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Why do helium transport trucks typically have several long tanks instead of one large tank?
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∙ 12y ago
Helium is not like most gases. If you're shipping oxygen, carbon dioxide or most other gases, you liquify it and put it in a Refrigerated Liquid trailer. Helium has such a low boiling point, transporting it long distances in liquid form is unrealistic. So...they compress it to 3500psi--a very high pressure. (Oxygen in a welding bottle is only at 2500psi.) A helium tube trailer is made the way it is for three reasons.
Reason 1: the small tubes are stronger than a large tube would be.
Reason 2: if something damages one of those tubes, you won't lose the whole load.
Reason 3, and this is overarching: A LOT of helium users don't own a bulk tank. They have a contract with the gas supplier that has the supplier leave a loaded trailer at the user's factory. When the guy comes with the new trailer of helium, he drops the new trailer, hooks up to the old one and goes back to his plant. It's more efficient to use gas out of a small cylinder than a large one because of the pressure in the cylinders.
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No, I am sorry, but there is no helium inside a hot-air balloon. Instead, there is hot air.
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