Radiator pipe

[Exa]

Could we have a built-in way to radiate temperature from liquid or gas pipe? like a special piped block with improved thermal conductivity

something like this :

 

[Neotix]

Or just use material with better heat conductivity?

[Exa]

We already do that, but with a special pipe block we could go further with an extra multiplicator on thermal conductivity,

[vovik]

Earlier we had to do cooling making long water tubes, this was solved with tempshift plate introduced, now you want more? Do you really wanna your wheezes heated up more than they cool? Btw, you can use diamond for tempshift -highest conductivity. 

[Exa]

With this you can heat or cool the liquid in the pipe too instead of only control a room temperature. and I dont get the connection with wheezes here.

I know about diamond thanks

[vovik]

Pipes exchange temprerature with liqiud and outer world. Tempshift plates increase speed at which liquid pipes exchange temperature with world. So ending liquid exchanging heat nearly directly with world with some temperature difference. With higher temal conductivity difference btween temperatures will decrease, down to few degrees, so it will not matter that much to you..

[Exa]

you are saying than using this kind of radiator block is exactly the same as using tempshift plate behind a regular pipe? (with good material used) in this case yes this would be useless or redundant..

[AileTheAlien]

The thermo regulator and thermo aquatuner are also both objects in the game, which do what you want. That is to say, they both cool down the fluid in their vents/pipes, and heat up the place where they are located.

[Coolthulhu]

4 hours ago, vovik said:

Tempshift plates increase speed at which liquid pipes exchange temperature with world.

Not true. At least not directly.

Tempshift plates do not interact with pipes. They can only transfer heat to/from things that occupy the entire tile: gases, liquids, solids, tiles and doors. Same for pipes. And all other buildings that don't occupy whole tiles.

Basically, there are things in the "foreground" (those that occupy all tile), then there are things in the "background" (those don't need to occupy anything). Things in the background can only interact with foreground, but not with background. Foreground can interact with both.

So if you want a good radiator, you will need to run pipes through tiles (plastic is best, unless you need heat above 70C), then build plates next to those tiles.