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This will be interesting to watch, namely from their approach to maintaining and servicing the high pressure tanks. The DOT and ASME regulations and codes gove
by benzofuran 11y ago
This will be interesting to watch, namely from their approach to maintaining and servicing the high pressure tanks. The DOT and ASME regulations and codes governing these are pretty strenuous, and along with the testing requirements (hydrostatic and visual) for high pressure tanks, the risks of a failure are massive, and only one is usually enough to tank a supplier from being used by most larger companies. Good luck to them though! Hopefully they'll sort out some of the issues with larger pressure tanks in regards to the maintenance and reliability - I'd love to see some composite 'smart' tanks with strain and stress measurement built into the pressure vessel, along with some form of electrical means for measuring tank integrity (corrosion action etc).
edit: they're hiring for a composite tank engineer so there's some hope yet - although I hope whomever they get understands the issues of composites in cyclical high pressure service - most of industry shies away from composites due to their failure mode: most don't fail 'gently' - a catastrophic failure is the usual planning mode around composites.
- DaniFong 11y agoOur tanks are already ASME certified and have passed the DOT tests. We have a lot of composites experts integrated in our team already :-)