Help With Aquatuner Cooling Set-up

[Elmdor]

Hello, I recently started playing ONI and I'm trying to figure out some automation and cooling methods for using an aquatuner early on. Can someone look at my screenshot and tell me if this set-up will work and if not how to fix it?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1623397428

So to explain what I'm trying to do. I have my sieve water output coming in from the bottom left. I want to send it into the aquatuner to cool, but if it's not cool enough I want to loop it back into the aquatuner till it reaches at least 65F(Just a place holder temp till I need to do something specific with it later). In that loop I have a hydro sensor that will turn off the incoming water supply whenever water is looping through the aquatuner so if can get cooled a second time without being blocked/filled by hotter water.

So will this work? Or will it stop flowing entirely when the water is looping and the incoming shut off valve turns off? If it turns off is there a way to fix it?

The rest of the stuff on the right is just a temp sensor that will pump out hot water to be re-sieved. It will also turn off my aquatuner if the water gets too hot to cool it properly and let fresh cooler water re-fill the tank.

[Ruggy]

Hope you don't mind me asking: What are you going to do with the cooled water?

[Elmdor]

It's just going back into my clean water reservoir to be used for bathrooms/plants/research/food. I don't want it hot mainly for the plants and trying to keep heat down as I've read it can be a big problem.

[Ruggy]

I have a slush geyser that produces -15C polluted water. Thus I never had any problems with heat. When the water heats up I just run the polluted water through a sieve and into some electrolyzers.

But back to your original question: I find wheezleworts and radiant pipes to be the best way to cool stuff. I've used aquatuners once and they just end up overheating themselves and the area around them. Yes there are strategies to counter this but, I suggest wheezleworts are your best friends. They literally turn the heat into oblivion and give you coolness.

[mikek]

Wheezewort vs water is tricky. you need alot of them for it to cool alot of mass.

Polluted water is mostly also germy water, which will give food poisening.
so don't use it for food(liceloaf mushbar)

Hot water doesnt matter for research or bathrooms

Originally posted by Elmdor:

I don't want it hot mainly for the plants and trying to keep heat down as I've read it can be a big problem.

tip: aquatuner is 1 of the heat makers, same for thermo regulator, geysers, oil and space.
so by using it this way you only create more heat then you delete.

there are a few heat destroyers.

-water sieve. input polluted water, output clean 40c water. example put in 80c polluted water output will be 40c clean

-Carbon Skimmer. input example again 80c clean water, output polluted water at 40c(destroys also co2, but for that you need co2)

-Wheezewort(put these close to plants or next to your grill, coalgenerator, toilets, batteries)

-Anti Entropy Thermo-Nullifier

but there are more things that destroy
-Electrolyzer, the water that goes in, so always put in hot water, if you use cold water for it, it's a waste or cold.

-Hydrogen Generator, the hydrogen will be destroyed, example: loop the hydrogen to a hot geyser suck the heat into hydrogen and then to the generator.

- oil into a Oil Refinery
-Petroleum into Petroleum Generator
-Petroleum into Polymer Press

my advice would be for plants: sieve the water, now it is clean and 40c. run it ones in a aquatuner, now it is 26c, thats good enough for Bristle Blossom.

https://youtu.be/LLTdYp4dl-c

[Kiran Müller]

Your cooling loop should work. The Water for the Second pass gets priority over the Incoming Water. The only Problem i see is the Automation Setup there. You should get some Memory Cells there to prevent Continusly activating/deactivating your stuff. Two Temp Sensors and two Hydro Sensors and a Cell and you can control the cooling much better.

To the Aquatuner Heat Problem. You should make sure, that you dont run it constantly, or it will start to heat you Water really quickly. i run mine 70% of the Day split into two workshifts seperated by 15%. It just gets to 50°C that way (Submereged in 40t of Water)

[Ruggy]

Originally posted by mikek:

Wheezewort vs water is tricky. you need alot of them for it to cool alot of mass.

Polluted water is mostly also germy water, which will give food poisening.
so don't use it for food

On the contrary. There's nothing tricky about using wheezleworts. I would show you a screenshot but I already deleted the save from before. 6 wheezleworts and radiant piping turns 30C water into a chilling 15C.

Polluted water down't always have germs. The polluted water produced by the slush geyser has zero germs and would only require you to sieve it and cool it down to a manageable temperature.

Of course, this is all off topic. Just wanted to let the OP know that there are alternatives to cooling.

[mikek]

Originally posted by Elmdor:

It's just going back into my clean water reservoir to be used for bathrooms/plants/research/food. I don't want it hot mainly for the plants and trying to keep heat down as I've read it can be a big problem.

Elmdor mentioned bathroom and food, some info when you sieve polluted water from bathrooms that the germs are still in it. always check germ overlay.

[Elmdor]

Thank you all for your responses I will start testing some thing out.

[Strygald]

Originally posted by mikek:

tip: aquatuner is 1 of the heat makers, same for thermo regulator, geysers, oil and space.
so by using it this way you only create more heat then you delete.

Thermo Aquatuner and Thermo Regulator doesn't make heat, they just move it from one mass to another.

Also, people are having problems with running Aquatuners... the standard method nowadays is to pair the Aquatuners up with Steam turbines, heat issue solved.

[AlexMBrennan]

tip: aquatuner is 1 of the heat makers, same for thermo regulator, geysers, oil and space.
so by using it this way you only create more heat then you delete.

Yes. You create addition heat to precisely control the temperature of the liquid.

-water sieve. input polluted water, output clean 40c water. example put in 80c polluted water output will be 40c clean

Great plan - piping 40C water into your sleetwheet farm totally won't cook the plants.

Sure, for some purposes the temperature of the water won't matter but you can't just dismiss the question as if it never mattered.

[Angpaur]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

Great plan - piping 40C water into your sleetwheet farm totally won't cook the plants.

In my last colony I was pumping 56C water to sleetwheet farm and it was tottaly fine. The trick is to limit water flow to 33g/s for each plant so heat is consumed by plant before it can spread.