Vedanta Sterlite has very limited capacity to produce liquid oxygen for medical purposes; its oxygen production is mostly for copper production and not fit for medical use, Tamil Nadu Advocate General tells Madras High Court.
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AG : Sterlite plant at Tuticorin has 1050 MT capacity. But most of its capacity is for production of gaseous oxygen for industrial use.

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Vedanta has only capacity of 35 MT(out of 1050 MT) to produce liquid oxygen, which can be used for medical use. Even this production has only purity of 92-93%. For medical use, the liquid oxygen needs 99.4% purity :Advocate General tells #MadrasHighcourt
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Vedanta has no compression and bottling plants to convert gaseous oxygen to liquid oxygen.

It will take at least 9 months to set up compression and bottling plants : Advocate General tells #MadrasHighCourt.

High Court says that it has no mandate to deal with the #Vedanta issue as the Supreme Court is seized of it.

The submissions were made by the Advocate General in the suo moto case taken by it on #COVID19 management.