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Applications
Here is a list of some of the major technological applications for gases. As you can see gases are everywhere...
  Nitrogen
• Purging of all types
• Oil and gas operations
• Heat treating
• Glassmaking
• Inert packaging
• Silo atmospheres
• Food transport
• Steelmaking
• Electronic components
• Tissue freezing
• Artificial insemination
• Food freezing
• Shrink fitting
• Molding deflashing
• Scrap reclamation
• Die cooling
• Steelworks equipment cooling
• Solvent recovery
• Air pollution abatement
• Chemicals manufacture
• Blow mold cooling
• Mine safety


Carbon Dioxide
• Food freezing and chilling
• Beverages
• Oil wells
• Plant growth
• Fire extinguishers
• Waste treatment
• Mold setting
• Tobacco expansion

  Oxygen
• Steelmaking
• Non-ferrous melting
• Waste water treatment
• Gas welding and cutting
• Breathing gases
• Rocket fuel oxidant
• Brickmaking
• Odor control
• Tea fermentation
• Glassmaking
• Pulp and paper
• Ozone
• Coal gasification
• Electronic components


Argon
• Welding
• Steelmaking
• Light tubes
• Metals
• Electronic components


Helium
• Welding
• Balloons
• Leak detection
• MRI
• Cryogenic cooling
• Breathing gases
  Hydrogen
• Furnace atmospheres
• Glassmaking
• Chemical manufacture
• Power station equipment cooling
• Rocket fuel
• Food oil manufacture
• Electronic components

 

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