Hazmat Highway to Hell with Oxygen Cylinders

YT ^ | 02/03/14 | Jay Patterson

[Doogle]

Great Icebreaker video for a HAZMAT Class demonstrating the dangers of insecure high pressure cylinders in a highway accident. This was an accident that occurred in Russia. Russians have dashcams in order to provide additional evidence in court due to guard against police corruption and insurance fraud. This version contains no music.

[Doogle]

WHOA.......

[Doogle]

ping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1LGKieTxY

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Those weren’t oxygen cylinders...

[Blueflag]

Let’s be clear.

OXYGEN neither burns nor explodes. Ever.

Oxygen is the oxidizer (duh) in a fire like this.

Compressed flammable gasses are the fuel here, as well as initially likely the fuel of the truck and the bus it ran into.

REM: I am a former firefighter.

Google BLEVE and Class B fires.

[Kansas58]

Oxygen does NOT burn.
More than likely the cylinders were welding equipment blends of gases.
Oxygen is required for combustion, but if you hold a lit match in a room full of pure oxygen nothing will blow up. You might burn your fingers though as the match would burn very hot and very fast.

[Blueflag]

Indeed. If you can make oxygen “burn” you are a great alchemist or a ‘nuculer’ physicist.

[KarlInOhio]

Some of the tanks burned like fuel tanks rather than burning other fuel like oxygen tanks. Dumping oxygen into a fire is a good way to get an explosion but those which were tossed free just outgassed because there was no fuel or ignition source. However at least a couple tanks tossed away from the main fire looked like they were burning on their own.

[from occupied ga]

looks more like acetylene than oxygen

[houeto]

What was that cop thinking?

[Doogle]

“I’m too close”

[Doogle]

...not my comment...*smiles*

[sten]

definitely some eye popping goodness.

watched it twice... just as much fun the second time.

if fireworks were more like this, then maybe I’d find them more exciting ;)

+1

[12th_Monkey]

crazy Ivan

[UCANSEE2]

What was that cop thinking?

Why won't this f***** car start ?

[Arlis]

Of course oxygen doesn’t burn, BUT it increases the burn rate of any fuel by logarithmic numbers......

Just use a leaf blower on a leaf fire, and you’ll see an example. You’re adding oxygen, not fuel.

Oxygen is part of the combustion process, and to make any fuel burn faster - add oxygen. Adding oxygen will increase the burn rate many times more than adding fuel.

So, these could have been oxygen cylinders.

[Arlis]

Hmmmm....wonder why all the shuttles had liquid oxygen tanks to fire the engines?

Because adding oxygen increases the combustion process more than adding fuel.......

[Doogle]

..driver got out of there in a hurry...

[nascarnation]

Oxy tanks in NA are green. These were orange.
Anybody know if that protocol is used over there?

BTW nice job by the following car to get stopped quickly to avoid.

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[Clay Moore]

We use the first cop laying on the ground to mark the hot zone. (^;

FWIW a full acetlene cylinder is at about 250psi and an O2 is about 2300

I have seen home O2 cylinders stuck through the wall after a fire. As the left the apartment, they looked like rockets as the aluminum burned.