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Optimizing Medical Oxygen Production Asset Lifecycle Performance: A Multidimensional Assessment of PSA Plant Readiness, Reliability and Sustainability


Authors : Bruno Houessou

Volume/Issue : Volume 11 - 2026, Issue 8 - August

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/26aug779

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Abstract : Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants have become important health-system assets, particularly where hospitals seek to strengthen local access to medical oxygen and reduce dependence on external supply chains. Yet installed production capacity does not necessarily translate into a reliable oxygen service. PSA performance also depends on electricity, supporting infrastructure, maintenance, technical competence, quality assurance, safety, distribution, and the institutional capacity to sustain these functions over time. This study examined the lifecycle performance of nine hospital-based PSA oxygen installations, including six existing plants that had undergone rehabilitation and three newly deployed installations. Data were obtained through document review, structured interviews, direct inspection, and technical measurements. Assessment domains included needs–capacity alignment, site and equipment readiness, electrical supply, oxygen production and quality control, infrastructure, maintenance, spare parts, workforce capacity, safety, distribution, operational records, and sustainability arrangements. Rehabilitation restored several previously unavailable components and recovered substantial technical capability. Most installations were technically capable of meeting their intended production requirements, although vulnerabilities remained outside the PSA generator itself, including electrical instability, infrastructure and ventilation deficiencies, incomplete safety arrangements, maintenance-contract risks, gaps in operational records, and weak longer-term sustainability mechanisms. Cross-site analysis suggested a useful distinction between installed capacity, operational capacity, service-delivery capacity, and sustainable performance. These states are not proposed as a maturity model or new framework, but as analytical boundaries for understanding where asset value may be preserved or lost between installation and clinical service. Optimizing PSA assets therefore requires attention not only to whether equipment functions, but to whether safe, quality-assured oxygen can be produced, delivered, and sustained under actual operating conditions.

Keywords : Medical Oxygen; Pressure Swing Adsorption; PSA Oxygen Plant; Asset Lifecycle Management; Healthcare Technology Management; Asset Performance; Maintenance; Reliability; Sustainability; ISO 55000.

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Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants have become important health-system assets, particularly where hospitals seek to strengthen local access to medical oxygen and reduce dependence on external supply chains. Yet installed production capacity does not necessarily translate into a reliable oxygen service. PSA performance also depends on electricity, supporting infrastructure, maintenance, technical competence, quality assurance, safety, distribution, and the institutional capacity to sustain these functions over time. This study examined the lifecycle performance of nine hospital-based PSA oxygen installations, including six existing plants that had undergone rehabilitation and three newly deployed installations. Data were obtained through document review, structured interviews, direct inspection, and technical measurements. Assessment domains included needs–capacity alignment, site and equipment readiness, electrical supply, oxygen production and quality control, infrastructure, maintenance, spare parts, workforce capacity, safety, distribution, operational records, and sustainability arrangements. Rehabilitation restored several previously unavailable components and recovered substantial technical capability. Most installations were technically capable of meeting their intended production requirements, although vulnerabilities remained outside the PSA generator itself, including electrical instability, infrastructure and ventilation deficiencies, incomplete safety arrangements, maintenance-contract risks, gaps in operational records, and weak longer-term sustainability mechanisms. Cross-site analysis suggested a useful distinction between installed capacity, operational capacity, service-delivery capacity, and sustainable performance. These states are not proposed as a maturity model or new framework, but as analytical boundaries for understanding where asset value may be preserved or lost between installation and clinical service. Optimizing PSA assets therefore requires attention not only to whether equipment functions, but to whether safe, quality-assured oxygen can be produced, delivered, and sustained under actual operating conditions.

Keywords : Medical Oxygen; Pressure Swing Adsorption; PSA Oxygen Plant; Asset Lifecycle Management; Healthcare Technology Management; Asset Performance; Maintenance; Reliability; Sustainability; ISO 55000.

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