Serial Steam possible?

Dreepa · Jun 17th 2017

Hi,

so I keep seeing liquid reactors that have the 2 turbines directly adjacent to the steam generator.

Now what I wanted to do is to build one huge steam building cluster, and then pipe it all into a long row of turbines.

Like this

STEAM

STEAM -> Turbine -> Turbine -> Turbine -> Turbine -> Turbine -> Turbine - Condenser -> back to steam cluster

STEAM

Does it work? Or do I have to make it STEAM-> Turbine -> Turbine -> Condenser

A second question I am wondering about is what pipes to use. How much liquid rate per tick do I need if I want to send hot coolant from one reactor port to 6 steam builders?

I don't want the pipes to be a bottleneck.

Thanks for any help!

Chocohead · Jun 17th 2017

Quote from Dreepa

STEAM

STEAM -> Turbine -> Turbine -> Turbine -> Turbine -> Turbine -> Turbine - Condenser -> back to steam cluster

STEAM

Does it work? Or do I have to make it STEAM-> Turbine -> Turbine -> Condenser

You'd have to do Turbine -> Turbine -> Condenser, the first automatically ejects the steam into the next one, which automatically ejects some of it's output into the condenser. There's little benefit to having many turbines anyway, they can take up to 1000 mb/t of steam each so it's unlikely you'd need more than 2 or 3 unless you had a very large number of steam generators.

Quote from Dreepa

A second question I am wondering about is what pipes to use. How much liquid rate per tick do I need if I want to send hot coolant from one reactor port to 6 steam builders?

I don't want the pipes to be a bottleneck.

The fluid port lets you drain as much fluid as you want (or can ), so it would be best to aim for as much as possible really, or at the very least as much as your reactor was producing.

Dreepa · Jun 18th 2017

Hi!

Thanks for your response.

A follow up question about "not more than 2 turbines, because they can process 1000 steam/t":

It was my understanding that independent of the amount of steam, the kinetic generator and turbine combo will always just produce 100 EU (superheated) and the next turbine-kinetic combo will produce 50 EU. Can they actually go beyond that?

I plan to use 7 steam generators.

Chocohead · Jun 18th 2017

The output scales with the steam input, it will output 100 EU/t for 100 mb/t of super heated steam, but if you input 200mb/t for example, it will then output 200 EU/t. 1000 mb/t is the limit where it won't scale any higher.

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