Removing steam

[RIKI]

is there any way to remove steam without turbine? i need to clear an area with 40kg of steam all over the place

[Rogue]

Condense back to water using some cooling then reuse the water or vent water into space or directly vent steam into space, as it's a gas after all.

[Nerankar]

You can pump it somewhere else (dangerous because steam -> water or steam to hot for a pump)

You can cool it down and pump the water somewhere else

You can crush/delete the steam down to a few kg (mechanised locks)

[RIKI]

Originally posted by Rogue:

Condense back to water using some cooling then reuse the water or vent water into space or directly vent steam into space, as it's a gas after all.

Originally posted by Nerankar:

You can pump it somewhere else (dangerous because steam -> water or steam to hot for a pump)

You can cool it down and pump the water somewhere else

You can crush/delete the steam down to a few kg (mechanised locks)

guys i think i got the steam controlled for now, but there is another problem, phosphorus.
how can you deal with those 290++ gas? it keeps on recycling from gas to liquid and to gas again

[GMC]

Originally posted by Blurry Dude:

how can you deal with those 290++ gas?

Cooling. Everything has solid/liquid/gas states according to its temperature.

Mostly, you try to avoid letting things get too hot in the first place. E.g. if you uncover a volcano, surround it with insulated tiles to contain the heat. If you want to collect the metal from a volcano, surround it with insulated tiles, put some water inside (building a tempshift plate out of ice is the easiest way to transport water) and build a steam turbine on top (steam turbines delete 90% of the heat from the steam which passes through them).

[Shawn of the Dead]

I got some water into my oil biome and had a bugger of a time getting it out. It would heat up to steam from heat on the bottom, then condense back into water when it reached the top, which was cooler. It was constantly raining on the oil (which was actually pretty cool to watch). When I tried pumping it out, it condensed in the ducts, even though insulated, and leaked out. I had to pump it just outside of the oil biome into a holding tank, and keep repairing the ducts until the surrounding air got hot enough to keep it steam for the whole trip.

[Shawn of the Dead]

Originally posted by GMC:

Originally posted by Blurry Dude:

how can you deal with those 290++ gas?

Cooling. Everything has solid/liquid/gas states according to its temperature.

Mostly, you try to avoid letting things get too hot in the first place. E.g. if you uncover a volcano, surround it with insulated tiles to contain the heat. If you want to collect the metal from a volcano, surround it with insulated tiles, put some water inside (building a tempshift plate out of ice is the easiest way to transport water) and build a steam turbine on top (steam turbines delete 90% of the heat from the steam which passes through them).

This is what I did with my gold volcano. Works nicely. But I never thought of building a temp shift plate out of ice. Thanks for the tip!

[RIKI]

Originally posted by GMC:

Originally posted by Blurry Dude:

how can you deal with those 290++ gas?

Cooling. Everything has solid/liquid/gas states according to its temperature.

Mostly, you try to avoid letting things get too hot in the first place. E.g. if you uncover a volcano, surround it with insulated tiles to contain the heat. If you want to collect the metal from a volcano, surround it with insulated tiles, put some water inside (building a tempshift plate out of ice is the easiest way to transport water) and build a steam turbine on top (steam turbines delete 90% of the heat from the steam which passes through them).

So it's the only option. Cooling seems to be the hardest thing for me to achieve, i can't even cool my 40C water so i think i'm gonna ditch that whole area and pretend nothing happen lol i've sealed it with doors

[RIKI]

Originally posted by Shawn of the Dead:

I got some water into my oil biome and had a bugger of a time getting it out. It would heat up to steam from heat on the bottom, then condense back into water when it reached the top, which was cooler. It was constantly raining on the oil (which was actually pretty cool to watch). When I tried pumping it out, it condensed in the ducts, even though insulated, and leaked out. I had to pump it just outside of the oil biome into a holding tank, and keep repairing the ducts until the surrounding air got hot enough to keep it steam for the whole trip.

Exactly my case here, dripped salt water right to the oil magma biome. But most of the steam has been taken care of by destroying the entire neighboring cold biome lol now phosphorus problem