CF air tank [10 bars]


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Good morning,

I have to build a +- 2.5 liter CF air tank that hold 10 bars continuously.
My plan is to shape a cylinder (7.5 cm diameter and 15cm long) in a block of foam that need to resist epoxy resin under vacuum, wrap it with 6 layers of CF, after cooking I will drill two holes where I will later install some plugs, filling through them acetone to dissolve the foam and get a final clean inside piece.

My questions are :

- is my plan the easiest or do you have a better idea ?
- which foam to use (I want to avoid glue in the process and 10cm height is your only option) ?
- how many layers of 400gr CF would you recommend (my intention is 6) ?

Thanks for your kind advice.

               
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These types of thing are made as Dravis mentioned by winding tow onto a former, otherwise known as filament winding.

Ideally you would be wetting out the filament as it is wound onto the former, with the former on something like a lathe on a really slow speed (and I mean REALLY slow, 1rpm maybe 2 - but experiment) keeping a good tension on the filament so you get the consolidation directly onto the former.

I would be going one step further and putting +/-45 windings on too, this will stabilise the hoop winding, the ends are going to be the most interesting to wind, plus also as Dravis mentioned the fittings will be critical.

I thing there is a book by Swanson that has a design example for this exact use.

This is certainly not a 6k 200gsm woven application
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