avc15 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Steam in the hot tank, pwater in the cold tank. Primary coolant is pwater, secondary coolant is pwater. Every once in a while 5kg of water/ice appears in the cold tank. If I open up the tank and sweep it up, another bit of ice shows up within the next cycle or so. I don't have any pipes breaking. What gives? Clean water coming in from the right is at 96C. I checked to see if steam pressure is going down, and it's not. So it doesn't seem to be a bug with steam crossing a closed tile wall. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/112927-whats-going-on-here/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakomaru Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Flash boiling when your insulation goes above 130C or so. (Hot stuff instantly melts/boils 5kg of material at a time, as long as the hot stuff has enough heat energy to remain above the phase change temperature. Gas will exchange with poor insulation but liquid won't, except to flash boil.) Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/112927-whats-going-on-here/#findComment-1275363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supraluminal Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 4 hours ago, nakomaru said: Flash boiling when your insulation goes above 130C or so. (Hot stuff instantly melts/boils 5kg of material at a time, as long as the hot stuff has enough heat energy to remain above the phase change temperature. Gas will exchange with poor insulation but liquid won't, except to flash boil.) If it's the polluted water flash boiling shouldn't it also be dropping bits of dirt? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/112927-whats-going-on-here/#findComment-1275443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
avc15 Posted October 24, 2019 Author Share Posted October 24, 2019 4 hours ago, nakomaru said: Flash boiling when your insulation goes above 130C or so. (Hot stuff instantly melts/boils 5kg of material at a time, as long as the hot stuff has enough heat energy to remain above the phase change temperature. Gas will exchange with poor insulation but liquid won't, except to flash boil.) That's it, it seems. The amount of pwater in my cold tank is going down over time. I guess it needs 2 layers of insulated tile for what I'm trying to do. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/112927-whats-going-on-here/#findComment-1275452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakomaru Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 23 minutes ago, avc15 said: I guess it needs 2 layers of insulated tile for what I'm trying to do. You could have one layer of petroleum in the steam room, or any ordinary tile in the steam room instead. Liquid-tile and tile-tile will be perfectly insulated even with sandstone insulation up to ~425ΔT, and others are better. Just gas is a problem. 45 minutes ago, Supraluminal said: If it's the polluted water flash boiling shouldn't it also be dropping bits of dirt? Good question. No. Flash boiling does not produce byproducts. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/112927-whats-going-on-here/#findComment-1275459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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