why am i keep losing my precious chlorine?

[cherrypiee]

there is only slimes in the boxes, no one can get in/out without using the liquid-airlock. doors are locked and the gas pump pumps out the oxygen that slimes emit. + there are bleach stones that emit chlorine but i have lost tons of chlorine. idk why. the chlorine amount was like in the room above.

[Steve8]

It's probably being deleted by the offgassing. Pressurize the room to >=1.8kg / tile. Then the slime (and the bleach stone) will stop gassing off.

That is until a dupe exhales and a CO2 pocket flies by the storage bin. To be safe from that you can use atmo suits. Or drop the slime with a conveyor loader from another room.

You don't really need an extra room for slime storage by the way. It can easily combined with room containing the liquid tanks.

[Gurgel]

9 minutes ago, Steve8 said:

It's probably being deleted by the offgassing.

Yes. I have lost a whole chlorine room with 1.5kg pressure, just because one piece of meat was rotting in it. And that piece of meat teleported in after a critter died outside, on the roof of that room. I would recommend to put at least 2kg pressure in there to be sure.

12 minutes ago, Steve8 said:

That is until a dupe exhales and a CO2 pocket flies by the storage bin. To be safe from that you can use atmo suits.

I think dupes should not exhale CO2 where they cannot breath, but I am not sure whether this works reliably. With oxygen masks, they definitely drop CO2 packets. With exo-suits they do not. 

[cherrypiee]

On 7/13/2021 at 7:14 PM, Steve8 said:

It's probably being deleted by the offgassing. Pressurize the room to >=1.8kg / tile. Then the slime (and the bleach stone) will stop gassing off.

That is until a dupe exhales and a CO2 pocket flies by the storage bin. To be safe from that you can use atmo suits. Or drop the slime with a conveyor loader from another room.

You don't really need an extra room for slime storage by the way. It can easily combined with room containing the liquid tanks.

idk what offgassing means tho. like, it just gets deleted cuz slimes produce polluted oxygen? and now i have a new room thats full of chlorine and its so heavy that the slimes can not produce anything. should i still take precautions?

[Steve8]

Offgassing = certain solids producing gasses. Like slime produces polluted oxygen. And bleach stone produces chlorine. This stops at a gas pressure greater than 1.8 kg per tile. So you can't just put in a little chlorine. You have to make sure the room is full of it. Putting in the chlorine with a gas vent or a canister emptier is the most reliable way to get a high gas pressure

[Gurgel]

3 hours ago, cherrypiee said:

like, it just gets deleted cuz slimes produce polluted oxygen? 

I think the mechanism is as follows: Below 1.8kg of pressure, PO2 will be produced and just needs to go somewhere. This is necessary because otherwise slime and rot-piles could only off-gas in vacuum. Or you would need to have that replaced gas go somewhere which probably would have all sorts of unpleasant side-effects and would be difficult to get right. So the easiest and safest thing is to erase the gas in the current cell and put the PO2 there. 

[icuurd12b42]

I may be wrong but I think a few versions back they made changes. I had a setup like yours, removing germs from water with tanks in a chlorine room... pretty sure chlorine is now lost killing the germs in those water tanks.

[Gurgel]

3 hours ago, icuurd12b42 said:

I may be wrong but I think a few versions back they made changes. I had a setup like yours, removing germs from water with tanks in a chlorine room... pretty sure chlorine is now lost killing the germs in those water tanks.

Not in the DLC at least. Just disinfected 5t of max infected water in 24g/tile of Chlorine. No Chlorine lost.

[Orzelek]

I've been using this contraption in at least two different bases in dlc:
It has 250g chlorine per tile and that stays constant over 10's of cycles at least.
(It's a bit overdone since it's manually operated at first and then there is a spot for germ sensor to make it fully automated. And also the fact that germs don't die inside pipes which only way I found for is to simply loop the water.)