Сold Steam Vent

Mastering a cold steam vent can be done in 2 ways:


 * 1) Direct condensation of steam using a coil of pipes. In this case we cool the steam from 110ºC. This is a simpler scheme.
 * 2) With preheating the steam to above 125ºC, and then cooling the water from the turbines (from 95ºC). With equal power consumption by the Aquatuner in both schemes, the output water will be 15ºC colder (=110-95ºC).

Direct condensation
The scheme is extremely simple: Aquatuner + turbine, Aquatuner circuit into the chamber in the Steam vent.

Sensors: thermosensor >14ºC, hydrosensor >990kg.

Materials:


 * Insulated Liquid Pipe - ceramic,
 * The Radiant Pipe - copper/gold, in the turbine chamber - lead (not to cool the turbine much, and it has worse heat transfer),
 * Light Insulated tile - ceramic, the rest mafite rock,
 * Pump - gold amalgam,
 * Wiring, automation - whatever you want,
 * In a room with a Steam vent, at the time of start-up there should be a vacuum.

At the output water with a temperature of 64ºC (depends on the Steam vent). Power consumption is constant and equals 1200W - 550W = 650W.

Steam heating
The same as the 1st variant, except that the cooling of the turbines is not a radiant pipe, but an ordinary one, but of different materials (the pipe that goes in the water under the turbines): half of it is of igneous rock, and the other half (the one that goes to the bridge) is of granite. As a result of this combination, the temperatures of the turbines are about 95ºC.

The floor is crude oil - 200kg. The Tempshift plate are any kind.

This circuit (crude oil, Tempshift plate) must necessarily be preheated to 200ºC (you can do more). Connect an outer tube (with water) to the outlet of any bridge and let the Aquatuner run. Another option is to put a Liquid tepidizer made of steel in the crude oil (it should be more than 450kg/cell), turning it on according to this scheme.

At the output water with a temperature of 53ºC (depends on the Steam vent), which is close to the calculated one. Energy consumption is meaningless to measure, because it will depend very much on the Steam vent.

Limitations
A turbine can pass no more than 2kg/sec of steam, and 3 turbines no more than 6kg/sec. In practice, in the second scheme a Steam vent with an eruption of 6.4 kg/sec has worked perfectly, due to the size of the room. The steam from the more active Steam vent, the turbines will not have time to process and the Steam vent will stagnate due to overpressure.

If the Steam vent eruption (for example) 9 kg/sec of steam, it would require 4 turbines. You can easily add an extra turbine to the circuit. If you have a less active Steam vent (4.3kg/sec or less), you can leave one of the turbines out.

The first scheme does not require any calculations or changes.

Simple option
If you don't feel bad about overheating the biome, just dig a spot next to the Steam vent and place a pump with a hydrosensor. Works great if the biome is cool, particularly on the Rime map.

Blueprints
Direct condensation

Steam heating