hi,
In version 0.15.0, Steam Turbines were added to the game. They are significantly more powerful than steam engines (1 steam turbine is equal to 10.5 steam engines), but I'm finding it difficult to keep them running at 100% power. To even reach the maximum available performance for steam turbines, you need to use nuclear power and heat exchangers. A major update for Factorio was released the other day (version 0.15). One of the many changes included a change to how the boiler looks. Boilers now take up a lot more space than before, and also have three pipes as opposed to one on each side (the third pipe is the one connected to the offshore pump in the picture above).
this topic might have been discussed earlier with a different title.the nuclear setup has its own challenges and beauty to it as it has many real world factors built in to it.
but the steam engine , kind of less interesting.
my suggestion is to include a item called a 'super heater' which super heats steam to higher temperature.
this would make the steam set up bit more interesting and the turbines can be used with it.
the steam set up is made simple and does not much research has been put into it as nuclear power set up in the game (IMO).
There are items like steam superheater, regenerator , reheater and many other techniques in a Thermal power plant (big topic), to increase efficiency.
suggestions are welcome.
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Health | 400 |
Backscenesfree model railway resources. Resistances | Fire: 0/70% |
Stack size | 10 |
Dimensions | 3×5 |
Power output | 900 kW |
Maximum temperature | 165 °C |
Fluid consumption | 30/s |
Mining time | 0.3 |
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Internal name | steam-engine |
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Daily assignmentsworld history. Steam engines are the most basic electricity generator, available to the player at the start of the game. They produce electricity by consuming steam, using water pumped from an offshore pump that was heated to 165°C steam with boilers or to 500°C steam with heat exchangers. Steam that has a higher temperature than the maximum temperature of the steam engine (165°C) is consumed at the normal rate (30 units/s), and does not yield more electricity. This means the energy that was put into the steam to heat it to a higher temperature is wasted.
Steam engines will automatically adjust their power production and steam usage based on the current demands of the electricity network. Hovering the mouse over a steam engine will display their current power production (Performance) and their possible power production (Available Performance), in a display on the right.
Steam engines have two ports, allowing excess steam to flow through. This allows steam engines to be chained together. The current optimal ratio is 1 offshore pump to 20 boilers to 40 steam engines.
Using steam engines for power does not produce pollution, unless boilers are used to heat up the water.
When producing power, the steam engine will display a working animation:
History
- 0.18.18:
- Adjusted steam engine and turbine collision boxes so player can walk between two steam engines.
- 0.15.0:
- Steam is now internally a separate fluid from hot water.
- Added high graphics quality option for the steam engine.
- Increased the maximum power production of the steam engine from 510kW to 900kW.
- Doubled the heat capacity of water from 0.1kJ per degree per liter to 0.2kJ.
- Change fluidbox height and base level of boiler, steam engine and pump to improve fluid flow.
- 0.10.7:
- Made bounding box smaller.
- 0.10.0:
- New graphics.
- New sounds.
Factorio Steam Key
- 0.5.1:
- New graphics
- 0.1.0:
- Introduced
Factorio Steam Page
See also
- Electric system
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