If you have ever been on a flight, you would know that\napart from boring food and the obligation to sit on the fixed seat for hours, its\nusually quite comfortable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But comfort is more of a subjective thing, so let’s talk\nabout something essential for human survival during the flight, the oxygen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The must-have thing for humans to survive is oxygen. But\nhave you ever wondered, how do we get\noxygen on the airplane <\/strong>while it’s flying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Okay, you might know that there’s a short supply of\nbreathable air on high altitude levels where the most airplanes fly. Here, the\nword breathable holds the most significance, because the air at 35.000 feet\naltitude is available in abundance and shortage of air is actually not the real\nproblem. In simple words, the altitudes where most airplanes fly have a sufficient\namount of oxygen available. Not just that, the air is abundant at the altitude\nwhere the International space stations work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So the catch is, although there’s an abundance of air available at the level where airplanes fly, the pressure of air (oxygen) is too low, and people can’t directly inhale it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, the surrounding air gives airplanes the limitless\nsupply of oxygen in the air. A compressor is used to supply outside air and\npass it through several types of machinery that convert the unbreathable oxygen\ninto breathable oxygen. Finally, the breathable oxygen gets piped into the\ncabin area where people are sitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s also an outflow valve present on the rear end of\nthe plane, which collects the used air from the cabin area and releases it\noutside the airplane to regulate the quality of air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So, I hope now you understand how we can get a constant\nsupply of breathable oxygen at such a high level with ease. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you have ever been on a flight, you would know that apart from boring food and the obligation to sit on the fixed seat for hours, its usually quite comfortable. But comfort is more of a subjective thing, so let’s talk about something essential for human survival during the flight, the oxygen! The must-have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Availability of oxygen in the air<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How do airplanes get the supply of breathable oxygen<\/strong>?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n