Can my CO2 tank explode if it gets to hot?

[Beer-Baron]

I have an empty CO2 tank that I want to get filled before work this week, If I fill it up and leave it in my hot car for an 8 hour shift am I asking for trouble?

Or can the CO2 tank take it?

 

[moxie]

I have an empty CO2 tank that I want to get filled before work this week, If I fill it up and leave it in my hot car for an 8 hour shift am I asking for trouble?

Or can the CO2 tank take it?

Don't do it. It's not going to explode, but the safety valve will give.

Word Of Warning: Don't Leave Full CO2 Tanks In Hot Car

 

[BeerPressure]

fill it, bring it into your workplace and just stash it somewhere cool until you go home

 

[demonrichie]

there will be issues but no actual explosions. theres too many safety features preventing it but ya itll prolly rupture

 

[brewingkitty]

at the worst, it will be LOUD, cold, and wet when the rupture disk lets go.

 

[dougf]

Heck, that's the best case scenario!

 

[Aylward]

I have an inverted, full, 20 lb cylinder of CO2 sitting at 800 psi. How safe would it be to use a heating pad to increase the standing pressure to 1,500 psi? At what pressure does the safety release valve purge at? Thanks!

 

[jseyfert3]

I have an inverted, full, 20 lb cylinder of CO2 sitting at 800 psi. How safe would it be to use a heating pad to increase the standing pressure to 1,500 psi? At what pressure does the safety release valve purge at? Thanks!

Why do you have an inverted tank? That will draw liquid CO2 from the tank, which isn't safe unless you're a minority of people that need liquid CO2, but that's not homebrewers. And if liquid is needed the best way is a tank with a dip tube, not an inverted tank.

And why are you trying to raise the pressure? That also doesn't sound safe.

Overall this all sounds like a bad idea. Don't play with compresed gas tanks.

FYI it's not a relief valve but a burst disk. Once it bursts due to overpressure, the entire tank will be very quickly and loudly dumped. And if you have an inverted tank when that happens, the entire tank will be dumped liquid which will flash freeze into dry ice and cause serious personal injury to anyone standing nearby. Again, stop doing what you are doing, please!

 

[Jayjay1976]

"This sort of talk really tightens my colon."
-Frank Burns

 

[Vale71]

How safe would it be to use a heating pad to increase the standing pressure to 1,500 psi? At what pressure does the safety release valve purge at? Thanks!

About as safe as playing Russian roulette.

 

[PaleMan]

It will blow and cause world wide extinction. For the sake of the planet dont do it.

 

[Jayjay1976]