Need help automating my steam turbine

[Neotuck]

I been working on this steam turbine design ever since volcanoes were added. So far it's been working great and now I need to automate it so I don't have to micromanage the doors with switches at the bottom. 

In the picture below the doors in the blue circle need to open when the magma above them turns to rock so dupes can mine them out.

The doors in the yellow circle need to open to allow fresh magma to flow in then close once the space above the blue doors are full, then the middle yellow door needs to open again to create a vacuum seal so any extra magma near the volcano doesn't cool

 

  

[JonnyMonroe]

You really, really over designed this. Build it so the volcano is directly inside the steam heating chamber. The magma will freeze as it escapes the volcano and pile up as a collectible item rather than a diggable tile, which means you don't eat the mass (and heat) deletion of digging. Once it's cool enough to solidify the mass still has a lot of useful thermal energy so it's better not to waste it.

But if your heart is set on this design, you can use a hydro sensor above the blue doors. Set it to 'above 0' and it will be off when there is magma and turn on once it freezes. The vacuum door can be automated on a single input by running the input through some NOT gates, a filter and an XOR. Just use filters/ buffers to to make it stay open for a set duration each time it needs opening. I'm on my phone right now but I'll post examples when I'm at my PC in the morning.

[Luminite2]

Haven't tested, but it looks like a tungsten hydro sensor would let you detect when it solidifies and when the yellow doors have refilled the space completely

[Kabrute]

for me, I would integrate counter current exchange by expanding your lava pool to the width of your chamber, moving your steamers all to the right, block the center, doors on the left, let the lava dribble out of the end on the left.  Lay up insul-abys tiles across the bottom of your lava flow except where it dumps onto a block sitting on the surface of the pool your drawing the liquid from for making your steam, or into a pool of oil.  Allowing the lava to flow at a constant will cause it to dribble into the oil and drop as pickable items.  A sweep arm in the tank can move the super hot igenous rocks around through your oil petrol cooker to finish making nat gas

[Neotuck]

6 hours ago, JonnyMonroe said:

Build it so the volcano is directly inside the steam heating chamber.

reason I didn't do this is steam temperature exiting a turbine was set to 175C, and I didn't want to waste heat.  But this might have changed

6 hours ago, Kabrute said:

A sweep arm in the tank can move the super hot igenous rocks

last time I tried to move super hot solids with a sweeper arm it broke from overheating, has that changed?

[Kabrute]

probably not but I figured burying it in the liquid would help :/

[Neotuck]

5 minutes ago, Kabrute said:

probably not but I figured burying it in the liquid would help :/

sweeper arms don't work when flooded

[Saturnus]

50 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

sweeper arms don't work when flooded

But they do still work through solid tiles, just not mesh and air tiles.

[JonnyMonroe]

6 hours ago, Neotuck said:

sweeper arms don't work when flooded

The aquatuner is keeping that chamber around 0 celcius. The net thermal capacity int here is high enough that the volcano doesn't raise it much. It helps that the iron leaves the chamber as a solid item still over 1000celsius, which it first cools in the oil bath above before going off to be used (I'm working on rebuilding all of this to be smoother and have a 2nd cooling phase to get the output petrol and iron down to room temp)

 

edit - the thermal damage on the arm occurred about 20 cycles ago before I got the hydrogen up to high enough density to soak the output heat. it no longer takes damage.