Hi Debbie,
Thanks for the interesting case history.
NASA has some good technical reports on oxygen service - regular cleaning is essential.
Your report identifies the immediate cause, but does not state anything about the root causes. I bet you could come up with a number of root causes.
Thanks for sharing.
Dan Crowl
Michigan Tech
"Debbie M. Decker" <dmdecker**At_Symbol_Here**UCDAVIS.EDU> wrote:
Hi:
I’ve posted my report of this incident athttp://ucih.ucdavis.edu/docs/ll_CalorimeterFailure.pdf for your reviewing pleasure. The listserv chokes on embedded images.
This was a very near miss and thankfully, no one was injured. If your chemistry/chemical engineering/materials science folks use this technique (and it’s a pretty classic one), it would be good to follow up with them about routine maintenance on the bomb vessel. Don’t forget undergraduate teaching, where it’s taught in p-chem lab.
Ya’ll be safe out there,
Debbie
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