🧽 Kayser's Compact Exhaust Scrubber

Don't Exhaust Yourself—Scrub with Kayser

Current as of: v0.7.7 (Update 3)

Summary

Kayser’s Compact Exhaust Scrubber delivers high-performance exhaust scrubbing and water production in a lean, space-saving package — designed for captains who want cleaner results with fewer headaches.

This advanced, compact, and semi-tilable facility scrubs up to 1920/60 exhaust, making full use of low steam to recover water and brine, while also capturing carbon dioxide. Overflow? No problem. Any excess steam, brine, or CO₂ is handled cleanly and gracefully, with no jams, no mess.

Designed for incremental growth, with small storages and short internal transports, it’s optimized for both performance and resource efficiency. And when your industry starts to scale? A special alert triggers when it is time to expand your scrubbing plant — no guesswork, no waste, no downtime.

Quick Start Guide

After constructing at least Exhaust scrubber 1, one seawater pump, one desalinator, and the necessary transports and tanks, attach your exhaust to the Exhaust Hub (In) balancer. Allow a little initial water to be trucked in. The plant should start.

Connect transports and set alarms as desired.

Expand plant when the special exhaust overflow alarm goes off.

General Features

• Compact, rectangular shape for easy placement.
• Highly efficient in terms of construction cost, workers, and maintenance.
• Incrementally buildable for minimal resource investment.
• Readily accessible input/output storages for buffering, alerts, and easy mapping and connection of auxiliary pipes and belts.
• Automatic venting of overflowing exhaust, CO₂, and low steam.
• Automatic dumping of overflowing brine (up to 180/60 out of 192/60 theoretical maximum production).
• Side-by-side placement allows sharing the same limestone belt (and 6th seawater pump).
• Falls back on non-limestone recipe if limestone runs out or slag/sulfur exits slowly.
• Seawater buffer tank allows setting an alarm for when it's time to build more seawater pumps.
• Exhaust overflow alert.

The Exhaust overflow alert triggers when inflow exceeds capacity by >20/60, and resets itself when overflow falls below ~20/60 for a period of time.

Structures

• 4 Exhaust Scrubbing plants in clover formation.
• 8 Thermal Desalination units, running on low steam from scrubbers.
• 6 Seawater pumps for sufficient seawater.
• 3 Liquid dumps for overflowing Brine.
• 1 Large smoke stack for any overflowing CO₂, Exhaust, and Low steam.
• 3 loose storages for Limestone (in), Sulfur (out), and Slag (out).
• 3 tanks for CO₂ (out), Brine (out), and Seawater (internal buffer).
• 1 tank for Seawater tank and 1 small smoke stack for the Exhaust overflow alarm.

Blueprints

Input/Output

The plant will scrub up to 1800/60 exhaust using Pipe III (and 5 Seawater pumps). To reach full scrubbing capacity (1920/60), Pipe IV is required for 2 of the 4 pipes leading from the exhaust hub balancer to the plants (as per the blueprint). To also get maximum water (384/60) from a fully scrubbing plant, all six seawater pumps must be constructed and, in addition, at least 12/60 brine must be consumed or dumped using an additional liquid dump (else some low steam will be vented).

Revision History

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