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1 hour ago, Oni Noob said:

I was trying to create steam for my steam rocket using the Liquid Tepidizer unfortunately there is rule where the water around the device needs to be lower than 85c

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Any tips?

A steel pump should handle the steam you get from dumping water on the space layer.

1 hour ago, Oni Noob said:

there is rule where the water around the device needs to be lower than 85c

You can bypass that using automation.

(When circuit is enable Tepidizer will operate briefly so just create loop of enable and disable)

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This was done by just 1 not gate so you can improve this by using filter and buffer gate to create interval for it.

 

My easiest design is dropping ice and hot regolith into a room (compactors set to sweep only). Make the floor out of metal and insulate everything (or better build it with abyssalite around) then just load the compactors and drop ice and regolith on the ground. After a while your room will have some nice 140oC steam. Also put a gas canister emptier in for that nasty engine that likes to drop the gas each time you cahnge the amount.

42 minutes ago, Sasza22 said:

My easiest design is dropping ice and hot regolith into a room (compactors set to sweep only). Make the floor out of metal and insulate everything (or better build it with abyssalite around) then just load the compactors and drop ice and regolith on the ground. After a while your room will have some nice 140oC steam. Also put a gas canister emptier in for that nasty engine that likes to drop the gas each time you cahnge the amount.

I was going to do that but the regolith seemed to be -20C instead of hte usual 500C.  Anyway, I had a volcano so that worked.

My base has an iron volcano, so i enclosed the volcano with double isolation layers, PWater to cool down the melted iron. The resulting steam is collected to the rocket and the iron/dirt is collected via conveyor.
Is not much steam, but works nice when volcano is not dormant. Just make sure that gas pump are made of steel or a more heat resistent material.

 

50 minutes ago, ToiDiaeRaRIsuOy said:

Does the steam condense inside the steam engine of the rocket?

My rocket engine is around 200oC due to regolith accasionally falling on it so the steam is heating up inside. I`m not sure what would happen if it got to condense.

2 minutes ago, Sasza22 said:

My rocket engine is around 200oC due to regolith accasionally falling on it so the steam is heating up inside. I`m not sure what would happen if it got to condense.

Well the issue I have is that I have my rocket sitting in 30°C water, to get mass cooling down for the exhaust gasses. I'm gonna having a major problem if the steam condenses and all the fuel just leaks out.

9 minutes ago, ToiDiaeRaRIsuOy said:

Well the issue I have is that I have my rocket sitting in 30°C water, to get mass cooling down for the exhaust gasses. I'm gonna having a major problem if the steam condenses and all the fuel just leaks out.

Make a backup save and wait to see what happens. For Science!

20 hours ago, SackMaggie said:

You can bypass that using automation.

(When circuit is enable Tepidizer will operate briefly so just create loop of enable and disable)

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This was done by just 1 not gate so you can improve this by using filter and buffer gate to create interval for it.

 

Wow nice thanks for this its now working. 

17 hours ago, Sasza22 said:

Make a backup save and wait to see what happens. For Science!

Lol, ok. I will be putting up picks once I am done. I got a nice little set up, but it requires quite a lot of time to get the pipes and such up.

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