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Significantly updates the Engineering guidebook (more explicitly the Atmos section) to have a lot more relevant and useful information. Right now engineering has been getting update after update with no real change to the relevant guidebook entry. This has lead to a lot of out of date information and bad practices being prevalent in the guidebook, something that pains me to read.
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# Pipe Networks
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Pipe networks — commonly called Pipenets — are a series of interconnected [textlink="pipes" link="Pipes"], usually with a common task.
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<Box>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPipeStraight" Caption=""/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPipeHalf" Caption=""/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPipeBend" Caption=""/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPipeTJunction" Caption=""/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPipeFourway" Caption=""/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPressurePump" Caption=""/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasVolumePump" Caption=""/>
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</Box>
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Pipenets are used all throughout the station to deliver, remove, or otherwise move gas throughout it.
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Great examples are the station's Distro or Wastenet, which deliver breathable air and remove waste gas, respectively.
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## How Pipenets Work
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In Space Station 14, pipenets behave as a whole, defined volume, with input/output points at the ends of the network.
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Forcing or vacuuming gas in or out using a [textlink="pump" link="Pumps"] will affect the entire network, not just the pipe it's connected to.
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Pipenets are only separated by devices capable of interrupting flow, or by certain devices.
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For example, a [textlink="Pressure Pump" link="Pumps"] will not allow gas to flow through it unless it's powered and has gas to pump.
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Some examples of devices that separate pipe networks are:
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- [textlink="Pressure and Volumetric Pumps" link="Pumps"]
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- [textlink="Gas Mixers and Filters" link="MixingAndFiltering"]
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- [textlink="All Valves" link="Valves"]
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- [textlink="Radiators" link="Radiators"]
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An example of a pipenet being seperated into two, distinct pipenets by a [textlink="pump" link="Pumps"] is shown below:
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<Box>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPipeStraight" Caption="Pipenet 1" Rotation="90"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPipeStraight" Caption="" Rotation="90"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPressurePump" Caption="Network Seperator" Rotation="90"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPipeStraight" Caption="" Rotation="90"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPipeStraight" Caption="Pipenet 2" Rotation="90"/>
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</Box>
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</Document>
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