Another BLEVE Blast (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion)

[myowntubeusername]

WHOA. At 0:59 it looks like the smoke is forming a deer that runs to the left and then vanishes within a few seconds. Crazy. Had to watch a couple of times.

[kingobnoxious]

It's a sight to see a couple of 100 ton 15cm thick steel tanks holding 40,00 litres of lpg, a few 40-tonne gas tanks, 10 gas trucks, 3 gas tanker semi-trailers and hundreds of portable gas cylinders inside a storeroom sized 2kg to 240kg, BLEVE from 2km away.

[caafau]

BLEVE = Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion.

Yes you would still have a large explosion from Thermite penetrating the cylinder however the explosion would not be as near to a BLEVE. As in a BLEVE situation its the surrounding heat that builds up the extreme pressures within the cylinder prior the breech of the surrounding weakened metal (softened from the heat source over the affected area) in ending.. Itll still be a massive and devastating explosion!

[TheUnforgivn17]

BLEVE=Fucking rape. This shit is so powerful, most people don't understand this shit.

[pokertom42191]

Who needs an WMD? Steal a propane truck and whip up 5gallon bucket of thermite.....Were fucked Arabs are crafty.

[smithbroz08]

Horstwalde, near Berlin, Germany.

[smithbroz08]

Wouldn't it be great to have a job like this?

[Jafco7936]

BLEVE - Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion

[mnjbooth]

BLEVE-blast leveling everything very effectively

[mnkyball]

hehe, very true ^^

[izzyman529]

lol

[worldslayer]

this was nothing compared to the tacoma bleve blast. that was absolutely beautiful. look it up

[hanh05]

sweeet

[ThisNameIsTaked]

HOLY SHIT WHAT A EXPLOSION!

[54spiritedwill54]

I can't believe the castor survived.

[manulemafatais]

atmosphere either...

[IamSLIDE]

wuhu hau weg die scheisse !!!!

[chasethemouse34]

yay pollute our planet more =]

[Bigrich59]

are you that dumb would you rather not have training excersizes so we know what to do and how to fight that or less polution you tree huger

[nerdy1351]

Less polution u A hole

[Bigrich59]

ok so when a bleve happends in your neighborhood i hope it destroys everything

[nerdy1351]

I hope bleve happens in your house. Under your toilet!

[Bigrich59]

wow your dumb

[nerdy1351]

yeah i know, i get that alot. it was a cool explosion though.

[Bigrich59]

yes it was

[AndyII6III9]

That's happened while I was taking a crap. Didn't eat Taco Bell for months. :P

[nerdy1351]

LOL! Finally on here has a sense of humor!

[AndyII6III9]

No, no, true story! It was in the news! :D

Thanks man. :)

[nerdy1351]

LMAO, The guy I was talking to in this has no sense of humor.

[dragg17]

hahahahaahaahh

[SLOBoe]

Sure, let's not test nuclear waste transport containers!

[45molkstreet]

whooo!!!, that is some big explosen

[ncatina]

What caused the fire to get to the BLEVE? That portion of the video was cut, as far as I can see.

[LuminaryGames]

They were testing the ability of the CASTOR to withstand an extreme explosion... they caused the fire to get to the BLEVE... and actually i do beleive you are misunderstanding BLEVE.. the fire caused the BLEVE.. the tank is not the BLEVE...

[sneekix]

isnt bleve from impingment and the resulting rise in pressure causing the container to rupture with its contents escaping under pressure and bursting at a very high rate?

[Karps44]

No, the safety valve on the tank will handle the higher pressure on the tank. What happens is the fire outside the tank heat it, but liquid in the tank actually cools it by evaporating. You will see fire going out of the relief valve as vapors are expulsed. As this process occurs, there is less liquid and when there is not enough liquid to cool the tank, the heat from the fire outside will damage it and the remaining vapors in the tank will blast.

More liquid = longer before blast

[Karps44]

This was an answer the sneekix's comment.

[Bigrich59]

training fire

[InfoJunkieHolland]

i'm a put my weed in there...

[MaryStewart]

what's castor for? nuclear waste?

[fanatistno1]

you could destroy a castor, its a german invention, just with a large bomb, bigger than the pepcon explosion, its the solidest invention ever.Yeah its for nuclear waste

[AirForce194]

i thought they were in the big tank too

[bobfaff]

They bounced around a bit (1m02s) - perhaps they hired dwarves and put them in the Castor(r) lol

[antillmusic]

the dwarves weren't happy though with the test results ;)

[MurunB]

It does! Maybe they *were*. Poor guys. /cries a bit.

[Uberownager]

LOL! At first when you see the scientist, it looks like they're sitting inside the big tank :P

[lilcityshrty]

I can't believe the castor survived.