compressed air: Boeing tyres
compressed air: Boeing tyres
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what is the typical compressed air requirement for inflating Boeing 737 tyres ( CFM @ ...PSI)?
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RE: compressed air: Boeing tyres
Straight from Boeing,
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Mechanicaldup, I believe it isn't compressed air but nitrogen that fills the tires to avoid combustion when heat is developed from friction as when landing and braking.
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BigInch, I cannot grasp the truth of IR's statement under the heading of Better air pressure retention: which appears to contradict the laws of effusion and diffusion of gaseous molecules. Can you ?
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Aircraft reasoning is combustion, stability and oxidation; nothing about diffusion.
http://www.goodyearaviation.com/faq.html
3. USE DRY NITROGEN GAS (WHEN REQUIRED)
Nitrogen will not sustain combustion and will reduce degradation of the liner material, casing plies and wheel due to oxidation."
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"A maximum-energy RTO is a dramatic test that involves accelerating an airplane with fully worn brakes to a takeoff speed of nearly 200 mph, and bringing it to a complete stop using only the brakes and the wing spoilers. Engine thrust reversers are not used to help slow down the airplane in this test. The brakes glow orange-red and reach temperatures of more than 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit from the energy absorbed while halting the airplane. Shortly after the stop, wheel fuse plugs melt to safely release tire pressure."
http://www.airmichelin.com/space.html
"The space shuttle tires are filled with nitrogen (as are most aircraft tires) due to its stability at different altitudes and temperatures. Due to the extremely heavy loads these bias ply tires are inflated to 340 psi (main gear) and 300 psi (nose gear)."
http://www.skytreads.com/mounting.htm
"Inflating With Nitrogen
Many regulatory agencies require the use of nitrogen when inflating tires for aircraft above a specified Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW). Michelin recommends the use of nitrogen when inflating all aircraft tires. Nitrogen provides a stable, inert inflation gas while eliminating the introduction of moisture into the tire cavity.
Aircraft operating procedures for initial inflation and adjustments must comply with applicable instructions as given in FAR 25 or JAR 25.
Oxygen concentration should never exceed 5%."
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I believe the mentioned limit % O2 has something to do with the partial pressure of oxygen to start a chemical reaction at the temperatures in use.
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Both molecules have about the same diameter, the nitrogen bond length is even smaller (110 pm) than oxygen's (121 pm). Thus, it cannot serve as an explanation for the massive selective escape of oxygen from a tire.
Assuming the reported comparative tire pressure loss is correct, I tend to believe that oxygen is preferentially adsorbed (physically or chemically) on the carbon-rich material of the tire, and as a result its molecule dissociates.
The generated atoms are indeed smaller and lighter than the molecules and can permeate out easily. Let's recall that the energy of oxygen's endothermic dissociation is about half of nitrogen's.
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For terrestial use, it must be a Madison Avenue
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for diffusity for different gases in different materials. Note the last entry is Butyl Rubber.
Note also that the diffusivity difference between oxygen and nitrogen appears to be even bigger than stated in the supposedly biased statement from the Irtools website.
The difference in diffusivity might be a by-product of the reactivity difference of oxygen vs nitrogen, rather than size difference.
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Now it becomes a clearer situation, at least for me.
• Coming back to the subject of nitrogen-inflated tires. It is not a diffusion process as claimed by the nitrogen supporters, it is permeation, as highlighted by kenvlach, a totally different concept. Permeation refers almost exclusively to polymers and is caused by differences in chemical potential. Example: loss of carbon dioxide from plastic bottles for carbonated soft drinks.
• Permeation is characterized by a coefficient P, which is the product of two seemingly counteracting transport effects: the diffusion coefficient D through the pores (favouring nitrogen), and the solubility (molecular transport) coefficient S of the permeant gas in the matrix (adding high mobility to oxygen).
• The process of permeation through a polymeric barrier is said to consist of four steps: absorption of the gas into the polymer wall; solubility in the matrix; movement by diffusion along a concentration gradient; and desorption from the outer wall.
• It appears that the polarity of the polymer functional groups, chain symmetry, attraction between polymer chains, glass transition temperatures, and crystallinity all affect the permeation rates. Example: oxygen permeates 10 million times faster through poly(dimethylsiloxane) than through poly(acrylonitrile).
• Permeability is also influenced by temperature, differential pressures, humidity, fillers, additives, thickness, etc. Some of them, by increasing the pathway and its tortuosity, decrease the permeation of a gas molecule.
• Gases, in general, have lower permeation coefficients in thermoplastics than in elastomers because segmental movements of the former are frozen-in below the transition temperatures.
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Kind of ironically (in light of what I read on this thread) a few years ago I was continually plagued by air leaks/flat tires in some also very old tubed rubber tires I still have on the front of a sizeable though many decades old tractor I regularly crank up and use not at any high speed but at a leisurely pace on my property. I was some tired of having to continually re-inflate these tires, and for various reasons I didn't want to try to dismount/fix/replace/remount these tires either. While I suspect this is quite a formal no-no in many fields and I would not recommend this for anyone else, I nevertheless clamped a garden hose end on a short air inflation hose and filled the tires with water (along with I guess whatever plain ol' nasty air was in same) under a little pressure with my garden hose. I believe it is not my imagination that I noticed a HUGE decrease in my required attention, at least thus far, to this matter, and I don't think the tires ever again went fully flat as they had before. Also while I guess my rims might eventually rust off, I kind of like the extra front weight when I put a heavy implement or lift on the back end. I guess it all depends on your vantage point/application, but it might now take a lot of convincing for me to now put nitrogen in these particular tires!