Way to make aquatuner not overheat?

[Aura]

I have a thermo aquatuner made with gold amalgam. It's overheat temp. is 175C. But as soon as it starts working, it goes up to 600-700 degrees, and needs constant repairs to work. Is there any way to make it not overheat?

[snuggleform]

The principle here is that you have to do something with the heat "generated" (i.e. moved) by the aquatuner, not just let it sit there and overheat.

One way to do this is put aquatuner inside a closed room and pump water in it, and then put a steam turbine above this room. When the aquatuner gets hot, the heat transfers to the wtaer, the water becomes steam, the steam turbine takes the steam and erases some heat.

If you don't have the turbine that's fine, again the princple is you just have to move/distribute the heat somewhere, like again surround the aquatuner in liquid in a closed room, then run piping through the closed room that takes away the heat and then run that piping through breezewhorts for example.

[Dschinghis Pan]

Place them in a liquid and monitor the temperature of that, to make sure it doesn't overheat.

[Maltsi]

isn't this exact same post that you posted here few days ago? if it was not you then im sorry. that thread got plenty of answers how to make it work

[The Tempted Man]

Though Steam Engine is the most efficient so far way to erase heat.

[mikek]

for beginners the steamturbine setup is midgame and later.
just put the aquatuner in a large body of water(best away from your main base) and use it.

if it is not running 24/7 it will take along time to heat up

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by wsc150:

If you don't have the turbine that's fine, again the princple is you just have to move/distribute the heat somewhere, like again surround the aquatuner in liquid in a closed room, then run piping through the closed room that takes away the heat and then run that piping through breezewhorts for example.

Why spend 1200W for moving the heat and then send that heat to wheezeworts? Why not send it to wheezeworts in first place?

[fractalgem]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Originally posted by wsc150:

If you don't have the turbine that's fine, again the princple is you just have to move/distribute the heat somewhere, like again surround the aquatuner in liquid in a closed room, then run piping through the closed room that takes away the heat and then run that piping through breezewhorts for example.

Why spend 1200W for moving the heat and then send that heat to wheezeworts? Why not send it to wheezeworts in first place?

good catch.

yeah, don't aquatune and then wheezwort. If you're going to use the aquatuner for bulk cooling, either sent it into polluted water which you then feed to pinchapepper, or into steam which you then send into a steam turbine.

[Aura]

Originally posted by wsc150:

Why spend 1200W for moving the heat and then send that heat to wheezeworts? Why not send it to wheezeworts in first place?

From what I'm seeing, wheezeworts are terribly slow with cooling things down. I'm only using a few in places where I generate lots of heat to counteract it a bit.

[Angpaur]

Yes, wheezeworts provide only 12kDTU/s if placed in hydrogen. It is not much.

[snuggleform]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Originally posted by wsc150:

If you don't have the turbine that's fine, again the princple is you just have to move/distribute the heat somewhere, like again surround the aquatuner in liquid in a closed room, then run piping through the closed room that takes away the heat and then run that piping through breezewhorts for example.

Why spend 1200W for moving the heat and then send that heat to wheezeworts? Why not send it to wheezeworts in first place?

Breezewhorts don't concentrate heat, maybe the aquatuner is being used deliberately to create steam (for example to power a rocket's steam engine), but then you need something to cool it down.

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by wsc150:

Breezewhorts don't concentrate heat, maybe the aquatuner is being used deliberately to create steam (for example to power a rocket's steam engine), but then you need something to cool it down.

Why you need something to cool it down? Isn't steam going to be used in rocket? If you need more steam then you need to evaporate some new water portion. This will be the coolant in such case. There is no need for wheezeworts in such scenario.

[snuggleform]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Originally posted by wsc150:

Breezewhorts don't concentrate heat, maybe the aquatuner is being used deliberately to create steam (for example to power a rocket's steam engine), but then you need something to cool it down.

Why you need something to cool it down? Isn't steam going to be used in rocket? If you need more steam then you need to evaporate some new water portion. This will be the coolant in such case. There is no need for wheezeworts in such scenario.

Maybe you're scared the aquatuner may still overheat? You're arguing for the sake of arguing. I'm not saying breezewhorts are ideally what you should be doing in all scenarios, but the overall idea is I'm focused on answering hte OP's concern about the aquatuner overheating, not an exhaustive look at how to create the ideal cooling system. I am totally correct that to address the concern of the aquatuner overheating you have to do something with the local heat that it's generating, i.e. move it away.

Yes it could be that either you should only be using breezewhorts instead of aquatuner or aquatuner without breezewhorts, but that's calling for speculation at this point. I merely provided one example that doesn't pretend to be correct for all situations, it's just something to think about, and the OP now understands how to deal with his problem of overheating the aquatuner.

If the OP wants another point to think about, one of the simplest solutions that admittedly is short term is simply dump the aquatuner inside a cold biome. Also consider that you probably don't need an aquatuner to be running 24/7 until you reach very large scale designs, so the heat buildup around the aquatuner in a cold biome should be manageable for a long time.

[Dschinghis Pan]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Originally posted by wsc150:

Breezewhorts don't concentrate heat, maybe the aquatuner is being used deliberately to create steam (for example to power a rocket's steam engine), but then you need something to cool it down.

Why you need something to cool it down? Isn't steam going to be used in rocket? If you need more steam then you need to evaporate some new water portion. This will be the coolant in such case. There is no need for wheezeworts in such scenario.

Building a rocket takes like 3-4t of steel. I am pretty sure someone who just built their first aquatuner and doesn't know how to keep it from overheating, is not exactly close to building a rocket...

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by Dschinghis Pan:

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Why you need something to cool it down? Isn't steam going to be used in rocket? If you need more steam then you need to evaporate some new water portion. This will be the coolant in such case. There is no need for wheezeworts in such scenario.

Building a rocket takes like 3-4t of steel. I am pretty sure someone who just built their first aquatuner and doesn't know how to keep it from overheating, is not exactly close to building a rocket...

Tell that to the guy who suggested the rocket...

As for preventing aquatuner overheating - there is plenty of pwater in that pockets scattered across the map. Keep aquatuner submerged and when pwater is hot enough send it to pincha peppers or sieve it and then use in electrolyzers. It's optimal to send to electrolyzers as hot water as possible - when turning it to gases you take adventage of deleting heat by SHC reduction.