Oxygen Concentrator: Ucchvasita

Oxygen is clinical solution for Hypoxaemia and there is no alternative medicine other than oxygen. Such condition is often linked with pneumonia. A study estimated that  higher number of children (< age of 5) are dying due to pneumonia (infectious disease) than combined with HIV/AIDS and Malaria. In addition, post morbidity conditions in patients with reduced lung capacity require home care and even portable oxygen systems for travel too. COVID-19 exhibited “surge requirement” to its worst case scenarios that can be repeated during long tenured wars, remote border location severity during wars, infectious outbreaks/ pandemics and damage to healthcare infrastructure during hybrid wars. Continuous availability of oxygen in primary healthcare clinics or smaller remote hospitals as well as even in district hospitals become challenging under such conditions. Thus, oxygen availability is essential and oxygen concentrator is one of the important solutions available world wide. 

Ucchvasita is an oxygen concentrator with (a) ozone linked microbial neutralization and; (b) Silver (Ag+) coated anti-microbial sieve depending upon type of model which is uniquely used technology for double level of air sanitization. Also, it can have models as single unit to six combined units with varying range of 10 -250 LPM. 

 Yes, the product is designed and developed in compliance with technical specifications of WHO. The cut off purity is set at < 82%, generates medical grade oxygen;  operational noise ≤ 50 dB; Power Efficiency is ≤70 LPM; continuous 24 hours of operations; standard piping outlet with barb fitting; 0.5 LPM interval based flow meter and, with/ without booster pumps based on type of model used etc. 

 Medical grade oxygen (≥92%) is available as output product from Ucchvasita. 

Ucchvasita refers to high svas (breath) or simply “to breath again” thus used as trade name for oxygen concentrator that is required to recover from patients that are not able to breathe at 21% oxygen level (atmospheric level). Ultraswachh technology was a combination of one or more technology for desired output. Thus, while evolving technology driven products using this concept, ozone is used as primary sterilient and poorn swacch was evolved when combines with water and when ozone is directly used to sanitize air (vayu swachh). The extension of vayu swachh concept of medical grade air is further concentrated to generate medical grade oxygen using standard oxygen concentrator assembly along with Ag+ coated sieve in higher production models. Accordingly it refers as Ultraswachh technology developed by DRDO and technology is transferred to Gel Craft Healthcare (P) Limited in 2020. 

All the models start from single unit for both residential and health clinic purpose. The lowest one is Ucchvasita 1-10 refers to single (denoted by ‘1’) unit with maximum capacity of generation of medical grade oxygen is 10 LPM. On the other hand, Ucchvasita  6-250 is a small production plant that has six unit that can run independently or combined to provide maximum of 250 LPM output. It has booster pump that maintains 5 bar pressure as needed by ventilators (require 2 bar pressure). Thus this mini plant can support advance ICUs with  multiple levels of redundancy. Other models are presently lies with in this range otherwise beyond this, customizable units will be made available.