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Old 20th November 2003 | 15:40
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eskimotail
 
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My experience is using Nitrogen generator in US Coast Guard. You use the generator to fill bottles that you already own. You wouldn't want to provide very high pressure piping thruout the facility. The generator chugs away unattended and charges the bottles, you then put the bottles on the typical trolley and take the Nitrogen where you want it. Our generators would fill a bottle to just shy of 3300 PSI in about 8 hours from empty. We did this in Alaska and shipboard where delivery was a little difficult. The US Navy has a cart with a series of 6 bottles on it that uses the Nitrogen pressure from one bottle to turn a very high pressure pump and boost the pressure from the other bottles up to approximatly 4500 PSI for charging their very high pressure accumulators. The Osprey has 5000 PSI hydraulic systems so they must be able now to obtain at least that for flight control hydraulic system accumulator charging.
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