On-Site Oxygen and Nitrogen Generation for Veterinary Practices
Reliable, cost-conscious gas generation designed around the needs of your veterinary practice.
Veterinary practices depend on a reliable supply of medical gases for everyday patient care. Oxygen is essential for anesthesia and respiratory support, and is often needed during emergency treatment and recovery. For practices that perform surgery or care for critically ill animals, maintaining an adequate supply is an important part of daily operations.
Many veterinary clinics rely on delivered oxygen cylinders, which means keeping enough gas on hand between deliveries and managing cylinder changes and storage. An on-site oxygen or nitrogen generator offers an alternative, producing oxygen or nitrogen directly at the facility using pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology. The system can be sized around the practice's actual gas requirements.
Specialty Gas Canada designs, installs, and services on-site gas systems for veterinary practices across Ontario. We work with general clinics as well as emergency and specialty animal hospitals to determine the right system for their gas usage and existing infrastructure.
How Veterinary Practices Use On-Site Gas
Anesthesia Delivery
Oxygen is the carrier gas for inhalant anesthetics like isoflurane and sevoflurane. Your anesthesia machines need a steady line pressure, typically around 50 psi, to run their flowmeters and flush valves accurately. Our standard systems produce 93% (+/- 3%) medical-grade oxygen, the globally accepted standard for veterinary anesthesia, with higher purity available through a custom-designed system where needed.
ICU and Oxygen Therapy Cages
Animals in respiratory distress, heart failure, or post-trauma recovery often need high oxygen flow over long stretches, whether that's an oxygen cage or a ventilator breathing for a critical animal patient. An on-site generator gives your ICU a continuous, unlimited supply at a flat cost, so a critical case, however long it runs, never puts pressure on your tank inventory.
Pneumatic Surgical Tools
Orthopedic procedures like TPLOs rely on high-speed pneumatic drills, burrs, and saws that need real torque, often 100 to 150+ psi. Ultra-dry nitrogen protects the internal mechanisms of those tools from the corrosion that standard shop air causes, so they last longer.
What Your System Needs to Deliver
| Gas | Purity / Output | Pressure |
|---|---|---|
| Oxygen | 93% (+/- 3%) | Up to 65 PSIG into central gas lines |
| Nitrogen | High purity, ultra-dry | 100–150+ PSIG |
Our standard systems produce 93% (+/- 3%) oxygen, the oxygen purity level most veterinary anesthesia and oxygen therapy is built around. When a practice's use case demands it, custom-designed systems can achieve purity levels of up to 99%.
What Can On-Site Generation Offer Your Practice?
Delivered oxygen and nitrogen come with more than the initial price tag. Monthly rental fees, delivery surcharges, hazmat charges, and yearly price increases all add to what you're really paying. Generating your own supply replaces all of that with a known, controlled cost of production.
Rather than providing a fixed payback period, we evaluate the potential return based on your practice’s actual gas consumption, operating requirements, and current supply costs. Our team can review your usage and provide a tailored analysis of the potential savings and return on investment.
Safety, Standards and Ontario Requirements for Veterinary Facilities
Veterinary facilities are explicitly exempt from CSA Z7396.1.22, the pipeline standard that governs human hospitals. However, your generator's pressure vessels still fall under Ontario Regulation 220/01, which means a CRN and periodic TSSA inspection if they exceed certain volume and pressure thresholds. We handle that registration and inspection scheduling along with routine maintenance, as part of every install.
The College of Veterinarians of Ontario doesn't dictate how you source your oxygen, but it does expect functional, safe equipment appropriate to your scope of practice. A certified on-site system backed by Specialty Gas Canada meets that standard.
Built for Your Space and Your Power Supply
Space is tight in most veterinary clinics, and compressor noise, often 60 to 70 dBA, is a real concern in that kind of layout. We can install systems remotely, away from your clinical areas, so the generator stays out of the way. Where the space calls for it, we can add acoustic enclosures too, so it never competes with your exam rooms for square footage or quiet.
Space isn't the only thing we design around. Power outages don't leave your practice without oxygen either. Every system is built with backup supply in mind, so anesthesia and ICU care can continue without interruption if the grid goes down.
Ready to Review Your Gas Supply?
If your practice still depends on delivered oxygen and nitrogen, it's worth comparing what you spend today against the cost of producing it on site. We'll run a full demand analysis based on your case volume and equipment, and show you exactly where your practice stands on payback.
