SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — Businesses from bars to restaurants to poultry plants are experiencing the early stages of a carbon dioxide shortage, another exposure of a…
By Nick Parkinson2021-05-24T16:27:00+01:00
Face-to-face trade events return for the industrial gas industry in the US today (24th May) with the start of the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) Spring Management Conference (SMC).
Both GAWDA’s major events last year, the SMC and the Annual Convention, were cancelled along with all trade events around the world due to restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19).
More than 600 members and guests will be at the event held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville for the popular booth programme and the chance to network, to hear keynote speakers and educational sessions.
Roberts Oxygen in Gaithersburg Manufacturing Dry Ice for Pfizer Vaccines
To ensure that the Pfizer vaccine doesn’t spoil, it needs to be kept extremely cold. One company in Gaithersburg, Roberts Oxygen, is doing its part to help keep the vaccine safe by manufacturing dry ice.
Reggie Wright, the regional sales manager for Roberts Oxygen, explained how dry ice which is 109 degrees below Fahrenheit is manufactured.
“We pick up liquid CO2 from multiple sources in a trailer, we feed it into a bulk tank for storage, the bulk tank feeds into the dry ice machines we have here in Gaithersburg. That machine takes liquid carbon dioxide, compresses it, lowers the pressure, and turns it into solid carbon dioxide which is dry ice,” Wright explained.