bigbeeper
07-09-03, 10:07 PM
I'm new to chemistry but find it very interesting. Today I would like to know how to make say hydrogen into its liquid form. I know it needs to get very cold and someone told me it needs to be under high pressure. I don't exactly know much about pressure and how I would go about doing this. Any response is appreciated.
ElectricFetus
07-09-03, 11:26 PM
Here a good sight:
http://www.airliquide.com/en/business/products/gases/gasdata/index.asp?GasID=36
If you want to know about any chemical look up its MSDS.
The gas is cooled and compressed a whole lot. As I recall from my 9th grade chemistry text, the end pressure is something like 45 atmospheres. I don't know what that translates to in bars or PSI. The compressed gas then goes through an aperture, in a process that is called . abiatic expansion The sudden drop of pressure causes the gas to lose a lot more heat, cooling it below the condensation point, making a liquid. all liquid gases are made this way, from what I know, you just adjust the pressures accordingly. Liquid, or cryogenic, H2 is problably made from a pure or almost pure gas. Nitrogen, oxygen, and many other gases are extracted from liquid air. Some gases, like CO2, don't liquify at atmosphereic pressure.
ElectricFetus
07-10-03, 02:10 PM
1.013 bar is standard air pressure or about 14.6psi