Cylinder and Vessel @ different pressure
Cylinder and Vessel @ different pressure
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Hello everybody,
hope you can help me in attached issues, since past post are not much helpful - or I haven't been able to find these information -.
I have got some cylinders containing Nitrogen.
Their volume is 45 l and the pressure of N2 is 2800 PSI.
I want to utilize this N2 for leak testing a vessel @ 2366 PSI..
Question 1: which is the law that links pressure into the bottle and volume ?
Does the old perfect gases low works fine (P1V1 = P2V2) ?
The key issue is: when N2 starts to move from cylinder to vessel, pressure into the cylinder is reduced.
Please, I'd need to know
1.1 - how much is reduced when I transfer a certain quantity of N2 into the vessel.
This quantity is equal to the vessel volume.
I would suppose that both pressure would stabilize around 2366 PSI.
1.2 - which is the quantity of N2 remaining into the cylinder (I suppose initial volume less the volume of the vessel).
Question 2 - which is the low that lets me know the volume of N2 @2366 PSI if I know the volume @ 2800 PSI ?
Again Perfect gases low ?
I would suppose this is a standard problem in fluid dynamics.
Please note that each calculation is made according to engineering criteria !
Many thanks
hope you can help me in attached issues, since past post are not much helpful - or I haven't been able to find these information -.
I have got some cylinders containing Nitrogen.
Their volume is 45 l and the pressure of N2 is 2800 PSI.
I want to utilize this N2 for leak testing a vessel @ 2366 PSI..
Question 1: which is the law that links pressure into the bottle and volume ?
Does the old perfect gases low works fine (P1V1 = P2V2) ?
The key issue is: when N2 starts to move from cylinder to vessel, pressure into the cylinder is reduced.
Please, I'd need to know
1.1 - how much is reduced when I transfer a certain quantity of N2 into the vessel.
This quantity is equal to the vessel volume.
I would suppose that both pressure would stabilize around 2366 PSI.
1.2 - which is the quantity of N2 remaining into the cylinder (I suppose initial volume less the volume of the vessel).
Question 2 - which is the low that lets me know the volume of N2 @2366 PSI if I know the volume @ 2800 PSI ?
Again Perfect gases low ?
I would suppose this is a standard problem in fluid dynamics.
Please note that each calculation is made according to engineering criteria !
Many thanks





RE: Cylinder and Vessel @ different pressure
If considering a nonideal gas, you need to find the compressibility factors for N2 at the initial and final pressures. You don't know the final pressure right now to find zf, so an iterative solution is required.
Pi*Vi/zi = Pf*Vf/zf
i subscript is initial condition
f subscript is final condition
Vi = 45 L
Vs = vessel volume
Vf = Vs + Vi
Pf = 2800 * 45 * zf /zi /(Vs + 45)
get the final pressure, first assuming zf = 1,
get the actual compressibility factor for the resulting pressure, recalculate the final pressure and if it changes much, get another value for zf and continue until you get a convergence of Pf.
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RE: Cylinder and Vessel @ different pressure
You will have a bank of small N2 cylinders - Check with your vender: you will likely be able to receive gas at higher pressure than 2800 psig. Your system will never be able to exceed the ratio between the final volume (bottles + tank) compared to the initial volume (bottles alone)
You vent through the N2 regulator to the tank, ignore the small volume in the gas lines, and then isolate the tank once it gets high enough in pressure for the test - how much N2 gas are you allowing to waste to purge the tank? Or will you press up with the original air left in the tank?
RE: Cylinder and Vessel @ different pressure
A high pressure water test is much safer since there is many thousand times less stored energy in event of a catastrophic failure - or a small failure that leads to to a catastrophic failure.
RE: Cylinder and Vessel @ different pressure
If the convenience of the N2 being a high pressure source is the driver, fill the vessel 95% or more with water and apply the N2 pressure on top of that.
Good luck,
Latexman
RE: Cylinder and Vessel @ different pressure
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RE: Cylinder and Vessel @ different pressure
It doesn't sound like the OP is pressure-testing tanks. Sounds as if they are doing a simple leak check, hopefully at operational pressures. Pressure rating cylinders is a dangerous task especially if you don't know what calcs and standards to use.
Dan
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RE: Cylinder and Vessel @ different pressure
To Mr. Eltron.
Correct, we are making a leak test
To Mr. racookpe1978 and Mr.Latexman
Unfortunately we cannot use water or liquids for this test.