My enrichment station: compact layout, easy expandable, self-balancing. After running it will saturate itself for some time and then start yielding excess Uranium-238.
It heavily uses v0.16 splitter input priority and output filtering. It also pass the output of one centrifuge into another to reduce number of items flying on the belts.
Note the mix of normal and fast belts - it is nesessary to prevent overflowing upper part with Uranium-235 (in which case belts will stuck and Uranium-238 will not be transferred on the empty half of belt). With the help of faster belt Uranium-235 have a time to overrun the loop and go to the input again, so the splitter will get the chest's uranium only when we lack it in a main loop.
When i was trying to build my own one, i want it to be compact with module, i came to this, when saturated, only 238 input, only 235 output, works fine for me
I like the idea.
A variation with less belts/inserters.
Input top left, 235 and 238
I like this forum, give something good, you get something better in return my goal with that kind of kovarex set up is to get a perfect ratio for nuke power. Is it workin well if we shut down the all assembly by switch and when we need 235 we turn it on?
Re: Nice compact kovarex enrichment setup
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 7:12 pm
by disentius
Not tested, but should not be a problem.
Stopping the output belt will also work. (or stopping the U238 input)
my goal with that kind of kovarex set up is to get a perfect ratio for nuke power.
If the Factorio Calculator is correct you barely need any enrichment centrifuges
According to this one centrifuge can supply about 50 reactors. If you need 50 fuel cells every 200 seconds that 0.25 per second
Of course you may want some more for atomic bombs
Re: Nice compact kovarex enrichment setup
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:50 pm
by Tekillaa
I got Bitters on on my map and yes i use nukes sometimes, that's why i maybe designed a bit overkill kovarex system, but it still very compact so, it fits to my ask. For Nuke on Factorio, there no such thing as overkill, i like to go with my 100 nuke in the car to go clean some nest. and with just centrifuges providing 238 from ore, some wires and calculator will make the goal i try to achieve with a system who adapt on the player request which is irregular.
my goal with that kind of kovarex set up is to get a perfect ratio for nuke power. Is it workin well if we shut down the all assembly by switch and when we need 235 we turn it on?
If you need 50 fuel cells every 200 seconds that 0.25 per second