Self Powered Natural Gas Boiler (using steam turbine)

[Lifegrow]

As title - a little build i'd been tinkering with.

Save file is in the youtube description for anyone who wants to have a play  

Also, check out @AzeTheGreat's thread here, exactly the same concept it seems  

 

[AzeTheGreat]

Nice, this looks like a bit more...survival friendly implementation of the concepts.

Out of curiosity, do you  have rough numbers for how much magma you consume and natural gas your produce per second?  I have to assume your ratio would be lower than mine, since you're using the steam turbine for power rather than just cooling, but I've been surprised before.

Also, you mentioned using abysallite temp shift plates to act as a sort of block to temperature movement.  Does that actually work?  I would have thought that, since the normal gas interactions are still occurring, the temp shift plate just adds another vector for heat transfer (probably so slow it's negligible).  Seems like it'd just be a heat sink to me, which could be useful for maintaining temperature.

[Lifegrow]

12 minutes ago, AzeTheGreat said:

Nice, this looks like a bit more...survival friendly implementation of the concepts.

Out of curiosity, do you  have rough numbers for how much magma you consume and natural gas your produce per second?  I have to assume your ratio would be lower than mine, since you're using the steam turbine for power rather than just cooling, but I've been surprised before.

Also, you mentioned using abysallite temp shift plates to act as a sort of block to temperature movement.  Does that actually work?  I would have thought that, since the normal gas interactions are still occurring, the temp shift plate just adds another vector for heat transfer (probably so slow it's negligible).  Seems like it'd just be a heat sink to me, which could be useful for maintaining temperature.

Hey bud, yeah this was built with survival in mind - i'm going to try and build it on stream so I left a number of access options (i.e. spots for ladders/liquid locks whilst building) 

No rough numbers honestly - but the save files there if you want to do a full reset. I was more focused as you say on the fact it was power positive, with the added bonus of free natural gas out of the deal  It seems to be incredibly efficient in terms of magma usage, probably as i'm cycling the heat as much as possible without deleting too much. In terms of gas production - if I had to guess i'd say maybe a few hundred kilos per cycle - nowhere close to what you were aiming for. Don't forget, I want this to be a self contained unit (my volcano is miles from my base ) so having it self powered was more important than throughput.

I ditched the idea of conveyors after a few failed attempts at using them on metal volcanoes to cook liquids (running diamond filled conveyors through molten gold, then boiling liquid that way) but it might've actually helped on this build.

As regards the temp shift plates - they used to work great for liquid locks and basic gas locks - so I threw them in for a bit of added absorption, although in fairness they're right in the path of where i'd planned to run ladders - so i'd probably leave them out when I come to build it in survival.

Also, make sure to share your save - I want to see your build running 

[Denisetwin]

@Lifegrow when you get a chance, would you consider posting one screenshot of the final build?  I love your videos, but it's hard to get it paused just right to scrutinize the various components so it can be replicated.

thanks for all you do, very cool build!!

 

[Lifegrow]

1 minute ago, Denisetwin said:

@Lifegrow when you get a chance, would you consider posting one screenshot of the final build?  I love your videos, but it's hard to get it paused just right to scrutinize the various components so it can be replicated.

thanks for all you do, very cool build!!

 

Of course, for you Denise - anything  Here, have a shed load  

Spoiler

And don't forget, the incredibly convoluted gas piping : 

 

[Denisetwin]

Thank you thank you

As I just posted under the video " In my latest, I got the tungsten tiles carefully placed in magma, got the pneum doors placed on top, and was just ready to start the build when an igneous block two over broke, boiled a ton of oil to super hot NG flooded everything, turned the nearest 20 tiles of magma into igneous, broke several more igneous which flooded the entire area with oil at 250 then polluted water dripped down the staircase/ladders (later found out some ice melted and ran a long way) and created super hot steam to go under the super hot NG as if the build wasn't enough screwed. The steam keeps the NG super hot and nothing is cooling down the steam which doesn't matter anyway as the entire build area is covered with igneous and oil. Apparently the oil was naturally super compressed when the world was generated. "

I have played ONI a long time, why the heck I can't get an oil boiler built I do not know, but it's cursed.