Desalinator TOO hot

[vitorião]

So guys, my desalinator is getting too hot and I don’t know what to do. I’m using -10 degrees salt water coming from the geyser and I’m running this water on radiant pipes around the desalinator and still gets beyond 100 degrees celsius. I also put a temperature shiftplate made of -31,5 degrees ice and it’s not helping at all. Any ideas/designs of some cool salt water refinement?
And I forgot to say, when I deactivate it, the temperature gets down really quickly too. Gets hot really fast but gets cold really fast so I had to put an automation to manually turn it on and off but I don’t want to turn it on and off by hand every second. HELP

[cswiger]

Place metal tiles under the Desalinator and run your -10 C salt water in radiant pipes through them. Place some liquid on the floor-- 50 kg/tile or so-- to help move the heat from the Desalinator to the metal tile floor.

Use a temp sensor to shut down the Desalinator before it overheats.

Note that you might want to use the salt water for cooling other things as well first, and heat it up past 30 C so that the Desalinator is heat-negative.

[vitorião]

Thanks a lot

[AlexMBrennan]

Don't make the buildings that produce a lot of heat from gold amalgam; gold amalgam has terrible thermal conductivity which will result in gold buildings exceeding 200C before the ambient temperature raises above 15C.

[vitorião]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

Don't make the buildings that produce a lot of heat from gold amalgam; gold amalgam has terrible thermal conductivity which will result in gold buildings exceeding 200C before the ambient temperature raises above 15C.

hmmm that explains a lot. I did build it out of gold amalgam, I will try copper now

[Shame]

Might want to heat up the salt water or brine above 0C if this is coming from a Cool Salty Slush Geyser so the output water doesn't freeze too. It does remove some cooling potential but it won't give you ice as a result so unless you have some giant build that needs tons of cooling, heating the liquid up a bit (with Liquid Tepidiser connected to a thermo sensor) might be a good idea.

[vitorião]

Originally posted by Shame:

Might want to heat up the salt water or brine above 0C if this is coming from a Cool Salty Slush Geyser so the output water doesn't freeze too. It does remove some cooling potential but it won't give you ice as a result so unless you have some giant build that needs tons of cooling, heating the liquid up a bit (with Liquid Tepidiser connected to a thermo sensor) might be a good idea.

I am now heating the water by the cheap way :PP (running the pipes through some hot stuff) and now it's helping a lot thanks for the tip

[Nyota Mwuaji]

i have the opposite problem, mine, or the pipes, keep freezing and breaking...

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by Nyota Mwuaji:

i have the opposite problem, mine, or the pipes, keep freezing and breaking...

Then you have to use inpipe termosensor to prevent liquids freezing in pipe and redirect it if it is too cold or heat it up a bit before you send it to desalinator.

[Nyota Mwuaji]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Originally posted by Nyota Mwuaji:

i have the opposite problem, mine, or the pipes, keep freezing and breaking...

Then you have to use inpipe termosensor to prevent liquids freezing in pipe and redirect it if it is too cold or heat it up a bit before you send it to desalinator.

its going from a salt water geyser right to it and its always right OUT of it the problem starts

[D#]

One very important thing to understand is that water in this game is not all the same. Each variety has it's own variation of SHC, TC, boiling point and in your case the ever important freezing point. You need to guarantee that whatever water you are processing has a high enough temp before it is processed so that it doesn't immediately turn to ice when the impurities are taken out.

example taken from wiki : water freezing point -.65 C salt water -7.5 C

If you do not get the salt water hotter than basically 0 C before it is processed it will turn to ice and break your pipes. This is actually a good thing as you can use this pre-processed cold water to cool a lot of different things in your base depending on your needs.

[Shame]

Originally posted by Angpaur:

Originally posted by Nyota Mwuaji:

i have the opposite problem, mine, or the pipes, keep freezing and breaking...

Then you have to use inpipe termosensor to prevent liquids freezing in pipe and redirect it if it is too cold or heat it up a bit before you send it to desalinator.

Oh right, a liquid pipe thermo sensor right before the desalinator that could turn on the Liquid Tepidizer eventually. Could create some sweet automation singals this way to allow for more cooling potential of things without having to rework the pipeline that much.

[D#]

Before you use a tepidizer i would look at warming up the water by running it past things that get hot in your base, that way you get free heating/cooling instead of spending a ton of energy.

[vitorião]

So, I did some changes. I put some metal tiles under the desalinator and the desalinator is now made of copper instead of gold. So I'm running some radiant pipes through a cool steam vent and throw the hot water on the salt water pit again. Like that the water is not too cold and don't break my pipes when the clean water come out of the desanilator. Unfornately I don't know how to post pics to show you guys how I fixed my problem :p but if it's happening with someone else I can help anytime

[kingjames488]

put it on metal tiles, then put a layer of insulated tiles under the base of metal tiles, then put the desalinator on the metal tiles, then put tempshift plates 1 tile above the metal tiles on the 2 tiles in the middle of the desalinator, then pipe the cold salt water through the metal tiles before entering the desalinator.