Compact Thermo Aquatuner Liquid Cooling Module Utilizing Water Sieve Heat Deletion

[JuKCar]

This setup features a 6x6 liquid cooling system using a thermo aquatuner as the liquid cooling device, and polluted water as the coolant. In this case, I'm cooling my water reservoir. This isn't really anything new, but I thought I'd share my current setup with you guys

Here is how it looks:

 

Sensor Settings:

Liquid Pipe Thermo Sensor: Below *set temp*

Hydro Sensor: Below 900 kg

Thermo Sensor: Above (80 to 90)°C

 

Basic explanation:

*Note: the liquid shutoff outside the box isn't necessary. I'll explain why I have one down at the automation explanation.*

So this system works by first filling the room with cool Pwater, automated by the hydro sensor. Once that's done, we can start the cooling system. Offscreen, there is a thermo sensor in my water pool connected to a pump that would send water to the cooling system. Once the liquid to be cooled goes in, the pipe thermo sensor will check the temp of the liquid. If the liquid is too hot, it will direct the liquid to the aquatuner to cool in a loop moderated by the pipe thermo sensor. If the liquid is cool enough, the liquid shutoff will open, directing the cool liquid back to your reservoir. 

After a few cycles of cooling, the heat generated by the aquatuner will transfer to the Pwater that surrounds it. Once the Pwater reaches near boiling point, the aquatuner will cease operation while the Pwater is drained and replaced simultaneously by pumps. The high temp Pwater will be directed to a water sieve to delete the heat. Once the temperature of the Pwater surrounding the aquatuner is sufficient, operation will begin once more.

Note the pipes going offscreen. The top left to right pipe contains the liquid to be cooled, while the bottom left to right contains the cooled liquid. The left pipe going up and down contain the cool Pwater, while the one to its right contains the cool Pwater.

 

Automation explanation:

1. First is the pipe thermo sensor. It is directly attached to two liquid shutoff valves, the top one being responsible for the hot liquid, while the bottom one is responsible for the cooled liquid. If the sensor detects cooled liquid, it will open the bottom valve, allowing the cooled liquid to allow it to leave the system. The sensor however will also open the top valve, so hot liquid will enter the system to replace the cooled liquid that left. 
2. Next, the hydro sensor, it is responsible for detecting whether or not the system is full of Pwater coolant. Once it is active, it will allow cool Pwater to enter via the liquid vent.
3. For the thermo sensor, it will keep track of the Pwater's temperature. Once it reaches near boiling point, it will activate, sending a signal to the pump to drain the Pwater to the sieve to delete some of the heat it accumulated and turn it into water. In the picture, it's connected to a liquid shutoff, but you can just directly connect it to a liquid pump at your Pwater pool.
4. The last thing I will explain is the automation of the aquatuner itself. This part is optional. I did this for precautionary reasons. The aquatuner will only run if I have a high enough amount of Pwater in my reserves, as monitored by a hydro sensor, AND if neither the thermo sensor nor the hydrosensor shown are in an active state. This will prevents your aquatuner from overheat, especially before the room is filled with Pwater, and it also prevents your Pwater from evaporating. But if you're constantly producing excess Pwater, and you're not worried of running out then you can just remove the Pwater pool hydro sensor as well as the AND gate entirely. Here's a logic equation for it my setup:

aquatuner_state = (hydro_sensor + thermo_sensor)' x Pwaterpool_hydro_sensor

 

Possible Improvements/Modifications:

If you want to increase the efficiency of this, I can think of a few ways.

1. If you didn't read my explanation for the aquatuner automation part, I'll say it again. That part is optional. Anyway, if you want more efficiency and you're not afraid of your aquatuner overheating or your Pwater to evaporate, throw that out the window.
2. As you can see from the second picture, the looping actually creates packets of empty pipe. And if you want efficiency, you're going to want maximum pipe usage. So if you just want to cool your liquid, and you don't mind that the output isn't at a specific temperature range (at least at the beginning), get rid of the loop. Your thermo sensor back at your water pool will make sure to keep pumping hot stuff back anyway. Also, taking out the loop will free up so much space that you should be able to turn this into a 5x6 system. 
3. If your water pool is so hot that you'd need multiple trips to the aquatuner, you might want to make another aquatuner module, and hook them up together. Just be careful of cooling your liquids too much that it solidifies. 

 

And that's it! This setup was inspired by this. They're basically the same thing, except for the size, and a few modifications. Now this isn't really the quickest way of cooling liquids, but I hope this helps some people out there Particularly those who don't have the luxury of AETNs or wheezeworts.