Steam Reheaters


When your steam is too cold

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4 years ago
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i Little logistic problem.

4 years ago

I like the steam reheaters. When i make steam from wáter, i have 165º steam. If i store it, it's temperatura Will drop. If i need use stored steam i use reheater and... it Works. But I'm thinking about médium range pipes and reheating. When a steam pipe has more tan 1 pipe long, temperatura drops quickly and i need to set up a new reheater… its an ugly setup for médium range pipes. There are a mod that makes belts electric powered. ¿Is not posible to make a new pipe for that médium range setups… a heated pipe? It Will consume some power, but mantains steam temperatura...

4 years ago
(updated 4 years ago)

There are a mod that makes belts electric powered.

They are don't consume electric energy, just hidden power poles under them.

You cannot benefit more energy from any setup. So, the heating pipe needs more energy than you get from the powered steam engine.

If you heat your pipes with the electric power 300 kW, then the steam engine make same or less than 300 kW electric energy more.

Any electric reheater make sense only if you power it with free energy, for example solar panels and then the hot steam is a way to accumulate this energy.

4 years ago

You are right… but… I need some steam for much more processes than only make power, specially when running pyanodon. It Will be not efficient from power standpoint, but it can give you some logistic improvement.. Nonetheles… it's a marginal problema... you don't need to focus it. Your mod is well like it is. Thanks for your work :)

4 years ago

It looks like vanilla cannot support such boiler:
Steam goes in, but it goes out some hotter than before. More cycles more temperature. Here is only one target temperature for boiler prototype. So for another temperature I need new boiler.

4 years ago

Oh... interesting. All is more difficult than expected. It's always the same :)

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