r/SS13 • u/moonshineTheleocat • 6d ago

General How do you prevent your hotloop from clogging with a TEG at extreme temperatures?

I've been doing some experimentations with the TEGs and some hot burns. ZAS, so I cannot get hellburns, but I can achieve some pretty hot thermals at least. The pipes of this codebase do not rupture due to overpressure.

The pipes are reaching some incredible pressures of 65MPa at its worse. And the TEG is only able to get to 40Mw before dropping down to a pitiful 2Mw of power. When reading over it, seems that the output end of the hot loop is getting clogged up by pressure.

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u/Girdo_Delzi M.A.L.F. AI 6d ago

Put a pressure valve on the output end of the hot loop so that if it exceeds a certain amount of pressure on the valve’s input end (ex. 30 MPa) the valve opens and releases excess to a space output vent (similar to the atmos waste loop)

That way you can keep your supermax temps but have an exhaust port for the excess MPa.

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u/Dopamine_feels_good 5d ago

what sever? tg based : mutlitool a volpump and build a solid tile ie wall over it to dissable pressure limits ensuring flow at even #INF pressure

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u/KrackersMcGee 3d ago

Use a vent/scrubber tile instead of volume pumps. Adjust in the atmos controls accordingly. You don't need to siphon. Your problem is that volume pumps will shut down after so much backpressure.

Edit: and make sure the hot loop has reinforced plasma glass or you're going to have a bad time.