Helium hauling question

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no, lol . I used to pull compressed gaseous helium in on of those torpedo tube trl, you cant tell a differnce after offloading, you basically weigh about 79,000 loaded or empty. liquid helium is just like liquid anything else.

the way you unload gas helium is by pressure , you have to read the temp and pressure of the cylinder before and after , you hook hose to the receiving tank, open one of the cylinders and opent the valve til the pressure equalizes in both , then you move to the next tube and so on. the pressure and temp are used to figure how many cubic feet you off load.

 

Lose roughly 3,000 lbs on a tube trailer and 10,000 on a liquid container.

 

Jumbo tubes of Hydrogen the drivers griped they scaled [dropped] 51,000# loaded and 49,000# MT.

They were really gripin over the fact that they still had 237 Macks at the time sso it was like running loaded ALL the time.

 

To add to this, the helium compressed into the tubes of the truck will not have any type lifting effect on the truck because the helium is contained in a small space. However, if you take all that helium inside the truck and blow it into an expanding balloon, the helium is now taking up a lot of space (or area) and the Archimedes Principle will now go into effect and the helium will begin to float. You can google that actual formula if you really need to know. It's the same principle that causes a large aircraft carriers to float on water.
Seriously guys, physics lessons in a trucking forum???

 

I used to tell people the tires weighed 20,000 a piece to hold the trailer down and had to be shipped back by rail!!!