Resilient Oxygen.

Oxygen is a basic human need and forms the basis of many medical treatments, yet the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as ongoing child pneumonia and respiratory disease, has demonstrated just how precarious access to oxygen is for millions around the world. Resilient Oxygen revolves around our R-O2 oxygen concentrator that is designed specifically for low resource settings. It is about bridging three inter-related gaps - access to oxygen, access to power and access to solutions - in order to build long term resilience to shock, and combat some of the biggest challenges of our day.

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Latest Updates

5th Feb 2021
We have two new people, David and Tom, who have joined the team and bringing new skills and passion! We are continuing to optimize the system while exploring and experimenting with ways to improve its resilience to dust and moisture. With more people on board we hope to accelerate our progress in realising the vision we have.

30 October 2020
We are trialing updates to our system designed to increase energy efficiency. Reducing the energy consumption allows the R-O2 concentrator to be powered by lower yield sources of power such as solar, hydro and wind. It also helps hospitals balance their power 'budgets' freeing up energy to be used for other purposes such as refrigerators and incubators.

03 October 2020
Prototype R-O2 Concentrator is producing >90% O2 concentration and responding reliably and predictably to changes in the system. Work continues to optimize the output and improve the energy efficiency of the system.

01 June 2020
CREATIVenergie - the organization out of which resilient-oxygen was born - are pleased to announce that they have won an Innovate UK COVID response grant to develop oxygen concentrators specifically for off-grid and low resource settings.

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An Introduction to the Resilient Oxygen Project

In May 2020, our parent organisation 'CREATIVenergie' received a COVID Fast Response grant through Innovate UK which kickstarted the development of our oxygen concentrator. Meet the team in this video as we began constructing our very first prototype in June 2020.