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By Application: Architectural Laboratory Water Treatment Marine Air Handling |
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The carbon briquettes can store 180 times their own volume of natural gas, or 118 g of methane per liter of carbon, at 500 pounds per square inch (psi). The best previous carbon could only store 142 times its own volume at 500 psi pressure. The target set by the U.S. Department of Energy is 180 times the storage a material's own volume. The MU-MRI carbon reaches this target for the first time. A conventional high-pressure natural gas tank operates
at 3600 pounds per square inch (psi), whereas this low-pressure
tank operates at 500 psi. This enables flexibility in tank design
because high-pressure tanks require bulky, cylindrical walls,
whereas the low-pressure tank can use thinner walls in a variety
of shapes. The pressure of 500 psi equals the pressure in natural
gas pipelines, which eliminates |
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