Condensation Chamber

Overview

Condensation Chamber (StructureCondensationChamber) in Stationeers: device, hash 1420719315, 50 W. With build steps, 44 IC10 logic values and connection…

The condensation chamber turns gas into liquid. It has an inner chamber of 400 litres, two gas ports, a liquid output, a data port and a separate power port. Base draw is 50 W.

According to the game code, the ports have fixed jobs:

Input is the gas supply. Gas flows in until the chamber reaches the pressure from Setting.
Input2 is the heat exchange port. The gas in this network does not flow into the chamber; it only exchanges heat with it. This is where your cooling loop goes.
The liquid output takes whatever condenses in the chamber – up to 10 litres per tick.

So Setting is the chamber pressure in kPa, from 0 to 6,000, default 100. On the device you set it in steps of 100 kPa, holding the key for small increments in steps of 1, or directly as a number with a switched-on labeller. With Open = 1 the chamber dumps its contents into the surroundings every tick. You can measure the chamber directly: Pressure, Temperature, TotalMoles and all fractions, including RatioLiquid….

A substance only turns liquid when the chamber pressure is above its minimum pressure and the temperature below its critical temperature:

Substance	Minimum pressure	liquid below
Carbon Dioxide	517 kPa	266.3 K
Nitrous Oxide	800 kPa	430.6 K
Pollutant	1,800 kPa	433.9 K
Steam	6.3 kPa	643.7 K

The higher the chamber pressure, the warmer the chamber may be: carbon dioxide condenses at 517 kPa only just above its freezing point of 217.8 K, at 6,000 kPa already below 266.3 K. The phase diagram on the gas page shows the curve in between. Condensing releases the heat of vaporisation, 8,000 J per mole for water – the cooling loop has to carry it away.

It is built in three steps: Kit (Phase Change Device), two steel sheets with the wrench, two more with the welding torch. The same kit builds the Evaporation Chamber. Background in Evaporating, condensing, freezing: using phases on purpose.

IC10 and logic

44 logic values, 44 readable and 4 writable.

Power R 1
Open RW 2
Error R 4
Pressure R 5
Temperature R 6
Lock RW 10
Setting RW 12
RatioOxygen R 14
RatioCarbonDioxide R 15
RatioNitrogen R 16
RatioPollutant R 17
RatioMethane R 18
RatioWater R 19
Maximum R 23
Ratio R 24
On RW 28
RequiredPower R 33
TotalMoles R 66
RatioNitrousOxide R 83
PrefabHash R 84
Combustion R 98
RatioLiquidNitrogen R 177
RatioLiquidOxygen R 183
RatioLiquidMethane R 188
RatioSteam R 193
RatioLiquidCarbonDioxide R 199
RatioLiquidPollutant R 204
RatioLiquidNitrousOxide R 209
ReferenceId R 217
RatioHydrogen R 252
RatioLiquidHydrogen R 253
RatioPollutedWater R 254
NameHash R 268
RatioHydrazine R 283
RatioLiquidHydrazine R 284
RatioLiquidAlcohol R 285
RatioHelium R 286
RatioLiquidSodiumChloride R 287
RatioSilanol R 288
RatioLiquidSilanol R 289
RatioHydrochloricAcid R 290
RatioLiquidHydrochloricAcid R 291
RatioOzone R 292
RatioLiquidOzone R 293

Example: address by name

Reads Temperature, shows the value on the IC housing and writes On. Name the device with the labeller first; devices with the same name are addressed together.

# Condensation Chamber address by name
define DEVICE 1420719315  # StructureCondensationChamber
define NAME HASH("Condensation Chamber")  # name in game (labeller)
define TARGET 1  # On 1 = on
alias value r0

start:
yield
lbn value DEVICE NAME Temperature 0  # 0 = average of all with this name
bnan value start  # no device with this name
s db Setting value  # show on the housing
sbn DEVICE NAME On TARGET  # set value
j start

Academy: devices by name Academy: batch modes IC10 academy IC10 editor

Connections

Schematic: inputs left, outputs right, waste on top, power and data at the bottom. Position and spacing do not match the model.

1Gas pipe · input 2
2Gas pipe · input
3Liquid pipe · output
4Data
5Power · input

Building and deconstruction

Grid: small grid (0.5 m) · mounting: free in the grid

1
Place
- Kit (Phase Change Device)
Take back with Hand Drill
2
Build stage 2
- Tool Wrench
- Steel Sheets ×2
Take back with Hand Drill
3
Build stage 3
- Tool Welding Torch
- Steel Sheets ×2
Take back with Angle Grinder

Total material

Deconstruction returns

Built with: Kit (Phase Change Device)

Material, fire and recycling

Heat exchange (factor × surface): radiation 0, convection 0.007, sun 0.742

Raw values from the game code (5)

Field names as in the game code, untranslated. Useful for mods and exact limits.

`DeviceAtmospherics.outputSetting`	100
`DeviceAtmospherics.pressurePerTick`	1,500
`DeviceAtmospherics.MinSetting`	0
`DeviceAtmospherics.MaxSetting`	6,000
`DeviceAtmospherics.ConnectionType`	FlatExhaustive