Stationeers - Vulcan Phase Change Experiments 1

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Venusian Gamer

28 күн бұрын

Experimenting with a first stage AC cooling techniques using phase change on Vulcan.

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@CloudyMN1979 26 күн бұрын

I've just been using my furnace for this. It has a liquid outlet already and I'm blowing gas into anyway during the day time to smelt, the hardware is already all there. I just set some logic to run it automatically at night. I'm having a tough time getting to the capacity that I need though in the early game. Feeding it into a tank connector works well because the two ports make it easy to connect both states to an AC before I get steel for heat exchangers but nothing I've tried gets me enough cooling to keep an actual windowed section to protect solar panels and plants.

@VenusianGamer 24 күн бұрын

Appears each stage of phase change cooling (and I assume heating) is only around 50C to 60C delta. I discussed this a little in my other video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nMp6n7t2vrzZXaM.html

@CloudyMN1979 23 күн бұрын

@@VenusianGamer This helps. Mick did a video a few months back where he used passthrough heat exchangers to segment stages like this. After watching your video I think I might almost understand what he was doing.

@mrnobody2873 25 күн бұрын

Your results are likely skewed by having the intakes and outlets so close together. Intakes so close together are lowering the air pressure in the adjacent blocks and the exhaust is flooding back in, reducing the amount of the target gas you can collect per game tick.

@VenusianGamer 24 күн бұрын

I knew there would be some impact, but I guess more than I thought. In the future I will provide more distance between endpoints.

@mitasamodel 25 күн бұрын

What are the control sensors here? 1 - T_ext, 2 - P_input, 3 - P_liquid-tank? I have similar first stage and after couple nights I had to add Purge Valve to reduce pressure in the liquid system.

@VenusianGamer 25 күн бұрын

Just an experiment and not a final design, the code (very simple at this point) used to control each of the four setups (one IC per) follows. alias dOutsideGasSensor d0 alias dStage1Gas d1 alias dStage1Liquid d2 alias dOutsideVent d3 define MaxOutsideTemperature 400.15 define MaxStage1GasPressure 10000 configureDevices: s dOutsideVent Mode 1 mainLoop: yield computeOutsideTemperatureIsOk: l r0 dOutsideGasSensor Temperature sle r1 r0 MaxOutsideTemperature computeStage1GasPressureIsOk: l r0 dStage1Gas Pressure sle r2 r0 MaxStage1GasPressure computeIfOutsideVentShouldBeOn: and r0 r1 r2 s dOutsideVent On r0 endLoop: j mainLoop