High steam in the Desalinator produces 78 water, not 72.

Low and super steam produce 72 water, but high steam produces 6 more.

I'm torn because maybe there's a reason for this but I got no idea.

Because it takes 12 steam, I.e. just sum up the numbers left and right for the reason.

Ah, of course.

I will say that Vaccum desal while the numbers add up, is a very ugly recipe.

If it took 18 seawater, it would be a bit nicer so you could have 1 pump feed 6 desals.

This works as intended, less water due to less steam condensed

Right, that wasn't the issue, it was how the pumps don't align well to the desalinators with the 108->15. It could be changed to add 3 more brine to keep the equation balanced?

kinda hope the high steam tecipe gives 72 water + 48 brine instead

The inconsistent thing here is that Brine from low steam is 3x as salty as seawater, whereas brine from super/high and vacuum desal are less salty at 2.57x and 2.5x respectively, assuming all salt in the seawater goes into the brine.

Yeah, kinda strange that it takes 72 seawater ant not 108.

and therefor means less brine

it's less brine but it must be more concentrated brine

and yet it produces the same amout of salt when evaporated

It must be contaminated salt

contaiminated with what? And something that isn't in the other brines? How? And where does this contamination go? How do you filter it from salt?

sum of steam+salt water on the left matches water+brine on the right

so steam turns into water, and seawater is split into brine+fresh water in the same proportion

makes total sense to me

ok, then: how many % salt is in the seawater and brine, respectively?

what I'm saying is, the total amount of salt on each side does not add up

for the depleted steam - 24 water comes from steam, 9 water comes from the sea and 6 brine, 24+9=33
water to brine ratio is 3:2
for the super steam - 6 steam makes 6 water, and 108 seawater is split into 66 freshwater + 42 brine, 3.1:2 - almost the same

While we're talking about salt can i mention how unbalanced the evaporation pond to salt feels? It's terrible

dukelion. [discord] wrote:

for the depleted steam - 24 water comes from steam, 9 water comes from the sea and 6 brine, 24+9=33

They are talking about the Sea water-s Brine concentration: Sperheated steam: 42 Brine / 108 Sea water ~= 38.8% High pressure steam: 42 Brine / 108 Sea water ~= 38.8% Low pressuresteam: 24 Brine / 72 Sea water ~= 33.3% Depleated steam: 6 Brine / 15 Sea water == 40%
If one were to fix this such for example all recipes produce 33.3% Brine from Sea water, one would get: Sperheated steam: 108 Sea water * 33.3% => 36 Brine (+ 72 Water) (suprisingly water output remained the same) High pressure steam: 108 Sea water * 33.3% => 36 Brine (+ 78 Water) (suprisingly water output remained the same) Low pressuresteam: 72 Sea water * 33.3% => 24 Brine (+ 72 Water) (no change) Depleated steam: 15 Sea water * 33.3% => 5 Brine (+ 34 Water)(the resulting water numbers include water from the steam used in the process)

42 brine is a very strange number that doesn't fit with brine recipes.