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Insulated Gas Pipe is a type of Gas Pipe that greatly slows down the heat exchange between the gas content and the environment. It costs 16 times mass compared to regular gas pipes.
Heat Exchange
The thermal conductivity of the Insulated Gas Pipe is reduced to 3.125% of the thermal conductivity of the building material. Furthermore, when calculating the heat exchange between the gas content and the Insulated Gas Pipe, it uses the lower value of thermal conductivity (which is very likely the one of the insulated pipe) instead of the average value when calculating for regular Gas Pipes. The 16x mass also means less temperature change for the same amount of DTU exchanged, which again slows down the heat transfer between insulated pipe and the tile it is on.
Due to inherently low Thermal Conductivity of most gasses Igneous Rock reliably stays the material of choice, barring some extreme scenarios, where Ceramic or even Insulation must be used.
