Space Station 14: basics of efficient tritium & frezon (Frontier)

Going over conceptually how you make frezon on the frontier efficiently. Rather than showing how you set this up on a specific ship, this one's more about what the reactions are, how they work generally, and how most atmosians choose to control the burns. Frontier has particularly unique atmos variables to make it more interesting, but a lot of this information is applicable outside of frontier too. Yes, your tritium fires wont be as controllable on harmony and you'll need to use less plasma, but conceptually how you set things up and manage the systems will be the same. And frezon production is roughly the same everywhere, so I highly recommend running four filter frezon with fart.    • Space station 14 frontier: retort frezon v2   for a setup using the burn chamber & refinery from this video inside a retort.    • Space Station 14: guide to gas recycling   for a guide to recycling Asterisks that I didn't go over in the video: *Using a signal valve on your plasma burn chamber cooling is an inefficiency. perfect cooling would see temperature in the burn chamber be constant and the valve would be open at all times (at which point you don't need a valve). however, achieving that requires you to finesse your pump settings just right to achieve perfect balance between heating and cooling. and when you run out of plasma, without a valve, the balance tips toward cooling and can freeze your burn chamber, which is quite annoying to fix. So I recommend including the valve despite the efficiency loss. I don't go over the math too much in the video, but tritium production consumes very little oxygen compared to how much oxygen gets used to make frezon. Maximizing efficiency is good, but I'm willing to recommend giving up 2% efficiency in order to have a much friendlier cooling system that doesn't require tweaking and freezes much less often. *Technically no heating (hot water or heater thermomachines) is required at all to make frezon efficiently. As shown in the video, actually, if your oxygen is warm enough and your frezon loop efficient enough, the energy brought in by the oxygen will more than offset the energy lost to nitrous oxide. Raising temperature to above 73K. That being said, cooling your oxygen hold is good for having the extra storage space, so you'll usually want heating. Chapters: 0:00 intro 0:55 plasma burn chamber basics 11:33 cooling plasma burns 19:27 plasma burn air alarms 28:10 ignition and stabilization 36:09 stable burn 37:06 frezon basics 40:12 making four filter floop 52:08 frezon sans fart 55:17 fart creation and injection 1:02:05 "correct" frezon ratios 1:05:25 too efficient, too warm, need hellfire freezer 1:11:44 I figure it out 1:13:15 tweaking settings for better efficiency 1:17:10 5x speed timelapse 1:18:21 math for The Rune™ wizardry 1:26:35 true end