Ratio of reactors to whatever is 2x2 480MW reactor to 10MW heat exchanger, ratio of reactors to miners is 1:4 iirc, so double that miners, You will need 1x2 chunks space near water, so anywhere, maybe next to Oil Field's Uranium patch. Press J to jump to the feed. This equation could also be used to remember the vanilla optimal ratio given its simplicity. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. A heat exchanger produces 10 MJ a second, therefore it produces 10MJ / 0.097MJ = 103.0927835 steam per second. Finally, after 20 hours of work, I present the flowchart for Pyanodon Space Science! Originally posted by Alaskan Glitch: The ratio is one water pump will supply a maximum of 20 boilers with water. by Honktown Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:56 pm, Post This page was last edited on 16 February 2022, at 11:27. To heat up 1 unit of water 1 degree, 200 joules are needed, so the heat exchanger is heating up water by 50,000C in total. #footer_privacy_policy | #footer . SmartAlec105 having more than 2 steam engines per boiler could do that. by steinio Fri Jan 03, 2020 4:52 pm, Post 120 MW ^Note: Pumps, Steam Turbines and Power are approximate for easier build ratios. HolyGarbage . Additional comment actions. by Bauer Wed Jan 08, 2020 3:04 pm, Post Each heat exchanger converts 103 water to 103 steam, feeding 1.72 turbines. The true value comes from the following facts: It takes 1 kilojoule of thermal energy to raise 5 units of water/steam 1 C, You've heated water from 15 C to 500 C; 500 - 15 = 485, Consuming steam in turbines gives you the same amount of energy back as electricity, Steam is consumed by steam turbines at a rate of 60 units/second. In practice, there is. If you overbuild reactors, you can end up wasting a lot of fuel cells without realizing it. The most heat exchangers I've been able to fit on a single length of heat pipe is 30 heat exchangers on 44 heat pipes; any more than that incurs significant heat loss. 1 25k tank water disconnected from water input. 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Mechanical Throughput Magic (circuit-free), Frequently Suggested / Link Collections, https://wiki.factorio.com/Power_product lear_power, https://mods.factorio.com/mod/AdvancedNuclear3, https://mods.factorio.com/mod/LandfillEverything. A steam turbine consumes 60 units of steam per second, which is 5.82 MW. Factorio version: 0.17 - 1.1 Downloaded by: 6.01K users Summary Adds scaled up versions in different sizes for various pipes and pumps. 6, crafting time is 15s, producing 0. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Someone already mentioned the normal "build on a lake" strategy. The main thing to remember is that Factorio generally follows the laws of thermodynamics; if your nuclear reactor produces 40 megawatts of heat, you can get a maximum of 40 megawatts of electricity out the other side. A theory without practice is dead, practice without a theory is blind, this quote is attributed to commander Alexander Suvorov. Connect water tank to exchanger for exactly 25k units water. Yes, there is also a maximum throughput for water that depends on the distance the . you should have a 2 by X rectangle with one reactor dangling off the end. Each heat exchanger converts 103 water to 103 steam, feeding 1.72 turbines. The current optimal ratio is 1 offshore pump to 20 boilers to 40 steam engines. The optimal ratio is 0.84 (21:25) accumulators per solar panel, and 23.8 solar panels per megawatt required by your factory (this ratio accounts for solar panels needed to charge the accumulators). Remember that water in pipes still obeys Factorio physics; if you pipe your water a long distance, you may not get the full 1200/s. So I've run into an issue with water for my Turbines. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. The heat exchanger exchanges heat between a heat connection and water to produce steam. In vanilla factorio, without mods which change any of these values, the optimal ratio will be the same. The heat exchanger exchanges heat between a heat connection and water to produce steam . This is taken from Accumulator / Solar Panel Ratio (which calculates this in an impressive mathematical way!) You can sideload water for a 1.1 GW plant. All rights reserved. This link for calculations. I have been reading all about Nuclear power so I can convert my factory. This page was last edited on 13 September 2019, at 23:48. Steam engines will automatically adjust their power production and steam usage based on the current demands of the electricity network. So far I have built/replaced 3 reactor sectors to be on the lake rather than beside the lake, and I am pretty happy with the results (600 fewer pipes, 800 fewer underground pipes). If you inexplicably want to go back to a 4 year old build of Factorio then you will need to build 14 boilers in a row (they each used to heat the water up by a little bit), followed by 10 steam engines. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. EDIT NOTE: The original version of the post used the wrong output for steam turbines (5.8 MW instead of 5.82). A reactor produces 40MW, plus another 40MW for each active neighbouring reactor. Get some landfill to straighten the edge youre gonna use. Ratio of heat exchangers to turbines is 1:2, don't bother building lots of pipes for 10% les turbines. Each uranium fuel cell will power a nuclear reactor for 200 seconds. -adding a second off-shore pump to start off with twice as much water (in theory); -putting in more pumps, say one pump for every underground pipe; -putting in a complete second line from off-shore pump to heat exchangers with a pump every 5 underground pipes. Heat exchangers produce ~103 steam with a temperature of 500C every second. