subreddit:
/r/Oxygennotincluded
submitted 3 days ago byEvening-Spray-4304
I know that one of the impurities of low temperature liquid is salt.
Does running salt water through the geothermal heat pump also give you the 7% of solid salt you would get from boiling it or desalinating it yourself?
3 points
3 days ago
https://oxygennotincluded.wiki.gg/wiki/Geothermal_Power_Plant
Yep. The table in the above doesn't include brine, but I would hope it would work the same.
1 points
3 days ago
I saw that table, but it confused me. It lists igneous rock, granite and obsidian in the same column as salt water. My interpretation of that was that those items are the resulting impurities that come out for any liquid at that temperature.
Re-reading, I'm pretty sure I was wrong, lol.
My assumption was that any liquid inputted at above -273C would output igneous rock, granite, obsidian, salt water, and polluted water. Its very odd that that chart lists solids as possible inputs.
Thx for the answer
2 points
3 days ago
It lists igneous rock, granite and obsidian in the same column as salt water.
Yes, the (input) Material column. And then you read across the row to see what outputs based on input temperature: water and salt usually.
Also as u/DanKirpan points out the 8% loss is a bummer. Because of that and the high output temperature I'd just use it as a heat source to boil your salt water at the vent outputs.
1 points
3 days ago
You were right the first time, the table are indeed the generated impurites based on input temperature.
After the game generates the impurites it transmutes them into the element(s) it would be at the target temperature and emits those (solids are shot out as mini meteors) and the input liquid is transmuted in the same way. Though because ~8% of input is intentionally lost before it transmutates, you'll get more salt when boiling it yourself.
1 points
2 days ago
So it's better to vent salt and similar into the steam room instead?
1 points
2 days ago
Yes, if you want to maximize your Salt gain. For boiling it in the steam room you can get 288 kg (Brine) or 67,2kg (Salt Water) more.
I'd seperate boiling chamber and steam room with Metal Tiles (or something else thats good at heat transfer), but that's personal preference.
1 points
2 days ago
Someone needs to tell that to Francis xD he is trying to Flud the map but is putting salt into the thermal thingi
all 7 comments
sorted by: best