Electronics Industry

These days semiconductor manufacturing companies tend to use new solder types in their processes. Such soldering proceeds at high temperatures whereby oxidation is likely to take place. Nitrogen, being inert gas, prevents oxidation of soldering and adjacent surfaces.

R&P Co. Grasys has developed serial compact nitrogen generators Nitropower specifically for semiconductor manufacturers.

The use of nitrogen is known to reduce product defects, improve connection reliability when soldering, and lower solder oxidation.

Nitrogen is the top requested gas for ensuring explosion and fire safety in various industries ranging from food to nuclear. As an inert gas nitrogen enables to displace oxygen and avoid the oxidation reaction when being supplied to the process volume.

Combustion is a rapid oxidation reaction, which is due to the oxygen presence in the atmosphere, as well as an available ignition source such as a spark, electric arc, chemical reaction followed by substantial release of heat. To prevent inflammation this reaction has to be prevented.

In environment with nitrogen concentration of about 90% the combustion process becomes impossible. Therefore, permanent-type nitrogen units and mobile nitrogen plants manufactured by Grasys and designed to produce nitrogen ranging from 5 to 5000 m³/h are capable of effective fire prevention and firefighting when required.

Grasys nitrogen units and plants are in widespread use to ensure explosion and fire safety during transportation, transshipment, storage of hydrocarbons and explosive chemicals. Nitrogen is most often used to purge process equipment, tanks, pipelines, as well as to develop nitrogen blanket.