Stationeers for Beginners - 4. Pipes and Fluids

[@leisdodigital]

Great content. I have been playing Stationeers for the last 5 years and would like to have an tutorial clear like these at the beginning.

[@onehotday1]

Ty for doing explanations so now stationeers is more entertaining.

[@AlekkiPlays]

Happy to hear these are coming in handy! Let me know if you have any specific topics you'd like to see.

[@Rodhern]

At 17:10, doesn't the expansion valve pour the liquid from the liquid pipes into the gas pipes, making it a bit 'dangerous' to use. I think it is the (powered) purge valve that moves gas. Or it may have changed, or I may be misremembering.

[@null40404]

11:30 I got that reference :)

[@scorpio81245]

Should be put into physic textbook.

[@wowailyich615]

I have tampered with active vents and Mars atmosphere quite a bit. The fact that you can change the safety limits on vents using simple logic makes for super simple automation of breathable atmosphere generation. Respond here if you want to learn a bit more beyond the scope of this tutorial 😊

[@AlekkiPlays]

Do you use cold night-time atmosphere then compress it to liquefy P and CO2 out to have just N and O2 left?

[@wowailyich615]

@@AlekkiPlays Indeed, using 3x Vents (one for pressure, one for base input, one for base pressure relief). For Pollutant gathering I use one vent during the day. Making an exhaust with several one way valves you can raise the pressure in the pipe Networks during the day to continuously condense Pollutant at 5Mpa out of Mars atmo.

[@sashgorokhov]

Why would someone need condensed pollutant?

[@AlekkiPlays]

@@sashgorokhov Pollutant makes a great expansion/condensation medium for "livable" temperatures. The phase change heat exchangers (which I don't touch on here as they're a more advanced topic) can use it was a work fluid between about -95C and 152C.

[@wowailyich615]

@@sashgorokhov Exactly what Alekki ist saying. Pollutant makes for an excellent gas for phase change mechanics betwewn -95 - +150 degrees as it has one of the widest response ranges of the gasses out there. Water would be even better - but only at temperatures above 0° Celsius, not below. I am currently expanding my tampering with vent to actually do Mars atmosphere separation only using phase change dynamics and separating the different gasses by manipulating their temperatures and pressures. Pollutant: needs normal temperature and moderate pressure to condense CO2: needs cold (night air works perfectly) Nitrogen: needs VERY cold (-90°) to condense, but -90° is still within the phase change range of Pollutant, if you manage to somehow get the Pollutant to be less than -10° Celsius on the "hot" side of a phase change system. Voila - only Oxygen left. Clean separation for VERY little power use (50-100W for 1-2x Phase change devices, 100W for an Active Vent and optionally 100W per Purge Valve installed as safety in the system. To make it a really automatic "set it and forget it" system, I will probably need to to some IC10 coding of a few Digital Valves or alternatively use atmospheric filtering units (without filters!) as quasi pressure regulators with built in pipe analyzers (filtration units can read all gas data on both input and output ports.)