The issue with the petroleum boiler is that petroleum has higher specific heat than crude oil, so no matter how efficient the build is, there will be extra heat in the system, which translates to higher output temperature for the petroleum
Lot's of mistakes were made before it has gotten more stable. Most of the issues stem from me being to lazy to build a proper temperature management setup.
I enjoy this channel. The editing is important to keep the content moving, but I feel you might be a little too efficient. I have trouble following the plot when the camera bounces around in a string of cut takes. It would help if the camera simply panned instead. Keep up the great content. I love the theme of this play through.
Thanks for the feedback! This helps me improve :) I had the same feeling avout the pace this Episode. I hadn't recorded all important parts and had to patch some parts together. I also try to show (don't tell) so i tried to incooperate what i was talking about, but since i have like 3 different timelines in this video it was sometimes not possible to pan over because it hasn't been build yet. Hence the cuts. Next time i need to plan better while recording :D Sometimes it is just nice to play without thinking to much and then editing me is cursing at past me.
To cool down your water, you can have two aquatuners running constantly on supercoolant. The aquatuners produce enough heat to power three steam turbines and if you powerupgrade the steamturbines then this system is even selfpowering and you get unlimited and free cooling (except of course a little bit of refined metals and duplicant labour)
I know it is a very old video, but I saw the problems with the Petroleum boiler and still wanted to jump in. ^^ You can easily fix 2 problems at once if you collect & dump the Polluted Water from the Petroleum Generators into a >125°C Steam Room and use Steam Turbines to get it to 95° rather than dumping the rest-heat it into the environment. That way you even get some additional power out of it and spare yourself going through the Water Sieve at the expense of 1% of water (because of dirt from cooking the P.water) The only thing you need to make sure then is that the petroleum comes out at least >125°C from the petroleum boiler, then snake the petroleum with radiant pipes through the steam room and use the Petroleum's heat to keep the temperature of the steam room up, before finally using it in the petroleum generators. You can even go pretty hardcore with petroleum up to 200° to maximize the steam generator efficiency; that way you can cut also back on the length of the Petroleum Boiler. BUT if you do that you obviously may lose some efficiency on the heat exchange between the Crude Oil & Petroleum so more heat will be extracted from the magma. BUT I think it is still worth doing because you get double the use out of the system with even more power & cool the magma faster down (if you want to get rid of large amounts). In that case I would also recommend NOT cooling the Petroleum Generators with the incoming Petroleum; but rather using the P.Water from the Petroleum Generators to cool the generator room. That heats the P.Water even further up before dumping it into the Steam Room, making it even more efficient. You could also cool it with the incoming Crude Oil. Further improvements can be made using various heat exchangers (with counter-flowing cold & hot liquids flowing against each other in a submerged heat-transfer box). That way you can cool the Petroleum further down after snaking through the steam room and before dumping it into the generators. For example if you use a 200° steambox then the Petroleum coming out of it after snaking through will still be hot enough that it can be run against the Incoming Crude oil to increase efficiency. Alternatively you could place the petroleum generatorss themselves in a hot industrial brick above 125° so that the Water immediately vaporizes when it comes out of the petroleum generators. BUT from toying around a whooole lot with different such setups I found that such a mixed atmosphere Brick totally sucks because of the CO2 and Steam constantly are messing with each other and the way the Petroleum generators output the P.Water/CO2 it possibly even results in mass deletion which has negative effects on the net positivity of water because sometimes steam gets deleted. Both the Steam/Co2 deletion also takes energy out, which then might result in the temperature of the brick not remaining stable enough long-term over hundreds of cycles. Also the mixed atmosphere is annoying in general because CO2 might block the inputs of the Steam Turbines if the brick overpressures; And you also kinda desperately need a way to get rid of the CO2 to avoid said overpressure and unless you use toooons of slicksters it will take substantial power to pump/skim it out. I tried various means to stabilize the CO2/Steam levels but it just is a mess. So overall I recommend rather using the first approach with a separate steam box to cook the P.Water into Steam rather than trying to put the petroleum generators into a brick.
Hey bro, it's me again. I just wanted to say thank you! You have no idea how much you helped me with your videos. I've learned a lot and now I am having much more fun!
I am very happy to hear that :). Seriously thank you. At the moment i am back from the vacation and working on some more videos. Maybe I even get one produced ahead of time :D
two suggestions: 1: If you have any issues with Hele staying in the toilet area after the cycle sensor is reached, Use mechanized airlocks to drop him to his room 2: Since you are on the inverted asteroid, there should be a sulfur geyser in the magma area. Maybe use this for backup power/heat for when the magma biome is gone.
1. Very cool Idea, happend once or twice i think i reduced the chsnce but it is still there so your solution is very much appreciated. 2. I have a (in magma submerged) sulfur geyser. The heat is not very useful though since it is only 160°C, if you are reffering to the use with a steam turbine or did you think of something different? Anyways: Thanks for the ideas! :) very cool
@@Luma_plays The sulfur geyser MIGHT be able to work with a steam turbine, But you may also want to tame sweetles in the future. Edit: bonus tip: What if Steakoo gets entombed? Continuously launch a rocket with rover modules, land those rovers, then land the rocket. The resources spent on the rover will be regained by deconstructing the rover lander and deconstruction the rover when it dies. PS: I heard that Co2 engines make more exhaust than it takes to refuel them, so this rocket would work: Solo spacefarer module, Rover modules, Co2 engine.
