Editing Guide to the Supermatter (section)

=== How removing pumps made me a billionaire ===

The title gives it away, really. You want to replace most pumps you can find with either straight pipes, or with valves to allow for easier modification and changing where the gas goes on the fly. ESPECIALLY THE FILTER NEEDS TO EITHER BE REMOVED OR UTILISED PROPERLY IN THE CASE OF A DELAMINATION OR WHEN OPTIMISING. Now, to explain why this is the proper option in most cases. As I mentioned before, gas in a network is always, always evenly spread through all connected pipes, it's always the same ratio of gasses, it's always the same temperature. An added tidbit, pipes do not actually leak even when there are open spaces for pipes, 4-way manifolds do not spill all gas in them when gas is added to them. With these two bits of knowledge combined, you can make the cooling loop nearly sabotage immune. If you went ahead and replaced the pumps with open valves, or with pipes, there's always a great deal of gas in the heat exchanging pipes, in space. This means that the whole pipenetwork is constantly being cooled down, as it's connected directly to pipes that are heat exchanging with space. If somebody tries to lazily sabotage by removing a single heat exchanging pipe, it doesn't matter, as all the other pipes are still connected to the rest of the network. The gas that was in the heat exchanger pipe that was unwrenched is lost, but that's also a very small loss because the volume of the pipenetwork is rather large. 

The second biggest benefit, and most relevant to active delaminations, by replacing some pumps and filters you increase the volume by a lot, and you constantly cool down the pipenetwork. Both of these things mean that the scrubbers work a lot faster, as the gas will cool down faster, lowering the pressure, and the volume is larger, also lowering pressure. This means that overall, the scrubbers will scrub much faster, and the big bad hot gas is quickly removed from the chamber.

Lastly, though only vaguely related, keep your vents on internal 0, not on external 5000. Vents do not actually have a pressure limit at all. They can continue to add pressure constantly, however, they do work faster if the chamber they are connected to is lower pressure, and the gas they're pumping is cold, but this is always true. Essentially, vents pump a static amount of pressure when they're at maximum speed. If nothing very, very strange is happening, the gas that the vents are attempting to pump in is colder than what is in the chamber, as it already went through the cooling part of the pipes. As such, having the vents on internal 0, and with it, always pumping the hardest they can, they are adding gas that is colder than what is currently in the chamber itself. This contributes to the cooling down of the chamber, and as such, works to stop the delamination progress faster. External 5000 suffers from the same issues as a pump does, vents will completely stop pumping in gas when the room it is trying to pump into is 5000 kPa or above, which happens fairly quickly in a small room that is white hot. So remember, internal 0, unless there is too much gas in the room (see singularity delamination).