Gas Turbine

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The turbine is a tertiary power source accessed through maintenance tunnels adjacent to Atmospherics.

Summary

The gas turbine is an alternative way to produce power on the station, exclusive to an Atmospheric Technician. Although it will probably be the last power source to be set up on the station, it is still capable of producing upwards of 100 kW. You can accomplish this with a method of pumping in compressed gas mixtures to pressurize the chamber, then ignite the mixture to pressurize it further. When turned on, the turbine utilizes this reaction to produce power relative to the pressure building in the chamber.

How To Set Up the Turbine

Tools you need

• Rapid Part Dispenser or Pipe Dispenser
• Wrench
• Atmospheric Access
• Basic Atmospheric Knowledge

Initial Setup

Burn Mix

You need to set up a burn mix. The idea is to produce the maximum amount of pressure in a confined room in order the turbine blades to spin faster. In order to do that, you need a lot of heat.

In Atmospherics, the Mix Loop connects to both the Oxygen and Plasma Gas Containers. Re-pipe the mix loop and place a Gas Mixer where node 1 and node 2 outlets are connected to the Oxygen and Plasma tanks.

Set the gas mixer so that it outputs 67% Oxygen and 33% Plasma. Then, set the output to max pressure of 4500 kPa and turn it on.

Note: Node 1 or 2 can be flipped if you changed the way the gas flows inside it.

Gas Mixing Tank Control

Once the gas mix is properly set, turn on all the Gas Pumps on and set to max leading to the Gas Mixing Container inside the Distribution Loop room. Make sure you turn off the pump that leads to the Waste Loop. Open the digital valve next to the Gas Mix Tank Control Computer.

If everything is done correctly, you should see Oxygen and Plasma inside the Gas Mixing Container.

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We're going to activate the gas turbine with a basic set-up, there are more efficient ways to do this, so feel free to experiment with new ideas (Just don't fill the station with plasma). First of all, you're going to want to know how the pipes work, check out the Guide to Atmospherics. Now that you know the basics, you'll need to replace the pump leading from the plasma tank to the mix chamber with a volume pump, this will increase the amount of gas transferred, as it deals with the total volume of the gas and not the pressure. You then do the same for the pure O2 chamber, replace the pumps leading from it to the mix chamber with a volume pump. After all that, we have to start mixing the gases before they go into the mix chamber, so replace the junction leading from the plasma tank, to the mix chamber with a gas mixer and set it to mix at 67% to 33%, this is the ideal mixture for the gas turbine (If you find something better, let us know!). That's almost it for the Atmospherics lab, last thing that we need to do is remove the pressure valve going from our mix chamber to space, with a regular pipe. Doing this will not limit the amount being sent to the turbine room.

Now we can move on to the final part, the turbine room. In here, most of what you've got to do is piping, so make sure to bring the dispenser with you. First of all, replace all the necessary pumps with volume pumps, this means any bringing gas in, and any pumping it into the chamber. After that, there's not much more to do, go around and check all of the pipes are in order, double check that you are happy with the layout, then turn it all on. You should be seeing your mixture churning out upwards of 50kW, if not, something must have gone wrong and you're leaking plasma all over the station, you better fix that.