Stationeers: Phase Change Mechanics

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In this video I will attempt to talk about phase changes with the gases. What it is, how to search them, what to expect, and some experiments to hopefully show what happens as I mess with N2O by compressing it, moving it around, and at the end a simple setup for how to clean your base of pesky liquid water without contaminating any existing liquid pipe network. Long video but hopefully I have put this information in a way that it can help you or come back and refer to it at a later point.
0:00 Intro
1:40 - 18:51 Phase change Science
2:00 states of matter
3:05 water Real world example
4:12 Finding gas information in stationpedia
4:25 Explanation of a gas's information card
5:14 Latent Heat
7:08 mols per L of liquid
7:28 Freezing temperature
8:28 Boiling Temperature (Water only)
8:56 Min condensation pressure and max liquid temperature
9:52 Vital information (Freezing temp + Max liquid Temp)
10:17 Phase Change Diagram
10:28 Manipulating the graph (Scale and temp units)
11:25 Interpreting the graph (Solids, liquids, gases)
13:08 Critical pressure and temp threshold
14:18 Key takeaways
16:20 How to store or bypass?
16:50 Equilibrium
18:04 Phase Change isolated system
18:51 Kits for moving between gas and liquid networks
19:15 Pipe Valve kits (Condensation valves and expansion Valves)
20:05 Pressure Regulator Kits (Pressurant Valves and Purge Valves)
21:50 Liquid Drain Kit (Passive liquid inlets, active liquid outlet, and Passive liquid drain)
23:18 - 44:15 Experiments and tests
23:46 Forcing condensation with increasing pressure (Removing Volume)
25:49 Forcing Evaporation with decreasing pressure (Adding volume)
27:45 using kits to move liquids around
28:12 pipe stress
29:10 Really stressed pipes and when damage occurs
30:08 Using a condensation valve to move liquids to an empty liquid pipe
31:15 breaking my liquid pipe
32:15 How to know what broke a pipe
32:45 How to pressurize liquid pipes
33:40 Forcing condensation with increasing pressure (Adding pressure)
35:20 Delaying the inevitable (add more volume to reduce stress)
36:20 Condensation Valve: safely moving liquids to a pressurized liquid pipe
37:00 Purge valve and expansion valve prep
37:40 Using an expansion valve and dangers with it
38:23 Using a purge valve
39:40 showing how vents pressurize pipe networks and cause phase change
40:30 returning to purge valve forcing evaporation
43:30 closing experiments
44:15 Venting unwanted liquids
44:45 Condensation valve + Passive liquid inlet
47:50 adding a 1 way liquid valve before the passive liquid inlet
48:15 Adding overpressure release (1 way valve + cowl)
49:30 vent setup for forcing phase change and where it is useful
51:40 Gas to Liquid to Gas + Cowl for releasing liquids
54:18 Closing for venting liquids
54:56 Bonus: How to cleanse water out of your habitat
56:20 Building the contraption
59:12 Completed water atmosphere extraction system

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@captainyakitori Ай бұрын

This playlist comes as a blessing. I came back to the game after a year and phasing was as confusing on first sight as anything they introduce. It's people like you that make this game understandable and enjoyable for dummies like me :D

@shadowdrake082 Ай бұрын

This was a big game change and it tripped up many people. I think at the time i made the videos there were hardly any fairly in depth tutorials or explanations how it worked or how to work with it. Some speculation but nothing as in depth so i did try to make the videos to help explain the underlying mechanics. Probably still too complex but hopefully it could help explain some of what goes underneath to maybe help out with how to work with it. I’m glad it has helped! Best of luck with exploding stuff in the future!

@wowailyich615 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for this awesome video - love learning real physics stuff while gaming at the same time. Your hard work is much appreciated!

@RadlerAndi 17 күн бұрын

very good video. now i finally learned how to deal with phase change. I was very angry about it since the update and completely avoided it until now. but because i am on Mimas and i do not want to waste NOS (because my big base needs a lot of N2), instead i wanted to store it properly and now i understand how to do it.

@shadowdrake082 17 күн бұрын

Glad it can be of help! Best of luck as you dive into phase change and hopefully may you use it to your advantage!

@jtone9564 2 ай бұрын

Thx, good job :-D

@beeswax4909 3 ай бұрын

Really a great job. Thanks a lot ...

@fuse98 4 ай бұрын

This was helpful, thank you.

