steam turbine Steam turbine steam amount

[BLACKBERREST3]

On 9/15/2019 at 3:20 AM, SamLogan said:

That's not the point, the most important is to have enough steam to don't burn the AT. Even with steel, if you don't have enough steam (> 10-20Kg / tile), it will burn because the steam have a really small thermal conductivity so you have to offset that by a mass effect.

Put some liquid on it. oil, sc, even molten metals if you're working with those temps.

[Tonyroid]

As a bunch of you clearly know, 1000kg is too much because it blocks liquid vents. But I also find that anything more than 400kg can run the same risk because steam pressure in the tiles can bounce around quite a bit unexpectedly. Incoming water displaces whole tiles of steam and then evaporates and that can create a lot of chaos in the steam pressure. 

Using a lot of steam is a good move if you are trying to smooth out the temperature of sudden large inputs of heat. The heat capacity of a lot of steam will prevent sudden large temperature changes.

[Craigjw]

I'd thoroughly recommend using as much pressure as you can get away with, the higher the better, with an extra large steam area.  It will have a massive heat capacity and when you crack that baby open and release the steam, your dupes will be living in a sauna for the years to come!

[fox_kirya]

I'm using about 20 kg/tile. And my AT is drowned in 5-30 kg of crude oil or petroleum to prevent getting overheated. Too much steam per tile means too much unused energy. But as always it all depends on a context.

[mathmanican]

1 hour ago, fox_kirya said:

too much unused energy.

If you are happy splitting the base of the turbine into two halves and keeping just one half heated to 125C, then you can extract all the heat you want from your steam, until it no longer is steam.

[fox_kirya]

6 hours ago, mathmanican said:

If you are happy splitting the base of the turbine into two halves and keeping just one half heated to 125C, then you can extract all the heat you want from your steam, until it no longer is steam.

Didn't know it works. Thanks.