Stationeers - Vulcan Phase Change AC Demo 1

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Venusian Gamer

19 күн бұрын

Demonstration of a minimum AC design for Vulcan using phase change. Should be useful for other planets.

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@wgottschalt 10 күн бұрын

Great video! I finally started to understand the phase change in the game better.

@thespacementv1506 12 күн бұрын

Stationeers doesn't have adiabatic phase change. What the pressure regulator does is, due to a heightened pressure produced by the gas, the temperature at which it will condense into a liquid increases, passing the barrier of what the gas is currently at, causing it to condense, in the process moving the latent heat of condensation to the gas, increasing its pressure as well as temperature.

@Nyppe1 14 күн бұрын

Great video, I finally start to understand how this should be build 😀

@wowailyich615 11 күн бұрын

Great introductory video the phase change mechanics. Well done! The only question I have is why you decided to throttle the purge valve in the first loop? Why set it to 3000 instead of the lowest possible setting of 1820 or 1850 (barely abvove freezing temp for pollutant)?

@VenusianGamer 11 күн бұрын

I played around with the setting and didn't seem to make a difference. Far as I can tell, phase change cooling (at scale, not talking about a few moles) only provides about 60C delta. And I have yet to see a video of using phase change on Vulcan to go from 127C to 20C with a single stage. Either 2+ stages are used or a single stage using phase change and the second stage using a AC device.

@sashgorokhov 13 күн бұрын

Can this be reversed to heat instead of cooling ?

@wowailyich615 11 күн бұрын

The system works both ways - it really just moves heat from one side of the network to the other. The thing is: the heat still has to come from somewhere, if you add a load. You need to connect the cold liquid pipe to some form of heat source. For heating with Pollutant, you would set the purge valve to 1850kpa (barely above freezing pressure) and add a heat exchanger to the liquid side connected to a heat source that must be above -99° Celsius. So, this would not work with outside air in Europa - the outside air would freeze the pollutant in the liquid pipe. Keep in mind that the temperature difference of about 80° (maximum achievable temperature delta for Pollutant arrived by dividing the latent heat of the gas by the specific heat = 80) still applies. So, if your heat source is only at -80° Celsius the maximum heating you can achieve with a single loop would be 0° Celsius on the hot gas side.