, and nonflammable gas which makes up 78% of our atmosphere. Yet this common and versatile gas also has an incredible range of industrial applications. Nitrogen in liquid form can be used to chill, freeze, and package many of our favorite foods and beverages. Nitrogen in gaseous form can be used in flammable furnace atmospheres for metal heat treatment or for inerting chemical reactors. Nitrogen is even indispensable to the fabrication of the semiconductor devices that drive our increasingly digital world.

Messer’s high purity nitrogen, available via bulk truck delivery, pipeline, or on-site production system, is used across a broad variety of industries. Our team has experience working with some of the most challenging applications around.

What are safety hazards associated when working with liquid or gaseous nitrogen?

Hazards associated when working with liquid or gaseous nitrogen include oxygen deficiency and asphyxiation, cryogenic burns, pressure build-up, and material embrittlement. One critical safeguard when working with nitrogen is the use of oxygen monitors to detect an oxygen deficient atmosphere.

Safety is a core value and embedded in everything we do at Messer. We are committed to the safe use of our products and set working standards that protect the safety and health of our customers, our people, and our communities. Here are some resources to find out more information on nitrogen safety:

Why Use Messer for Your Nitrogen Applications?

Across all of these industrial applications, we support our customers with a robust network of production facilities, a nation-wide distribution fleet, and advanced equipment solutions. We provide:

Over 120 years of proven experience in the safe, dependable production and delivery of nitrogen and other industrial gases.
Innovative, turnkey equipment solutions that help improve safety, efficiency, and throughput while reducing labor and carbon footprint.
Deep understanding of industry-specific standards earned from working on hundreds of technical industrial gas projects freeing you to focus on other priorities.

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“We increased production from 4,500 lb/hr average production to rates to 6,600 lb/hr, with peaks of up to 8,000 lb/hr. These production increases help give us the flexibility to respond to demand increases and tight labor markets.”

Wesley Simpson, Plant Manager, Tyson Foods North Little Rock, Arkansas

“With the support of Messer’s engineering team and industry expertise, we’ve been able to run these [spiral] freezers not only more efficiently to get more throughput, but also at a lower cost per pound while maintaining quality.”

Vince Nasti, VP of Operations, Nation Pizza & Foods, LLC

“We can run at full capacity and at the same time shorten our workday. Employees originally assigned to the freezer line have been repurposed to preparation… Our partnership with Messer goes back to my early days in the business, if we run into a problem, we contact Messer and get prompt support.”

Gianni Guglielmetti, Pierino president and Chief Operating Officer, Pierino Frozen Foods, Inc.

Markets Utilizing Nitrogen

Beverage

Biopharmaceutical

Chemistry

Electronics

Food

Manufacturing & Industrial Processes

Metal Heat Treatment

Oil & Gas

Technology Solutions Using Nitrogen

Messer’s CRYOCONTROL™ system offers a high-efficiency, more environmentally friendly alternative for low-temperature batch cooling.
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Liquid nitrogen bottom injection chilling systems use proprietary precision KRYOJECTOR® nozzles to chill ground meat, poultry, bakery dough or seafood products with cutting-edge efficiency. This hygienic system provides batch to batch consistency, prevents plugging, and retrofits simply into your existing system.
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Nitrogen can improve production throughput and efficiency of operations in a compact footprint through a range of advanced equipment such as spiral freezers, impingement freezers, or Messer’s Wave Impingement Freezer for individually quick frozen (IQF) products.
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Nitrogen used for inerting, blanketing, and purging in industries ranging from agriculture to pharmaceuticals.
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Nitrogen-based lyophilization is essential for extending the useful life of perishable pharmaceuticals (including injectables like vaccines).
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High-pressure nitrogen can supply critical metal production equipment such as inert gas atomizers, while nitrogen is also used in atmospheric control systems for sintering.
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Furnace atmosphere control systems utilize nitrogen (in combination with other gases) to improve efficiency and throughput for annealing processes, while solutions like high-speed gas injection enhance efficiency for metal hardening.
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Nitrogen’s CRYOSOLV™ system helps remove volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions in chemical, oil and gas processing, and other process gas streams.

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