How do I get rid of water?

[2AHumanRight]

I am trying to make aluminum and am having an issue getting rid of the excess water during the process. How do I get rid of it?

[whyteboi]

only thing i can think of is crafting it into packaged water and dumping it but those containers kinda wastes plastics if you care about that

[Dark Phoenix]

Pipe it into a tank and do routine flushes.

[Kortak]

cant you pump it back around...?
to the mix with bauxite

[Suzaku]

Bottle it up and sink it, or loop it back around to step 1 where you're making alumina solution.

You'll need to make sure the other water extractors don't fill up the pipes from their own infinite source, so use a pipeline pump to create a 1-way valve so the by-product water gets used up.

In my setup, I have 6 refineries making alumina solution. 4 get water from extractors, and 2 get water from the by-product.

[War Wizard Grymzst]

lmao

you use the water and pipe it into other things that will use it. like coal generators.
or other recipes that need water for crafting.

[whyteboi]

Originally posted by GreenBeret63Echo:

like coal generators

bad idea

[Shane]

i assume your issue is that you are producing the aluimum a fair distance from your HQ and at the node location some distance away and the line keeps jamming up stopping production

the simple fix is to flush the pipes !!

however with a long distance that proves somewhat a pain in the rear due to the amount of times this needs flushing, building several large buffers extends the amount of time you get before a flush is required but doesnt resolve the issue

so, you can try and make it using another set of base materials, that perhaps generates a solid waste, which you send directly into a awesome sink. or you can just transport via fluid trains the raw material to your base meaning you dont have to walk any place to flush the system.

[2AHumanRight]

Originally posted by Shane:

i assume your issue is that you are producing the aluimum a fair distance from your HQ and at the node location some distance away and the line keeps jamming up stopping production

the simple fix is to flush the pipes !!

however with a long distance that proves somewhat a pain in the rear due to the amount of times this needs flushing, building several large buffers extends the amount of time you get before a flush is required but doesnt resolve the issue

so, you can try and make it using another set of base materials, that perhaps generates a solid waste, which you send directly into a awesome sink. or you can just transport via fluid trains the raw material to your base meaning you dont have to walk any place to flush the system.

I knew it was going to eventually become an issue and was asking how to get rid of it so I don't have to go flush it. I like all of my systems to be 100% autonomous so I can leave the game running and come back later to a bunch of materials made.

I fixed it by cycling the water back through the system and put a pump near the end to prevent a backflow from the original water source.

[Snip]

Just pipe back for bauxite processing

[DrNewcenstein]

If you hold off until you get to Nuclear, you can use it to make Sulfuric Acid.

But yeah, loop it back to the start of the process. I had mine set up at one time so that a water extractor fills an industrial fluid buffer once, and that water ran the entire operation in a continuous loop, but eventually it peters out and you have to refill the tank.

[whyteboi]

i guess just build a massive array of industrial fluid buffers for now

[CHALLENGE!]

Boil it

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by Snip:

Just pipe back for bauxite processing

This exactly.

When I worked through my Bauxite processing plant, I set up 3 water extractors at 100m3 each to supply the 300m3 for the bauxite refineries.
Then I saw the water being produced as a byproduct later on at 60m3, so I piped that back round, removed one water extractor and returned them to 120m3 for 240 + 60.
Perfectly balanced.

My only problem is, the bauxite production only gives you half the Silica you need and I'm struggling to find a decent route to the quartz mine from my oil field to supply the rest ><

[BeowulfSP]

reuse it incoal gens or something else that needs water, i saw their are alternative blueprints that also needs water

[Evilsod]

Coal generators are the last thing you should use it for because the demand fluctuates.
Either you under supply it and risk the generator losing power, blacking out your factory, or it never uses enough and the water will build up and clog the system.