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Aircraft Fuel Tank Inerting For years, nitrogen has been used to inert the headspace in combat aircraft fuel tanks. In 1996, the crash of TWA flight 800 brought the issue of explosive fuel vapors to the forefront for commerci...more |
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Aircraft Tires / Struts Around the world, you'll find On Site Gas membrane and PSA tire and strut N2 pressurizing systems at work for the US military and commercial airlines. Our systems are custom engineered for individu...more |
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Air-Driven Tools / Machinery When air is compressed, the moisture and impurities within it become concentrated. A refrigerated air drier can lower the dew point from 70-80°F to as low as 40° F. But even at a 40° ...more |
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Algae and Sparging A few years ago our founder, Frank Hursey, made a fascinating discovery: When nitrogen is sparged, or bubbled, into liquids, the oxygen level is reduced to a point at which most biologics and all bota...more |
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Autoclaves Autoclaves, ovens, and curing facilities for materials such as metal, carbon fiber, Kevlar and other high-strength or pre-preg fibers are an ideal application for non-cryo nitrogen. Maintaining a d...more |
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Bacteria Elimination Like most living things, bacteria need oxygen to survive. If oxygen is removed from a product, bacteria cannot live and grow. No bacteria means no mold or mildew. No food spoilage. Organics or che...more |
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Ballast / Bilge Purification Invasive pest species transported in ballast water and discharged at ports continues to impact global ecosystems and threaten entire economies. On Site Gas Systems patented process for su...more |
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Beverage Mixing / Dispensing For years, we've been providing N2 generation systems for beverage storage, CO2 mixing and beverage transport/dispensing to end users such as breweries, large venue contractor...more |
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Blanketing for Adhesive Curing Blanketing or purging is an ideal application for generated non-cryo nitrogen. Nitrogen purges furnaces of oxygen where the adhesive compound is applied to various tape materials, reducing the inciden...more |
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Bottling Our work with bottlers has been one of our favorite studies. Together, we’ve explored and expanded the use of nitrogen and nitrogen generation systems in bottling various types of liquids and...more |
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Brazing Brazing is a process that is well matched for PSA generated N2. We’ve done extensive testing with the most discerning of customers, and found that either 100 ppm N2 or 99.99% nit...more |
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Bright Annealing Because of the potential for oxidation, bright annealing requires high purity nitrogen when the oven temperature is over 1,500° F, however, the greatest volume of N2 is needed during...more |
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Cable Splice Drying For years, phone and cable companies have been using our proprietary compressed air splice and switch dryer. Now, with the advent of 12- and 24-volt high-efficiency compressors, our no-moving-par...more |
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Carbon Fiber Curing Small autoclaves, ovens, and curing facilities for materials such as metal, Carbon fiber, Kevlar, and other high strength fibers (particularly prepreg) are an ideal application for generated non-cryo ...more |
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Chemical Plants Nitrogen is used to inert the headspace in chemical storage or process tanks. The purpose of nitrogen is to defeat hazardous or explosive environments, or because of the adverse effect oxygen has o...more |
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Coal Mine Fire Services Economical emergency nitrogen rental within 24 hours available for when you need N2 ASAP. On Site’s experienced fie...more |
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Coffee Producers / Packers New roasters, private packagers, and third-generation family businesses are all saving hundreds of thousands of dollars after switching to On Site Gas Systems (in many cases, our system is augmenti...more |
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Coil Tubing Whether you’re performing major maintenance or remedial treatments on an oil or natural gas well, replacing air with inert nitrogen on your coil tubing rig makes good sense; nitrogen is the gas of cho...more |
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Curing Small autoclaves, ovens, and curing facilities for materials such as metal, carbon fiber, Kevlar, and other high strength fibers (particularly prepreg) are an ideal application for generated non-cr...more |
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Enhanced Oil Recovery Nitrogen is an ideal gas choice for repressurizing oil wells. Along with the benefit of increased productivity, inert nitrogen has no corrosive effect on borehole piping (unlike carbon dioxide). Ni...more |
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Ethanol Production / Bio-fuels Nitrogen is used to eliminate moisture while pressurizing, blanketing, and inerting storage and holding tanks. ...more |
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Explosive Atmospheres Nitrogen is the gas of choice to displace oxygen, break the “burning triangle,” and prevent explosions. On Site Gas systems are hard at work now, 24/7, around the world in oilfields, on...more |
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Fire Prevention / Suppression The most effective way to extinguish or prevent a fire is to eliminate the oxygen. Nitrogen is a cost effective way to displace oxygen which will result in creating an inert atmosphere. ...more |
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Food Industry Nitrogen is an efficient, cost-effective way to displace oxygen and moisture. Today, more and more companies in the food industry realize that the purity and flow demands are ideally suited to...more |
