*Obviously, not meant for mass production. For that, you'll probably want an industrial sauna.
*Vacuum out the steam room after adding water (or polluted water works, too). You don't have to make the gas pump out of steel, but it will eventually break if it's not, and you'll have that annoying notification lol (unless you're like me and have the wonderful 'suppress notifications' mod).
*So there are basically two ways of going about this:
Use the aquatuner to cool the turbines, as I have in this picture. In that situation, you'll want to set your liquid pipe thermo sensor to whatever temp you want your turbine room to be. The colder you set it, the more the aquatuner will run.
Let the turbines self-cool, thus saving power. To do so, run radiant pipes directly from the turbines to the liquid vent, snaking them around the shape of the turbine. Adjust the insulated pip loop that comes from the aquatuner to connect straight across to the other side. See the automation cross section for more info on that.
*It's hard to see, but the pipes around the aquatuner are like this: into the input with an overflow to the input of the bridge, then out from the output into the output of the bridge. In other words, connect the white and green squares to their color matches.
*Option 1: If you use the aquatuner to cool the turbines, the only automation that's really necessary is the pipe thermo sensor to the aquatuner (and the light, ofc). Again, you'll want it to be 'above' whatever temp you want the turbine room to be. You can still use the other automation, too, especially if you don't want to micromanage the refinery work orders.
*Option 2: If you want the turbines to self-cool, the rest of the automation is vital. The thermo sensor connects to both the refinery and the aquatuner (via and gate) and will shut them both down when the temp reaches the target setting, thus keeping the turbines from overheating.
I'm not 100% sure what that setting should be; probably around 150C ('below' option). I haven't tested it thoroughly because I typically go with option 1. Just play around with the setting until you find that the turbines are sitting comfortably around 98-99C. Keep in mind that the transformers are also producing heat and will undermine the turbines' ability to self-cool.
*Here, I have the pipe disconnected from the gas pump. If you leave it connected by accident, it will cause mayhem once the water turns to steam. Ask me how I know.
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