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Air Conditioner

- If the *input* network is off from the target temperature by less than 1 degree, no action is performed on a tick.

Otherwise, the air contitioner's internal logic takes place:

- 1 - Try to take contents from its input network into an internal storage (mole-equivalent of 100 liters of gas at the input network temperature and air conditioner's processing capability (guessed to be 1atm, untested), includes both liquids and gases)
- 2 - Transfer 14kJ * OperationalTemperatureEfficiency * TemperatureDifferentialEfficiency of energy between the waste network and the internal network (if either input network before the step 1 pumping or the waste network pressures are below 1atm, scale down by the lowest pressure from that to 0 linearly)
- 3 - Transfer contents from its internal network to its output network

TemperatureDeltaCurve losses can be avoided entirely by connecting the input network and waste network together (as opposed to the typical closed-loop configuration where input and output networks are connected together).

How much is 14kJ? Vulcan night atmosphere (400 K @ 100L, 1atm) would get you 3.046 moles at 23.182 J/mol/K, or a drop of ~201 K (which would get hampered by the OperationalTemperatureEfficiency still not being that high).

Wall Cooler

Checks if pressure on both pipe and world grid atmosphere is above armstrong limit (6.3 kPa), transfers 1kJ * TemperatureDifferentialEffficiency of energy per tick from the environment to the pipe network. Although no OperationalTemperatureEfficiency curve is present, this would only be more efficient than an air conditioner on situations where this value would be <5% (or 2.5%? TODO: clear up J/tick and W distinction for power consumers). You'll probably want an air conditioner on most scenarios.

Wall Heater

Checks if world grid atmosphere is above armstrong limit and temperature is below 2500 K, adds 1kJ/tick to world grid, ignites flammable atmospheres below autoignition temperature.

Pipe Heater

Same pressure/temperature checks as wall heater, but doesn't ignite flammable pipe contents(assuming no autoignition occurs).

Road Flare

Ignites flamambles. Adds 1kJ/tick when lit. 1.2s fuse when fired from Flare Gun. 25m illumination range when falling from flare gun, 10m range otherwise.

Evaporation Chamber

Not sure how to treat it other than as a combo liquid volume regulator, purge valve and heat exchanger.

Condensation Chamber

Combo pressure regulator, condensation valve and heat exchanger.

Condensation Valve / Expansion Valve

Moves 10 liters or half the liquids volume on the input pipe network per tick, whichever is smaller. Isn't supposed to move if the output network can't fit another 0.1L of liquids (untested).

Passive Vent

Mixes pipe gas contents with world cell gas contents, or mixes all pipe contents with all world cell contents if submerged in liquid. Not sure how to make use of this considering the amount of liquids required to submerge one.

Pipe Radiators

Convection power = 100*area*deltaT. Area is multiplied by internal and external pressure ratios compared to 1atm, so effectiveness is reduced if either is below this pressure.

Radiation power is based on a curve function on the difference between the network temperature and the background temperature (world temperature on a vacuum, lerped to atmospheric temperature based on how many moles are on it up to 20kPa @ 0°C (=70.450583221073 mols on a world cell)). Area is multiplied by internal pressure ratio compared to 1atm.

Pipe Organ

Makes sound if pressure delta between pipe network and world is above 10kPa. Equalizes pipe network gases with world cell gases at a rate of 20 kPa/tick.

Liquid Volume Pump

Move setting L/tick of liquids from input to output network, then remove gases from input network until output network pressure is equalized.

A liquid volume pump set to 0 L can be used as a one-way gas valve. (This behavior is different from the one-way valve, which also moves liquids)

Pipe Volume Pump

Take the moles present in setting L of the input pipe network, move them to the output in a single tick. If setting is greater than the input pipe network volume, only the input pipe network is used but power is still consumed based on the setting parameter.

Turbopumps

Same mechanics as turbo pumps but with a fixed base power consumption and a lower consumption/L pumped.