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Super simple base pressure regulation
By MisterCrow
A really short, simple, cheap and effective guide on managing base pressure for newcomers to the game!
   
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Overview


Simply connect your passive vent to a back-pressure regulator (BPR), and set it to what the pressure you want your room to maintain (100kpa). Pipe it up to a pressure regulator (PR) and do the same (100kpa), then attach that to another passive vent.

Now if you increase the pressure in the room (say you drop some oxite in there), the BPR will pass air through into its pipes until room pressure returns to 100kpa.
Similarly, if you remove air from the room, the PR will pass air through from its pipes, into the room until pressure returns to 100kpa. Note that you will obviously need air in the pipes behind the PR! This is partly why you see there is a "buffer" tank.

The "buffer" tank exists so that pressure in the pipes is relieved, and acts as a gas store so that the PR has gas available to pass through if room pressure drops. In order for the system to work properly, you'll need to make sure you have enough gas in this buffer tank / pipes behind the regulators.

Note that the diagram shows the passive vents placed at opposite ends of the room. This is not entirely necessary, but it will make the system work more accurately and efficiently. In the diagram, air will travel anticlockwise through the room / pipes

You can easily adjust the system if you want the air to circulate - simply adjust the values on the BPR and PR according to preference. The further apart the two values are on the regulators, the quicker air will circulate.
You can hook the pipes up to filtration units too, if you want to filter out certain gases that might enter the room (such as pollutants). You could even use the system to cool your base if you run the pipes outside and stick radiators on them (although dedicated heating / cooling systems work better)

Note that regulators are fairly slow. If you drop loads of oxite into the room all at once for it to start melting, it'll often raise room pressure faster than the regulators can cope with. I tend to stick to dropping one stack at a time.
The same applies if you're using an active vent to pressurise the room - make sure you switch it off before pressure in the room builds too much (>150kpa), as active vents work much faster than the regulators do.
4 Comments
jarhead 29 Mar @ 10:42pm 
Part 2 of 2

My base is built so if your going in it is [outside -> airlock -> buffer room -> central hallway -> other rooms]. Each room has an airlock like setup between it and hallway (safety buffer). The buffer room is where the heat exchanger, suit storage, and battery charger is located (there is some other stuff but you should get the idea). I use a 2 layer floor plan so every floor has a 2nd sub-floor above it that is just wall panels or floor grates to allow pipes and wires to be run out of the way. The sub-floor level is accessed by stairs from main floor. Each main floor is accessed by either ladder, stairway, or elevator.
jarhead 29 Mar @ 10:42pm 
Part 1 of 2

I just thought of doing this with my base filtration system. I'm just trying to figure out if the filtration or the ac pushes air faster as the faster one will be set after the other (so pipes don't pop). I am also planning on using a gas/liquid heat exchanger with state change devices (valve kit), and volume pumps to allow me to use both gas and liquid pollutant to heat/cool the entire base. I will be running the pipes insulated between devices and have most of them over head so they are out of the way. This will also allow me to mount the outdoor pipes (liquid) to the underside of some frames that are held off the ground with 1 frame block gap between this structure and the base. This will allow me to attach the radiators to the pipe in the shade no matter the time of day while also having it away from the base to move the heat further away.
maxpayneovh 4 Jun, 2024 @ 9:15am 
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♔ןoן♔ sardukar 8 Jul, 2020 @ 10:26pm 
Nice, would be better if you showed which direction the valves should be facing, i struggled with this lol