Cooling water system

[Marsfc]

Anyone can help me to cooling water system?

[mathmanican]

A quick search with "Cooling Water" gave me the following:

@Lifegrow gives a nice build for ya to use.

[Soulwind]

There's lots of ways to do it.  Passive with wheezeworts, active with coolant filled aquatuner, directly with aquatuner, single pass or looped feedback.

It really depends on what you are cooling (40c from a sieve, 95c from a geyser, etc) and what you're going to do with it (berry farm, wheat farm, restrooms, etc)

[lee1026]

Yep, where in the game are you, how much water are you trying to cool, and what is the incoming temperature and what is the target temperature?

 

For ultra effective cooling, nothing beats a power-positive steam turbine build with a few exploits backed by a steel aquatuner or two running super coolant.

 

For simplisticity, you will want wheezeworts. For early game, you will want to rely on the water sieve.

[M.C.]

5 hours ago, Marsfc said:

Anyone can help me to cooling water system?

What exactly are you trying to do? Different goals will lead to drastically different designs.

[beowulf2010]

5 hours ago, Marsfc said:

Anyone can help me to cooling water system?

As others have asked, what are the parameters of the cooling you're looking for? 

If you're looking to just condense a vacuumed out Cool Steam Vent, 4 to 5 wheezeworts in a hydrogen room separated from the geyser's room with metal tiles is almost always enough. 

If you're looking to cool a Water Geyser (95C) down to water Sleet Wheat (5C), you'll need a fairly advanced aquatuner system to hit the temp. 

If you're just looking to knock the temp down to around 40C, a carbon skimmer will turn clean water of any temperature into 40C polluted water and a water sieve will do the same but the opposite direction. 

In other words, more data is needed. 

[Marsfc]

12 hours ago, beowulf2010 said:

As others have asked, what are the parameters of the cooling you're looking for? 

If you're looking to just condense a vacuumed out Cool Steam Vent, 4 to 5 wheezeworts in a hydrogen room separated from the geyser's room with metal tiles is almost always enough. 

If you're looking to cool a Water Geyser (95C) down to water Sleet Wheat (5C), you'll need a fairly advanced aquatuner system to hit the temp. 

If you're just looking to knock the temp down to around 40C, a carbon skimmer will turn clean water of any temperature into 40C polluted water and a water sieve will do the same but the opposite direction. 

In other words, more data is needed. 

Tks for help Beowulf2010, i'm looking for a better way to cool a Wather Geyser (95C) down to wather Sleet Wheat (5C). I already used aquatuner system but unsuccessfully. My aquatuner system overheats the environment to more than 600º and i don't know how control it. Sorry about my english, rs.

[avc15]

edit: I suppose I might add, that you chose a very challenging build to tackle if you're a newer player. You should try something simpler first, like farming berries. Just my two cents.

Sleet wheat is pretty challenging because not only does the water have to be precisely between 0c and 5c but so does the dirt you're using.

There are a lot of ways to do it but I tend to go with a central cooling approach.

I have not cultivated sleet wheat in my map yet, I am still only gathering it from the wild. But here is one concept you might use to precisely get your dirt and water down to exactly 3C. Though the application I'm showing is for a much hotter temperature (getting copper from a volcano to 27C before shipping it out) this will still work for wheat.

What I do is take a reservoir of very cold coolant like this oil at -35C.

Put a temp sensor in the water tank, and pipe in some coolant to a shutoff valve followed by a liquid valve. With the liquid valve set to something like 1000g/s and a radiator built behind the liquid valve. It will cycle on and off as needed to keep your tank at exactly 3C.

This approach is a kind of central cooling, instead of spot cooling. I made a thread about central cooling recently.

Set your temp sensor to "active if above 3C" and place diamond tempshift plates at least every other square.

The reason for this setup is basically, it is somewhat involved to get the output of an aquatuner to be exactly your desired temperature. Not impossible, but .. involved. I make a much colder liquid instead and then use a radiator to get fine control.

Put your dirt in those smart compactors and set them to a low storage limit so that your dirt gets cooled to the same temperature - use smart compactors not regular compactors because they transfer heat better.

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But you are dealing with multiple difficulties. The AT keeps overheating because it's not removing heat, it pumps heat. So the area around it keeps getting hotter and hotter until things break.

There are lots of ways to deal with that. You need a way to remove heat from the area around the AT. I'll let someone else talk about that.

 

 

[MorsDux]

Cooling cool steam directly to 5 celsius is a waste of effort.  Always cool the sieved water, then you only need to cool 40% as much. 

[beowulf2010]

1 minute ago, MorsDux said:

Cooling cool steam directly to 5 celsius is a waste of effort.  Always cool the sieved water, then you only need to cool 40% as much. 

Mors is correct. Using an aquatuner to cool water by 90C is inefficient. 

Try one of the following to get a leg up on cooling the water to at most 40C before using the aquatuner. 

1) Run the 95C water through a carbon skimmer, using the resulting 40C polluted water to cool the steam of the geyser itself, then run the warmer polluted water through a water sieve to set it back to 40C. Now the aquatuner only needs to get rid of 35 to 37C.

2) Pump the 95C into a sacrificial ice biome to melt it. Set a filter from a pump at the bottom to send polluted water to a water sieve and dump the resulting clean water back into the ice biome to cool. This can sometimes get you your 3C water directly but will (for 100's of cycles) get you down into the 20C range at worst. 

3) Find a different source of cooler water for the sleet wheat and use the 95C directly on things that don't care about heat like elecyrolyzers. 

4) Ignore sleet wheat. In the long run, it's the hardest plant to grow. Between the narrow temperature range and the limited ways of producing more dirt to feed it (and Mealwood), I find it's not worth growing. Bristle Blossoms have much more forgiving temperature ranges and the phosphorite needed for pincha peppernuts is easily obtained from dreckos. 

[MorsDux]

I usually build ice tempshift plates or sculptures in my sieved water tank until I get an aquatuner setup running for my berry farm.

[beowulf2010]

1 hour ago, MorsDux said:

I usually build ice tempshift plates or sculptures in my sieved water tank until I get an aquatuner setup running for my berry farm.

That's another good option. Didn't occur to me due to the fact that I avoid digging out ice whenever possible as I can't stand the idea of loosing half its mass when I can just melt it and get full mass. 

[Xuhybrid]

9 hours ago, Marsfc said:

Tks for help Beowulf2010, i'm looking for a better way to cool a Wather Geyser (95C) down to wather Sleet Wheat (5C). I already used aquatuner system but unsuccessfully. My aquatuner system overheats the environment to more than 600º and i don't know how control it. Sorry about my english, rs.

I use 4-5 wheezeworts to condense the steam, then i pipe the water into an aquatuner. A steam turbine removes the heat build up from the aquatuner. It doesn't even need Steel.

[beowulf2010]

16 minutes ago, Xuhybrid said:

I use 4-5 wheezeworts to condense the steam, then i pipe the water into an aquatuner. A steam turbine removes the heat build up from the aquatuner. It doesn't even need Steel.

Definitely works this way as well. I'd still build the aquatuner out of steel to just be safe on the overheat temperatures.