Nitrous Oxide Gas Plants

Perfect safeguards are incorporated in design against water and power failures, and also to keep the reaction temperature well under control.

NITROUS OXIDE at room temperature and atmospheric pressure is a colorless gas with a barely perceptible sweet odor and taste. It is non-flammable but will support combustion. At higher temperature nitrous oxide decomposes into nitrogen and oxygen. Nitrous oxide is moderately soluble in water, alcohol and oils. N₂O, also known as laughing gas finds its use as anesthetic agent. So far this has become a standard anaesthetic agent world over and medical operations are performed with the help of this gas. There are other uses of nitrous oxide which have been developed in food, cosmetics and electronic industry, for example it has become a good whipped cream propellant. This has become a propellant for high quality perfumes and cosmetics. It is used for Cryosurgery. Nitrous oxide as an oxide gas for atomic absorption in spectrophotometer and as fuel oxidant for racing vehicles.

The slight oxidizing property of N₂O is used for ‘etching’ microchips. This application is now consuming upto 30% of all the nitrous oxide produced in Korea and Japan. With the increase in standard of living of third world countries nitrous oxide consumption is bound to increase.