Overview
Portable Gas Tank (DynamicGasCanisterEmpty) in Stationeers: movable object, hash -1741267161, 790 L.
The portable gas tank is a container standing on the floor that you can drag to another place. It holds 790 litres of gas and has a slot for a gas canister – so you fill the bottles for your suit straight from the tank.
Its setting goes up to 10,132.5 kPa, the same as the limit of a normal Canister. The improved version, the Gas Tank Mk II, goes up to 20,265 kPa with the same volume.
A calculation: filled to 10,000 kPa at 20 °C the tank holds n = 10,000 · 790 / (8.3144 · 293.15) ≈ 3,240 mol. A 64-litre gas canister holds about 263 mol at the same pressure – so the tank is good for a dozen full canisters.
It connects to a pipe network through the Portables Connector: its slot takes portable devices of this kind, and it has one gas and one liquid port. That is how you fill the tank from a line or feed it into a network.
Two notes from the game data:
- The tank is flammable (flash point 373.15 K, autoignition 573.15 K). It does not belong in a room that is on fire, nor outside on Venus.
- Here, too, pressure rises with temperature. A tank filled in the cold has more pressure in a warm room.
The Kit (Portable Gas Tank) is made by the Hydraulic Pipe Bender. More on stores in Tanks and gas storage: sizes, insulation, safe filling.
Slots and modes
| # | Slot | Takes |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Gas Canister | None |
Building and deconstruction
Built with: Kit (Portable Gas Tank)
Material, fire and recycling
Flammable according to game data: flash point 373.2 K (100 °C); Autoignition 573.2 K (300 °C); burn time 15 s
Heat exchange (factor × surface): radiation 0.129, convection 0.129, sun 0.515
Raw values from the game code (11)
Field names as in the game code, untranslated. Useful for mods and exact limits.
DynamicGasCanister.MaxSetting | 10,132.5 |
DynamicGasCanister.MatterType | Gas |
DynamicGasCanister.PressureDelta | 0 |
PortableAtmospherics.ContentType | Gas |
PortableAtmospherics.litres | 790 |
PortableAtmospherics.NeedleMinimum | -280 |
PortableAtmospherics.NeedleMaximum | 0 |
PortableAtmospherics.NeedleAxis | X |
PortableAtmospherics.FlipNeedleDirection | false |
PortableAtmospherics.pressurePerTick | 101.3 |
DraggableThing.DraggingAction | Button3 |
See also
- Rovers, landers and portable devicesThe Rover MkI in detail, what lander and shuttle are in the game data, and which portable devices – gas tank, generator, scrubber, crates – keep you supplied on the move.
- Breathing air in the suit: canisters, filters and waste tankHow the suit works with air canister, waste tank and filters, how to fill canisters safely and how a chip in the Hardsuit warns before the air runs out.
- Tanks and gas storage: sizes, insulation, safe fillingWhich stores exist, why tanks are now part of the pipe network, how to measure them, why you fill by moles instead of pressure and when insulation pays off – with an IC10 program.