GAS-L: Aqualux plant blows up!

[jerry dycus <jerry5335@yahoo.com>]

    Hi All,
      Here's a post of mine from the biofuel list that
you might like to see.
--- jerry dycus <jerry5335@yahoo.com> wrote:
>       Hi All,
>         Reading in the Tampa Trib this morning I
> noticed that the Aqualux fuel plant dicussed on the
> biofuel list a while back had a H2+CO pressurized
> 100lb cly blow. As there was no fire luckily it was
> a
> cyl failure. Pieces of the plant were Blown off and
> windows shartered on houses 100 feet away. Luckily
> no-one was close when it blew so no one was hurt.
> I'll
> bet they don't hear well today!
>          They make 'fuel' by electricly arcing water
> with carbon rods to make H2 and CO, syn gas. 
>        Let this be a warning for those who think
> that
> H2 is a good fuel. H2 is known for making steel
> brittle and even leaking thru 1" steel walls. 
>     Because H2 has only about 325 btu/ cu ft you
> have
> to store it at 3000 psi and add steel embrittlement
> by
> H2 and you can have a big problem.
>       2 years ago at The Gannon coal power plant
> they
> were doing repairs on the genorators that were
> cooled
> by H2. Apparently they didn't get all the H2 out and
> a
> repairman touched off an explosion that killed him
> and
> blew out the side of the plant.  
>      While H2 does have it's place let's be careful
> out there if you are going to fool around with it.
>                      jerry dycus
> 
>  
> 
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