Case Study
Creating medical-grade oxygen on-site: local vet’s compressor saves money, the environment, and local animals!
After assessing their oxygen use, a local vet moved to on-site oxygen generation, producing medical-grade oxygen to meet the needs of their growing practice.
Their new equipment allows them to generate oxygen when and where it’s needed, removing the headaches, costs, and risks of managing regular oxygen deliveries.
With on-site generation in place, the surgery knows it always has the oxygen it requires, freeing both staff and space to focus on animal care.
Overview
The veterinary surgery had been a fixture in the town for a long time. But when the increase in flexible working meant more people were welcoming pets into their home, they found their practice growing.
Just like in human medicine, vets need oxygen during surgery, recovery, and as a therapy. But as they treated more pets, they also found they were having to store more oxygen bottles, and have more deliveries to their town centre location.
By opting for on-site oxygen generation, they could easily manage their supplies, reduce their environmental impact, and save money.
Oxygen when it is needed
Their compressor and generator mean they can generate only the oxygen they need when they need it.
Safer and cheaper
By eliminating the deliveries, the risks and costs created by constant handling of 80kg oxygen bottles were removed.
The Anglian approach
Anglian Compressors always begin with a full assessment of our customers’ needs.
- Our customers come from an incredible range of sectors, and no two are the same. However, we do frequently find our new customers have never considered what compressed air could do for them.
- We worked with the vet to fully understand how they used oxygen, and how they managed their current supply. This helped us develop a plan to ensure they always had critically needed oxygen.
The vet needed a high standard of oxygen, but also a supply that was easy to manage
- Vets require an oxygen purity of at least 90% — the air we breathe is around 21% oxygen — but also needed a system that could easily be managed by surgery staff, and was suitable for their urban location.
- By considering their needs and setting, we identified a suitable solution. Using a compact air compressor and oxygen generator, they could produce sufficient oxygen close to the point of need, and all in significantly less space than their old bottle storage required.
Oxygen generation has made them better vets
- By giving the practice complete control over their oxygen supply, and in a way that works seamlessly with their procedures, they have seen improvements they did not expect.
- The surgery’s environmental impact has been reduced, and they have more space and staff time to focus on pets and their owners. As an added bonus, on-site generation saves them close to 50% of what they spent on bottled deliveries.
RESULTS
When the surgery considered on-site generation, the benefits it offered made it an obvious choice.
- Installing a compact compressor and oxygen generator meant they immediately saved space. And by choosing an Atlas Copco skid, it’s quiet operation meant they did not need to worry about noise disturbing animals or neighbours.
- Giving them complete control over their oxygen generation meant they could generate only what they knew they needed, rather than having to estimate when they booked a delivery. And no more deliveries meant they no longer had to manage the process of dragging heavy bottles in from the street and through their reception area.
- Most importantly, by ending deliveries, they weren’t just meeting their environmental goals, they were saving around 50% on the cost of their oxygen.
CONCLUSION
Compressed air is incredibly versatile, but because it’s most often seen in industrial settings, many people don’t realise it can be used even with something as precious as our pets.
High-quality oxygen supplies are just as important for our pets as they are for us. Working with a growing veterinary surgery, we identified a solution that worked in their location, making it easier for their staff, and producing the high-quality pure air their incredibly important patients needed.
It’s a solution that will last, with ongoing servicing ensuring they have the oxygen they require for decades to come, even as they grow.
Whether you’re looking for a new compressor, or had never thought you could generate gases on-site, contact Anglian Compressors today, and we can show you how a compressor can help you in ways you had never imagined.
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