Steam Tuner (Exploitative Cool Steam Vent Tamer)

[Samson.ONI]

Exploits the tepidizer to push 110° C steam over the threshold where it may be used by a steam turbine, netting a small amount of energy in the process. This is probably one of the more heinous exploits, as you can make a free energy device that recycles its own output instead of using a steam vent; but I found it to be a useful way to to harvest water from steam vents as it saves me the hassle of injecting heat from an external source.

Mechanics
The internal battery is set to 80-100 and sends its signal through a NOT gate to the transformer's power shutoff to eject surplus power out to the main grid. The turbines are controlled by an atmo sensor that enables them once the steam pressure is greater than 1kg.

The automation for the tepidizer is pretty simple, just plug a pulse clock and a temperature sensor into an AND gate. In this example, the pulse is for 1 second every 2 seconds, and the temperature sensor sends a green signal when below 126° C.

At these temperatures the turbines can cool themselves with their own output while netting ~230kj/c and outputting at less than 98° C, ready to be piped off to electrolyzers and oil wells. When set to higher temperatures you can net up to 450kj/c even while augmenting the cooling with an aquatuner.

Materials
Constructed primarily from igneous rock, lead, and iron ore; but the tepidizer, battery and transformer are made from steel. You can save yourself some steel by placing the battery and transformer outside of the steam chamber as they are not necessary, but then you would need cool them. There are also two diamond tempshift plates behind the tepidizer, but these could just as easily be substituted with aluminum, gold or copper.

 

Automation

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Power

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Plumbing

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[BigEd]

Love it, but what the heck is a pulse clock? I don't see it in the automation layer, or the normal layer.

[Samson.ONI]

17 minutes ago, BigEd said:

Love it, but what the heck is a pulse clock? I don't see it in the automation layer, or the normal layer.

It's shown in the "Automation" spoiler, but here is diagram of just a pulse clock: https://i.imgur.com/8iHkPUk.png

A pulse clock is an adjustable piece of automation that periodically sends green signal or pulse. You can adjust the time on the top buffer gate to set the interval between each pulse, and adjust the time on the bottom buffer get to set the duration of each pulse. The NOT gate in the middle makes the top buffer gate reset itself after each pulse.

 

[psusi]

So you use the pulse exploit to make the liquid tepidizer heat the steam hot enough for the turbines.  I'm with you there.  But even 1 turbine eats more than the amount of steam the vent produces while active, and it's inactive 75% of the time, so why use 2 turbines?  And I guess you could use the 95 degree water for running an oil well but what if you just need to use it to make oxygen?

[Saturnus]

17 hours ago, psusi said:

But even 1 turbine eats more than the amount of steam the vent produces while active, and it's inactive 75% of the time, so why use 2 turbines?

One steam turbine can take in 2kg/s steam. During eruption his cool steam vent outputs 3.272kg/s. So he needs two, or the vent would quickly overpressurize itself.

[psusi]

14 minutes ago, Saturnus said:

One steam turbine can take in 2kg/s steam. During eruption his cool steam vent outputs 3.272kg/s. So he needs two, or the vent would quickly overpressurize itself.

Of course  I keep getting confused by the table over on the wiki.  I keep thinking the eruption amount it lists is the actual amount, not the average over the whole dormancy cycle.

[Samson.ONI]

On 11/11/2019 at 8:39 PM, psusi said:

And I guess you could use the 95 degree water for running an oil well but what if you just need to use it to make oxygen?

As long as your electrolyzer setup doesn't get hot enough to vaporize the water in the pipes coming in there won't be any problems. You can use insulated pipes and a valve to set the flow rate to the amount of water being destroyed per second if you're worried about it vaporizing in the pipes. You'll get hot hydrogen which can be burned on site for power, and the remaining oxygen is far more energy efficient to cool than water or oxygen and hydrogen.

Edit: If you're worried about the electrolyzers themselves overheating, you could build them out of gold amalgam and encase the setup in something with decent thermal properties such as granite so it can breath a little or run a cooling loop through it.

[psusi]

1 hour ago, Samson.ONI said:

As long as your electrolyzer setup doesn't get hot enough to vaporize the water in the pipes coming in there won't be any problems. You can use insulated pipes and a valve to set the flow rate to the amount of water being destroyed per second if you're worried about it vaporizing in the pipes. You'll get hot hydrogen which can be burned on site for power, and the remaining oxygen is far more energy efficient to cool than water or oxygen and hydrogen.

Edit: If you're worried about the electrolyzers themselves overheating, you could build them out of gold amalgam and encase the setup in something with decent thermal properties such as granite so it can breath a little or run a cooling loop through it.

I meant how do you cool down the oxygen

I just rechecked my math and I had made some mistakes that made it look like running a desalinator+electrolyzer+hydrogen generator was break even, and wondered how I was going to get the power to run an aquatuner to cool the oxygen, and what to do with the heat. It turns out that even with running the AT for cooling, there is still ~49 watts on average of extra power produced.  I'll set this up first thing tonight and can just let it heat the salt biome until I can shear my glossy drakeo twice for the plastic and run a few more batches of iron through the refinery to build a steam turbine to delete the heat from the AT.

[biopon]

I wish there were more posts like this.  It's simple, compact and useful. If someone is bothered by its arguably exploity nature - well, nobody's forcing anyone to use this, so I don't see a problem there. TBH an actually heinous exploit with regards to steam vents is to just loop around genetic ooze on conveyors to force condensation and massive cooling, and pump out your 40C water.