I bought a real air valve for my air cannon (don't use a sprinkler valve) to fix the problem and placed it in a biohazard barrel.
It is lot louder in real life than it seems in the video.
Here is my completed Biohazard barrel with all the pneumatic guts installed. The action is slower than I would like and I have 100 psi on the cylinder. I hope I can speed it up a bit.