Guide/Refinery Cooling

This guide demonstrates options to deal with the massive heat produced by refining metals.

Water Wheezewort Loop (QoL 1)

Advantages	Disadvantages
Selfcontained / Set and Forget No high temperature materials needed	Slow production Needs several Wheezeworts

This particular design doesn't have much throughput but once set up, doesn't require any further attention or tweaking. If other designs prove too challenging this is a working, foolproof alternative for early game. This design will refine a batch of Steel about every 3 cycles (a little more in the beginning). Recipes with less heat production have shorter intervals.

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  Overview

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  Plumbing View

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  Automation View

Construction

• Cooling Chamber
  • Construct the chamber using Insulated Tiles but leave an entrance open
  • Construct the Thermo Sensor and Automation Wire for the doors
  • Set the Thermo Sensor something like "Below 900°C" so the doors will stay open
  • Construct the Mechanized Airlocks
  • Construct the Gas Vent or High Pressure Gas Vent
  • Construct the Gas Pump with attached piping and Thermo Sensor so it can be remotely activated to remove foreign gasses. It's recommended to filter the output somewhere outside the chamber and pipe the Hydrogen back in.
  • Build the Radiant Liquid Pipes inside the chamber
  • Set the Thermo Sensor something like "Above 900°C" so the doors will close.
  • Build and fill the Flower Pots
  • Power the Gas Pump
  • Close the room
  • Start the pump to clear foreign gasses and start pumping in Hydrogen. Once you've reached a pressure of 2 kg/tile of Hydrogen (or if using normal vents whatever is their max) shut it down.
• Outside
  • Build the Refinery.
  • Build the temperature filter either with a Liquid Pipe Thermo Sensor plus Liquid Shutoff or with a Liquid Filter.
  • Build the rest of the piping using Insulated Liquid Pipes
  • Power the outside machines.
  • Add a little over 400 kg of Water into the loop.
• Configure the Liquid Pipe Thermo Sensor to "Below 38 °C". This ensures that even the hottest refinery recipe (Steel) won't raise the temperature of the water above 95 °C (which would disable the Wheezeworts).
• Configure the Thermo Sensor on the far left to "Below 0°C". This ensures that the water being cooled will never freeze and break the pipes.

Operation

• When the refinery has finished it's recipe it will discharge the heated water on the right
• The heated water will enter the hydrogen chamber from above, snake through it and cool down
• If upon exiting the water temperature is below 38 °C then it will be passed back into the refinery
• Otherwise it will take another trip through the hydrogen chamber.
• Should you not use the refinery in a while the Wheezeworts will deactivate when the Hydrogen has reached 0 °C