How to deal with water byproduct?

[Maltsi]

Aluminium solution takes 180/m water, Aluminium scrap gives 120/m water back. How do i prioritize the byproduct water over fresh water since there is no circuit controlled pumps like in factorio?

[cboath11]

smart butt here. Google it, answer should be in the the top 3 results, as I am not going to do that right now.

[Jarlim]

Link the water from the scrap back into the line that feeds the alumina, right before the junction place a valve to limit how much water comes in from the water generators ie: alumina needs 200 water, the scrap refinery produces 100, so set the valve from the gen to limit to 100. Alternate solution, belt in some ore/limestone, use the pure/wet cement alternates and sink that solid product

[Lucky_Star_Fan]

I just route it back into the solution refineries. Put a valve on the water pump intake and you won't overfill.

[Fenix]

couple ways
For me I use values to prevent back flow and you don't water from the Extractor going into the pipe from the Solution refinery
and clocking the water extractor to 60

[Crackjack]

reuse the water for aluminia solution and lower the water extractors, its all about math
You could even build more refinery's to meet the output

[Pandorian]

I also use valves to link the output back into the input. Just make sure you're using all the aluminum scrap or it's sunk so the refineries are always running. If they ever stop then your water input has the potential to cause issues(depending on your overall design).

[DivineEvil]

You do not prioritize, you ration. Use the valve to limit the incoming fresh water to 60/m of difference. Once there's enough water to start the process, the rest should work as intended henceforth.

[Maltsi]

I did think about using valves and limiting the rate accordingly, but it will get stuck on water if your bauxite input is slowed down for whatever reason.

[Dwane Dibbley]

There are like valves and tricks to manipulate the flow, but i havnt found any 100% successful solution for looping water back to the system. So wet concrete to the sink it is.

[Maconijnr]

Valves are your friend :) return the recycled water feed to a valve set at 120 and feed that into a cross junction, feed the fresh water input into another side of the cross junction using a valve as an intake valve, send a 3rd output from the junction to feed all the machines, when the system is producing the full recycled 120 return feed, restrict the intake valve on the fresh side down to just 60 :) on the out put side you can place a third valve set to 180 if you want to but is not needed :)
your system will now take the recycled water first and only take from the fresh line what it needs :)

Edit: okay a lot of replies whilst i was typing but all saying same thing more or less lol

[NocheLuz]

you can recycle the water back to the Refinery that processes Bauxite. But beware, if the system stops working, it might not start again because of all the water that fills the Refinery.

The safe way is to use Water for something else, or just package it and sink it. The easiest way is to use it to process Lime Stone using Wet Concrete and sink it.

[walter_sobchak]

Routing water back into the system never worked well for me. I just get the Wet Concrete recipe from HD research and use that to create a bunch of concrete with the extra water (and feed that to the Awesome Sink).

[kLuns]

make a refinery dedicated to use all the byproduct water.

[Red Rum Lover]

Wet concrete paired with the new dimensional storage is working well for me so far.

[Mister Fabulous]

Valves, priority junctions, packaging, wet concrete, hogwash I say!

Unpowered pumps are king! https://imgur.com/rBeS1dc
Pictured is 4 regular alumina solution refineries which need a total of 720 water, so it depends on the recycled water as well. There are no valves in use here.

People say you have to use the large buffer. Don't, that will actually cause problems with the arrangement I have shown. The incoming rate can be anything.

If the incoming rate is too high, the buffer fills because fluid mechanics with high flow rate will ignore head lift restrictions from something like an unpowered pump. When the buffer fills the refineries do start to back up, BUT as soon as the buffer fills it halts the incoming flow. The consumers will take water faster than the refineries producing the excess water can make it. They won't stop, the refinery outputs will drain, the buffer will drain, and the incoming flow will start again.

As long as you're handling or sinking the belted materials, this can't back up.