Sandbox:CombustionEngine

The Combustion Turbine, sometimes called the Combustion Engine or just Turbine, is a small power unit utilizing flammable gasses to spin a turbine. Due to the low power output, the turbine is typically used as the primary power source for small vessels, or as an auxiliary power unit on larger vessels such as the SCCV Horizon. As such, it is never recommended to operate the Horizon solely off of the turbine, instead the Supermatter Reactor or INDRA should be used.

Turbines fitted onto small vessels are typically found within the engineering section as the central power source. On the Horizon, the turbine is found in Deck 1 Maintenance just east of atmospherics.

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Turbine Operation

The turbine is easy to start and operate while leaving opportunity to tweak the set-up for a preferred (or cost effective) operation. Below is the start-up process for the SCCV Horizon. The same principle applies to off-ship vessels, however certain components, such as the gas mixer or pumps, may not be in the same location. Most pumps should be labeled to ease these differences.

• Enable the connector to cold loop pump, and the cooling array to turbine pump. This will begin circulation of the cold loop.
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• Configure the gas mixer to output east and inject hydrogen and oxygen at the pre-set ratio of 60% oxygen and 40% hydrogen.
  • Off-ships will require the use of gas canisters. The Horizon can inject gas from the storage tanks within atmospherics. This requires the use of two pumps, and the activation of a valve shown to the right.
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  • You may inject as much hydrogen and oxygen as you wish, it will not affect the turbine in an adverse way.
• Disable injection! Do not leave injection on!
• Ignite the mix inside the combustion chamber and wait for it to fully burn out.
  • On off-ship vessels, some strain on the burn chamber glass at this step is expected.
  • The Horizon does not have any glass around the burn chamber; therefore, it is capable of higher temperatures without risk of a breach.
• Once the fire has stopped and the contents of the tank are 100% CO2, enable circulation: The recommend configuration is 700L/s input and 1000kpa output.
  • The higher you put the output, more power it generates, raise as necessary.

WARNING: If you feel the burn mixture is going to break the glass, lower the blast doors and vent the chamber immediately! Off-ship vessels have a portable generator in the back if the turbine runs out of fuel, or another mishap occurs.

Turbine Design

What do the pipe colors mean, why is it set up in the way it is. This section, like the next one, is meant for atmos nerds who want to understand why and how the turbine works to then modify it. Need an atmos main on this and need to verify the set-up uses the same color-coding on off-ships.

Turbine Theory

Need an atmos nerd like Sneaky for this