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Just in case anyone else was confused, 'popcorn polymer' refers to a popcorn-like porous polymer that can form in petrochemical processing, not a polymer that f
by osamagirl69 3y ago
Just in case anyone else was confused, 'popcorn polymer' refers to a popcorn-like porous polymer that can form in petrochemical processing, not a polymer that forms during popcorn production.
I was assuming it was something similar to acrymilide formation in french fry cooking, and very confused how such a process would end up on the USCSB page.
Absolutely wonderful video in any case
- twic 3y agoI'm curious about this popcorn polymer. I went looking, and found some papers on how it forms, but no pictures of what it looks like, or videos of it forming. EDIT I looked again and found some tiny pictures: https://www.shilohsciences.com/blog/popcorn-polymer-in-steam-crackers https://www.shilohsciences.com/blog/popcorn-polymer-in-steam... (at the end - this is a great article) https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/special-reports/14072021/increased-reliability-in-butadiene-production/ https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/special-reports/14072... https://epsc.be/epsc_media/Learning+Sheets/2020/20_05+EPSC+Learning+Sheet+_+Polymerised+pipe-p-1485.pdf https://epsc.be/epsc_media/Learning+Sheets/2020/20_05+EPSC+L...
- lamontcg 3y agoThis comment covers how the popcorn forms and produces localized pressure in a dead leg pipe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36797295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36797295
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI thought this would be about this popcorn ceiling that gets mentioned every once in a while. Wasn't that stuff toxic or asbestos or something?
- throwawaymobule 3y agoI think the narrator isn't a CSB employee, and is just hired for these videos. I would be interested in seeing some sort of parody video made about commercial/industrial deep friers. e.g. '2018 Destin Florida McDonald's Fryer Ice Immersion Incident' Could even hire the same animation company.