Download or read book Flammability Tests of Miniature Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchangers in Liquid Oxygen written by JF. Million and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most air separation plants currently in use employ compressors to increase oxygen pressure for customer usage. An alternative approach is to extract liquid oxygen from the separation column which is pumped to higher pressure and then boiled in a heat exchanger to directly provide an elevated pressure gaseous oxygen product. Brazed aluminum heat exchangers (BAHX) are normally utilized as the product oxygen vaporizers. The process results in substantial contact between high pressure liquid oxygen and aluminum material. The increased use of BAHXs to produce pressurized oxygen as an alternative to the use of oxygen compressors led to a series of experimental programs pertinent to the safe use of BAHXs for boiling oxygen at elevated pressures.
Download or read book Flammability and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen enriched Atmospheres written by Theodore Aaron Steinberg and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 2000 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flammability and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen enriched Atmospheres written by Ting C. Chou and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promoted Ignition Combustion Tests of Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchanger Samples in Cold Supercritical Oxygen written by James White and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common practice in the industrial gas industry is to produce product oxygen by boiling pressurized liquid oxygen in a heat exchanger. Multistream brazed aluminum heat exchangers (BAHX) typically are used as oxygen product vaporizers. This method inherently exposes liquid and gaseous oxygen to aluminum material. Customer demands continue to increase the product oxygen pressure requirements, and it is recognized that higher pressures could increase the severity of an aluminum/oxygen combustion event. A series of experimental programs were conducted from 1993 to 1995 to evaluate the safe use of BAHX for boiling oxygen at elevated pressures to 6,996 kPa. The present experimental study is a companion test program that was conducted from 2010 to 2012 to evaluate BAHX promoted combustion response in cold supercritical oxygen to 15,602 kPa. Promoted combustion experiments were conducted with miniature headered BAHX samples. Two types of samples were tested. The first were approximately 3.3 kg, having a thinner parting sheet thickness, and the second approximately 3.9 kg, having thicker parting sheets. The oxygen passages contained commercial purity cold supercritical oxygen having a pressure ranging from 10,197 to 15,603 kPa and the adjacent passages contained cold supercritical air ("inert" fluid) at pressures ranging from 10,440 to 15,170 kPa. Tests were conducted with the air passage pressure both higher and lower than the oxygen passage pressure. Nichrome wire was used to ignite a hydrocarbon promoter located within an oxygen passage, simulating a promoted ignition-combustion event. The experiments provided insights into the combustion mitigation behavior of BAHX used for producing high-pressure product oxygen via pumped liquid oxygen (LOX) gasification. Data are applicable in supporting the safe use of BAHX for high-pressure oxygen service.
Download or read book Promoted Ignition Combustion Tests of Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchanger Samples in Gaseous and Liquid Oxygen Environments written by R. Zawierucha and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most air separation plants employ compressors to increase oxygen pressure for customer usage. An alternative approach is to extract liquid oxygen from the separation column, which is pumped to higher pressure and then boiled in a heat exchanger to directly provide an elevated pressure gaseous oxygen product. Brazed aluminum heat exchangers (BAHX) are normally utilized as the product oxygen vaporizers.
Download or read book Flammability and Sensitivity written by and published by ASTM International. This book was released on with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flammability and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen enriched Atmospheres written by David B. Hirsch and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promoted Ignition Combustion Behavior of Tubular Aluminum Samples in Liquid and Gaseous Oxygen Environments written by R. Zawierucha and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past literature has reported on the occurrence of violent energy releases (VER) involving either high surface area aluminum structured packing or brazed aluminum heat exchanger (BAHX) samples subjected to promoted ignition-combustion testing in liquid oxygen (LOX) environments. In each of these situations, both the aluminum packing samples and the BAHX specimens contained relatively thin sections of aluminum. The aluminum thickness ranged from 0.2 to 0.25 mm for the aluminum packing and the fin portion of "thin fin" BAHXs. Other "thick fin" BAHXs tested had nominal fin thicknesses ranging from 0.41 mm to 0.46 mm. Similar flammability data have not been reported for thick wall (4.1 mm), 3003 tubular aluminum heat exchanger material which may be used in LOX applications. The impetus for this program was to study the promoted-ignition combustion behavior of thick wall, tubular aluminum samples in various LOX environments using both a localized hydrocarbon promoter and uniformly dispersed hydrocarbon film. Tests were also conducted in various gaseous oxygen (GOX) environments using uniformly dispersed hydrocarbon films.
Download or read book Reaction of Molten Burning Aluminum with Liquid Oxygen written by HM. Barthélémy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aluminum packings and trays are used in the cryogenic distillation of air. During the sixth International Symposium on Flammability and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen Enriched Atmospheres, we presented test results under simulated operating conditions of aluminum packings in oxygen atmosphere. Flammability tests were also performed on aluminum tray samples and heat exchangers. During these tests, a violent energy release (VER) was observed when aluminum samples were ignited and a LOX pool was present. It was established that this phenomenon was not relevant for the operating conditions of cryogenic air separation plants, but the conditions necessary to obtain/explain this VER were not clear. The VER's were attributed to molten/burning aluminum coming into contact with LOX. In this paper we have analyzed, from the tests already performed, the conditions/parameters necessary for this phenomenon to occur. Further tests were also performed involving aluminum rods, in order to get a better understanding of this phenomenon. The results show that the necessary conditions to obtain a pressure wave: ? do not depend on the geometry of the sample (packings, trays, heat exchangers, rods) ? are the simultaneous presence of a vaporizable liquid (LOX) and a very hot molten material (liquid aluminum T > 1900 K or liquid alumina) ? are the rapid contact and mixing of these two liquids so as to get a quick vaporization of LOX.
