Cooling steam

[TheEvilMango]

This is probably going to be first a couple post today as I decided to start over after making one of my best bases yet but I have a few questions to help me improve further. First I mayde a boiler using the liquid tepidizer with a toggle to create steam but I couldn't cool the steam back into water. I used a petroleum cooling loop with an AETN for cooling but it wasn't condensing. 

I didn't have any space materials as the idea was to use it as a large scale water purification plant

[Xuhybrid]

Are you trying to boil polluted water into steam and then back into water?

If so it'd make sense to use an aquatuner because it transfers heat which you can transfer back into the steam to condense it. The tepidizer only adds heat so you end up having to using a lot of wheezeworts, or an AETN should work. Is your AETN room filled with hydrogen?

[Glassyfo]

7 minutes ago, TheEvilMango said:

This is probably going to be first a couple post today as I decided to start over after making one of my best bases yet but I have a few questions to help me improve further. First I mayde a boiler using the liquid tepidizer with a toggle to create steam but I couldn't cool the steam back into water. I used a petroleum cooling loop with an AETN for cooling but it wasn't condensing. 

I didn't have any space materials as the idea was to use it as a large scale water purification plant

Whatever your heat source try using a radiant pipe radiator above your boiler. That way you preheat the polluted water and cool the steam into water in one go.

[TheEvilMango]

I was using radiant pipes and the AETN room was filled with hydrogen. I did have about 500kgs of steam at about 400F.

[Xuhybrid]

Was it a mistake to heat it up that much? 200C is a bit excessive unless you're using it in a steam turbine or rocket.

[Glassyfo]

40 minutes ago, TheEvilMango said:

I was using radiant pipes and the AETN room was filled with hydrogen. I did have about 500kgs of steam at about 400F.

If you're purifying water 400F is way overkill.  You only need a constant 250F to boil polluted water. That reduces the temp you need to cool by to 40F instead to over 180.

[TheEvilMango]

I didn't mean it go get to 400. I left it alone and the next thing I know it's to hot to cool down. How do u keep it from getting so hot

[Xuhybrid]

You can use a temp sensor in the area which disables the tepidizer. The trick you're using will have a part that loops it. You want to connect it somewhere which stops it looping once above the desired temperature.