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today on Applied
Science I want to talk
about passing gas from one cylinder to
another so the problem is this cylinder
is full of ethylene but it's a rental so
I have to return it and I want to
transfer the ethylene to this cylinder
which is empty that I own so let me show
you the setup I have the full cylinder
connected to the empty cylinder with
this high pressure copper line and then
there's a tee and a valve and a vacuum
line that runs down to the vacuum gauge
and this vacuum pump here so we're
currently at about 340 military and the
purpose of that was just to get the
remaining gas out of the empty cylinder
and also to remove the air in the line
between the two cylinders so this way
I'll have a very clean transfer and I
wanted to worry about contaminating the
gas this is only 99.5% pure gas anyway
so it's not like I have to get every
last molecule out I also have the
receiving cylinder in this water bath
that's chilled to about seven point
something degrees C and the purpose of
that is to get the ethylene to turn into
a liquid in the receiving cylinder and
pull more gas out so ethylene is
normally supercritical at room
temperatures and at the pressures that
are inside these cylinders so if I were
to just connect the two cylinders
together at room temperature and open
both valves I could save about half the
gas you know the pressures would
equalize the volumes are about the same
and I'd end up would have but since I
want to you know save as much gas as
possible if I pull this down and cause
the ethylene to condense in here it will
lower the pressure in the system and
we'll get more more gas to transfer
the temperature in the receiving
cylinder is below the critical
temperature so we should get real liquid
to form there I also have the full
cylinder on a scale so that we can
measure how much mass has actually been
transferred this should have held about
5 pounds of ethylene when it was full
and I've used a very small amount so far
okay so I'm going to close the valve
here which will isolate the vacuum
system from the transfer and I'm going
to turn off the vacuum pump just so we
can hear if there's any sort of flushing
or whatever noise this is going to make
when we transfer and now I'm going to
open this valve as slowly as I can
the fitting here is getting quite cold
and you can see there's frost forming on
the copper piping
we've transferred about two and a half
pounds of gas and what's interesting is
that the cooling water temperature has
risen to about eight point nine degrees
C and the critical temperature is nine
point two so very likely the temperature
of the gas inside the receiving cylinder
is still supercritical so we have to
wait a while for my cooling water system
to lower the temperature further and
we'll see if we get more mass transfer
as the gas liquefies in the receiving
cylinder after waiting for the receiving
cylinder to cool down some more we still
only transferred about 2.6 pounds of gas
and so I added engage here to help
figure out what's going on and the gauge
shows that we're definitely below 50 bar
which means that there's no
supercritical ethylene anywhere in the
system it's got to be entirely gas here
and gas liquid mix in the receiving
cylinder and I even used a heat gun to
make sure that the starting cylinder is
not is over 10 degrees C so there's no
liquid in here at all so either they
under filled me or I used more gas than
I thought or there's a problem with the
scale or a combination of all these
things but I think I've transferred all
the gas that I can so I'm going to give
this cylinder back now okay see you next
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