Download or read book Metals Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pressure Dependence of Aluminum Ignition in Gaseous Oxygen and Possible Ignition Mechanisms in Brazed Aluminum Heat Exchangers written by Etienne Werlen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ignition of aluminum foils in gaseous oxygen was experimentally tested using a diode laser as the energy source, which provided a well-controlled, accurate, and reproducible method of ignition. The tests were conducted under different conditions in terms of oxygen pressure, oxygen purity, aluminum thickness, and gas velocity. The aluminum foils tested were between 0.2 mm and 0.45 mm thick, a range typical of fins contained in brazed aluminum heat exchangers (BAHXs) used in air separation units (ASUs). The experimental apparatus was composed of a pressure vessel in which a single aluminum test sample was placed. The vessel contained an optical window that allowed a short laser pulse of known power to be applied to the aluminum sample. The energy dose was systematically varied in order to identify the threshold ignition energy, defined as the point at which the probability of aluminum combustion with propagation beyond the laser spot was 50 %. The experimental results show that O2 pressure has no significant effect on the ignition energy of aluminum over the pressure range tested (10 bar to 120 bar). This conclusion holds for both standard commercial grade purity O2 (99.8 %) and high purity O2 (99.99 %), as well as for gas velocities higher than typically encountered in ASU BAHXs. Heat conduction calculations indicate that aluminum ignition occurs when the laser spot temperature reaches the melting point of the passivating oxide layer (about 2200 K to 2300 K). The heat conduction model accurately explains the dependence of the ignition energy on the aluminum sample thickness. These test results have been used in assessing the risk of ignition of BAHXs used in high pressure oxygen service in ASUs.
Download or read book Ignition of Contaminated Aluminum by Impact in Liquid Oxygen Influence of Oxygen Purity written by Etienne Werlen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impact tests in liquid oxygen and oxygen enriched liquids have been conducted on aluminum foils (0.2 mm thick) used for heat exchangers of air separation units (ASUs). Some adaptations to the ASTM Standard D2512, "Standard Test Method for Compatibility of Materials with Liquid Oxygen," have been done to ensure the good control of oxygen content in the cryogenic liquid and to get reproducible results in aluminum ignition with hydrocarbon coating. Modified striker pins with a cavity on the contact surface have been used. The vertical guiding and the centering of the striker pins have been ensured by using two machined guides. Test samples were three layers of aluminum foil, two corrugated and one flat, contaminated by various quantities of hexadecane. The criteria for the identification of aluminum ignition (positive tests) have been validated by performing Scanning electron microscope surface analysis on residuals of a few impact tests performed in copper cups. Criteria have also been defined to check that hexadecane combustion took place in negative tests. A sufficient number of tests have been performed to plot the probability of ignition of the aluminum samples as a function of the average thickness of hexadecane coating and as a function of the oxygen content in the cryogenic liquid varying from 50 % to above 99.95 %. The remaining part in the cryogenic liquid was nitrogen and 2.3 % argon except for one series of tests where the influence of the absence of argon could be identified. The results of these tests can be used to assess the risk of ignition of some aluminum exchangers or structures used in ASU.
Download or read book International Aerospace Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial Gas Handbook written by Frank G. Kerry and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Frank G. Kerry's more than 60 years of experience as a practicing engineer, the Industrial Gas Handbook: Gas Separation and Purification provides from-the-trenches advice that helps practicing engineers master and advance in the field. It offers detailed discussions and up-to-date approaches to process cycles for cryogenic separation of
Download or read book Safe Use of Oxygen and Oxygen Systems written by and published by ASTM International. This book was released on with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aerospace Materials and Applications written by Biliyar N. Bhat and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume is focused on documenting the novel processing, fabrication, characterization, and testing approaches that are unique to aerospace materials/structures/systems"--Preface.
Download or read book Materials written by Michael F. Ashby and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Materials, Third Edition, is the essential materials engineering text and resource for students developing skills and understanding of materials properties and selection for engineering applications. This new edition retains its design-led focus and strong emphasis on visual communication while expanding its inclusion of the underlying science of materials to fully meet the needs of instructors teaching an introductory course in materials. A design-led approach motivates and engages students in the study of materials science and engineering through real-life case studies and illustrative applications. Highly visual full color graphics facilitate understanding of materials concepts and properties. For instructors, a solutions manual, lecture slides, online image bank, and materials selection charts for use in class handouts or lecture presentations are available at http://textbooks.elsevier.com. The number of worked examples has been increased by 50% while the number of standard end-of-chapter exercises in the text has been doubled. Coverage of materials and the environment has been updated with a new section on Sustainability and Sustainable Technology. The text meets the curriculum needs of a wide variety of courses in the materials and design field, including introduction to materials science and engineering, engineering materials, materials selection and processing, and materials in design. - Design-led approach motivates and engages students in the study of materials science and engineering through real-life case studies and illustrative applications - Highly visual full color graphics facilitate understanding of materials concepts and properties - Chapters on materials selection and design are integrated with chapters on materials fundamentals, enabling students to see how specific fundamentals can be important to the design process - For instructors, a solutions manual, lecture slides, online image bank and materials selection charts for use in class handouts or lecture presentations are available at http://textbooks.elsevier.com - Links with the Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES EduPack), the powerful materials selection software. See www.grantadesign.com for information NEW TO THIS EDITION: - Text and figures have been revised and updated throughout - The number of worked examples has been increased by 50% - The number of standard end-of-chapter exercises in the text has been doubled - Coverage of materials and the environment has been updated with a new section on Sustainability and Sustainable Technology
