Re: Support - Uranium Power
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 1:52 pm
I apologize, but I'm having the same problem reverse engineering the 500 MW reactor design. Things are crammed together too tightly and the temperatures too similar to distinguish your loops and piping. As you know the lack of labels in Factorio make understanding someone else's piping a pain (I recommend the Sticky Note mod...).
You said there were three loops. The first loop appears to be a closed loop between the reactor and large HE's with tanks for buffering. This then feeds heat to a second closed loop between two HEs with a tank for buffering, but the loop isn't a single contiguous loop. The inputs and outputs are shared, so cold and hot are mixing? Can you help me understand why?
The last loop is not a closed loop as you are pumping in new PW, but like the second loop it appears to be mixing the inputs and outputs. That is still confusing.
Are you using mixing input cold water and output hot water as a method to increase the temperature of the final product? I suppose a feedback loop of sorts helps there, as the water only reaches equilibrium (warm) when mixing hot and cold.
I'm surprised you are feeding pressurized water to the engines, as I thought we had to exchange heat from PW to W before pumping it there. Do they get good performance off 350C PW?
In my game I won't reach the recirculating pumps and cooling towers for quite a while (Bob+Angel+Marathon), and my own experience is that I can't get more than 3MW from a 250MW reactor using the heat exchangers and pumps. I've tried several designs now with several loops, and tried the wall style and recipe style HEs.
Could you help explain how to properly use the HE's to obtain power?
You said there were three loops. The first loop appears to be a closed loop between the reactor and large HE's with tanks for buffering. This then feeds heat to a second closed loop between two HEs with a tank for buffering, but the loop isn't a single contiguous loop. The inputs and outputs are shared, so cold and hot are mixing? Can you help me understand why?
The last loop is not a closed loop as you are pumping in new PW, but like the second loop it appears to be mixing the inputs and outputs. That is still confusing.
Are you using mixing input cold water and output hot water as a method to increase the temperature of the final product? I suppose a feedback loop of sorts helps there, as the water only reaches equilibrium (warm) when mixing hot and cold.
I'm surprised you are feeding pressurized water to the engines, as I thought we had to exchange heat from PW to W before pumping it there. Do they get good performance off 350C PW?
In my game I won't reach the recirculating pumps and cooling towers for quite a while (Bob+Angel+Marathon), and my own experience is that I can't get more than 3MW from a 250MW reactor using the heat exchangers and pumps. I've tried several designs now with several loops, and tried the wall style and recipe style HEs.
Could you help explain how to properly use the HE's to obtain power?