Condensation Chamber
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The condenser is a device focused on condensing gasses by pressurizing them and cooling them.
It includes a gas input, a liquid output, and a gas connection for the heat exchange gas. There is a setting for the target pressure that controls how much gas will be loaded from the input into the chamber. There is also a flush lever that will release all contents into the local atmosphere.
It is often paired with an Evaporation Chamber to transfer heat from one system to another.
When the condenser is turned off it no longer loads gas from the input, or pumps liquid to the output. It continues to equalize with the exchange gas. If not properly managed, this can lead to problems, both as the chamber reaches steady state, and again when the chamber is turned back on and pumps out the condensed liquid.
Example
In one example you could feed it with Pollutant at 4000 KPa and use pressurized Mars atmosphere to cool it. As the gas condenses the remaining gas absorbs the latent heat of condensation and increases in temperature. Its temperature is slowly equalized with the temperature of the gas in the exchange connection. If the gas in the exchange connection is not cooled some other way (using radiators, or by replacing some of it with fresh atmosphere) then eventually the chamber will reach equilibrium with the exchange gas and no more liquid will condense. Any gas that does condense into liquid is transferred into the connected liquid pipe.
Failure modes
Burst liquid pipe
As liquid is transferred into the attached liquid pipe there is a possibility that the pipe will become so full of liquid that the gas in that pipe is squeezed beyond the pressure limit of the pipe (6MPa) and bursts. To prevent this, include cybernetics to either turn off the Condenser (good for "closed" liquid output like rocket fuel storage) or adjust its pressure to limit future condensation (good for loops that feed an evaporator) before the pipe becomes too full.
Exchange gas low pressure
Low pressure in the exchange gas connection can limit the speed of heat transfer. 150kPa is a good starting point.