Valve

The Valve is a building that attaches to Pipelines. Its primary purpose is to limit the flow rate and prevent backflow.

Operation

The Valve has two uses:

• Limiting how much fluid is allowed to pass through (from 0.0 to 600.0 m³/min, stored as a float with one decimal precision).
• Limiting flow in one direction only, thus preventing backflow (just like Pipeline Pumps)

Unlike Pipeline Pumps, Valves don't block the head lift, even when their limit is set to 0 m³/min.

The Valve is a pressure sensitive attachment: depending on how full the pipe on its input side is, it will allow more or less fluid through when its limit is lower than the maximum of the pipe (less than 300 or 600 m³/min). If the pipe is half full, then the maximum flow is around half of the set limit.

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Gallery

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  A short guide on valve behaviour.
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  Short explaination of backflow and backpressure in Valves.
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  In game valve on a pipe

History

• Patch 1.0: The flow limit is now stored as a float instead of a byte (not in patch notes)
• Patch 0.6.0.13: Fixed Valves having no character limit on their textbox
• Patch 0.5.1.10
  • Fixed a bug that didn’t allow players to use the textbox in the Valve
  • Added math expressions to the textbox in the Valve
  • You can now input “,” instead of “.” to add decimal values
• Patch 0.3.6.3: Moved from Tier 6 - Expanded Power Infrastructure to Tier 5 - Oil Processing
• Patch 0.3.6: Introduced