Biomedical Engineering

Department

Oxygen Concentrator Based Mini Gas

Supply System
Design Solutions and Testing Plan
Team members
Name ID#
1. Goshu Gebere ……………..…………...01987/04
2. Iftaha Hedato ……...…..……………….02716/04
3. Melese Ashagrie …….….………………02461/04
4. Natenael Seyoum.……..……..………….03413/04
Mentors: 1. Dr. Bheema L.
2. Mr. Ahmed Ali
17 May, 2016
 Background
O2 is vital for treatment in many obstetric emergencies and hypoxia
There are two main viable sources of oxygen in hospitals in low-resource settings
ooxygen in cylinders and
ooxygen produced from oxygen concentrators
Many hospitals in developing countries have limited access to reliable supplies of
oxygen
o transportation difficulties for refillable cylinders
o Leaking cylinders
o lack of capital investment
We proposed to refill oxygen cylinders using O2 concentrator as oxygen source and
gas compressors
We replaced the timer with arduino and pressure sensor in our design
 Design Solution

One way valve

Gas reservoir
Compressor
bag
concentrator
O2

P0
Relay
sensor

Arduino
Oxygen
cylinders
 Cont.

• Pressure sensor and Arduino Uno used

• P0 sensor Senses the pressure in the reservoir bag
• If the gas in the reservoir is less than 7.5 liter(10%)
the relay will be OFF and the compressor stops.
• Other wise the relay will be ON and compressor
runs.
Prototype Demonstration
 Testing Plan

 Constraints
 The compressor compresses O2 under 150-200 bar
 Oxygen compressor suction pressure 0.3 - 3bar
 Pure O2 supply >95%
 Pressure sensor range 0 - 250 kpa
 Reservoir Bag maximum volume is 75 liters
 Durability of pressure sensor 1 year.
 Cont.
Tests to be how they will be how each test allows evaluation
performed performed of the design criteria.

Cylinder pressure Using Pressure Comparison with the cylinder

gauge reading pressure which is filled in
industries
Life time Interview Durability
Oxygen Oxygen sensor Match with output of concentrator
concentration
Efficiency Measuring Cylinder internal pressure must be
Output of less than compressor pressure
compressor
cost Market analysis Cost effectiveness when
compared with refilling the
cylinder in gas manufacturing
plants
 Next Steps

 Challenges
 Unavailability of materials with appropriate specification
 Narrow Workshop with no table and chair
 Shortage of components like arduino
 To move our project forward we need help like
 Supply of materials with specification
 Idea support from staffs
 K Y O U
T H A N