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Oxygen refill in Southwest London/Southern England

I ask the question because I have a BOC account for my welding gear.
I have no need for oxygen for aviation but wondered if perhaps I might be of some use to those that do.

Forever learning
EGTB

My O2 cylinder is also on a BOC welding gas account. It is the same gas as any other O2. Only the paperwork differs.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Correct me if I am wrong from those who know more [and it may be tosh], but I was told that aviation oxygen had a guaranteed very low moisture content, so that the moisture would not become water then freeze and block narrow pipes in cold (-50C) conditions, and that not the same requirement applies for welding O2.

EGGD Bristol, United Kingdom

DA40drvr wrote:

Correct me if I am wrong

Oxygen is oxygen is oxygen

LDZA LDVA, Croatia

These are the specifications:

  • welding oxygen: min 99.5%, max 40ppm water content. (DIN EN ISO 14175:2009), used to be up to 200 ppm in Europe (EN 439:1994)
  • Aviation oxygen: min 99.5%, max 7ppm water content (AS8010C)

The specifications are also different in what is allowed to be in the 0.5%.

In practice, all oxygen is produced using the same proces – cryogenic separation – and stored as liquid oxygen, which means there is virtually NO water present, and delivered with 99.9% or better purity, but of course water (and other stuff) can be reintroduced in the filling process.

Last Edited by Cobalt at 17 Dec 20:56
Biggin Hill

The main oxygen thread is here and this post should be applicable.

The gas in the cylinder is actually the same. The same process is used and the % of water is miniscule, because by the time you distilled out the nitrogen, oxygen, etc, there will be no water whatsoever left other than contamination in the metalwork.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom
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