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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 This has lead to a lot of out of date information and bad practices being prevalent in the guidebook, something that pains me to read.
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# Gas Mining and Storage
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Gasses are often permanently used. Whether they are lost to [textlink="space" link="Spacing"] or used in a burn chamber, the station needs to be able to produce more gas to replace what is lost.
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It also needs to store this gas in a safe and efficient manner.
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## Gas Miners
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Gas miners are used to replenish the station's gas supply. They are found in the gas storage tanks in Atmospherics.
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<Box>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasMinerOxygenStation"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasMinerNitrogenStation"/>
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</Box>
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Gas miners constantly produce room temperature gas and push it into the exposed atmosphere. They require no power to function, and never stop working unless they have reached the defined [bold]cutoff pressure[/bold].
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You can see more information about the gas miners by inspecting them using [color=yellow][bold][keybind="ExamineEntity"][/bold][/color].
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Try inspecting the gas miners presented above.
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Gas miners come in tiers, with the larger versions having a higher pressure cutoff than the smaller versions.
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<Box>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasMinerNitrogen" Caption="300 kPa"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasMinerNitrogenStation" Caption="1000 kPa"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasMinerNitrogenStationLarge" Caption="4500 kPa"/>
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</Box>
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If gas miners are ever unanchored from the station, they can be reanchored using a regular wrench.
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## Gas Storage
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Gas storage tanks are used to store gas produced by the gas miners, and to make it available to other processes. They are found in Atmospherics.
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<Box>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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</Box>
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<Box>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="ReinforcedPlasmaWindow" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasOutletInjector" Rotation="270" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasMinerOxygenStation" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="GasPassiveVent" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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</Box>
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<Box>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WallReinforced" Rotation="0" Caption="" Margin="0"/>
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</Box>
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<Box>
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[color=#999999][italic]An example of a small gas holding tank[italic][/color]
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</Box>
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Various atmos processes insert and remove gasses from the gas storage tanks.
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For example:
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- The gas miner provides fresh gasses to the gas storage tanks, if there is room.
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- The recyclernet injects reclaimed gasses into the gas storage tanks for reuse.
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- Setups like the distronet and burn chamber remove gasses from the gas storage tanks.
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Gas storage tanks are designed to be able to be measured using a [textlink="Gas Analyzer" link="AtmosTools"].
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Because the outflow vent is a [textlink="passive vent" link="PassiveVent"], you can use a [textlink="gas analyzer" link="AtmosTools"] to measure the gas content of the [textlink="pump's" link="Pumps"] input, which is drawing from the gas storage tank.
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</Document>
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