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If you will make just Active Vent -> 1 pipe section it will bown up, but if you want to make something, there is 100 ways of doing that. And I can't describe them all.
If a vent supposed to work like that, I have no questions.
OK, I got it.
@corsica-man
Youi can use passive vent and pressure regulater for that.
The first thing to remember is gas will move the path of the least amount of resistance. High pressure areas will always move to the low pressure areas as to balance itself out. Technicly the gas is being pushed as it tries to escape into the side of least resistance as opposed to the low side pulling from the high side. Think of a compressed tank with simply a valve. You open the valve and the gas rushes out because the outside Atmoshpere is a lower pressure than inside the compressed tank, which is compressed to a much higher pressure. Nothing is ever 'sucking' as It's not technicly suction but for all intensive purposes you can call it that if you wish.
As to make a proper system, you would have your passive vent or whatever that has a valve directly behind it. Then you have your piping, preferably with some high vac pressure gauges attached as to monitor the pressure within the pipe at any given time. On the termination side of your pipe line, you would have another valve that is connected right before the input side of your high vac pump. When drawing down a vacuum, both valves need be open so the vac pump can draw down the entire pipe from the vent side. If you have equal pressure on both sides (The vent side and the Exhaust side of the pump) then the pump will have to run as to scoop gas to move it to the exhaust side. This action creates negative pressure at the pump causing all the gas to move towards the pump from the line/vent side. If you already have a lower pressure on the exhaust side, as soon as you open the valves, the higher pressure vent side will rush to the lower side pump exhaust by itself because by opening the valves you've given the high side a direct path to the low side.
Once all your gas has been moved or the pressures you target on the high or low side have been achieved you would simply close off the valves and stop the vac pump. This will in essence leave the piping in a low pressure state and it would be isolated from both the low and high pressure sides respectivly via the two closed valves.
The problem I think is how some of you are understanding of how this all works, remember a passive vent is just a vent. A active vent seems to be a vent with the pump inside and that is what is moving the gas volume. The active vents directional flow can be switched from in to out, being as such I think you are thinking of your line backwards.
As a suggestion I would recomend trying two seperate lines. One setup to move gas in one direction and the other setup to move gas in the opposite direction. Depending on which way you wanted to move things, you would activate the one line you want.
ALWAYS set the active vent to pull gas out of said vent not push it into the pipes....
(Key to remember, you want to pull from the pipes so they are always a low pressure. You do not want to push into pipes as unless there is a direct escape out on the other end. If you have no escape, you pressurize the line until it explodes. You can easily over pressurize a pipe, it's extremely hard to crush a pipe with low pressure as that would require a insanely strong vaccum pump to bring the internal pipe pressure down low enought to the point the outside atmoshpheric pressure crushes the pipe.)
Line #1 (Passive vent) - (Piping) - (Active Vent) set to move gas ---->
Line #2 (Active Vent) - (Piping) - (Passive Vent) set to move gas <----
Hope this helps, I know it's a bioot confusing. If you have any questions or need me to try and explain it a bit better, feel free to ask. I will go ingame myself to try this all out myself in a bit here as I really have no idea the limitations of the items in the game itself and how realistic they actually are.
I have no Idea why you wrote this. I said that there are ways to handle it. Active vent use simple fan, it cant accumulate pressure that can break metal.
Basically active vent suck air and grow pressure from 100 kPa to 60 mPa.
I wrote this because most people don't understand what's actually happening overall. If your pipes are exploding you are pushing gas into a closed space with no escape out the other side.
May I ask what exactly you are trying to achieve in your paticular setup you have in mind?
If you question is more or less is this realistic, more or less the answer is no. A vent by itself can't pump gas, there needs to be an actual pump. The pressure you can achieve is tied directly into the size and power of the pump. Other crucial factors include, the diameter of the pipes themselves and their wall thickness. It comes down to, how much psi the pipe is rated for vs. how much psi the pump can create in the pipes given volume.
"A simple fan" creates very little pressure and has a weak motor, you wouldn't be able to realisticly do any of this stuff that you can in game with a simple fan. That fan would also need to be housed in a very tight space with an exremely small input and output which in essence is what a pump is. A typical fan is not housed in anything and sees atmooshpere at all times both on the input and output side.
A real pump uses enveloping blades that squeeze a larger volume into a smaller volume as they rotate interenaly. The input side leading inside the pump never sees the output side becasue fo the design of the enveloping blades. This is what creates neagative perssure inside the pump. A fan, does not do this, it's input and output side see each other at all times.
I'm just saying that active vent act like a pressure pump that has no limits. So aether let us set the limit like in volume pump(or lower it to 50 mPa) or make vent that act like a normal vent with fan.
I agree buddy, the active vent can be usefull for other things such as cooling or removing heat from an area but in no way should it create any kind of meanigfull pressure, let alone infinate pressure, completely unrealistic.