What are the exact details of your setup and runs so far? In mutual service, Rich Murray [email protected] 505-819-7388
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM, ecat builder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Damon, > >> I hope your piping is better than class 150, and your fittings better than >> schedule 40. Preferably you would want to use class 3000 pipe and schedule >> 80 fittings of 316/316L stainless steal. The strength of stainless steal > > Thank you for the safety concern. I'm using schedule 40 pipe and > fittings. I looked at schedule 160, but the fittings are hard to find > and expensive.. so instead, I assume my rig could explode and stay > 100m away when heating. > > I run my experiments remotely using LabView via Remote Desktop and a > solid state relay to turn on/off the heat. > > Also, I can monitor the pressure gauges from my webcam, and so far I > haven't seen any real pressure increase when increasing the temp from > 20 to 250C. > > Will try some simple and safe catalysts next. (Mg,Ti, MnO2) > > - Brad > >

