Is there any info about how much water per second Heat Exchangers use? Or so. An offshore pump produces 1200 units of water per second, which is enough for 116.4 MW. If not, ensure all. It does not require electricity or fuel to operate. Steam engines will automatically adjust their power production and steam usage based on the current demands of the electricity network. 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. If you want a ratio that's a little easier to remember, those are probably your best bet. 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 steam turbine consumes 60 units of steam per second, which is 5.82 MW. The water calculation has me stumped. 12. It's recommended to build them near or on bodies of water, as that lets you place offshore pumps where ever you want. 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. All rights reserved. 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). 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. where game_day is the number of seconds in the game day which is 25000/60 s by default. Each heat exchanger converts 103 water to 103 steam, feeding 1.72 turbines. can you post a screenshot/blueprint? Valve Corporation. A "close enough" ratio is 20:24:1 accumulators to solar panels to megawatts required (for example, a factory requiring 10 MW can be approximately entirely powered, day and night, by 200 accumulators and 240 solar panels - this approximation differs from optimal only in that it calls for 20 extra solar panels, which is negligible but remember that the difference between the "close enough" ratio and the optimal ratio increases as you add more solar panels). Change fluidbox height and base level of boiler, steam engine and pump to improve fluid flow. One offshore pump can supply 20 boilers and 40 steam engines. You can check the usage on the turbines as well as the production stat on the offshore pump. 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. All rights reserved. Mark IIIs are unable to complete a full cycle without going into meltdown and thus need to be shutdown mid-cycle in order to deal with the high amount of excess heat. by Honktown Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:52 pm, Post Neighbor bonuses make nuclear very efficient: 1 reactor = 40MW = 4 exchangers = 7 turbines, 2 reactor = 160MW = 16 exchangers = 28 turbines, 4 reactor = 480MW = 48 exchangers = 83 turbines. Refer to Francis John play through video on YouTube on nuclear power. Heat exchanger heats 15C water to 500C steam; It takes 0.2 kJ of burner energy to raise 1 water 1C; Steam is consumed by steam turbines at a rate of 60 units per second; (500C - 15C) 0.2 kJ 60 units = 5820 kW, or 5.82 MW. Valve Corporation. If you run an odd number of reactors, you should have a 2 by X rectangle with one reactor dangling off the end. Sushi Belt question : r/factorio. 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. Privacy Policy. 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 leitk Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:29 am, Post You may also use this to rectify brownouts/blackouts. That's actually just odd. (Except that you can potentially turn 8 gigajoules of uranium fuel cell into 40 gigajoules of heat. Until then it is advisable to not use more than one pump per water network. 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. The technical implementation details of Factorio's pipe system still have some room for improvement. The true maximally efficient layout is a 2 by X rectangle; this gives you access to every reactor. 412.36 Water requires 1 ( 0.34) Offshore Pumps (1200 per Offshore Pump ). I concur the ratio is 1:1 cerified through testing. In practice, there is. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. But the water only gets heated up from 15C to 500C, so by 485C. Factorio version: 0.17 - 1.1 Downloaded by: 6.01K users Summary Adds scaled up versions in different sizes for various pipes and pumps. In a vanilla game that's. what, 1k science a minute? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. One steam engine consumes 30 steam per second, and one offshore pump produces 1200 water per second, so each offshore pump produces enough water to supply 40 steam engines: 1200 unit/s 30 units/s = 40. https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Heat_exchanger&oldid=175988. My own personal Factorio super-power - running out of power. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. and our r/factorio . Use the lake west of your copper mine. you can put 4 heat exchangers at the end of ~135 heat pipes, but you can put 16 heat exchangers only at the end of ~50 heat pipes. Finally, after 20 hours of work, I present the flowchart for Pyanodon Space Science! Community-run subreddit for the game Factorio made by Wube Software. -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. A theory without practice is dead, practice without a theory is blind, this quote is attributed to commander Alexander Suvorov. by Amarula Fri Jan 03, 2020 4:45 pm, Post 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If your heat pipe is too long, your reactors will max out at 1000 C before your heat exchangers can reach a steady state of 500 C, and and you'll start to waste heat. 