Please help me with the aquatuner steam vent setup

[ewpayne]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899635413

I'm missing a step to get the temperature up. It wont raise any higher then 200f. I need it to get to 257f.

[ewpayne]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899668803

IDK what I'm doing wrong.

[Hedning]

What is that vent in the corner? If you are adding water that can drastically cool the place down and overpower the aquatuner.

Also that door and joint plate will leak a lot of heat. Not enough to lose all of the heat from an aquatuner running a lot, but if it's only running ever so often then all of the heat can leave the room that way.

[ewpayne]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899688200

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899688432

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899688586

I closed off the room, now it is overpressured and wont produce any new amount of steam.

[L37]

-Aquatuner has to be doing something useful, just cooling turbines it will hit coolant temperature limit pretty fast and stop working. Having two does not help for the same reason.
-You should get rid of other gasses inside the chamber to avoid issues with turbines not getting steam because of layer of oxygen and such.
-You cannot just drop turbine output back in with such setup, you have to remove water from the chamber or it will overpressure and geyer will stop working.

You also probably shoud put a valve which takes coolant out of the loop (for usage as cold water i assume) before turbines for it to have lower and more predictable temperature.
I understand what you are trying to do by taking coolant out of the loop, but somehow it feels like such system will be really tricky to properly balance and make sure it works properly, especially with how high output rates cool steam vents have and how low their overpressure limit is.

As a sidenote - you shoud minimize amount of coolant pipes inside steam chamber, they leak heat reducing efficiency.

[ewpayne]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899706070

Tried removing the bad oxygen from the room. Now these are suffering from 'COLD DAMAGE'?!?!

Everything is 200+ degrees in there!

Glitch?!?!

[L37]

Steam liquifying in pipes...

Also - granite insulated pipes... why? About the worst material choice possible.

[Hedning]

Originally posted by ewpayne:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899688200

This does nothing but waste a huge amount of power. Your aquatuners are working to cool water which is dumped into a reservoir inside the steam room, essentially cooling the steam room. Any extra water produced by the steam vent is captured by the turbines and put back into the steam room meaning no water is being removed and you'll just eventually overpressure the vent as if the room was empty.

Essentially your heat loop does nothing, and your water loop also does nothing.

If you want to heat the steam vent the steam turbines should dump their water in your main water line or water tank, and the aquatuners should not radiate any of their coolant into the steam room, and you should make sure there's enough for them to cool outside of the steam room. Just cooling the turbines is not enough. If you are using the water to make o2 it is a good idea to use the aquatuners to cool the o2.

[ewpayne]

The aquatuners are eventually dumping out their water from the room once they pass a temperature sensor under 85f. That leaves me with a room with no water and 50k worth of steam that cant seem to get hot enough. With no more liquid on the floor the aquatuners are overheating again.

[Hedning]

85f is way too cold to be sitting in a tank inside the steam room. #1 priority should be to move that tank out.

Is 50k = 50kg in the whole room? When the steam starts to thin out it's going to lose some heat absorption capabilities. You either turn off the aquatuners at this point or you put in a thin layer of oil at the bottom as well as some tempshift plates to conduct heat away better.

[ewpayne]

I put in a liquid pump and liquid filter and ensured that all the water was out with the exception of some crude oil (in order to spread the temperature evenly), and I removed them afterwards.

A few cycles and now I'm stuck back again.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1900280801

[Hedning]

Just keep running the aquatuner until all the water evaporates.

Again those joint plates and the door are going to leak a lot of heat, but the aquatuner should still easily be able to turn all of the water into hot steam as long as it is running constantly.

[ewpayne]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1900764257

Took a few diamond tiles but it finally worked. Processed so much steam finally.