Heat exchanger not producing steam

[valenti_scott]

Hello-
I have a nuclear power plant which has two heat exchangers, and neither are producing steam. I was wondering if someone could suggest what the issue might be.

The power plant appeared to be working just fine, earlier. It has water coming into the heat exchangers, and the steam is directed into turbines (two for each heat exchanger). The water reads 95.7.

The temperature of the heat exchangers look fine. One heat exchanger is connected directly to the nuclear reactor, and the other is several tiles away and connected by heat pipes. The nuclear reactor looks fine and is properly fueled.
-Scott

[JoshW12]

Has to be 500C to produce steam.

[ZomBeGone]

Make sure the heat pipes actually connect from the reactor to the heat exchanger.

Also the temp of the water does have to be near 500C as Josh mentioned or in the 490s.

Make sure that your turbines are actually connected to the heat exchangers, no missing pipes.

Make sure you have a load on the turbines.... connect it to the main power grid.

And... It takes a few minutes to build up the heat to boil the water. But it needs to be about 500C

Edit: Oh, and make sure you empty out the used fuel or the reactor will shut down.

[BitterSwede]

Not sure if that bug is still around, but sometimes in the early days of 0.15, the heat pipes had to be connected in the right order to not bug out. Always drag them from the reactor to the heat exchanger.
If the reactor works fine, but the exchangers doesn't generate heat, I would remove the heat pipes and lay them down again, just to make sure.

[valenti_scott]

I removed the heat pipes and re-laid them as suggested by Bitter. Also I added another heat exchanger and a turbine. Then the steam levels gradually returned to normal. I think the main issue was that my base was underpowered and I needed to add a turbine. Thanks for all the advice. -Scott

[Warlord]

引用自 valenti_scott：

I removed the heat pipes and re-laid them as suggested by Bitter. Also I added another heat exchanger and a turbine. Then the steam levels gradually returned to normal. I think the main issue was that my base was underpowered and I needed to add a turbine. Thanks for all the advice. -Scott

You can use 4 heat exchangers per reactor. This number goes up if you place more reactors near eachother (adjacency bonus). Each exchanger makes enough steam to power a bit less than 2 turbines each.

If you only had 2 exchangers, you can add 2 more and have about 7-8 turbines.