Early game gas filtration. How?

[Soondead]

When filtering gas, I typically try to build a waste line, then a daisy chain of one filtration unit after another separating each gas into tanks. N2, O2 and H2 at first, then H2O and X after a while, leaving me with CO2 at the end. The problem is that no matter what I do, the short pipes that go from one Filtration unit's Waste output and into the next Input sometimes burst because of pressure that builds up. I don't really understand how one Filtration unit Waste port can output more volume than the next unit's Input but that seems to be the case. (All the Filtration units have working filters and are running)

Adding sensors to these pipes, along with the logic needed to halt the Filtration units costs a LOT of resources, the pipe analyzer alone draws a whooping 100W plus a set of IO chips and wires sucks up even more materials. Not to mention the space, which means more pipes. Even more space if I try to use Canister Storage or Tanks for their built-in pressure sensors. Backpressure regulators are worthless because they can't seem to handle any volume at all. I'm running out of ideas and getting tired of losing all my precious gas to these endless blowouts... :-|

How do you people solve this? Am I doing it completely wrong?

[onebit]

You could put a volume pump at the start of the system. Then if there's a big burst of gas it'll be processed slowly.

If you're on mars try co2 first so it won't make it to the other filters.

[Maireen]

You can also have all the filters share the same input and waste line and each filter will just pull their own gas from that long pipe.

[Soondead]

Originally posted by Maireen:

You can also have all the filters share the same input and waste line and each filter will just pull their own gas from that long pipe.

For some reason I had the idea that this would be terribly inefficient but I'm not sure why... I'll give it a try. Thanks.

[Maireen]

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[Soondead]

Originally posted by rotiking(warg):

You could put a volume pump at the start of the system. Then if there's a big burst of gas it'll be processed slowly.

If you're on mars try co2 first so it won't make it to the other filters.

I feed my waste line with volume pumps so I don't lose everything each time, but collecting N2 and H2 is time consuming so I never seem to have enough and then blowouts happen and I get really frustrated :-)

[onebit]

If you do a parallel system and don't filter all the gases watch out for overpressure.

[Maireen]

Or add a tank kit to the shared input line if you're adding alot of gases to the system faster than the filtrations can handle.