Insulated Liquid Pipe

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Insulated Liquid Pipe
Insulated Liquid Pipe.png
Carries Liquid with minimal change in Temperature.
Can be run through wall and floor tile.
Pipe insulation prevents liquid contents from siginificantly changing temperature in transit.
Dimensions
1×1 tiles
Rotation
Directional
Category
-5 (Radius: 1 tile)
Storage Capacity
10 kg
Materials
400 kg

Insulated Liquid Pipe is a type of Liquid Pipe that greatly slows down the heat exchange between the liquid content and the environment. It costs 4 times mass compared to regular Liquid Pipes.

Heat Exchange

The thermal conductivity of the Insulated Liquid Pipe is reduced to 3.125% of the thermal conductivity of the building material. Furthermore, when calculating the heat exchange between the liquid content and the Insulated Liquid Pipe, it uses the lower value of thermal conductivity (which is very likely the one of the insulated pipe) instead of the average value when calculating for regular Liquid Pipes. The 400% mass also means less temperature change for the same amount of DTU exchanged, which again slows down the heat transfer between insulated pipe and the surrounding tile.

Igneous Rock.pngIgneous Rock Magma.png and Ceramic.pngCeramic Magma.png are the best materials to use. You may want to save Insulite.pngInsulite Molten Tungsten.png Sour Gas.png for the most extreme scenarios.

Usage

  • Glass Forge outputs Molten Glass.pngMolten Glass Rock Gas.png Resource Glass.png which may quickly freeze into solid Resource Glass.pngGlass Molten Glass.png and damage regular liquid pipes. Use Insulated Liquid Pipe to prevent the pipe damage.
  • When cooling a liquid with Thermo Aquatuner, the input/output liquid content may get re-heated by the surrounding hot liquid. Use Insulated Liquid Pipe to keep the liquid content in low temperature.

Tips

See Also

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