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). Is the factory producing enough fuel (coal, solid fuel, uranium fuel cells)? by astroshak Sat Jan 04, 2020 1:58 am, Post 15 - Factorio Factorio Forums View topic - 0. The glow of the heat pipes indicates temperature, with left ends being at the upper limit of 1000C. by Honktown Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:56 pm, Post Then have a simple trigger than turns your nuclear plant on and off based on the storage tank steam levels. They only work when they're above 500 C, and have a maximum temperature of 1000 C. Temperatures above 500 don't increase efficiency; the exchanger will just store the heat, which it can then use later. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Steam that has a higher temperature than the maximum temperature of the steam engine (165C) is consumed at the normal rate (30 units/s), and does not yield more electricity. u/asdjfsjhfkdjs calculated the convergents of 500:291, and found that 7 : 4 and 55 : 32 are both fairly accurate approximations. One Offshore pump can fully supply 12 (11.64) . One steam engine consumes 900kW of energy stored in steam, so each boiler can supply 2 steam engines: 1.8MW 0.9MW = 2. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. So I've run into an issue with water for my Turbines. Someone already mentioned the normal "build on a lake" strategy. However I want to do a different configuration and want to plan out how many of each type of component I need. Heat exchangers will not produce steam until they reach 500C. When producing power, the steam engine will display a working animation: https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Steam_engine&oldid=188232. Click on an empty cell to place a nuclear power plant. 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. These fuel cells are then burned in a nuclear reactor to create heat. Doubled the heat capacity of water from 0.1kJ per degree per liter to 0.2kJ. fox hill country club membership cost. It produces 1200 units of water per second. Hence, each water pump can support a maximum of 40 steam generators. The maximum length of heat pipe you can use depends on the combined distance of your heat exchangers from your reactors. Originally posted by Alaskan Glitch: The ratio is one water pump will supply a maximum of 20 boilers with water. Get some landfill to straighten the edge youre gonna use. Each offshore pump outputs 1200 units of water per second. by mrvn Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:41 pm, Post by azesmbog Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:19 pm, Post 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. As shown, making the heat pipes thicker allows supporting heat exchangers that are farther away. 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. I think it is easiest to just have an abundance of storage tanks for the steam. using 3 pumps and a tank, you can feed 28 heat exchangers. Then you just connect the reactors to exchangers and exchangers to turbines, also you need about 1 water pump per 10 exchangers (in vanilla). By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. If I know how much energy i'm outputting from my reactors -> figure out how many turbines -> figure out how many heat exchangers -> How many pumps do I need? Tileable Nuclear Reactor Design. Additional comment actions. Electricity has to be produced before it can be transferred to consumers over the electric system. Introduction Troubled by pipes having low flow rates? Heat exchangers have a heat capacity of 1 MJ/C. Optimal ratio is 1 offshore pump for every 20 steam turbines; or, 25 offshore pumps for every 291 heat exchangers. This can be extended as far as you want; every additional 2 reactors will provide an additional 320 megawatts of heat output. factorio offshore pump heat exchanger ratio Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Don't ask me how that works.). The heat can be used to convert water to steam using a heat exchanger and the steam can be consumed by steam turbines to produce power. by Honktown Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:34 pm, Post Not sure where you got those numbers from, but in 0.15, small pumps and offshore pumps pump at exactly the same rate: 1200 fluid/s. by disentius Fri Nov 29, 2019 9:15 pm, Post What does clicking on an item's icon in the "Factory" tab do? 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. 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. One steam engine consumes 900kW of energy stored in steam, so each boiler can supply 2 steam engines: 1.8MW 0.9MW = 2. by disentius Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:36 pm, Post 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. