The role of nitrogen gas in FAME preparation is just to prevent the oxidation of fatty acids by reducing the oxygen level in the surrounding environment. You can use low grade oxygen for this purpose but ensure the purity has to be more than 60%. However, the purity of nitrogen gas used as carrier gas should be 99.99%.
if purity nitrogen 99.9%, is it nearly to Ultra High Purity (UHP) nitrogen ? I just worry, some fatty acid is volatile and using low grade of nitrogen can impact to that