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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 This has lead to a lot of out of date information and bad practices being prevalent in the guidebook, something that pains me to read.
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# Radiators
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Radiators are a device that enables the exchange of heat energy between a [textlink="pipenet" link="PipeNetworks"] and the environment.
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="HeatExchanger"/>
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Radiators are completely passive: they do not require power to function.
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They will always equalize the temperature of the gas in the [textlink="pipenet" link="PipeNetworks"] with the environment.
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Radiators have two methods of transferring heat: convection and radiation.
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- Convection is the transfer of heat through the movement of gas.
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- Radiation is the transfer of heat through electromagnetic waves.
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If a radiator is in a vacuum, it will only be able to transfer heat through radiation.
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If it is in an atmosphere, it will be able to transfer heat through both convection and radiation.
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Under convection, you can only get as cold or as hot as the atmosphere or [textlink="pipenet" link="PipeNetworks"] you're exchanging heat with (given the temperature of the gas in the [textlink="pipenet" link="PipeNetworks"] or atmosphere stays the same).
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If you're exchanging heat with space, you can only get as cold as space.
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To increase the efficiency of radiation, you can build radiators on lattice, which will allow the radiator to radiate more heat, compared to being directly attached to hull tile.
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Increasing the flow rate of gas through the radiator will increase the rate of heat exchange.
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</Document>
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