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To: McGruff

Not as fancy as you think. Liquid NG is just that, a liquid. So no Hollywood kabooms.

Still you don’t want to be anywhere near them if they go. Once the pressure drops, it is no longer liquid gas. Things get rather interesting. There are a number of Youtube videos showing what happens.


55 posted on 09/09/2014 12:26:48 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum; McGruff
Liquid NG is just that, a liquid. So no Hollywood kabooms.

LNG won't even ignite. It first has to be vaporized then diluted with air down to a 15% concentration for ignition.

Once the pressure drops, it is no longer liquid gas.

No, LNG is not really pressurized. "Normal" temperatures are still too hot to compress it into a liquid. The critical temperature of methane is -117°F; above that no amount of pressure will liquefy it.

Since compressing a gas also adds heat, it makes using pressure doubly difficult to liquefy methane. That is why it is done near atmospheric pressures by reducing temperature to -260 °F

59 posted on 09/09/2014 12:44:15 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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