Since steam can be turned into kU with the Kinetic Steam Generator, what is the purpose of the condenser?
Super-heated steam comes from distilled water in the Steam Generator too right?
Purpose of the condenser
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Since steam can be turned into kU with the Kinetic Steam Generator, what is the purpose of the condenser? Super-heated steam comes from distilled water in the Steam Generator too right?
no Super-heated comes from heat up steam from Steam Generator inside a "Superheater"
-> Super-heated steam -> turbine = 4 time more output... and less turbine damage -
will this superheated steam be clear(realism), or will it have a color(gameplay/visibility)?
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will this superheated steam be clear(realism), or will it have a color(gameplay/visibility)?
for gameplay visibility look like brighter steam
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to create distilled water from steam. which won't calcify your steam generators, or at least that is my understanding.
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OK, that still doesn't explain the purpose of the condenser though
16 Build in 7 Days = in the middle of development.... Test report Bugs put dont ask for purpose
... somewhere in my designe notes it have a gut purpose -
I was just checking that it wasn't going to be removed like the Water Heater
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I was just checking that it wasn't going to be removed like the Water Heater
Water Heater not remove rename -> Steam Generator
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Earlier, I had assumed that the steam cycle would be more like:
Water -> Reactor -> Superheated Steam -> Turbine -> Steam -> Condenser -> Water
Thus, the reactor could either be cooled with water OR coolant, and each would have its own advantages somehow. Perhaps one would be better for efficiency, and the other would be better for high-power setups. But I'm interested to see what the superheater is like and what kind of gameplay it will bring.
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As of build 551, it looks like the condenser has a purpose now...
Steam Kinetic Generators (which really should be called Steam Turbines, IMO) will now cause explosions unless there is somewhere to "output" their exhaust.
- If the input steam was superheated, the exhaust steam can be put into another turbine to generate more power.
- If the input steam was not superheated, the exhaust can only be put into a condenser, which must be placed adjacently.I suppose you could choose to allow the explosions instead of using a condenser, but I don't think you'd be able to regenerate enough water to keep the Steam Boiler fed. I'll have to test that
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So, right now, even with a condenser I am slowly running out of distilled water for my two-stage turbine.
I think the mass-balance gets screwed up somewhere. As far as I can tell:
- The boiler turns 1 water into 100 steam.
- The turbine turns 1000 steam into 1 distilled water and 900 exhaust steam.
- For each operation, the condenser turns 10000 steam into 20 distilled water.Yeah, that doesn't quite add up. The condenser should either output 100mB of distilled, or change its maxprogress to 2000.
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So, right now, even with a condenser I am slowly running out of distilled water for my two-stage turbine.
I think the mass-balance gets screwed up somewhere. As far as I can tell:
- The boiler turns 1 water into 100 steam.
- The turbine turns 1000 steam into 1 distilled water and 900 exhaust steam.
- For each operation, the condenser turns 10000 steam into 20 distilled water.Yeah, that doesn't quite add up. The condenser should either output 100mB of distilled, or change its maxprogress to 2000.
BUG fix in my next Build > #552 -
I have a small suggestion:
Let steam turbines accept steam from other steam turbines that run with steam and not superheated steam. That way one could chain more steam turbines together and every added turbine would be less efficient than the one before, so it would be a self balancing system. The only thing to keep in mind is that there is no perpetual motion. So the electric heat generation must be less efficient than the energy generation from heat. If one would chain 10 Steam turbines the result would be ~ 7 Steam turbines running with full steam power.
One suggestion would be to change the excess steam to 50% that way the series would converge to 2 (1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + ... = 2)EDIt: Of course other values can be chosen to balance towards a specific efficiency.
One could change the electrical heat generator to be as efficient as a setup with infinite Steam Turbines.
