How to determine how much water should I use to create the steam room for steam turbine?

[Rex Lupus]

I'm building the following setup:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3032937690

The space above the water tank will have 2 steam turbines and the idea is to cool down some water really fast (the 3 aquatuner are in series). I wanted to know how much water should I put it. Is there an amount that is too much? An amount that is too little? What should I aim for?

[cswiger]

Less than 1 kg / tile is probably not enough to move the heat and keep the turbines fed.
More than 50 kg / tile is probably excessive.

Advanced split-turbine designs using a pressure sensor for control usually has one section running up to 20 kg / tile before redirecting the water flow elsewhere.

[POWER WITHIN USER]

Originally posted by Rex Lupus:

What should I aim for?

<1000kg/tile - the liquid vent's pressure limit. You can use steam boxes to store a lot of power in the form of hot steam (with a smart battery and also a temp sensor to keep the machines in steam from overheating).
Other things that you can find inside steam boxes (volcanoes, vents, nuclear reactors) have lower pressure limits.

If you can't afford to dump several tons of water then >20kg/t.

[toro taro]

i start with 100kg/tile, note i am using a steel AQT, add more water to store more heat energy, max is 1000KG/tile, which is a heck of a lot but if you got the heat and water, SUCK them all IN. don't waste.

[XceptOne]

I normally use 20-30kg/tile and a couple tempshiftplates (igneous rock/granite). Works well and I've never seen any problems.

[Rex Lupus]

Originally posted by XceptOne:

I normally use 20-30kg/tile and a couple tempshiftplates (igneous rock/granite). Works well and I've never seen any problems.

I'm doing a very compact steam room. 2 tiles high. There is no way to put tempshiftplates without it touching the room walls.

[XceptOne]

Originally posted by Rex Lupus:

2 tiles high [steam room]. There is no way to put tempshiftplates without it touching the room walls.

It's not necessary to avoid touching insulated tiles.

[robotnikkkk]

........... AHHEMMM......... U MAY USE AS MANY AS U WANT,THOUGH

=AND THERE'S ONLY 2 MAJOR VALUES........... LIKE NO MORE THAN 150Kg/TILE IN CASE OF METAL VO;CANOES OR NO MORE THAN 1000Kg/TILE AT ALL IN ORDER TO IT'S JUST TO WORK BC OF LIQUID VENTS WILL START TO SIGNALIZE "OVERPRESSURE"

........... AND THE LAST ONE IS ABOUT I'VE COME UP EVENTUALLY BY MYSELF WHEN WAS TRYING TO KIND OF........ MAKE THE ULTIMATE COOLING CHAMBER ANDDD SQUEEZED LIKE 1300Kg PER TILE, HEHEHE........ AND NOW LOWERING DOWN TO 1000......... ABOUT..... LIKE...... I WANT TO 5 TURBINES AND 3 AQUATUNERS WORK AT SELF COOLING BUT THEY'RE ALWAYS TEND TO KEEP AT 141 AND DONT GO DOWN ANY LOWER

=WILL FIGURE OUT BY MYSELF BUT IT INDEED INTERESTING EXPERIENCE,HEHE

[XceptOne]

The amount of steam in the chamber does not have any influence on total temperature it will reach. It only influences the rate of temperature change.

[BaZERGer]

I use 30-50 kg on a 3*5 aquatuner chamber, to me it basically just needs enough water for it to drop 2000g constantly through the piping while running.

Simple trick, if you're recycling the same water, you don't need to worry about underfilling it, you have the pipe into the chamber, if you need to add more. Could even use that pipe to siphon off water if you put in too much. I imagine a meter valve could be handy for that.

[robotnikkkk]

Originally posted by XceptOne:

The amount of steam in the chamber does not have any influence on total temperature it will reach. It only influences the rate of temperature change.

=SO I'VE DID SOME AUTOMATICS TIED TO THERMO SENSORS BUT STILL IT DOESNT WORK WELL ENOUGH SOOOOO A BIT PRECAUTIONS IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING, HEHE