Steam Turbine and Aquatuner

[chickentender]

I have been trying to create a way to cool water from a steam vent for a while now and have finally finished building and powering this thing: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/787489507707940321/1E6E4C63FA8B1CF5D6865A30D8F20E7D4F43C726/

Unfortunately, the first 10 kg of water skips the aquatuner every time and goes through the other pipe out to my base. I have this exact setup in a different world and it doesn't do this too:(. Any ideas on how to fix it?

[L37]

You can probably use shutoff before aquatuner instead of turning off the aquatuner itself.
Or you can use some sort of thermal exchanger to cool the water instead of using it directly from aquatuner loop.

[Romeo Deluxe]

That setup is pretty messed up, missing some key elements. Here's an easy to understand tutorial that will give you the general idea. I don't completely agree with the design but it's a good starting place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPAp8yJ1KqM
1 - I would use resevoir's as buffers. One for the outer loop and one for the inner loop. That dual bridge doohickey he uses doesn't always work
2 - I would make use of polluted water as a coolant, it is a lot better than water
3 - throwing out the turbine exhaust water is OK for getting water from a cool vent; for a heat sink setup like you are trying you can dump the water back into the chamber.

On my cool steam vent I added an atmo sensor so when the geyser goes inactive it stops ejecting the water into the water storage tank. Otherwise you lose all the steam rather quickly.

Stuff in the middle is a mess, part of the learning I went through. The AT+Turbine heat deleter is on the left and the cold water is on the right that another polluted water takes and circulates through my base. Took about a 100 cycles to get cold. I had to add shutoff automation at 5C or that water tank was going to freeze!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1855018357

Older screenshot of the cool steam vent turbines. I did some more work there since, like adding reservoirs as buffers for the outer loop and inner loop of coolant.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1846912440

Also adding that the chamber was too big. Way too big.

[chickentender]

Originally posted by Romeo Deluxe:

That setup is pretty messed up, missing some key elements. Here's an easy to understand tutorial that will give you the general idea. I don't completely agree with the design but it's a good starting place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPAp8yJ1KqM
1 - I would use resevoir's as buffers. One for the outer loop and one for the inner loop. That dual bridge doohickey he uses doesn't always work
2 - I would make use of polluted water as a coolant, it is a lot better than water
3 - throwing out the turbine exhaust water is OK for getting water from a cool vent; for a heat sink setup like you are trying you can dump the water back into the chamber.

On my cool steam vent I added an atmo sensor so when the geyser goes inactive it stops ejecting the water into the water storage tank. Otherwise you lose all the steam rather quickly.

Stuff in the middle is a mess, part of the learning I went through. The AT+Turbine heat deleter is on the left and the cold water is on the right that another polluted water takes and circulates through my base. Took about a 100 cycles to get cold. I had to add shutoff automation at 5C or that water tank was going to freeze!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1855018357

Older screenshot of the cool steam vent turbines. I did some more work there since, like adding reservoirs as buffers for the outer loop and inner loop of coolant.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1846912440

Also adding that the chamber was too big. Way too big.

Thank you for the response this is very helpful!. Im not using polluted water though because I'm using the water for irrigation for bristle blossoms

[Romeo Deluxe]

The water in the cooling loop doesn't need replenishing. Unless you over heat it like I just did in my industrial area, so now I have to rethink things there.

If you have a Carbon Dioxide Scrubber or two, you can send that water to a polluted water tank/storage area. This is after you have secured your water supply from a geyser: cool vent or salt water geyser. Even polluted water has multiple important uses. The base certainly evolves over time.

[chickentender]

Originally posted by Romeo Deluxe:

The water in the cooling loop doesn't need replenishing. Unless you over heat it like I just did in my industrial area, so now I have to rethink things there.

If you have a Carbon Dioxide Scrubber or two, you can send that water to a polluted water tank/storage area. This is after you have secured your water supply from a geyser: cool vent or salt water geyser. Even polluted water has multiple important uses. The base certainly evolves over time.

I actually used the design in the first video.

[D#]

Fyi you can make a tiny co2 deleting loop with a co2 scrubber and water sieve. loop the pipes together and add enough water to fill the loop. It will run forever without using any more water, just need power and sand/regolith.