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Oxygen is an odorless, colorless, and reactive gas. Oxygen is critical to life itself. It also plays a fundamental role in combustion and oxidation reactions. It is instrumental in a wide variety of applications ranging from metal production and fabrication, drinking and wastewater treatment, to healthcare.

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

Working in an environment with too much or too little oxygen is hazardous. An oxygen enriched atmosphere significantly increases the risk of fire or explosion. An oxygen deficient atmosphere increases the risk of asphyxiation. One critical safeguard when working with oxygen is the use of monitors to detect an oxygen enriched or 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 oxygen safety:

Why Use Messer for Your Oxygen Applications?

We support our customers with oxygen equipment solutions backed by a robust, nationwide distribution network available via bulk truck delivery, pipeline, or on-site production

  • Over 125 years of proven experience in the safe, dependable production and delivery of oxygen 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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The OXIPYR LEAF burners have resulted in significant improvements in our operations. Messer’s team was extremely helpful in training our operators on how to best use the new technology, allowing us to achieve our production targets.
Joseph Wetzel, Plant Manager, Custom Alloy
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"To meet the increasing demand for our copper products, we needed to improve refractory life on our Melting Furnace. Working with Messer was a collaborative process. From Messer’s assistance with burner repositioning, equipment tuning, melting know-how, and process optimization, we’ve seen a significant improvement in refractory life and daily operations."
Ray Ribar, Senior Process Engineer, Hussey Copper
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“I’ve never seen approvals that quickly – ever. The whole project was approved within a week... [Installing a new bulk medical oxygen station] would’ve taken months to a year in a normal situation. [Messer was] provided the opportunity to help a lot of people and they were thrilled about it. It was a huge win all around.”
Virtair owner, Will Wasserman
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Liquid Oxygen Specifications

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Markets Utilizing Oxygen

Air, Water & Environment

Air, Water & Environment

Aquaculture

Aquaculture

Chemistry & Energy

Chemistry & Energy

Electronics & Specialty Gases

Electronics & Specialty Gases

Food

Food

Healthcare

Healthcare

Metals

Metals

Manufacturing & Industrial

Manufacturing & Industrial

Pulp & Paper

Pulp & Paper

Technology Solutions Using Oxygen

Messer’s BIOX™ family of injectors and flow skids can help remove biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) to meet relevant environmental regulations.

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Healthcare providers depend on a quality supply of oxygen to help keep patients safe. Messer is a full-service bulk oxygen supplier, including end-to-end design-build support, and a dependable supply of oxygen and other medical gases.

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Our eNOx™ system offers a low-temperature, ammonia-free, end-of-pipe retrofit. This solution treats NOx with a stream of ozone to reliably remove up 95% of NOx regardless of load, concentration, particulates, or SOx content.

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By replacing inert nitrogen with combustible oxygen, Messer’s proprietary OXIPYR® oxy fuel solutions can boost production, reduce CO2 and NOx emissions and save energy. OXIPYR LEAF burners boost melt rates by up to 40% with oxygen instead of air-fuel. The enhanced control gives operators the ability to use oxygen only when they need it.

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Supplemental oxygen can greatly improve the efficiency of sulfuric acid regeneration, sulfur recovery, Fluid Catalytic Crackers (FCC), butanediol, nitric acid, and other oxidation-dependent processes. Messer’s OXYBOOST™ flow control skid and oxygen injector can help boost yield, productivity, and profitability.

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Ozone-based applications for water treatment, mineral and pulp bleaching, and NOx removal continue to proliferate, but traditional oxygen-ozone conversion processes are inefficient, converting only a small percentage of the oxygen input. Messer’s OXYCYLE™ solution can help, recovering up to 60% of the oxygen used in ozone generation.

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Oxygen Safety with Messer

This video shows you how to safely work with Oxygen.

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Industrial Oxygen Supply Options

Oxipyr LEAF-1

A Leading Aluminum Recycler Increases Throughput Over 15%

Achieving higher throughput while lowering emissions for aluminum producers is a serious challenge. This case study details how Custom Alloy Sales Inc. leveraged Messer’s new OXIPYR® LEAF air-oxy fuel technology to further boost output while reducing emissions.

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