what is the maximum pressure tank big insulated can hold

[realghosthunter]

I cant not get a clear answer on this question and no where in the wiki does it explain how to understand what I am aloud to place in an gas tank. Can someone please explain this to me and in stupid people talk I'm a noob.

[JeanDeaux]

I've been called stupid many a time, I can give it a go.

The Large Storage Tanks can hold quite a bit of pressure, but because these tanks are filled by gasses or liquids through pipes, you'll be limited to the supply pipe pressure which is lower and will burst before the tank does. Therefore, nobody really cares what the tank pressure limit is, it's just higher than the pipes are; which is 60Mpa (60,000 pa) in an atmosphere with no pressure.

The outside pressure is supposed to help "push back" on the internal pressure of the pipe. So if the pipe was installed in an atmosphere that had 10Mpa of pressure, then the pipes installed in that area should now be able to hold 70Mpa instead of 60Mpa.

Now don't take your pressure to the limit, you want some room for expansion that's caused by changes in temperature; using all insulated pipes and tanks can help counter this and give you more confidence to store closer to max pressure. Just remember that as the temperature of the gas/liquid rises, so does the pressure.

I recommend installing some sort of pressure relief that will allow what you're storing to escape (go to waste or collect elsewhere) if the pressure exceeds a set safety value, say 50Mpa.

The in game StationPedia will give you specs on any item in the game. There are also some handy sites like wiki that also has some (possibly outdated) information.
https://stationeers-wiki.com/Pipes#:~:text=Pipes%20will%20be%20stressed%20(make,is%20greater%20than%2048%2C636kPa.

When designing any system, design to the weakest link.

I hope this helps.

[XanWolf]

Pressure is one aspect; however, I think the main difference between the small tank and the large tank is their volume. If you have one small and one large tank connected with regulators between them to move the gas (or liquid), you would find that the resultant pressure is higher in the small tank (when the large one is empty) than the large one (when the small one is empty. The specifics numbers of volume, I don't know; but I think it is in the Stationpedia or Stationeers wiki.

[TeeBee30]

Hello,
Just adding my 2 cents here... based from what I read so far, I have the impression that you are mistaking pressure with quantity. They are not the same. Quantity is expressed in Mols, pressure in Pa (and volume in cubic meters, but it's not referred in the stationpedia afair). There is a close relation between all these (and temperature), given by the formula P= nRT/V, where P is pressure, v is volume (m³), n is quantity (mol), T is temperature and, lastly, R is the universal gas constant (8.31446261815324 m³⋅Pa⋅K⁻¹⋅mol⁻¹).
So as you can see, when the volume goes up, pressure goes down (like moving gas from a small tank to a big one) while preserving the amount of gas. This is also why, when keeping the volume and quantity constant (closed tank, for example), the pressure increases with temperature.