MTzu Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 This design uses a thermium aquatuner with super coolant. I'm sure you've all seen the maths behind the sour gas cooker + methane condenser but just for completeness Spoiler Crude oil -> sour gas: 1.69 * (399 - 100) DTU/g + 1.76 * (538.9 - 399.9) = 751.5 DTU/g of required heat Sour gas -> methane + sulfur: 1.898 * (538.9 + 161) DTU/g = 1329 DTU/g of requiered cooling Excess heat is used to reheat the produced methane and sulfur: (1329 - 751.5) DTU/g = (2/3 * 2.191 + 1/3 * 0.7) DTU/(g*K) * (T + 161.5 K) => T = 180 °C This temperature is well within the range of steel gas pumps Plumbing overlay Spoiler Temperature overlay Spoiler Automation overlay Spoiler New crude oil gets pumped in when all the petroleum boiled away. The top left aquatuner has 100 % uptime but is regulatable with the atmosensor. The bottom aquatuner, heating the ng + sulfur gets activated if the super coolant heats above -220 °C. This ensures, that the system has enough cooling capacity. As you can see in the temperature overlay, all equipment in the top left corner is made of thermium since it has a temperature of 450 °C - 500 °C. The condensing area is constantly cool if your loop doesn't run out of coolant so you don't need high temperature equipment. The ng storage area should theoratically use steel equipment but more on that later. Since we don't have a use for sulfur in the game right now I just dump it into some petroleum at the bottom of the ng storage area. Results: I've been able to sustain the 100 % uptime thermo aquatuner with super coolant, which should produce enough heat for boiling 1.57 kg/s of crude oil or condense enough sour gas for 1.05 kg/s of ng. The setup in the picture produces about 800 g/s of ng. By raising the insulated wall between the thermo aquatuner and the condensing area (and thereby reducing the self cooling of the aquatuner) I got about 900 g/s of ng. The weird thing is, that my ng storage just keeps getting cooler and cooler. I reached 6.8 °C after about 15 cycles. I don't see where this coolness comes from but I'll take it. Either my calculations are wrong or there is something wrong with the code. I'll just let it run for some more cycles and keep you guys updated how low we can go with this setup. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/101624-easy-and-compact-natural-gas-cooker/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishakaru Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 1 hour ago, MTzu said: Either my calculations are wrong It's 60:40, not 66:33 methane:sulfur from everything I've read. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/101624-easy-and-compact-natural-gas-cooker/#findComment-1141462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neurocelso Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 23 hours ago, MTzu said: The weird thing is, that my ng storage just keeps getting cooler and cooler. I reached 6.8 °C after about 15 cycles. I don't see where this coolness comes from but I'll take it. Either my calculations are wrong or there is something wrong with the code. I'll just let it run for some more cycles and keep you guys updated how low we can go with this setup. I worked on a similar build, and on some other versions of them and I have the same "issue", cooling excess - that in the current gameplay I balance pumping in around 70°C sour gas from the oil biome Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/101624-easy-and-compact-natural-gas-cooker/#findComment-1142022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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