Liquid Nitrogen Tank Explosion

The explosion in a 3 inch liquid nitrogen gas line also damaged a storage tank causing nitrogen gas to vent out of the building wegner said.

Liquid nitrogen tank explosion.

In an incident on january 12 2006 at texas a m university the pressure relief devices of a tank of liquid nitrogen were malfunctioning and later sealed as a result of the subsequent pressure buildup the tank. A liquid nitrogen explosion at a textron aviation plant near wichita kansas injured 11 people on friday. Because the liquid to gas expansion ratio of nitrogen is 1 694 at 20 c 68 f a tremendous amount of force can be generated if liquid nitrogen is vaporized in an enclosed space. Why buildings fall down levy et al cites one example of a water tank head snapping through accelerating the tank until it contacted a nearby natural gas line which ruptured in turn and ended predictably.

The lines that were ruptured as i told you earlier were shut down we re currently off gassing a couple of.