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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

U.S. Navy's top partner for producing oxygen systems for its nuclear submarines, Treadwell Corp., asks Enginasion for help

USS Connecticut (Seawolf class)Enginasion (formerly Industrial Automation Systems) announced today that it has continued its long and successful business relationship with Treadwell Corp. by recently completing the design of a smaller, more user-friendly and more cost-effective system controller for Treadwell Corp.'s Low Pressure Electrolyzer (LPE) that serves the US's Seawolf, SSGN and Ohio classes of submarines.

Nuclear-powered submarines can cruise underwater at full power for years, as their engines do not need air.

Their crews, however, do. Hence the need for Electrolytic Oxygen Generators that decompose water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen gases.

The oxygen is used for crew life-support.

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