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But reservoirs pretty much never burst unless relief valves fail or oil gets into them. (inb4 a bunch of hand wringing about rusty compressor tanks, those just
by dsfyu404ed 8y ago
But reservoirs pretty much never burst unless relief valves fail or oil gets into them.
(inb4 a bunch of hand wringing about rusty compressor tanks, those just leak and are generally harmless)
- walshemj 8y agoExactly the lecturer was making the point about how those lessons had been learned - and it was in thermo dynamics class so we where doing a lot of work on steam tables and the like
- dublin 8y agoThis is what the ASME was formed for - to create standards for safe pressure vessels. At the time it was founded, there was just over one steam boiler explosion a week in the US...