Homemade refrigerated air dryer?

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IF you know how to properly purge a vessel but don't know what that has to do with this situation you really are dangerous. and 250 PSIG is the safety release pressure of the vessel its above the safe working pressure.

I have actually worked with mythbusters in person, the fact that your using them for a reference makes me laugh.
 
Drop it, Dualie. You have no idea what I'm doing or how I'm doing it, and none of this has anything to do with the question at hand.
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I know what I'm doing and your replies to this thread suggest you haven't got the slightest idea.
 
Sounds like an interesting project!! How do you plan to purge the moisture traps, while keeping them sealed the rest of the time?? And could 5 cfm through a small diameter pipe still push waterdroplets up hill and past your trap?? Perhaps the pipe diameter should be much bigger in your trap??

BTW, my industry now uses receiver-dryers and switching solenoids to deliver air with a dew point of -90F.

Safety: Most of these tanks are pretty safe when working within their rated limits. I used to worry about all the pressurized CO2 tanks I worked with, sometimes surrounded by 50lb cylinders. On a hot day, the gauges all get up around 1,000 lbs. Then, I look at the safety certificates, these tanks have been in use since the 1920's and 1930's!!

Here is the best part: When they test them, they stamp the date into the side. Just like branding cows, but they take the date stamp, a big (huge) hammer, kerwham the numbers are stamped deeply into the steel.

Certification guy says "they are made of a soft mild steel and will not burst. If an accident pokes a hole in them they just spray out through the hole, Then he warns: If its not tied down it will be going over 100 mph when it hits you!!
Ouch!!
 
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I forgot to mention: The receiver-dryers deliver the -90 degree dew point air, without using ANY refrigeration at all in the process. Its all done at room ambient, and uses almost no energy.
 
Originally Posted By: fsskier
Sounds like an interesting project!! How do you plan to purge the moisture traps, while keeping them sealed the rest of the time??

I'll just put a ball valve on the end of some kind of Tee, haven't really thought about the details of the plumbing yet.

Originally Posted By: fsskier
Certification guy says "they are made of a soft mild steel and will not burst. If an accident pokes a hole in them they just spray out through the hole, Then he warns: If its not tied down it will be going over 100 mph when it hits you!!
Ouch!!

Exactly. I've seen pictures of lighter duty air tanks that have failed, and that is usually what happens. I've never heard of a tank with proper safety valves and in good shape "blowing up" and hurting somebody. Back in high school shop class some idiot somehow knocked the valve off a half filled O2 tank, and it went flying. Nobody was in the way.
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The literal truth is, you can shoot a 250 gallon propane tank full of propane with a 12 gauge slug and it will make a hole through both sides. A big white cloud will follow. Nothing will explode.
 
Originally Posted By: SecondMonkey
Drop it, Dualie. You have no idea what I'm doing or how I'm doing it, and none of this has anything to do with the question at hand.
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I know what I'm doing and your replies to this thread suggest you haven't got the slightest idea.


you haven't done ANYTHING to prove YOU know what your doing. until you do i submit you making a bomb and you haven't the slightest idea.
 
Originally Posted By: Dualie
you haven't done ANYTHING to prove YOU know what your doing. until you do i submit you making a bomb and you haven't the slightest idea.


Neither have you. Until you do I sumbit that you know absolutely nothing about compressed air or pressure vessels. Furthermore, find somebody else's thread to poop on.
 
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