Separating Water

[starfish prime]

So, I see there are new water filters, but the filtration units don't seem to work with liquid pipes attached to them. I'm looking for a simple way to remove the water from other liquids and haven't come up with anything easy. Most of it involved either using different ice crushers and tanks for water or multiple evaporator/condensers. I'm guessing the water filters only work with steam? Whats your solution?

[mepatuhoo]

From my tests so far looks like we will need to wait a few weeks for the devs to push a few more patches until we really figure this update out. normally it's one big update that adds a bunch of new stuff then two small updates to smooth things out. Right now Everything is acting strange. I have bases blowing up and strange state changes and the filtering of water is strange but looks to filter water both in liquid and gas states. I have tried using the new valves to get liquid water out of the system yet I will need to rework a lot of systems as a lot of things have changed including the H2 combuster.

[ulzgoroth]

What happens if you feed water with traces of other liquids into a water bottle??

[starfish prime]

Hmm I'll have to have another think about what to do for my base. It's good that it filters liquid water, but maybe they should allow for water pipes to be attached to filtration units without throwing errors?

[Mahzel]

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

What happens if you feed water with traces of other liquids into a water bottle??

It doesn't fill the bottle if there is any other liquid. It does fill it if there are gases in the liquid pipe (though the temp/pressure drop from filling the bottle might condense the gases to liquid and stop the filling process again)

[ulzgoroth]

Thanks!


Would quasi-distillation by heating the pipe above the vaporization point of the impurities work? I'd expect that everything else has a lower boiling point than water so they would vaporize and you could draw them off with a purge valve.

[DrLamp]

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

Thanks!


Would quasi-distillation by heating the pipe above the vaporization point of the impurities work? I'd expect that everything else has a lower boiling point than water so they would vaporize and you could draw them off with a purge valve.

I've been experimenting with doing something like this in reverse. I'll compress mixed gasses until pollutants condense to liquid then pull the liquid out and send it out of my base via a drain. This way I can filter pollutants without needing a filter.

[[ToJ.cc]Apsis]

You could potentially use temperature and pressure to separate out various elements by forcing them to either condense or vaporize into gas and then using the condensation or evaporation chambers or valves to separate them out.
I've done this with pollutant so far when trying to collect atmospheric gases on Mars with active vents. My filtration units no longer keep up with the active vents and my pipes nearly exploded. Thankfully my intake system was designed to shut off when an over pressure condition was about to occur.