Steam Cooling


Steam cannot be stored without energy loss

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4 years ago
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g I like the idea

4 years ago

Interesting… It'll become wáter? or maybe only decrease temperature? void?

4 years ago

I like the idea as well but please add a machine to heat the steam up once more else the mod would be useless except to be a deterrent on servers

4 years ago

Steam IRL can't be reheated. Just heat up more water.

4 years ago

Why not? Physics says otherwise.

4 years ago
(updated 4 years ago)

Yeah in a closed loop. Nothing in this game simulates that.

Plus even with a steam reheating system you'd still need to add new steam eventually.

4 years ago

...add a heating element to the tank. Is that so difficult?

Well, yeah, you're still using it.

4 years ago

Then just use vanilla cause it seems to have that.

4 years ago

But not the power usage!

4 years ago

If the steam heater can be used separately, it needs to be done as separately mod.

I see three steam heaters: burner steam heater, that needs solid fuel, the electric steam heater and high temperature steam heater that supports heat pipes as power source.

As option can be done as solar powered heat source or underground heat exchanger as it was done by geothermal power plants.
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GeothermalSteam
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Geothermal

4 years ago

Earlier the Factorio has water and steam as one fluid, that changes icon and name by 100°C, but now they are two separate fluids that cannot be mixed in one fluidbox together.
So if you see 15° steam, it means that the pipe has small vacuum and the steam cannot be condensed back to water. It's extra low temperature steam.

4 years ago

I had been thinking about the reheating problem... ¿How manages pyanodon mods to reheat combustión mixture? If combustión mixture can be reheated… ¿Why not is the same for steam??

4 years ago

The problem is that the boiler cannot have "multiple recipes". It has the input filter, that can be deleted and output filter, that makes defined production. If the input filter will be nil, then any input fluid gives steam by the output.

I see the right solution as new entity, that has filters "steam" by input and output, as burner boiler, as electric boiler, as heat pipe boiler. Maybe uranium-heated boiler for extra big factories.

4 years ago

Sorry… pyanodon's combustión mixture is not re-heated, but distinct temperature mixtures can be mixed and then overall temperatura promediates… If i have a tank with 30% of 500º, adding the resting 70% of 700º mixture, i have a final 100% of 640º combustión mixture. All of them Works equally with the power plant… and has more power when more temperature...

4 years ago

I sent last message before Reading darkfrei's last. I understand now. Uah… it's very complicated to make a Good mod man… You're amazing. Thanks for your Good work, with or without reheating :)))

4 years ago

The mod with steam reheaters: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/SteamReheaters

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