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. (Except that you can potentially turn 8 gigajoules of uranium fuel cell into 40 gigajoules of heat. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Yes, there is also a maximum throughput for water that depends on the distance the . Hence, each water pump can support a maximum of 40 steam generators. The number of boilers can be derived from the number of steam engines: 40 2 = 20. by Honktown Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:34 pm, Post Added high graphics quality option for the steam engine. Community-run subreddit for the game Factorio made by Wube Software. by astroshak Sat Jan 04, 2020 1:58 am, Post factorio offshore pump heat exchanger ratio by leitk Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:29 am, Post When producing power, the steam engine will display a working animation: https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Steam_engine&oldid=188232. Id probably put it on or next to either of the lakes in the middle north or middle south. Heat exchangers produce ~103 steam with a temperature of 500C every second. See also the applied power math tutorial to answer the question how much coal do I need? EDIT NOTE: The original version of the post used the wrong output for steam turbines (5.8 MW instead of 5.82). What does clicking on an item's icon in the "Factory" tab do? 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. The maximum length of heat pipe you can use depends on the combined distance of your heat exchangers from your reactors. 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. As shown, making the heat pipes thicker allows supporting heat exchangers that are farther away. by mrvn Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:41 pm, Post by Honktown Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:56 pm, Post 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. And probably how many Offshore Pumps you need for them? Community-run subreddit for the game Factorio made by Wube Software. I wasn't sure if Heat exchanger converts 1 water into 1 steam and there is nothing written in its tooltip. by eradicator Fri Nov 29, 2019 4:43 pm, Post Also, the optimal ratio is: 1 offshore pump / 14 boilers / 10 steam engines is that 10 for each boiler? A heat exchanger consumes 10 MW. Additional comment actions. Exchanger outputs to 2 tanks. Steam engines will automatically adjust their power production and steam usage based on the current demands of the electricity network. by Amarula Fri Jan 03, 2020 4:45 pm, Post So we know that one offshore pump can supply 20 boilers but is that the same for heat exchangers? So the 50,000C are enough to heat up 103 units of steam per second, since 50,000 / 485 = 103.09. 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. Includes pipe, pipe to ground, pump, offshore pump, heat pipe. I've confirmed that the true value is indeed 5.82, and updated everything accordingly. Tutorial:Main bus. by Honktown Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:30 pm, Post Press J to jump to the feed. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. If you want a ratio that's a little easier to remember, those are probably your best bet. So a 2x2 block produces 480MW (4*3*40). By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 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. As far as I can tell, the absolute smallest perfect-ratio setup possible is: which would require an input of 1.46 uranium fuel cells per second and output a cool 46.56 gigawatts of electricity. 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. 15 - Factorio Factorio Forums View topic - 0. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Valve Corporation. That's actually just odd. The technical implementation details of Factorio's pipe system still have some room for improvement. by steinio Fri Jan 03, 2020 4:52 pm, Post 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. This page was last edited on 16 February 2022, at 11:27. P UMPING U NITS M EETING P HYSICS S TANDARDS This mod started off as a project to sustain my most eco-unfriendly excessive water needs by implementing some Higher Tier Offshore Pumps. 412.36 Water requires 1 ( 0.34) Offshore Pumps (1200 per Offshore Pump ). This is taken from Accumulator / Solar Panel Ratio (which calculates this in an impressive mathematical way!) At full 10 MW load this is 103.096 water per second. 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. Pump Ratio ^ 1. Press J to jump to the feed. Looking for efficient setups? The optimal ratio of accumulators per solar panel relies on many values in the game. turbines, exchangers and reactor ratios will vary due to neighbor bonuses. 6, crafting time is 15s, producing 0. The water calculation has me stumped. 9.89 gigawatts is a lot. Then you just connect the reactors to exchangers and exchangers to turbines, also you need about 1 water pump per 10 exchangers (in vanilla). Geplaatst op 3 juli 2022 door . If the only effect the mod has on the game is it changes the total length of one day, without changing the ratio of dusk: day: dawn: night, then the equation can be simplified as. by Amarula Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:51 pm, Post A powered nuclear reactor outputs 40 megawatts of heat, plus an additional 40 megawatts for each powered nuclear reactor directly adjacent to it. My own personal Factorio super-power - running out of power. HolyGarbage . A heat exchanger produces 10 MJ a second, therefore it produces 10MJ / 0.097MJ = 103.0927835 steam per second. There are multiple methods to produce electricity: Each steam engine needs 0.5 boilers when running at full capacity. 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. It's recommended to build them near or on bodies of water, as that lets you place offshore pumps where ever you want. Don't ask me how that works.). 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 Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. -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. chrisgbk 6 yr. ago Technically the HX consumes the water and outputs an equal amount of steam. Now you have 0 waste of fuel. 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. 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. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Heat exchangers are pipes too. So you have 10 + 12 = 22 pipes. 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. 1 offshore pump: 20 Steam Turbines. Refer to Francis John play through video on YouTube on nuclear power. 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. 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. I have been reading all about Nuclear power so I can convert my factory. You may also use this to rectify brownouts/blackouts. A compendium of the most common Factorio game facts, such as build ratios, tips/tricks, . This can be extended as far as you want; every additional 2 reactors will provide an additional 320 megawatts of heat output. Steam engines are the most basic electricity generator, available to the player at the start of the game. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Connect water tank to exchanger for exactly 25k units water. 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). If you overbuild reactors, you can end up wasting a lot of fuel cells without realizing it. Get some landfill to straighten the edge youre gonna use. Do your pipes have water? This layout produces 40 MW output ( 1 SRE ). So I've run into an issue with water for my Turbines. Valve Corporation. Don't know how to use a machine? A reactor produces 40MW, plus another 40MW for each active neighbouring reactor. If not, ensure all. Nuclear power plants mostly need a lot of water. Each boiler is capable of producing enough 165C steam for two steam generators. It produces 1200 units of water per second. All rights reserved. A reactor without neighbor bonus needs 4 heat exchangers so that all its heat gets consumed. 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.