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 1 Answer. They produce electricity by consuming steam, using water pumped from an offshore pump that was heated to 165C steam with boilers or to 500C steam with heat exchangers. Tutorial:Main bus. Also iirc tanks limit liquid throuput when it flows through them, so try connecting them on the side and not in-line if you have to at all. A heat exchanger produces 10 MJ a second, therefore it produces 10MJ / 0.097MJ = 103.0927835 steam per second. These include the power generation of a solar panel, the energy storage of an accumulator, the length of a day, and the length of a night. Press J to jump to the feed. Each uranium fuel cell will power a nuclear reactor for 200 seconds. This means a single unit of 500C steam has 5.82MW / (60/s) = 0.097 MJ of energy. Does the game consider 1 water = 1 steam (just a different temperature?) It takes 200J to heat 1 unit of water by 1C. The heat exchanger exchanges heat between a heat connection and water to produce steam. Place some pipes or a tank at the end to see if there is really water coming through. Thus, they can buffer 500 MJ of heat energy across their working range of 500C to 1000C, and require 485 MJ of energy to warm up from 15C to 500C when initially placed. Added high graphics quality option for the steam engine. you should have a 2 by X rectangle with one reactor dangling off the end. Additional comment actions. Geplaatst op 3 juli 2022 door . So we know that one offshore pump can supply 20 boilers but is that the same for heat exchangers? Heat pipes (also in reactors and heat exchangers) glow with high temperatures. Id probably put it on or next to either of the lakes in the middle north or middle south. I wasn't sure if Heat exchanger converts 1 water into 1 steam and there is nothing written in its tooltip. Doubled the heat capacity of water from 0.1kJ per degree per liter to 0.2kJ. Don't know how to use a machine? What I can't find is how much water a heat exchanger *consumes* to produce the 103ish steam per second. Calculator for the Nuclear Reactor. 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. Look at the windows in the pipes, hover over the pipes! Your other big concern is fluid flow, and the main constraint is the heat flow along heat pipes. Heat exchangers will not produce steam until they reach 500C. by mrvn Wed Jan 08, 2020 3:42 pm, Post In general, nuclear power is produced by the following production chain: Uranium ore is mined and processed to uranium-235 and uranium-238, then uranium fuel cells are created from the two. This allows steam engines to be chained together. (Except that you can potentially turn 8 gigajoules of uranium fuel cell into 40 gigajoules of heat. This link for calculations. Thanks. 9.89 gigawatts is a lot. The current optimal ratio is 1 offshore pump to 20 boilers to 40 steam engines. Build the reactor over a lake, with careful placement of landfill you can have pumps directly feeding each end of the heat exchanger line. They represent the number of modules. Do your pipes have water? Do the numbers in the "beacons" column represent the number of modules or the number of beacons? There is a handy table on the factorio wiki listing the throughput for different lengths of pipe between pumps. They produce electricity by consuming steam, using water pumped from an offshore pump that was heated to 165C steam with boilers or to 500C steam with heat exchangers. The lake under the oil field looks like a nice place, letting you place offshore pumps near the center, with the turbines extending to land. by Amarula Fri Nov 29, 2019 3:09 pm, Post Steam engines have two ports, allowing excess steam to flow through. For each 100% neighbor bonus, the reactor needs 4 more heat exchangers. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Nuclear reactors have a maximum temperature of 1000 C. Unlike boilers, nuclear reactors will not slow or stop their fuel consumption if their output isn't being used; they'll constantly use up fuel cells at the normal rate of 1 fuel cell / 200 seconds. The more heat exchangers you want to put on a single length of heat pipe, the shorter that heat pipe has to be to ensure minimal heat loss; e.g. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America), https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Nuclear_power#Neighbor_bonus. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. . Heat exchangers produce ~103 steam with a temperature of 500C every second. This layout produces 40 MW output ( 1 SRE ). Yogi Berra. Yes, there is also a maximum throughput for water that depends on the distance the . by Bauer Wed Jan 08, 2020 3:04 pm, Post Try this checklist before you completely revamp your power source. I found the cheatsheet and wiki which have been quite helpful. Community-run subreddit for the game Factorio made by Wube Software. This produces the 1:20:40 ratio. This page was last edited on 16 February 2022, at 11:27. 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. Exchanger outputs to 2 tanks. All rights reserved. One boiler consumes 1. So you have 10 + 12 = 22 pipes. 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. There's no clear ratio as you need to account for heat bonus from other reactors but it's quite easy to calculate yourself, if you fuel the reactors it will show you produced heat in MW (with bonus) you just sum up all reactors and divide by heat exchanger power (all power/power per 1 hear exchanger) to get the number, then you do the same for turbines (all power/power per 1 turbine). 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