Food storage

After the last update, it became insufficient to cool the food with the refrigerator. Also lost relevance method of placing food in a sterile atmosphere. Also, the developers deprived the dupes the ability to take "resources through the corner".

This article describes the actual methods of storing food.

There are 3 methods that can be used to cool food:


 * 1) Clamping food with doors. This does not cool the food, but it does not spoil it either.
 * 2) Cooling the gases around the food.
 * 3) Cooling the food itself.

Manual
The easiest way (the first suggested by Saturnus) is to jam the food in two doors.

Open both doors and wait for the dupes to put the food in the Ration box. Then release the box by closing the top door first and then the bottom door as well.

Doors
The scheme works on the same principle of jamming doors, but in automatic mode.

When the food passes the sensors on the conveyor rail, the 2 upper doors will open. The food will fall on the bottom door. The top door will close and after 2s the middle door will close.

If both weight plates run out of food, the middle door will open first, followed by the bottom door, the food will fall down, the doors will close. The scheme has an obvious disadvantage - all the food stored in the doors will fall down and begin to spoil. For each type of food would have to add its own conveyor sensor.

On the plus side, the circuit does not consume anything and does not heat up the atmosphere around it.


 * Buffers (left to right): 3s and 2s. Filter: 2s.

Doors, improved


The scheme works on the same principle as the previous one, but lacks its disadvantages.

The food is placed in the temporary refrigerator, which leads to the opening of all doors. The auto-sweeper, getting the visibility of the loader, moves the food from the refrigerator (it has a low priority - 4), into the loader. Then it falls down and clamped by the doors.

A small amount of food (2 kg) is moved into the upper refrigerator. As a rule it will be eaten before it has time to cool down and much sooner than it has time to go bad.


 * Buffers: 2s.

The scheme is interesting because it has a low peak consumption, does not warm the atmosphere around it, and is relatively easy to build, unlike schemes with active cooling AT.

Wheezewort
The circuit cools the food by circulating it on the conveyor and, having cooled to -21°C, it falls down from where it is picked up by the dupes.

Wait for the circuit to cool to -30° C before serving food. This will take just over 10 cycles.
 * Thermosensor: <-21°C
 * Hydrogen: 1-2 kg/cell
 * In a cage with food: vacuum

With ethanol
In this scheme, it is not the food itself that is cooled by the AT, but the atmosphere surrounding it. The chambers with the food and ingredients contain some CO2 (what the dupes have inhaled). The lower chamber is insulated with tiles and the upper chamber is insulated with a drop of ethanol (10 grams is optimal).

This principle (insulation with ethanol) was used by several authors. But the scheme has disadvantages: the food in it is not cooled, which can lead to its deterioration under certain conditions. In addition, there is heat loss (albeit insignificant) through ethanol.

AT (made of gold) is not cooled by anything, because its operating time (after the initial cooling of the circuit) is very short. The first time the circuit starts, it is likely to overheat and start getting damaged. Turn off the autorepair. After the circuit has cooled, tear it down and rebuild it. Alternatively, you could spill some water underneath it.

With Refrigerator


In this layout, both the food and its atmosphere are cooled by the AT.

The right auto-sweeper is responsible for loading the ingredients into the grill and the gas range, and loading the cooked food into the conveyor loader.

The left auto-sweeper loads the "daily portion" of food into the refrigerator.

With Weight plate


The scheme is similar to the previous one, but here the food is not placed in the refrigerator, but on the weight plate. Excess food captured by the auto-sweeper will be returned to the cooling chamber.

The scheme has a small disadvantage - the food will periodically (very infrequently) circulate on the conveyor, and spoil a little. On the plus side, there is no refrigerator and its consumption.

Compact


The circuit is a variant of the refrigerator circuit, but in a more compact form.

The circuit can easily be converted to atmospheric cooling only (if one likes this method).

The last screenshot shows a less efficient (in terms of energy consumption) variant of cooling with a Thermo regulator. The advantage is much less peak power consumption.


 * In all schemes, pipe temperature sensor setting: -25ºC. For the thermo regulator: -40ºC. It makes sense to set lower temperatures during the start-up phase.
 * In AT circuits: petroleum. In TR circuits: hydrogen

Blueprints
Doors • Doors, improved • Wheezewort • With ethanol With Refrigerator • With Weight plate • Compact