PRAXAIR Inc. bags $5.3 million Liquid Nitrogen and Liquid Oxygen contract Power and Energy

Praxair, Inc. is a large international industrial gases company from Danbury, Connecticut has been awarded by NASA to supply liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida and Ames Research Center, California.

The project’s worth of $5.3 million with probable performance duration of five years is a firm-fixed price contract with an Economic Price Adjustments commence July 1.

An approximate quantity of 175,000 liters of liquid nitrogen and approximately 52,400 tons of liquid oxygen will be supplied by PRAXAIR Inc. to support operations at the preceding NASA centers and partner facilities. Oxygen serves as an oxidizer in cryogenic rocket engines whereas the pressurization, pneumatic actuation, purging and inerting and the cooling value is done using Nitrogen by the agency.