Tall sour gas boiler

[melquiades]

After 8000+ cycles I said maybe I should do a sour gas boiler, and i really liked it, even though i didn't really needed it. I feed it 10 kg/s of 135+ °C petroleum (that i get from geothermal boiler):

This on the DLC, It was way taller than that at the beginning, i though taller meant more heat transfer, but it simply wasn't working, it turns out you NEED the outgoing pillars with gasses to be 2 tiles wide so they can flow on their own (if you are not using a liquid drop to push them). Natural gas was being a real pain in the rear because it was trying to go up stream, that is why i built those airflow tiles, but it seemed that they might not be necessary after I lowered temperature all the way down to -200 C and made the cooling chamber a bit deeper. I was fully expecting to produce solid methane, but it hasn't even after almost 300 cycles

This doesn't need external heating, and it is very efficient with power. The aquatuners use on average 3926 kW cause they are not on all the time (85.8x2, 63.4x2 and 28.8x1). And the 4 turbines generate around 700 to 750+ kW all the time, (one of them peak for a few seconds to top output when the temperature goes above 200 after the doors close, so it is possible to add a fifth one to handle that spike, but i didn't have any more room, and it is not much of a problem):

 

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Quite simple piping and just regular automation (the ribbon is for heat transfer, i read somewhere it helps), the supercoolant reservoirs are a must to prevent big fluctuations on the output temperature of the aquatuners:

 

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Everything is in a vacuum. I splurged on thermium, and insulation (mostly at high gradient temperatures). And i used gaseous supercoolant as a heat transfer medium to flash the petroleum.

 

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Was it worth it though? Not at all!, i had to rebuild a lot of my power brick to fit that many nat gas power plants, and i haven't been using all the nat gas and i am currently producing so less pWater.

But it was fun building it, and having it running nonstop without issues is an amazing feeling.

Thanks a lot Klei  =D

[Jorge Junior]

Falling oil may be compressing the sourgas. check it.

[melquiades]

On 9/27/2023 at 4:18 AM, Jorge Junior said:

Falling oil may be compressing the sourgas. check it.

Nope, pressure stays roughly the same as the flow rate of the oil. When you use that method, you force the gases to go up.

Gasses do build up though, but right at the top of the tower after the liquid vent, and at the bottom where i dump the liquid methane. But the system gets into a mass equilibrium after a short while of operation (you will have to wait till everything gets up and down in the proper temperature, mostly the temp shift plates), I pump 10 Kg of petrol and take out 10 Kg in methane+sulfur:

 

[Zarquan]

On 9/27/2023 at 1:18 AM, Jorge Junior said:

Falling oil may be compressing the sourgas. check it.

On 10/4/2023 at 11:18 AM, melquiades said:

Nope, pressure stays roughly the same as the flow rate of the oil. When you use that method, you force the gases to go up.

Gasses do build up though, but right at the top of the tower after the liquid vent, and at the bottom where i dump the liquid methane. But the system gets into a mass equilibrium after a short while of operation (you will have to wait till everything gets up and down in the proper temperature, mostly the temp shift plates), I pump 10 Kg of petrol and take out 10 Kg in methane+sulfur:

This is what we call a bead pump.  IRL, falling water displaces gas, pushing it down and to the side.  This is not what it does in ONI, instead simply swapping places with the gas.  So, in ONI, it moves the gas upward.