My fuel tank problem

[Ben88012]

If I were to pressurize HHO gas into a 1 gallon container at 5000 PSI what was the approximate yield and energy be compared to TNT in pounds

[John Cuthber]

I don't see this as amateur science.

 

A cubic foot of gas is roughly a mole.

About 2/3 of that would be hydrogen so at 1 bar you would have about 2/3 moles of H2

You are planning on using about 330 Bar so that's about 220 moles

heat of combustion is 286 KJ/mol

About 63 MJ

About 15Kg of TNT

 

plus the pressure volume energy, but that's small beer.

Someone is probably going to post here saying I shouldn't have helped in case he's a terrorist.

Nothing would suit me better than some terrorist trying to do this; they are almost bound to kill themselves prematurely.

 

If you aren't then I strongly urge you not to even try anything like this; you are almost bound to kill yourself.

[Ben88012]

Thanks for the help to my Remote control Orion project craft

Edited April 30, 2017 by Ben88012

[Moontanman]

Thanks for the help to my Remote control Orion project craft

HHO gas? Isn't that water vapor? If it is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen then pressurizing it would be a very bad thing...

[Raider5678]

HHO gas? Isn't that water vapor? If it is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen then pressurizing it would be a very bad thing...

Yes.

Hence the "Do not try anything like this"

Thanks for the help to my Remote control Orion project craft

Yeah, no.

Don't even bother trying it with this, there are much better, much more stable ways to do this.

[Ben88012]

Dangerous is my middle name looks like I got some robots to build and a bunker to construct let's go smallish yay ...

My family has said I'm the biggest mad scientist in the world

Edited May 4, 2017 by Ben88012

[Phi for All]

Dangerous is my middle name

 

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Moderator Note

Please make sure your family spells it correctly on the tombstone.

 

Violation of rule 2.3, hazardous procedure description. Thread closed.