RA2lover/Sandbox/Thermodynamics machinery notes
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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 it'd be <5% (assuming the TemperatureDifferentialEfficiency curve is the same as the Air Conditioner's. Untested.)
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).
