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1313.1 Quality of Medical Air

California Plumbing Code 2019 > 13 Health Care Facilities and Medical Gas and Medical Vacuum Systems > 1313.0 Medical Air Supply Systems > 1313.1 Quality of Medical Air
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Medical air shall be required to have the following characteristics:
  1. It shall be supplied from cylinders, bulk containers, or medical air compressor sources, or it shall be reconstituted from oxygen USP and oil-free, dry nitrogen NF.
  2. It shall meet the requirements of medical air USP.
  3. It shall have no detectable liquid hydrocarbons.
  4. It shall have less than 25 ppm gaseous hydrocarbons.
  5. It shall have equal to or less than 1mg/m3 (6.85 x 10-07 lb/yd3) of permanent particulates sized 1 micron or larger in the air at normal atmospheric pressure. [NFPA 99:5.1.3.6.1]

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