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Buel
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posted 03-02-2023 02:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Buel   Click Here to Email Buel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I’ve just been listening to a hydrogen podcast and the person being interviewed said that the infrastructure for producing large scale liquid hydrogen has been in the U.S. ever since the need for it to fuel the Saturn V rockets. He went on to say that 4 tonne transport trucks were used.

Can anyone shed any light on;

  1. How large scale hydrogen was produced for Apollo and where?
  2. How it was transported?

Jim Behling
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posted 03-03-2023 07:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jim Behling   Click Here to Email Jim Behling     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Louisiana, by rail and truck. Like any other cryogen in insulated tanks. 13,000 gallon tankers.

The food industry uses more than the space industry.

Buel
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posted 03-03-2023 09:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Buel   Click Here to Email Buel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks. Always from Louisiana, post Apollo too? Any idea of which companies?

Jim Behling
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posted 03-04-2023 01:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jim Behling   Click Here to Email Jim Behling     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Air Products.

Buel
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posted 03-23-2023 05:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Buel   Click Here to Email Buel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nice image (from here):

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