Unfawkable Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Can anyone help me pinpoint why this Insulated Pipe made of Ceramic keeps taking overheat damage? It's getting water/polluted water from the cold biome at around 5 degrees temp, and coming out at 60-90 degrees. It's not vaporizing, it's way too low temperature to be causing this, the pipe itself is only 37 degrees, and the Metal Refinery is at 50 (Also made of ceramic). Someone please enlighten me if I'm missing something, it's driving me nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argelle Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 For what it's worth, there is no overheating in pipes (reference here) but if phase change inside it's breaking and need repare. May be you record 90 °C water, but out of sight it was going to 100 °C and became vapor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suxkar Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Metal_Refinery Water is too risky to use, it will go above 100, phase change and break the pipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unfawkable Posted September 4, 2019 Author Share Posted September 4, 2019 Well the math checked out, it wasn't supposed to go above 100. Guess I'll just keep repairing it then, I'm too lazy to make a cooling loop right now, I wanna go to space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobucles Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 The UI is a bit misleading. The pipe is not overheating, instead the material inside is overheating. Water overheats, transforms into steam and bursts the pipe. You have to be particularly careful about using water coolant in a refinery, if blue water starts at 50C or more then steel smelting can break it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unfawkable Posted September 4, 2019 Author Share Posted September 4, 2019 That's just it, it's starting at 5, since I'm drawing it from the cold biome. I'll just power through it for now, I have a ton of ceramic anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suxkar Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Most people deal with it with crude oil as coolant and a steam turbine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzgzd Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Unfawkable said: Can anyone help me pinpoint why this Insulated Pipe made of Ceramic keeps taking overheat damage? The reason here is that you are using two waters (maybe it is bug if that should be allowed). For test pumping in 10kg clean and 1kg polluted water at 16.9C: First cooling is done with mixed 400kg water (303 clean and 97 polluted). Then when done, result is 72.9C but only polluted water goes out and clean water is mixed with new cold water to make 400kg and reused again. It makes 56.3C so it is now too much... After second use of refinery pipe is broken as basically that 300+ kg clean water was used two times for cooling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unfawkable Posted September 4, 2019 Author Share Posted September 4, 2019 I think you are literally the only person who figured this out I'll just put in a filter, and I should be good to go. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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