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Each steam turbine take a maximum input of 60 units of 500 C steam per second and outputs 5.82 megawatts of electricity; the 5.8 megawatts listed on the tooltip is rounded. A perfect square of reactors has the highest theoretical efficiency, but at 3x3 and above you'll have reactors surrounded on all 4 sides and have no way to load the uranium fuel cells. and our Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Nuclear power plants mostly need a lot of water. factorio offshore pump heat exchanger ratio by eradicator Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:43 pm, Post At full 10 MW load this is 103.096 water per second. Additional comment actions. (Except that you can potentially turn 8 gigajoules of uranium fuel cell into 40 gigajoules of heat. which, given the default time lengths of: day = 12500/60 s; dawn or dusk = 5000/60 s; night = 2500/60 s, and the default: Solar_power = 60 kW; Accumulator_energy = 5 MJ = 5000 kJ, gives the optimal ratio of 0.84 accumulators per solar panel. There is a handy table on the factorio wiki listing the throughput for different lengths of pipe between pumps. by mrvn Wed Jan 08, 2020 3:42 pm, Post makes troubleshooting easier. Don't ask me how that works.). It's recommended to build them near or on bodies of water, as that lets you place offshore pumps where ever you want. It must be placed on a shoreline of a body of water on the map, and connected to a pipe or other object that accepts liquids. turbines, exchangers and reactor ratios will vary due to neighbor bonuses. All rights reserved. When producing power, the steam engine will display a working animation: https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Steam_engine&oldid=188232. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. What I can't find is how much water a heat exchanger *consumes* to produce the 103ish steam per second. If you want a ratio that's a little easier to remember, those are probably your best bet. Any experiences/suggestions/comments are welcome. 12. If not, ensure all. How do you set up a reactor to get enough water to keep producing steam? The optimal ratio of accumulators per solar panel relies on many values in the game. Thanks. The current optimal ratio is 1 offshore pump to 20 boilers to 40 steam engines. They represent the number of modules. The flow between pipes and heat exchangers is also different to pump to heat exchangers. Introduction Troubled by pipes having low flow rates? Also, the optimal ratio is: 1 offshore pump / 14 boilers / 10 steam engines is that 10 for each boiler? The steam produced is exactly 500C hot, even if the exchanger is hotter. Each heat exchanger takes a maximum input 10 megawatts of heat and uses it to heat water into steam. (Low quality because reddit wouldn't let me upload the full png) redditads Promoted. I get that offshore pumps produce 1200 units of water per second. The above ratio can be calculated from information available in-game: One boiler consumes 1.8MW of fuel and produces energy stored in steam at 100% efficiency. One Offshore pump can fully supply 12 (11.64) . The maximum length of heat pipe you can use depends on the combined distance of your heat exchangers from your reactors. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Does the game consider 1 water = 1 steam (just a different temperature?) I think it is easiest to just have an abundance of storage tanks for the steam. The steam production rate can also be calculated using the energy consumption: 1 Heat exchanger consumes 10MW, so it's putting 10,000,000 joule of energy into heating water/steam per second. by Amarula Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:51 pm, Post This means a single unit of 500C steam has 5.82MW / (60/s) = 0.097 MJ of energy. What does clicking on an item's icon in the "Factory" tab do? Click on an empty cell to place a nuclear power plant. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Heat_exchanger&oldid=175988. In a vanilla game that's. what, 1k science a minute? by Honktown Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:52 pm, Post Press J to jump to the feed. Factorio - The Best Nuclear Power Ratio To generate ten fuel cells, you will need one U-235 cell and nineteen U-238 cells. Don't ask me how that works.) This allows steam engines to be chained together. The throughput of a fluid pipe depends on the length of said pipe, but you can put in pumps to pressurize the pipe and increase the throughput. Then have a simple trigger than turns your nuclear plant on and off based on the storage tank steam levels. So you have 10 + 12 = 22 pipes. A heat exchanger consumes 10 MW. Includes pipe, pipe to ground, pump, offshore pump, heat pipe. The steam production rate can also be calculated using the energy consumption: 1 Heat exchanger consumes 10MW, so it's putting 10,000,000 joule of energy into heating water/steam per second. by Honktown Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:30 pm, Post Fresh water is at 15C while the steam produced by heat exchangers and consumed by steam turbines is at 500C, a difference of 485C, so you need 1 unit of water for each 97kJ, which is roughly 10.3 units per MJ. Until then it is advisable to not use more than one pump per water network. Water: is a liquid which can be infinitely extracted from water tiles using an offshore pump; Steam: is a gas you can create by heating water in a boiler or heat exchanger; Other Factorio Guides: Boiler to Steam Ratio; Solar Panel Ratio; Console Commands & Cheats Added high graphics quality option for the steam engine. Tileable Nuclear Reactor Design. On a lake, very carefully - they consume a monstrous amount of water, and having the multiple required offshore pumps integrated directly into the design is often worth the hassle of wrangling landfill. There are mods that can add landfill tiles to existing blueprints if you're up for modding and using a blueprint rather than making your own reactor, and this design is one of my favourites - not objectively "best" perhaps, but has a certain elegance that I deeply appreciate alongside a decent serving of entirely respectable practicality.

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