Oil boiler without volcanoes

[WanderingKid]

21 hours ago, Neotuck said:

Here's another debug test to see how well I could boil oil using molten glass from a glass forge.

Main problem I found is the quantity, glass forge needs 1200W power to make 25kg glass and the heat transfers quickly if submerged in too much oil 

Thanks @Neotuck.  I'd been tinkering around with glass forge lately and this explains a few of the issues I was running into.  A few newbish questions:

Is the amount of distance you're using for cooling for ease of use or by necessity?  Can you advance the heat/cooling tower a lot faster in a smaller area?

Would a 3 door retrieval system for a vacuum lock be able to keep the heat on the upper door while allowing you to cool down the glass after a period of time to retrieve a load of glass, or do you just lose way too much boiler heat?

Finally, do you know of a way to easily vacuum out a space that large?  Most waterlocks would do the trick for small to middling sized areas, but it's unusual that you'd have that much space to work with in a single waterlock.

[Neotuck]

14 minutes ago, WanderingKid said:

Is the amount of distance you're using for cooling for ease of use or by necessity?  Can you advance the heat/cooling tower a lot faster in a smaller area?

need enough space for oil to drip down and gas to flow up, if the space is too little you deal with gas pockets getting stuck and not reaching the pumps

14 minutes ago, WanderingKid said:

Would a 3 door retrieval system for a vacuum lock be able to keep the heat on the upper door while allowing you to cool down the glass after a period of time to retrieve a load of glass, or do you just lose way too much boiler heat?

I would use a combination of water lock and 3 door vacuum to seal the gas and maintain temp 

14 minutes ago, WanderingKid said:

Finally, do you know of a way to easily vacuum out a space that large?  Most waterlocks would do the trick for small to middling sized areas, but it's unusual that you'd have that much space to work with in a single waterlock.

build a water lock first, place an algae terrarium outside the lock and dig out your vacuum from the airlock, miners will run back to the terrarium when they are out of breath.  Build an exosuit dock if the room get's too big, here's a screenshot of an old boiler I made in Ranch II when I found a volcano next to an oil well, I built the exosuit dock first then the water lock.  then dug/built the rest from there.

[WanderingKid]

1 minute ago, Neotuck said:

build a water lock first, place an algae terrarium outside the lock and dig out your vacuum from the airlock, miners will run back to the terrarium when they are out of breath

Yeah, I just figured you'd end up with air pockets that you'd have to mine into for a structure that large, and break the entire point of keeping the vacuum waterlocked.  You can really only do it in the jungle biome, and there's usually huge spaces in that.  If you hit slime, you'll spoil the vacuum.  Alright, thank you.

[Neotuck]

Just now, WanderingKid said:

Yeah, I just figured you'd end up with air pockets that you'd have to mine into for a structure that large, and break the entire point of keeping the vacuum waterlocked.  You can really only do it in the jungle biome, and there's usually huge spaces in that.  If you hit slime, you'll spoil the vacuum.  Alright, thank you.

when dealing with slime mine it outside first and replace them with tiles, then deconstruct them from the inside

check this guide I made a few weeks ago and you'll see how I dealt with slime while maintaining a vacuum

 

[AnotherBoris]

On 06.07.2018 at 9:43 AM, Neotuck said:

if more effective please reply here with screenshots of your build 

1000g/s. It's a first variant. Can be improved

[SamLogan]

How do you recover the glass?

[AnotherBoris]

1 hour ago, SamLogan said:

How do you recover the glass?

Heh. 2 variants:

1) Build usual storage inside. From thermal reactive stone (obsidian). Slower cooling, but simpler extraction - just set outside storage priority higher and power on Sweeper.

2) Build separate Power Switch for Loader and Sweeper. And cooled conveyor outside. Power off both. Power on sweeper - and it take glass from boiling zone to precooler. Power on Loader and it send glass out.