Tips : Liquid reservoir in vacuum

[SamLogan]

Hello,

I found a tips (glitch?) about the liquid reservoir that's partially insulated by default. If you place it in a vacuum, it will be 100% insulated !

My idea is to storage hot petroleum (400°C) and deliver it without need to cool it given the rocket overheat at 2000°C, it can accept it.

First step, I boil a large quantity of crude oil to petroleum

Second step, I use a tungsten pump to fill a lot of liquid reservoir, as well I don't care it will burn over after a period.

Third step, I place the reservoir in a vacuum room as well they don't get burned and they can deliver my rocket when it's needed.

 

Here's my experience :

Petroleum quantity/temperature on each reservoir :

Reservoir placed in a O2 room (~ 30°C)

Reservoir placed in a vacuum room :

The temperature of the reservoir is totally constant.

 

[PhailRaptor]

So basically the Reservoir structures don't have an overheat temperature (yet?).

[Grimgaw]

11 minutes ago, PhailRaptor said:

So basically the Reservoir structures don't have an overheat temperature (yet?)

Pipes don't overheat either. Reservoirs are basically length of pipe with input/output. Here's to hoping that this won't change.

[SamLogan]

1 hour ago, PhailRaptor said:

So basically the Reservoir structures don't have an overheat temperature (yet?).

Reservoir overheat at 75°C, but if you place it in a vacuum room, the liquid don't trasnfer it heat to the reservoir.

[Carnis]

This tip seems less useful, since your pump Will indeed melt.

A pump can Be made on vacuum too to avoid this.

But, the real bottom line is you are heating Crude to petrol, so you 100% want to recapture the heat on The petrol & use it as oil preheater. This Will get you around 130C petrol which is trivial to cool to 125.