Walsall Manor Hospital - liquid oxygen store
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Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 13 Jan 2020
Hospitals require oxygen and it is stored as a cryogenic liquid in large tanks and passed through evaporators before passing to the wards. Ice can be seen on the first part of the piping leaving the tank.