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Liquid hydrogen & oxygen

Description

​​In these pictures, the liquid oxygen is on the left and liquid hydrogen on the right.

Construction

Hydro sensor to gas shutoff: below 450
Hydro sensor to liquid pump: above 250
Liquid pipe thermo sensor: above -190
Liquid valve: 9000g/s

Hydro sensor to gas shutoff: below 850
Hydro sensor to liquid pump: above 250
Liquid pipe thermo sensor: above -255
Liquid valve: 9000g/s

  • Make the aquatuners out of steel.
  • Use ceramic for the insulated liquid pipes.
  • Use super coolant in the liquid cooling loops.
  • Use ceramic insulated tiles for the "T" section of wall between the rooms.
  • Use hydrogen in the steam turbine cooling loop.

The steam turbine can only handle the initial cooling down of one liquid at a time, so fire up the oxygen and hydrogen separately. (Once running it can handle both.)

The pumps need to be running constantly to prevent damage from state changes.

Keep the liquid reservoirs in a vacuum. To be extra safe regarding temperature transfer, build the liquid reservoirs on mesh tiles.

This design uses a self-cooling method for the steam turbine. If you implement this cooling method, run the gas pipes through the wall of the liquid oxygen section of the build, not the liquid hydrogen section.

This design uses a pool of liquid oxygen and hydrogen (in the area around the liquid pumps) to even out temperature fluctuations from the aquatuner cooling the gases.

Visualization

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Credit

Design by: Francis John

Source: "Liquid Oxygen and Hydrogen : Tutorial nuggets : Oxygen not included" on YouTube