Vacuum degassing chamber lid explosion.


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Finnluxury
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Hi.

Last night happened something really weird. I use EC 26L professional vacuum degassing chamber as a resin catch pot (resin trap). So I have 25mm clear acrylic lid, where i have a hole for resin to go inside the chamber. So the weird thing goes like this:

I resin infused a carbon fiber front fender just like I normally do. This time only different were that I used IP2 infusion polyester resin instead of Epoxy that i didn't have at the moment. Infusion went very well like usually. I closed the hoses, closed the pump and leaved the part cure over night. When I came back to the warehouse, I saw that the Acrylic lid were missing from the chamber. When I looked more closely there were Acrylic pcs all over the ware house, and 4 bigger parts of the lid. Clearly somekind of explosion have happened during the night. I am usually very carefull to not leave too much resin in the resin trap, that it will not start to gain heat. I even leaved the vacuum to the chamber, so there is no oxygen that the resin could start a fire, and only around 6mm of resin were in the bottom of the chamber. So I am wondering what have happened? I dont believe that the 6mm of polyester have gained heat so much that it would made  over pressure and this would happend. Also I dont believe that the vacuum can make the acrylic lid to get broken. I am wondering that maybe the hole middle of the lid for the vacuum hose have something to do with this. Just wanted to share what happened, and maybe someone could have idea what have happened. Smile
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oekmont (20/06/2017)
It's a common mistake that an implosion does not lead to broken prices flying away from the center. After accelerating inward, the prices have a high momentum, bounce against each other, or the chamber, and then take their way away from the center. Also an explosion doesn't make sense, since the chamber is not designed to take any pressure from the inside. The lid would just pop up.
It could be, that your lid was not styrene compatible. Just my suggestion. Weakened bis the hole the styrene softened the underside a bit, until it could not stand the pressure anymore.




Yeh you're quite correct, it just isn't what I would have expected in this case. Anything under vacuum shouldn't really 'implode' in the truest sense of the word, it is really just being crushed. I find it hard to imagine that on something the size of a degassing chamber, there is enough atmospheric pressure to accelerate pieces of 25mm thick acrylic so much that they bounce and fly all over the place. Especially considering that as soon as the seal is broken, virtually all the energy would be dissipated. 

This does still seem the most likely explanation, but I just can't help but be a little amazed. I've seen a lot of things fail under vacuum, but nothing with the sort of energy that this would have required. 
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