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What f@@k is this? (Video in Russia)

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Created by surferstu > 9 months ago, 8 Jan 2013
surferstu
1011 posts
8 Jan 2013 9:59AM
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evlPanda
NSW, 9207 posts
8 Jan 2013 1:08PM
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A pipe.

Sailhack
VIC, 5000 posts
8 Jan 2013 1:15PM
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^^^ Pipe/stack/chimney/tower/drain...noticeable plate-steel welds.

Or...maybe a UFO!?!

doggie
WA, 15849 posts
8 Jan 2013 10:27AM
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Looked like a massive drainage pipe to me.

darwinkiter
QLD, 37 posts
8 Jan 2013 12:36PM
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Chuck Norris's wifes sex toy???

BradPitt
NSW, 37 posts
8 Jan 2013 1:38PM
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Submarine ?

dorothyinste
QLD, 481 posts
8 Jan 2013 1:29PM
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Looks like an ordinary crude oil cracker. Stands up right and the various oil products are 'distilled' at various levels of the cracker, hence the ports.

Underoath
QLD, 2434 posts
8 Jan 2013 1:55PM
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dorothyinste said...
Looks like an ordinary crude oil cracker. Stands up right and the various oil products are 'distilled' at various levels of the cracker, hence the ports.





And we have a winner.

Sailhack
VIC, 5000 posts
8 Jan 2013 3:04PM
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Underoath said...
dorothyinste said...
Looks like an ordinary crude oil cracker. Stands up right and the various oil products are 'distilled' at various levels of the cracker, hence the ports.





And we have a winner.


Bugger...my next guess was either a massive bong, or home-brew distilling column.

surferstu
1011 posts
8 Jan 2013 12:08PM
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dorothyinste said...
Looks like an ordinary crude oil cracker. Stands up right and the various oil products are 'distilled' at various levels of the cracker, hence the ports.


Ok thanks, I did an assignment on those many years ago so that explanation makes sense

dorothyinste
QLD, 481 posts
8 Jan 2013 5:18PM
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Underoath said...





And we have a winner.


Does the winner win a holiday to Mauritius and a new kite?

Scotty88
4214 posts
8 Jan 2013 4:02PM
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Looks like a pair of tits at the front.

Pitbull
WA, 1267 posts
8 Jan 2013 4:30PM
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Godzilla turd.

kiteboy dave
QLD, 6525 posts
8 Jan 2013 6:59PM
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Defo a pressure vessel of some kind, whether crude oil or other distillation.

To expand a bit on dorothy's reply, if you wanna separate say oil and water you can boil it. The water will boil first (and rise up)and you capture and cool the steam off the top, and drain resulting pure oil off the bottom.

You can separate 3 or more things the same way, so long as you have vertical separation (a column) which allow different layers to form. If you balance heat, inputs and outputs, you can continually pour in your mix and continually extract your different substances.

These columns as in the vid are filled with trays with different stuff on them, some looks like marbles, or grit, or small cubes, etc. Hot gases can rise and cooler liquids can spill over and down to the next level. Each product automagically finds it's own level and so long as you have a stable reaction you can pull out fairly pure stuff from different levels.

Pretty hilarious that these guys are calling this a UFO.

GalahOnTheBay
NSW, 4188 posts
8 Jan 2013 8:48PM
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Scotty88 said...
Looks like a pair of tits at the front.



If that is the case, then you need to get out more...

Hang on now that you mention it...

dorothyinste
QLD, 481 posts
8 Jan 2013 7:59PM
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kiteboy dave said...


These columns as in the vid are filled with trays with different stuff on them, some looks like marbles, or grit, or small cubes, etc. Hot gases can rise and cooler liquids can spill over and down to the next level. Each product automagically finds it's own level and so long as you have a stable reaction you can pull out fairly pure stuff from different levels.





Pretty much like a vigreux fractionating column.
Do you have an interest in chemistry Kiteboy Dave?

Craig66
NSW, 2466 posts
8 Jan 2013 9:16PM
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Worlds biggest skateboard

Carantoc
WA, 7298 posts
8 Jan 2013 7:02PM
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Underoath said...
dorothyinste said...
Looks like an ordinary crude oil cracker. Stands up right and the various oil products are 'distilled' at various levels of the cracker, hence the ports.


And we have a winner.


I call bull* on that.

This is a device called Big Bertha.

Into each of those portholes you insert flouride, aluminium chaff, inorganic toothpaste, bigMacs, tin foil hats, isocol, GM wheat, polio vaccines, irradiated lettuce, thermite strapped to a concrete pillar, nano-particle sunscreen, marijuana, a Cabrinha kite and a Severne enigma boom head and magically (well actually using alien technology modelled on crop circles) out the bottom comes :

The stuff the lizard people use for chemtrails.

Ian1
WA, 129 posts
9 Jan 2013 4:42AM
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Carantoc said...
Underoath said...
dorothyinste said...
Looks like an ordinary crude oil cracker. Stands up right and the various oil products are 'distilled' at various levels of the cracker, hence the ports.


And we have a winner.


I call bull* on that.

This is a device called Big Bertha.

Into each of those portholes you insert flouride, aluminium chaff, inorganic toothpaste, bigMacs, tin foil hats, isocol, GM wheat, polio vaccines, irradiated lettuce, thermite strapped to a concrete pillar, nano-particle sunscreen, marijuana, a Cabrinha kite and a Severne enigma boom head and magically (well actually using alien technology modelled on crop circles) out the bottom comes :

The stuff the lizard people use for chemtrails.


No No...dis is rrrrussia.....out de bottom come vvvodka......enough for me and two of my comrades

kiteboy dave
QLD, 6525 posts
9 Jan 2013 8:27AM
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dorothyinste said...
Pretty much like a vigreux fractionating column.
Do you have an interest in chemistry Kiteboy Dave?


Some interest, I like the concepts in physics more but I struggle to get my head around the math.

But in this case my interest is in refining. When I worked at the refinery I soaked up pretty much every document that I could access. Refineries are just a big chemistry set that costs a million dollars a day to run.

Here you can see the trays being loaded inside a column. The 3rd pic they show catalyst shaped like wagon wheels.
http://www.catalysthandling.com/content/services/catalyst-loading-services

dorothyinste
QLD, 481 posts
11 Jan 2013 8:44AM
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kiteboy dave said...
dorothyinste said...
Pretty much like a vigreux fractionating column.
Do you have an interest in chemistry Kiteboy Dave?


Some interest, I like the concepts in physics more but I struggle to get my head around the math.

But in this case my interest is in refining. When I worked at the refinery I soaked up pretty much every document that I could access. Refineries are just a big chemistry set that costs a million dollars a day to run.

Here you can see the trays being loaded inside a column. The 3rd pic they show catalyst shaped like wagon wheels.
http://www.catalysthandling.com/content/services/catalyst-loading-services


Yes i love chemistry, but these days you can no longer buy glassware without everyone thinking that it is going to be used for illicit purposes. Shame really.

dirtyharry
WA, 444 posts
11 Jan 2013 8:50AM
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Whatever it is it looks like it would have been easier to assemble in place.



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