This is probably a "won't fix", a "minor bug", or "not a bug" – nonetheless I am wondering if I am misinterpreting what I see.
When I use steam engines instead of steam turbines for a nuclear build, the total output power depends on the directionality of the build: north/south or east/west flipping of blueprints gives different results!
Each of these heat exchangers is outputting its steam into a set of steam engines into separated electric networks, their power is consumed by radars:
As you can see, the number of actively working steam engines is different.
The different electric networks have a power production of 3.6MW, 5.9MW, or 7.5MW, none of them produce enough power to satisfy the radars, and not as much power as the heat exchanger can maximally provide.
However, I expected to see not more than 3.09MW of power produced by any set of steam engines fed by 103 steam/s, each steam engine consuming up to 30 steam/s and producing a maximum of 900kW.
Is this discrepancy caused by fluid flow directionality? Is it caused by the mismatch in temperatures?
What's going on here?
Save game for reproduction:
logfile if anyone cares:
Additional information:
This is a minimal vanilla reproduction of an issue I first saw with bob's boilers and steam engines.
[1.1.30] Output power of heat exchanger + steam engine depends on orientation.
Re: [1.1.30] Output power of heat exchanger + steam engine depends on orientation.
Looks like the normal fluid update order issue, see 57865.
Re: [1.1.30] Output power of heat exchanger + steam engine depends on orientation.
I figured out where the issue is: the information about "max temperature" is wrong.
Steam engines have no issue processing steam of higher temperature. The fluid update order just determines how many steam engines will end up having steam at all.
If you provide more than 9.28 steam/s @500°C to a steam engine it reaches 900kW output power, any additional steam flow will result in wasted energy.
Steam engines have no issue processing steam of higher temperature. The fluid update order just determines how many steam engines will end up having steam at all.
If you provide more than 9.28 steam/s @500°C to a steam engine it reaches 900kW output power, any additional steam flow will result in wasted energy.