Helmod: Assistant for planning your factory

by Helfima

Assistant for planning your factory. Can calculate required ingredients, products, machines, modules, and beacons. Can also calculate power production / consumption.

Utilities
5 days ago
0.14 - 2.0
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b [Fixed]Steam Engine doesn't take steam temperature into account

3 years ago
(updated 3 years ago)

Hi, nice to see that you're still improving Helmod !

With latest full Pyanodon and pY Pollution & Energy : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/pypollution

(Base time : 1s)
18.74 kg of Raw Coal with Fuel value 3 MJ/kg is burned in a 100% efficiency Boiler and produces
18.74 kg × 3 MJ/kg = 56.22 MJ
stored in
56.22 MJ / (165 °C - 15 °C) / ( 200 J / °C / L ) = 1874 L of 165°C steam.
Helmod does this correctly.

However, when it comes to consume this steam,
in a 100% efficiency Steam Engine that takes up to 500°C steam,
instead Helmod says that 181.7 MW of electricity are produced

This is clearly because Steam Engines seem to assume that the steam is 500°C, as
181.7 MW / (500 °C - 15 °C) / ( 200 J / °C / L ) = 1873 L/s of 500°C steam ?

https://i.imgur.com/V7G7usa.png

3 years ago

I saw your message. I don't know when I check it. missing time

3 years ago

No worries, I'm pretty busy too these days !

2 years ago

This should be fixed in 0.12.8

2 years ago

I had already noticed :
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=563127#p563127

But thanks for the heads up !

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