Hi folks, I'm having a devil of a time finding info about the bursting strength (?) of closed head 55 gallon drums. I've been googling and keep finding these government sites having to do with the state of New Jersey's requisition form for windshield washer fluid and other Classic Literature of Bureacracy and Red Tape instead of the actual specs.
Here's the situation: we got asked by someone in our host facility to put a pressure relief valve on a closed processor that's made out of a 55-gallon drum. They're kind of ignorant of what this equipment design entails and I think they are somewhat unreasonably thinking up safety features- in reality, the sight tube on the drum, and the type of lid we have on it (in our case it's not exactly a tight head drum anymore- I cut off one end of it and fitted a lid from an open head drum instead), would blow out before the drum would burst (I think so, anyhow. Which isn't a good scenario anyway). But for starters, I',m trying to find a spec on exactly what an 18 gauge steel drum could tolerate if there were some kind of uncontrolled buildup of pressure (er, an explosion). I could just throw a water heater pressure relief on it and no one would know the difference, but I know that';s not the right piece of equipment for the job, being in the public eye (and trying to make homebrewer equipment comply with inspectors). Mark Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
