Stationeers: Phase Change Distillation of Liquid Networks

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Let's go back to see how phase change mechanics can be used to make a liquid distillation system (or filtering maybe? Definitions trip me up). The assumption being you want to save all the gases from a terribly mixed up tank, this video aims to show off a build for moving liquids around as well as attempt to make a type of foundation or basic build that could hopefully be modified or potentially controlled though IC to make it more automatic. I dont use any form of IC automation as really I'm just exploring how to do a type of filtering setup using our available valves and knowledge of phase change mechanics to achieve the filtration.
0:00 Intro
0:35 The Tank
1:34 Purge Valve solution and problems
2:45 Reviewing the three gases' phase change characteristics
4:48 Step 1, purge valve to remove some pollutants
5:45 Purge Valve setting
8:00 Building the Pollutant reclamation thing
10:27 Removing Pollutants
13:13 Building the Liquid transfer stage
15:00 Pressurizing the transfer gas pipes
16:20 Building and considering to pressurize the next liquid storage network
18:30 Digital Valves for automating expansion valves
19:20 Testing out the liquid transfer system
21:45 Just sending liquids over anyways
23:40 stress testing
26:05 Duplicating the same setup for filtering water from Nitrous
29:38 Time skip to finish building the next stage
34:28 2nd time skip, I added volume (evaporates more of the liquids) and heat exchange to help control heat loss.
35:20 Done evaporating all liquid nitrous
35:45 water moving test
36:25 forgot to turn on the back volume regulator
37:15 recap and outtro

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@StanBrohnSBFilmArts 3 ай бұрын

Had to add a few "liquid drain" valves to a few tanks, etc

@StanBrohnSBFilmArts 3 ай бұрын

Two major rules of physics EVERY engineer MUST know, high pressure always travels to low pressure, and, higher temps always travels to lower temps.

@shadowdrake082 3 ай бұрын

Fighting against these rules is a lesson in self frustration. We need some kind of variant volume pumps that work similarly for the purge and pressurant valves. Engineered solutions help but attempting this highlighted how slow this process is when you dont account for it.

@wowailyich615 3 ай бұрын

Perfect topic - thank you for looking into distillation! Thinking about making use of liquids and their properties on Mars....

@shadowdrake082 3 ай бұрын

Awesome, I hope it helps provide some kind of groundwork. Admittedly I tried to approach this from the angle of separating liquids by evaporating them consequtively until only a certain kind remained. This may need some finetuning, the overall speed of this is very very slow. I tried to minimize power drain only to see what would be possible but hopefully it can be expanded and improved upon.

@StanBrohnSBFilmArts 3 ай бұрын

Im loving the new phase change .... Changes

@maddognl 3 ай бұрын

You are right about the Purge and Pressurant valves being effected by Pressure differences. Moving the pollution gas would have been a lot faster if the gas was pumped before the Pressurant valve. Pushing 3Mpa into a 5Mpa pipe is an act of frustration I never fully tested how the Condensation valve acts though, it doesn't seem to be effected by the amount of liquid in the target pipe, nor the pressure (I think, thankfully).

@shadowdrake082 3 ай бұрын

I think If I drained the pipe right after the purge valve it would have functioned better. I think I did that with the NOS tank to help speed it up because that took almost an hour. As far as the condensation valve is concerned, I think it also looks at available liquid storage space... I forgot to pump out water on the final stage and almost exploded my gas pipes because of it though I may have observed that wrong. But its normal behaviour seems weird to me, like it might let a certain amount drain and extra condensation valves help to speed up the drain. Trying to keep the gas pipes from getting 100% stressed was a unique challenge to this setup.