Seeing that Nitrous isnt Flammable by nature....HOWWW??

[Monk BANzai]

Team Tuner CSIs.... GO!

[bluefete]

Well, now you know it is.

Maybe the wrong mix of chemicals?

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

didn't seem that anything burnt.
Just the bottle exploded and blew out everything around it

[bluefete]

didn't seem that anything burnt.
Just the bottle exploded and blew out everything around it

Overpressurization?

[nervewrecker]

Overpressure.

Tank like it took a hit as well, valve bent.

[hindian]

Article said the tank relief valve was replaced by a solid bung and well no relief was had. Stock relief valve was rated at 3000psi so that bottle saw more pressure than that.

[hindian]

[hindian]

Screenshots explaining what might have happened

[88sins]

Op, nitrous is flammable, the oxygen in it makes it flammable, it just requires a whole lot more pressure and heat to ignite due to the inert nature of the ratio of nitrogen in it. With enough heat and pressure, it will ignite. But I doubt that's the scenario in this case.

Doesn't look like it was torched, but there's no burst disc, so that's issue number one.

What probably happened?
I suspect the tank had some weak spots on the inside (micro cracks that were either not found on inspection or developed after inspection, if it was even ever inspected), and that the tank was pressurized with more gas than it was rated for, and heat caused said gas to expand to the point where the tank simply couldn't hold it, so it failed violently at its weakest point.


IF you gonna over fill a pressure vessel, make damn sure it can hold what you putting in it, and that it has a proper burst disc in the event of temperature induced thermal expansion of the gas inside it. As a general rule, a tank can be safely overfilled by up to 2-5% of its pressure rating, to allow for pressure decrease when the gas inside the vessel cools after being heated from compression. But 5% is the maximum.
Also, people either forget or don't know, that older metal tanks that are subject to frequent charge and discharge cycles actually get what's called work hardened. This stresses and can actually weaken a pressure vessel, and will contribute to its eventual failure.

[Les Bain]

Maybe he had beef with the Tran boys, who knows?

[VexXx Dogg]

The article said they bypassed the pressure relief valve, so kabloooey.

[sMASH]

All pressure vessels should be periodically pressure certified, to avoiiiid this. Lol

The constant pressuring and depressuring weakens the materials...

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Op, nitrous is flammable, the oxygen in it makes it flammable, it just requires a whole lot more pressure and heat to ignite due to the inert nature of the ratio of nitrogen in it. With enough heat and pressure, it will ignite. But I doubt that's the scenario in this case.

Nitrous oxide is not flammable.
Oxygen isn’t flammable either or Nitrogen.
Combustion of a fuel requires oxygen so Nitrous can aid in combustion. It’s much cooler and denser too than oxygen alone.

[Rovin]

WOW hope nobody was seriously injured or killed by that , is like a bomb exploded ....

[88sins]

I more interested in where the base of that tank end up.
cuz it no longer attached to the body of the tank

[teems1]

Maybe he had beef with the Tran boys, who knows?

Those snakeskin pants were fire.

[De Dragon]

All pressure vessels should be periodically pressure certified, to avoiiiid this. Lol

The constant pressuring and depressuring weakens the materials...

From NoS bottles to fire extinguishers, to scuba tanks and aeroplanes, pressurized vessels have a life, and even then only with periodic, recommended inspections, pressure testing etc.

[nervewrecker]

N2o and CO2 behave similar, it's easy for a filled tank to reach high pressures with high temps.

Seeing pt chart for n2o going from just over 200psi at 5 deg c to 1100 psi at 37 deg c. In car temps can reach above 50 deg c easy.

[Monk BANzai]

Op, nitrous is flammable, the oxygen in it makes it flammable, it just requires a whole lot more pressure and heat to ignite due to the inert nature of the ratio of nitrogen in it. With enough heat and pressure, it will ignite. But I doubt that's the scenario in this case.

Doesn't look like it was torched, but there's no burst disc, so that's issue number one.

What probably happened?
I suspect the tank had some weak spots on the inside (micro cracks that were either not found on inspection or developed after inspection, if it was even ever inspected), and that the tank was pressurized with more gas than it was rated for, and heat caused said gas to expand to the point where the tank simply couldn't hold it, so it failed violently at its weakest point.


IF you gonna over fill a pressure vessel, make damn sure it can hold what you putting in it, and that it has a proper burst disc in the event of temperature induced thermal expansion of the gas inside it. As a general rule, a tank can be safely overfilled by up to 2-5% of its pressure rating, to allow for pressure decrease when the gas inside the vessel cools after being heated from compression. But 5% is the maximum.

Also, people either forget or don't know, that older metal tanks that are subject to frequent charge and discharge cycles actually get what's called work hardened. This stresses and can actually weaken a pressure vessel, and will contribute to its eventual failure.

knowledge...thankx bhai...

[De Dragon]

Capping a relief valve is criminal

[Dave]

I see Fast and Furious educated alot of people hahaha.

[Cantmis]

Dwayne need to sponsor chemistry lessons!