What the best material for pipes to transfer heat?

[Ygdrad]

I'm looking to cool some gas/liquids to do some science with things and a single pump running it through a cold biome seems like a power-efficient way to at least get the cooling started. I'm wondering what materials will cool things best.

[Nellvan]

This won't work, temperature exchange is still not fully implemented. Atm it basically only goes one way. You can use pipes to cool / heat their surroundings, but the pipe's content will only change temperature a tiny bit, if at all.

Irrc Wolframite ist he best material for this though.

[vindicar]

Granite seems to work best for me. Click on various minerals and go to "Details" page to see thermal conductivity - the greater it is, the better the material transfers heat.

[vindicar]

Originally posted by MegaMappy:

The other one is to discharge the gas/liquid you want to cool down in a room you have created in the cold biome. Leave it there for a while (a long while) and then pump it back out. That las one is a two pump system though. If you do manage to do it with one pump, running a long pipe, do share your results :)

Well, I've got this contraption to cool geyser water.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=918445081
All pipes are granite, inner insulation tiles are abyssalite. As you can see, I went overboard with wheezeworts, they shut down and deplant themselves from excess cold (they only survive up to -60C). In that regard Thermal Regulators are better. However, even at this rate the water is cooling nicely. I'm unsure how to deal with ice, though - thin layer of water on top seems to get overcooled and freezes over. When it happens over the thermal switches, they become disabled, unpowering the system. Maybe I should pump out all the polluted oxy...

[SerSearo]

If you use liquid pipes, you can make the pipes out of wolframite, since it's the best heat transfering metal. if using gas pipes, you may want to make a maze of gas valves and make the valves out of the wolframite instead since sadly gas pipes cant be made of wolframite

[CryptoCrash]

I learned this the hard way. I was piping 80C water through a massivly long wolframite pipe (over 400 pipe pieces) through an ice biome with lots of Wheezeworts on it. The biome averaged -20C. When the water came out the other end it was still 80C.

[CryptoCrash]

This was a failure.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=916127960

[CryptoCrash]

Originally posted by MegaMappy:

Temperature transfer takes for bloody forever inside pipes, you are going to have to run a mile long pipe. There are two ways of doing what you want. One is with the thermo regulator which obviously you want to avoid.

The other one is to discharge the gas/liquid you want to cool down in a room you have created in the cold biome. Leave it there for a while (a long while) and then pump it back out. That las one is a two pump system though. If you do manage to do it with one pump, running a long pipe, do share your results :)

Wolramite has the best conductivity if I am not mistaken, but I think you can only make gas pipes out of it, not liquid.

You could simple place the "cooling tank" above the "use" tank and a door in the bottom of the cooling tank. When the water is cold enough open the hatch and dump the water out so the other tank catches it. This does require you to keep an eye on it uses 1 less pump.

[Hexxus]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=912661088

That will help

[Hexxus]

Originally posted by MegaMappy:

Originally posted by Waffle Stomper:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=912661088

That will help

The Hydrogen cooler is known. We are trying to find a way to do it using no power/or as little power as possible.

Oh I'm sorry, but perhaps I wasn't clear with my post. I am answering the question for the original author of this thread: Ygdrad. Considering he wanted to cool things down via running it through a cold biome, I'm going to say that he may not have known about the hydrogen cooler. I see that someone posted a picture of it, but no one did the courtesy of explaining how to actually build one. Which is why I made the post.

Now, the hydrogen cooler may be know to... everyone else who posted, but honestly, you were not my target audience. So thank you. Your comment has been noted and disregarded. Cheers!

[Hexxus]

No worries good sir. I'd be a liar if I were to say that I had never done the same.