my chlorine room setup

[Fortune Calls]

These are screen shots of my chlorine room for treating germy water or polluted water.

Three liquid reservoirs sit in a chlorine room with air pressure around 1000 grams per tile. There are two unpowered mechanized doors controlled by clock sensors. When a door is open below the liquid reservoir then its accumulated liquid cannot flow out. Each reservoir holds liquid for half a cycle, and allow liquid to travel to the next reservoir during the other half cycle.

The gas pump is used to pump out room air during setup; its clock sensor is used as an on/off switch. Chlorine gas is then pumped into the room via the gas vent at the lower left corner.

Clock sensor 1 activation time : 0%, active duration: 51%

Clock sensor 2 activation time : 50%, active duration: 51%

The delay of this system is sufficient for my washroom. To reduce timer delay you could set up a second series of liquid reservoirs with the opposite holding interval.

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[Duke]

well thought with the airlocks till germ sensor(plastic) comes.

[Elidrin]

I like the use of doors. Personally I just use shutoffs between the tanks.

[CloudSeeker]

You can make this set up much less energy intensive. Here is a video. The only cost in energy here is the energy for the shutoff valve.

https://youtu.be/tBGeCauVpkY

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

The only cost in energy here is the energy for the shutoff valve.

Shutoff doesn't consume any energy.
So only problem is that building a germ sensor needs plastic.

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

The only cost in energy here is the energy for the shutoff valve.

Shutoff doesn't consume any energy.
So only problem is that building a germ sensor needs plastic.

So? Plastic is a must to get anyway. You can just let the water be in a big hole until then.

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

So? Plastic is a must to get anyway. You can just let the water be in a big hole until then.

What if you need to clear germs before you can get plastic? Frankly speaking I don't know why would you want to do this anyway, unless all your water sources are contaminated. But still seems a lot of people want to clear germs early game and plastic is not an early game material.

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

So? Plastic is a must to get anyway. You can just let the water be in a big hole until then.

What if you need to clear germs before you can get plastic? Frankly speaking I don't know why would you want to do this anyway, unless all your water sources are contaminated. But still seems a lot of people want to clear germs early game and plastic is not an early game material.

1. You put it into a big hole until you can remove it.
2. When a dupe poop they produce food poisoning germs. So you will always have polluted water that is contaminated with germs.
3. When you put food poisoning into polluted water they increase, which means you can get huge amount of them. So having this spreading to any food source or water supply is bad. You do want to keep reusing the water that you use.
4. Plastic is a mid game material. It isn't that hard to get. It is way easier to plastic then it is to get energy to drive a pump when you do not need to.

[Angpaur]

1. Food poisoning is not a threat at all in the first place
2. All you need to do is to have a germ free water source which is trivial.
3. Germy water is good for most of possible uses - grilling food kills germs, dupes can wash/shower in germy water and germs are still removed from them. Why would you even bother worring about food poisoning?
4. Only things where you shouldn't use germy water are water cooler, soda fountain, espresso machine, juicer and microbe musher(if you don't grill the food). The last one you shouldn't be even using at all, except a real emergency.

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

1. Food poisoning is not a threat at all in the first place
2. All you need to do is to have a germ free water source which is trivial.
3. Germy water is good for most of possible uses - grilling food kills germs, dupes can wash/shower in germy water and germs are still removed from them. Why would you even bother worring about food poisoning?
4. Only things where you shouldn't use germy water are water cooler, soda fountain, espresso machine and microbe musher(if you don't grill the food). The last one you shouldn't be even using at all, except a real emergency.

Germy water can spread if you start using it as it can get airborn. It also doesn't matter if you grill food if it becomes contaminated after it has been grilled. It is better to just have it removed from the start so no matter what you do something can't happen.
Also yes, It doesn't kill your dupes but that isn't the point. Your dupes gets worse when they are sick and you do not want that. You want them to work at 100%. If you do not see the value in removing germs, why are you even here?

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Germy water can spread if you start using it as it can get airborn. It also doesn't matter if you grill food if it becomes contaminated after it has been grilled. It is better to just have it removed from the start so no matter what you do something can't happen.

If you have such problrems in your base then obviously you are doing something very wrong.
And food poisonng doesn't spread in air when airborn. Only way to contaminate with food poisoning is with direct contact when dupes pick up something. So if your dupe has germs on them then germs can spread. All you need to do to avoid dupes having germs on them and for that you use sinks or showers.
I have zero problems with food poisoning in my base and I'm not decontaminating water in any way.

[Crusader]

Really nice, there are a few ways and this is one. I also came across a YouTube from Skye Storme How to kill germs in water. Updated / New Aug. 2, 2019.

[Xilo The Odd]

my simple solution to a room for germy water to get clean is as follows:

2-4 tanks for storing water and P water, build the room with the doors either on top or on the cieling with ladder access.

room should contain 1 or 2 water sieves, a central feed for P water, a carbon eliminator that feeds P water into the main line, and a basic air pump system that will keep other gasses besides chlorine and carbon dioxide off the bottom 2 tile layers, and oxygen on the top 3 layers at an equal pressure to the surroundings. locking the doors if chlorine is detected near the door to prevent leaks.

bam, send all your germy P water through this. no plastic required until later when you want absolutely clean water for all uses. once your to that point you've used up all the clean water hopefully you've gotten some plastic by then.