Counterflow Heat Exchange
Apologies if this is already known, or obvious to some of the more physics-educated of you, but I wanted to put forth a "discovery" I made recently. Quotes because I'm sure it's not a novel concept in the real world - in fact googling the title of this post yields many results. I was happy to discover the behavior in ONI however, and I find it tremendously useful.
I wanted to share, because while the concept of using heat exchangers is well-known in the community (for example when cooking p
As far as these open designs go, there's not a lot of difference between them as long as the layout is somewhat reasonable.
All these have 40 tiles of active pipe in contact with the liquid.
Gold pipe in with ceramics. Crude temps only:
H 361
M 364
N 336
O 352
P 354
Q 357
The only real outlier is N.
They get better the taller they are (Except H and M should be reversed; beats me.) The reason for taller=better probably the liquid being super goopy