@goltzhar 4 ай бұрын

This was a really really good!

@wowailyich615 3 ай бұрын

Hey @Shadowdrake082 you input is massively appreciated on my end. I am still frying my brain trying to work with the active and passive drain and expansion valves trying to get freaking water to condense out of my gas mix (which has Nitrous in it, but I do not want Nitrous as a liquid). Could you possibly do a follow-up with some examples how to deal with liquids in a practical way? Example 1: You have an H2 combustor and super hot steam. How do you get the steam out as water in a practical way using the phase change knowledge? Example 2: You want to extract a specific gas out of an atmosphere using phase change. Let's say Pollutant or Oxygen out of Mars atmosphere. How do you set up your valves and gas/liquid tanks in the most logical manner?

@shadowdrake082 3 ай бұрын

That does sound like something I can start to work on considering I'm at the point where I have a lot of mining to do in my Vulcan playthrough before I can show how I would set up my atmospherics there and I would need to do something about the H2 combustor there. As far as a distillation type system, is it a matter of how to get started? Depending on how much power you want to use on it and whether you can manipulate temperatures may affect overall how to build such a system.

@wowailyich615 3 ай бұрын

Your videos explain the gist of things well, I guess. But as a newcomer and not engineer/programmer it is very difficult to put these concepts into practice when not building a mega base. Take my combustor problem: So, the combustor spits out a weird mix of exhaust gases and temperatures in the waste line fluctuate as well. So, I have a fairly hot mix of Pollutant, CO2, NI and even Nitrous in my mixed waste line. How do I manipulate the system, so that the Water I want can be siphoned off? If I use a condensation valve, I get a mix of the poison gases into my liquid line and Nitrous also condenses into the liquid tank no matter how I try to play around with pressures to keep it gaseous. So, is the only way to solve this manually playing with a pressurant valve and a different gas in order to get the pollutants out of the tank or am I doing it wrong? Would love some practical examples on liquid handling with a good explanation (that do not involve simultaneously setting up three cooling loops with condensation chambers that are super hard to follow for a newer player like me). Just some food for thought, maybe I am not the target audience and YOU have to do what you enjoy. Just putting in my two cents :) @@shadowdrake082

@wowailyich615 3 ай бұрын

Another thing I really want to do and that you mention in your video is using phase change on the Mars atrmosphere. But how exactly would you build a starter system that uses vents and valves to condense pollutant possibly CO2 to get a steady trickle of O2 from the thin atmosphere? Maybe it would be fun for you to set up such a system and explaining the thought process? Let's call it a "no atmospherics units start" challenge :)

@shadowdrake082 3 ай бұрын

@@wowailyich615 I will say for hot gas in pipes, without a doubt it would be easy to use an atmospherics Filtration unit to separate it if the pipes temperature is >370C. But if that is not going to be an option, it will probably end up being quite an engineering challenge as you will need to cool down the gas mixture and get it to a specific pressure range for the desired gas to condense. But then it will be several steps to keep moving the gases from holding area to holding area, gradually bringing down the temperature while keeping pressure up to condense stuff you want to remove or want. As far as a liquid tank, that one might be quirky to clean if it has gotten dirty. I would think it would be like a hot gas filtration but in reverse as you use expansion valves and condensation valves to move only certain liquids around. The added challenge would be if the gas pipe network can handle the liquids as they are introduced, I will see if I can make something like this and show off probably one tool in the tool belt for usage.

@TheJakebriscoe 3 ай бұрын

exellent, exellent job! incredibly helpful for me please do more! thank you

@shadowdrake082 3 ай бұрын

No problem, While I cover a few topics, If I need to revisit a topic and go into a bit greater detail I can think about covering that again. I realize this is literally thermodynamics and 1 explanation may not be enough.

@TheJakebriscoe 3 ай бұрын

it was huge for me. this format was perfect for me beacause you teach it very well, and it reminds me of class setting. i was able to reatain it very well. again exellent job you should be a teacher!@@shadowdrake082

@shadowdrake082 3 ай бұрын

i have done some work as a math tutor and even then trying to convey the information in different ways is a challenge. maybe later in life i may end up being a teacher to pass my years or something, the technical, science, and math has always been a joy for me and it is nice to see it help people, even for a game about building stations and how not to blow up their pipe systems.

@TheJakebriscoe 3 ай бұрын

@@shadowdrake082 well for now you have a medium right here to teach what you love!!