dwarftopia Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 So today I started a new game and it was all going wonderfully until I found out that there was no nearby slime zone for some reason (I was surrounded by chlorine zones) and so no fast and effective way to get water. At one point I had dug out a big chunk beneath my base that was full of unremoved carbon dioxide and I decided to plan out a huge system to remove it, just cuz. This is the partially built blueprint of it: And this is the built version (I swapped the manual generator with a coal burner because of efficiency reasons): As you can see, I have a series of air scrubbers powered by a coal generator that are drawing water from that little pool left in the upper right corner. They then drop the contaminated water into an enclosed area that I had used previously for my food containers. The contaminated water gets sucked up by a pump (a bit unefficiently because I built it too far away from the liquid vent) that brings it to the water purifier in the upper right corner that purifies it and inputs it again in the pool below. The system is overly complicated, a waste of resources and time (it took my 8 dupes 2 full cycles to build all of that) and is generally unefficient because the dupes were still fetching water for other uses from that pool and the amount of filtered water I was getting didn't compensate for the water sucked up by the scrubbers (I even had to turn off the right-most scrubber because it was overheating), but I'm actually somewhat proud of it and I would like some feedback on it. Doesn't matter if it's criticism, mocking or praising, I just want to hear somebody else's opinions Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasuha Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 When building a buffer pool (like what you did with that vent/pump) you can set it up this way: That will send any input (from left) directly to the output when possible, blocking the pump. When the output is blocked, the excess will go to the vent. And when there's not enough input, the pump will engage and draw from the buffer. In effect it saves energy as the pump will be only used for what the system was unable to process in time. The same can be done on the clean water side, it's not necessary to pump it if you can get it straight from the purifier. However both scrubbers and purifier conserve amount of water so it should be possible to run them on closed cycle without pumps after you put at least some water in the pipe. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-907869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duvinn Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 I've found that using only 1 air scrubber works very well even if you have a lot of CO2. The gas goes down and to the right so just place one in that corner where it all goes and it will pump it all out. Having just one would also save on materials. Good luck! Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-908004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifegrow Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 58 minutes ago, Duvinn said: I've found that using only 1 air scrubber works very well even if you have a lot of CO2. The gas goes down and to the right so just place one in that corner where it all goes and it will pump it all out. Having just one would also save on materials. Good luck! This. I use one scrubber in the bottom right to clean an entire base with 20 dupes no problem. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-908036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kermack Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 make a room with your generator and batteries and close the walls off with granite and let them get really hot, then route the scrubbers outtakes lines into that room and let the dirty water sprinkle the hot machinery, instant steam Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-908147 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarftopia Posted April 15, 2017 Author Share Posted April 15, 2017 tbh I didn't expect this many serious comments, I made this system because I was bored and I made it unnecessarily complicated and overly unefficient on purpose. It was just to test my planning skills, but I appreciate all the good feedback Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-908418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcurad90 Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 What‘s the meaning of removing CO2 Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-908477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threehorns Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 @dwarftopia Learning never ends. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-908571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faceless Gamer Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 When I built mine, It specified using liquid pipes, but I keep getting "wrong element Damage". What's going on? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-908903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifegrow Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 1 hour ago, Faceless Gamer said: When I built mine, It specified using liquid pipes, but I keep getting "wrong element Damage". What's going on? Are you sure you're not pumping dirty water into the scrubbers input (green arrow)? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-908932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faceless Gamer Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 12 hours ago, Lifegrow said: Are you sure you're not pumping dirty water into the scrubbers input (green arrow)? Somehow the water turns into polluted water halfway up the pipe. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-909100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifegrow Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Deconstruct the section with polluted water in, or post a screenshot? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/77705-the-most-unnecessarily-complicated-and-unefficient-co2-removal-system/#findComment-909193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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