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Fruit Orchards / Storage Like most living things, bacteria need oxygen to survive. If oxygen is removed from a product, bacteria cannot live and grow. No bacteria means no mold or mildew. No food spoilage. Chemicals do not...more |
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Fuel Tank Inerting Nitrogen is used to blanket the headspace in fuel tanks. It reduces the possibility of an explosion by eliminating gaseous fumes. Put an On Site nitrogen generator to work for you. ...more |
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Gas Barrier Anywhere there is fear of explosion — or one gas has to be kept separate from another — an N2 curtain is used. In enclosed areas or even open chemical plants, N2 is blown between...more |
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Gas blanketing Nitrogen is the ideal inert gas for blanketing or purging. It can be used to blanket storage tanks where various hydrocarbons or chemicals are housed, or used to reduce the oxygen content to a safe le...more |
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Glove Boxes Today, On Site Gas N2 systems can be found inerting glove boxes and CA (controlled atmosphere) storage facilities all over the world. Since they require a relatively low flow of nitrogen...more |
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Grain Elevator Explosion Prevention Nitrogen is used to inert grain silos and grain elevators, eliminating explosions in dust-filled atmospheres. Grain dust in these environments is very hazardous, and in an oxygen-rich environment, ...more |
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Health and Beauty Aids In many processes, raw materials and various ingredients would be compromised if exposed to oxygen. The answer? Nitrogen inerting. Nitrogen is also used to inert the packaging of finished products,...more |
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Heat Treating Kilns and furnaces used for heat treating may be under pressure; that classifies them as autoclaves that require a greater volume of N2. Kilns and furnaces may also be used as a melting ...more |
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Inerting Nitrogen is the gas of choice to displace oxygen, retard oxidation, break the “burning triangle,” and prevent explosions. On Site systems are hard at work now, 24/7, around the world in oilfields, on ...more |
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Injection Molding Most injection molders require 99% nitrogen for their applications. Membrane systems are effective to approximently 99% while the PSA systems generates N2 up to 99.9995% and is more eff...more |
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Jewelry Manufacturing The furnaces used to melt gold for jewelry or connectors have a silent enemy – oxygen. O2 discolors the product and can dangerously weaken it. Any metal over 600° F will oxidiz...more |
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Kiln / Grain Drying The low dew point of nitrogen (as low as -69° F) makes it an ideal choice for grain drying and kiln drying. Because of the need for a continuous feed of dry ...more |
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Laboratory N2 On Site Gas manufactures N2 generators for every lab application. We have a full line of high-efficiency compact nitrogen generators for LCMS at 99-99.5% purity at flows from 3 to 500 LPM. We also ...more |
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Laser Cutting A lean and efficient shop has become vital to the success of a laser cutter. Nothing can provide you with more cost savings than to generate your own N2. On Site Gas systems are in dozens of laser ...more |
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Laser Welding Nitrogen is used around the laser tip for two purposes; 1) to maintain the proper weld temperature, and 2) to get oxygen and moisture out of the beam path. Purity levels are typically 99% to 99.9%, bu...more |
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Lead-Free Solder High purity nitrogen is used in many solder applications. Its benefits include reduced dross on solder pots, and reduced surface tension, which allows solder to cleanly break away from the solder s...more |
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Leak Check Nitrogen is used to detect leaks in a variety of plumbing or piping applications. The gas is injected under pressure to assure good connections in brazing, welding and threaded pipefittings. ...more |
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Medical Tool Driving Because nitrogen is so dry, it prevents air tools from oxidizing, and makes them last 3-4 times longer. 95% nitrogen is acceptable, but usually under pressures in the 100-150 PSIG range. Skidd...more |
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Military Nitrogen For over 6 years, On Site has been producing military nitrogen systems. Our strict adherence to the philosophy that our real customer is the soldier in the field has never failed us. Both PSA and...more |
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Mine Fires Economical emergency nitrogen rental within 24 hours available for when you need N2 ASAP. On Site’s experienced field personnel are always ready. For o...more |
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Mine Seal Inerting On October 20, 2008, MSHA issued the Final Rule for submitting a mine seal design for approval. The Final Rule focuses on the strength, construction, maintenance, and repair of mine seal...more |
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Modified Atmosphere Packaging Whether vertical form fill, cup filling, bottling, bagging, or any form of packaging for liquid, solids, shred, grated paste or gel, nitrogen is the gas of choice. It prevents spoilage, preserves fres...more |
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Nitrogen as a Propellant Nitrogen is an ideal propellant — it helps maintain flow of the most viscous liquids through piping of almost any length. Nitrogen not only moves product efficiently around the plant, it does...more |
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Nitrogen Tire Inflation Nitrogen Tire Inflation: Higher gas mileage, longer tire life and cost savings are major benefits of using nitrogen for tire inflation. Nitrogen (N2) eliminates oxidation (which causes prematu...more |
