The new 5x5 IC² Reactor

Pyure · May 15th 2015

You got your link and its caption backwards friend.

MauveCloud · May 15th 2015

Also, I copied the text to the clipboard, then used the "Paste URL" button in the standalone reactor planner, and it tells me it's a Mark V design that will melt down in just over a minute. Thirdly, where are you getting that 650 EU/t number from? I checked my newer planner, and if stopped after 1 minute, it produces an average of 1800 Hu/s while running, and 1200 Hu/s for 3 seconds of cooldown. Using the simple but inefficient stirling generator, that would be 900 EU/t while running and 600 EU/t while cooling down. I don't feel like trying to calculate how much it could get with superheated steam right now, since that would involve extra calculations like the warmup time for the steam generator.

Chocohead · May 15th 2015

People don't prewarm their steam generators before running reactors? Gosh, the entire minute of inefficiency!

Pyure · May 15th 2015

I'm 99% sure I didn't already ask this here but I'm tired so who the hell knows.

Anyone tinkering with Blood Asp's fork of GT? It adds back Thorium fuel cells.

I'm wondering if anyone's tried out the resurrected thorium in a 5x5.

Chocohead · May 15th 2015

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I'm wondering if anyone's tried out the resurrected thorium in a 5x5.

I forgot about trying that, will try. Is plutonium in/planned too?

mementh · May 16th 2015

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People don't prewarm their steam generators before running reactors? Gosh, the entire minute of inefficiency!

pre warm? once mine got warm they stayed warm in my test world.. is there a diffrence ?

Chocohead · May 16th 2015

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pre warm? once mine got warm they stayed warm in my test world.. is there a diffrence ?

When you build a MOX reactor setup using steam, you're using the hot coolant to produce steam. In order to do that though, you've got to heat the steam generator up. If you pre-warm it using lava, you're getting the most out of the reactor possible. If you don't, there's a minute of it heating up in which you're not getting steam out of it, hence a minute of inefficiency.

mementh · May 17th 2015

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When you build a MOX reactor setup using steam, you're using the hot coolant to produce steam. In order to do that though, you've got to heat the steam generator up. If you pre-warm it using lava, you're getting the most out of the reactor possible. If you don't, there's a minute of it heating up in which you're not getting steam out of it, hence a minute of inefficiency.

hmmm interesting.. lava could create steam of course

but once warm a steam generator stays at a temp i found.. am i missing something ? its just the first time ?

MauveCloud · May 17th 2015

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hmmm interesting.. lava could create steam of course

but once warm a steam generator stays at a temp i found.. am i missing something ? its just the first time ?

I'll admit I haven't done much with IC2 steam, but that sounds like incorrect behavior, either a bug or a weird mod conflict. I've used GT5 and Railcraft steam, and in both the temperature starts falling once a boiler runs out of fuel. I presume the IC2 steam generator is supposed to behave similarly when it stops receiving heat.

Pyure · May 19th 2015

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I forgot about trying that, will try. Is plutonium in/planned too?

Don't think its in, dunno if its planned. He's been churning out projects like a crazy person lately.

MauveCloud · May 19th 2015

If Choco meant fuel rods of straight plutonium, I don't find such a thing in NEI. Plutonium ore exists in GT5u, and plutonium is an ingredient of MOX fuel, though.

Chocohead · May 19th 2015

I meant straight plutonium rods like we used to have. MOX are a mix of plutonium and uranium, so it changes the properties different to how the pure plutonium worked, which is why I want both

zielinek93 · May 21st 2015

Guys I have some problems with steam generator, it seems that once start produce steam disconnect from heat source for blink, when whole steam gone in turbine, it start heat again, did you encouter that issiue?

zielinek93 · May 21st 2015

guys i have some problem with steam generator, it seems to disconect from heat source (reactor fluid port) when start generate steam, when steam amount go into turbine, start heat again, have you encounter that problem? accidentaly doubled posts, sorry for mess

GregoriusT · May 21st 2015

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Chocohead · May 22nd 2015

If you don't give it enough heat for the pressure-flow settings you've set it to, it does that.

zielinek93 · May 22nd 2015

i give almost 200Hu/t, it happen even if set pressure at 50 bars, and flow about 25. But when i set preassure for 200 bars, wait for tempeture about 630K, then drop the pressure to 100 bars, for few sec i have steam and all works but heat input drops to 0 and tempeture going down quickly, when drops to saturation temperature, heat input come back and generator start doing the same thing i've sad earlier.

I make some screens:

ThatGerman · May 22nd 2015

Hi!

1216 Hu/s
Reactor planner hash: 21p7itq69ivrsdov69c72jy91k4eyvrsfqb27auqnv0v9lnk6x3eht6eufe2gzt0ul26wd0j4xms6ww
Screenshot attached.

You will need several fluid ports for that setup to work - I have 27, but I think 20 should be enough.

Chocohead · May 22nd 2015

A flow of 25 is far too high. If you could actually supply that much heat to it, you'd be getting 2 and a half buckets of steam a tick. The base amount is a pressure of 0, and a flow of 1, which takes 100 HU/t to give 100 mb/t of Steam. At 220 Bars and a flow of 1, it takes 200 HU/t to give 100 mb/t of Superheated Steam. Each flow increase is adding onto this again, so a flow of 3 at 0 bars will give 300 mb/t of Steam for 300 HU/t.

GregoriusT · May 22nd 2015

enabled the post above chocos post

The new 5x5 IC² Reactor

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