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What maximum temperature is possible to create using some machinery or other means created by player instead, rather than "nature" (volcanos, geysers) ?

Tepidizers and aquatuners can have maximum overheat temp of 175C.

Glass forge has quite high output temperature, but is there a way to keep it that hot, other than just adding more of it?

2 hours ago, Angpaur said:

Tepidizers and aquatuners can have maximum overheat temp of 175C.

Glass forge has quite high output temperature, but is there a way to keep it that hot, other than just adding more of it?

If you drop it into a vacuum it will keep its temperature as long as the walls are made of abyssalite etc. Technically it is the hottest, I think the forge is also hot but I cannot remember. 

Tepidizer stops working after it gets to a certain temp, aquatuner will keep going

1 minute ago, martosss said:

Hm, if you build an item from certain materials they can have higher overheat temperature, I just saw diamond with 20000%(200 times) ... so ... that might help in your Summer quest.

unfortunately there is very little you can make from super materials at the moment

2 hours ago, Angpaur said:

Gass forge has quite high output temperature, but is there a way to keep it that hot, other than just adding more of it?

Use moltan glass from the forge as coolant with a refinery. You can reach high temps before it turns into rock gas

Reason I asked is that I would like to find a source of high heat, without relying on vulcanos/magma. I would like to utilize the heat to heat up some other things, so it cannot be in vacuum.

So looks like I just need to keep the glass comming and when it turns to solid I just need to remove it somehow.

@Neotuck Thanks! That is a good idea! It will make molten glass even hotter. However I just checked wiki and looks like glass in solid form has higher heat capacity then molten glass - is this info valid? If so, then probaly it is better to keep the glass in solid form, while it is still very hot.

5929 Celsius. This is the vaporization point of liquid tungsten.

It's not practical though. Requires a very elaborate build that will suffer overheat damage if you want to keep producing it over any length of time.

Just now, JonnyMonroe said:

5929 Celsius. This is the vaporization point of liquid tungsten.

It's not practical though. Requires a very elaborate build that will suffer overheat damage if you want to keep producing it over any length of time.

How do you get liquid tungsten?

10 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

How do you get liquid tungsten?

Kilns have no overheat temperature. Build one out of wolframite in a vacuum and keep it supplied and it will just keep getting hotter and hotter until it melts itself into tunsgten.

In a practical build the tungsten will solidify faster than you can pump it though. A working build would probably use a series of refineries to step up heating by element. Start with a liquid gold refinery loop, which can melt steel before it will vaporize. The molten steel can be pumped into a refinery loop, which will get hot enough before vaporization that it can melt tungsten. Pump that into a refinery loop until it vaporizes.

Like I said, it's not practical in any way.

 

Edit - never mind. The pipes required to do this would melt at 3400 celcius max.

OK, I think I know now how to utilize molten glass - it should be run through radiant pipes and heat up metal tiles, and than using mechanized airlock I would be able to control temperature of other metal tiles. Glass will be constantly pumped in a loop untill it's temperature is close to solid glass and then I will dump it somewhere.

41 minutes ago, martosss said:

Hm, if you build an item from certain materials they can have higher overheat temperature, I just saw diamond with 20000%(200 times) ... so ... that might help in your Summer quest.

Actually it's just 200C, 200 00% is a typo

3 hours ago, Angpaur said:

Tepidizers and aquatuners can have maximum overheat temp of 175C.

Be careful, overheat temp doesn't always mean you can't a higher temperature by these machine. Build a wolframite aquatuner in vacuum chamber then you can just wait it melts itself.

15 minutes ago, JonnyMonroe said:

5929 Celsius. This is the vaporization point of liquid tungsten.

It's not practical though. Requires a very elaborate build that will suffer overheat damage if you want to keep producing it over any length of time.

Send liquid tungsten to metal refinery?

 

2 minutes ago, JonnyMonroe said:

gold refinery

wait a minute, can't metal refinery be built by abyssalite?

4 minutes ago, R9MX4 said:

Send liquid tungsten to metal refinery?

Edited my response. No material you can make pipes from will survive that hot. Best you can do is hit the melting temperature of abysallite by running liquid steel through a refinery.

4 minutes ago, R9MX4 said:

Be careful, overheat temp doesn't always mean you can't a higher temperature by these machine. Build a wolframite aquatuner in vacuum chamber then you can just wait it melts itself.

Aqua tuner will break before melting

2 minutes ago, JonnyMonroe said:

No material you can make pipes from will survive that hot.

insulated abyssalite

1 minute ago, Neotuck said:

Aqua tuner will break before melting

did you send pw to aquatuner?

2 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

Does it matter? Once it reaches 125C it takes heat damage

it matters. Overheat damage doesn't mean break immediately. And send 10kg/s PW can make sure Aquatuner heat itself as fast as possible.

Just now, he77789 said:

BTW Whats the melting temperature of Insulated Abyssalite pipes?

Maybe we can heat up the tungsten gas even more with meterors hitting on steel bunker doors, with added steel gas?

Same as normal Abyssalite pipes

2 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

Does it matter? Once it reaches 125C it takes heat damage

It takes time for heat damage to break a building and pw has a much, much higher heat capacity than wolframite. It's entirely possible the aquatuner will melt before it breaks.

Still possible to just kiln melt it though.

The issue is wolframite turns I to tungsten below tunstens melting temperature so any way you melt wolframite, you will get solid tungsten. You need to use an intermediary material that can melt the tungsten before it will vaporize, which steel can do. The issue is the pipes needed to do so will melt (If you use insulated pipes you can't conduct the heat out).

1 hour ago, R9MX4 said:
1 hour ago, JonnyMonroe said:

No material you can make pipes from will survive that hot.

insulated abyssalite

Just a small note cause we all try to ignore it:

 

Insulated abyssalite can/will transfer heat !

(Most of the time we consider it a perfect insulator, because it would need a minimum heat energy difference to even start a heat transfer.

=> If you got more than >>1000°K temperature difference your insulated pipes will start heating up)

3 hours ago, Lilalaunekuh said:

Just a small note cause we all try to ignore it:

Insulated abyssalite can/will transfer heat !

(Most of the time we consider it a perfect insulator, because it would need a minimum heat energy difference to even start a heat transfer.

=> If you got more than >>1000°K temperature difference your insulated pipes will start heating up)

OK, so abyssalite pipes heat from 20° to 25° ? And then when they're "hot" they'll heat everything around them with 0° since they exchange heat so slowly? So when should we start worrying ?

16 minutes ago, martosss said:

So when should we start worrying ?

Most of the time just inside a pool of liquid, cause the area multiplier (x25) for liquids will reduce the needed temperature to exchange heat by the same factor.

 

But if we are building some system filled with liquid metals and you need let´s say 2000K to start a heat transfer and you run 3500K hot liquids inside, than you will end up with a very very hot environment over a long time.

=> It can cook everything, but if we calculate the total transfered energy for each pipe segment, we would only need a wheezewort to cool a normal sized room

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