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Off Shore Platforms Replacing air in your off shore applications with inert nitrogen makes good sense. Nitrogen is the gas of choice to displace oxygen, retard oxidation, break the “burning triangle,” an...more |
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Oil Extraction Nitrogen is an ideal gas choice for repressurizing depleted oil wells. Along with the benefit of increased productivity, inert nitrogen has no corrosive effect on borehole piping (unlike carbon d...more |
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Packaging On Site systems can be found in the packaging industry all over the world. Whether it’s vertical form fill, cup-fill, bulk, bullet, shrink-wrap, canning, bagging, encapsulation, blister pack,...more |
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Perishable Transportation Like most living things, bacteria needs oxygen to survive. If we displace the oxygen from a product, we remove a vital element that the bacterium needs to live. No bacteria means no mold or mildew....more |
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Pharmaceuticals Most pharmaceutical companies have multiple nitrogen uses and purity demands. Lab GCs and some other low-flow processes require very low flow at very high purity (99.999%-99.9995%), while the LCMS ...more |
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Pipeline Drying The low dew point of nitrogen (as low as -40� F/C) makes it an ideal choice for pipeline drying. As a value-added feature, nitrogen is totally...more |
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Pipeline Inerting Nitrogen is the gas of choice to displace oxygen, retard oxidation, break the “burning triangle,” and prevent explosions. On Site systems are hard at work now, 24/7, around the world in...more |
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Pipeline Maintenance Whether you’re performing major maintenance or remedial treatments on your pipeline, nitrogen is the gas of choice to displace oxygen, retard oxidation, break the “burning triangle,&rdq...more |
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Pipeline Pigging Whether you’re performing major maintenance or remedial treatments on your pipeline, using nitrogen as an inert propellant for moving “pigs” through your pipeline makes good sense. Nitrogen is the gas...more |
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Printing On Site systems are providing high-speed printers with nitrogen for drying, and to prevent oxygen contamination for film production and separation. Purity needs vary depending on the process. We ca...more |
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Refineries Nitrogen is used to inert storage or process tanks as well as move product through pipelines at refineries. The purpose of nitrogen is to prevent hazardous or explosive environments, or because o...more |
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RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Materials) When used for lead-free soldering applications, high-purity nitrogen offers benefits such as reduced dross on solder pots, and reduced surface tension, which allows solder to cleanly break away from t...more |
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Selective Soldering High purity nitrogen is used in many solder applications. Its benefits include reduced dross on solder pots and reduced surface tension, which allows solder to cleanly break away from the solder si...more |
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Semi-Conductors For years, component level manufacturers and semi-conductor producers have been using nitrogen inertion. Whether in the fabrication of stacked dies, rework, or component solder bumping, N2 allows f...more |
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Shipboard Inerting Before membrane technology, shipboard use of nitrogen for inerting propulsion, and bulk cargo combustibles, was dominated by combustion-based inert gas generators. On Site's expertise in offshore N...more |
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Sintering Nitrogen is used to inert the sintering process. (Sintering is the process of melting and compressing metal into molds). Oxygen (which causes rust) is removed from the environment by introducing...more |
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SMT (Surface Mount Technologies) High purity nitrogen is required in many solder applications and provides several benefits. It reduces the dross on the solder pots. It also reduces the surface tension, allowing the solder to brea...more |
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Steel Cutting We can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars over bulk N2. A lean, efficient process has become vital to the success of laser cutting operations. Nothing can provide you with more cost savings ...more |
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Surgical Tool Driving We use nitrogen to drive medical air tools because the gas is so dry it prevents tools from oxidizing — and makes them last 3-4 times longer. The most technical version of N2 pressure driving...more |
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Underbalanced Drilling Replacing air with inert nitrogen on your underbalanced drill rig makes good sense; nitrogen is the gas of choice to displace oxygen, retard oxidation, break the �burning tri...more |
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Vertical Form Fill Machines Oxygen is the enemy of most foods and beverages. Purging oxygen not only prolongs the life of these products, but also allows the product to be transported longer distances. Most vertical form fill...more |
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Wave Solder High purity nitrogen is used in many solder applications. Its benefits include reduced dross on solder pots, and reduced surface tension, which allows solder to cleanly break away from the solder site...more |
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Well Workover Whether you’re performing major maintenance or remedial treatments on an oil or natural gas well, nitrogen is the gas of choice to displace oxygen, retard oxidation, break the “burning triangle,” ...more |
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Winemakers Our work with winemakers and bottlers has been one of our favorite studies. Together, we’ve explored and expanded the use of nitrogen and nitrogen generation systems in winemaking and bottlin...more |
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