Water Decontamination Help :(

[O2Noob69420]

So I setup this heat up station to decontaminate the water (which worked) but I don't know how to setup so the pump will only pump clean water since every time new water falls in then it all becomes contaminated.

[WanderingKid]

22 minutes ago, Inchulk2013 said:

So I setup this heat up station to decontaminate the water (which worked) but I don't know how to setup so the pump will only pump clean water since every time new water falls in then it all becomes contaminated.

You'll have to separate out the types of water or use a filter.  Typically this is separated by putting airflow tiles on the other side to allow the steam to pass into a different area to cool into water from.  Your other option, which is rather inefficient but it certainly works, is using a filter that sends clean water in one direction, everything else back into the pool.

[O2Noob69420]

But you can't filter water based on germ count can you? I need germless polluted water that I can send to my other area to be turned into regular water.

[WanderingKid]

3 minutes ago, Inchulk2013 said:

But you can't filter water based on germ count can you? I need germless polluted water that I can send to my other area to be turned into regular water.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood.  I thought you were creating a water boiler.  Yes, new PH2O with food poisoning will infect other PH2O around it.  You have to get, and keep, the water at the very high temperature to get it die off.    I tried to do it in batches when I as at this phase of learning the game.  Shut off inbound water, let it heat, then clean it up.  Or you get it up to full temperature then slowly feed in fresh PH2O from your contaminated source (usually lavatories).

In the mean while, there's plenty of germless PH2O around in the swamps that you can use before you need to come back to finishing cleaning up the contaminated stuff.  Instead of trying to clean the contaminated PH2O though, you might think to simply use it in your lavatories.  Run it through a sieve, refill the lavatories, let them go through with even more germs.  You get polluted dirt that way and you don't have to care about where your germs end up as long as you keep the loop out of the mushers.

[ICKA]

The way I've always done it is to let the water flow from one side to another, with a tepidizer or aquatuner heating up the water and killing the germs. Vent goes on the very left or right side, heat source in the middle, and a pump on the opposite end. I also put a lip so the water doesn't all immediately spill out and more slowly accumulates in the pump area. This always served me well and it doesn't need automation.

[O2Noob69420]

ICKA can you send screenshots (Im bad at putting words into a real building).

[gelat]

1 hour ago, WanderingKid said:

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood.  I thought you were creating a water boiler.  Yes, new PH2O with food poisoning will infect other PH2O around it.  You have to get, and keep, the water at the very high temperature to get it die off.    I tried to do it in batches when I as at this phase of learning the game.  Shut off inbound water, let it heat, then clean it up.  Or you get it up to full temperature then slowly feed in fresh PH2O from your contaminated source (usually lavatories).

In the mean while, there's plenty of germless PH2O around in the swamps that you can use before you need to come back to finishing cleaning up the contaminated stuff.  Instead of trying to clean the contaminated PH2O though, you might think to simply use it in your lavatories.  Run it through a sieve, refill the lavatories, let them go through with even more germs.  You get polluted dirt that way and you don't have to care about where your germs end up as long as you keep the loop out of the mushers.

I tried this this morning, and my sieve to lavatory/sink loop got clogged/unprimed? Dupes started peeing everywhere. 

[O2Noob69420]

Yeah Lavatories produce more polluted water then they take in. This is good if you want to get more water but in a closed loop you have to have some sort of a overflow drop off. Thats why I want a way to decontaminate water (all my water in my base is full of germs due to a mistake). I'm hoping ICKA can get screenshots of a working system that I can copy.

[WanderingKid]

Lavatories never need to be primed, per se.  Just need to have water in the inbound pipes.  You *can* cause a clog eventually if you don't have a dump between the sewage, a septic tank, and your sieve, as ever 5kg of water in, you get 11kg of PH2O out, and only .1kg of that turns into dirt, the other 10.9kg (or so) becomes fresh water.

So, yeah, it clogs if you don't have anything else to use the PH2O for and don't make a pit for the overflow.

[chemie]

1. Dont put heat generating equipment inside your base

2. Dont sterilize water.  You can use it for anything except food making.  Toilets and sinks can run on disease water.

[PhailRaptor]

Page 2 has a nice compact water decontaminator.  Requires Plastic to make the Germ Sensor, but you could probably make it work with a Thermal Sensor and a long enough duration Buffer Gate.

The idea is to keep the contaminated water separate, and only combine it after it as been rendered germ free.  The heat ends up being a non-issue if you plumb it to a Water Sieve, due to the fixed temperature output of the Sieve (40 C, down from the running temp of the Tepidizer of ~85 C).

[O2Noob69420]

Finally a useful design I may try to incorporate. (unless ICKA can get me some screenshots so i can test his way).

[Lutzkhie]

i use polluted water on metal refineries, at some point germs would just die then pump them to a sieve, later on you can add germ sensor to automate it

[ICKA]

Here it is: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1175784081 This was a design I made before automation was a thing so there's probably better builds, but doing something like this but with just the tepidizer should work fine. If you have a lot of dupes though it probably won't work that well though.

[0xFADE]

It takes a while but a tank filled with water being tepidized will eventually kill off all the bad and get to a point where incoming liquid gets cleared fast.  Having the Pump back out on the other side of the tank helps initially before the full cleansing happens.