Fastest way to fill an Oil Tanker?

[VlamBallas]

I'm building a massive flying nuclear oil tanker, capable of carrying 1,060,000L..
But the pump speed at the oil refineries sucks.
Its gonna take HOURS to fill this thing

Any ideas on how to fill the tanks faster?

[pontfogel]

Use all three hose connectors as well as the connector on the crane. Make sure your tanker is set up properly regarding pipes and pumps. But it's still going to take ages to fill up that monstrosity.

[superosh]

It might help a bit to use t-pipes with the new filters per fluid inlet.
So one side connceted to the tank(filter "fluids only"), the other side connected to the filter which should be set to "gases only". The "gases-only" side would the end up in a port to the outside-world.
So you get rid of some unwanted air within the fluid system.
This could speed the fluid-fllow up.
However, at least the old filters were causing some fluid-flow.slowdowns.

But...yes....filling up this beast might take a while.

[Enorats]

The pumps all seem to top out at a rather slow rate of a few liters a second per line at most. Even the fanciest and most well designed tankers I've ever seen can't do better than that. You can also only hook up so many lines, because each pump only has 4 in total (3 on front, one more on the crane).

What's even worse is that when you get back to base you can hook up a whopping 1 line to empty into your base tanks. Emptying even a tiny fuel tank can take ages. I have no idea why they designed it this way, because it's incredibly annoying.

[NiceGuy]

1. Nobody needs a 1.000.000 liter tanker in this game. At least not for the default/intended gameplay.
2. There is not much you can do. The flow rate for hoses is just too small and the default gantrys have too few connections. You have to built or download new base gantrys with more hose anchors.
3. Fill your tanks from the top and empty from the bottom as physics and pressure count in this game.
4. No T-tubing, each hose anchor needs its own exclusive pipe and outlet/inlet
5. Have also big pumps on the ship for in and out for each pipe. Don't relay only on the default base gantrys pumps.
6. Loading a real life super tanker can take up too 3 days, just in case someone plays the realism card 🤪
7. Just don't do it. This game has it's limitations and this is one of it. It's just not made for such big scale action.

[VlamBallas]

So after much experimentation and extensive testing, I've come to the conclusion that a million liter tanker might be a bit excessive

I figured i could build a custom oil rig to fill the beast... BUT, then it'll take ages to empty it anyway...
Just because I can, doesn't necessarily mean I should hey?

Thanks for the advice y'all
At the very least: I still have a massive ultra heavy lift quad rotor platform that can be repurposed for some other, more practical, use...
Perhaps a deep sea salvage crane/vessel or something...

[ZBRUH10]

Originally posted by VlamBallas:

I'm building a massive flying nuclear oil tanker, capable of carrying 1,060,000L..
But the pump speed at the oil refineries sucks.
Its gonna take HOURS to fill this thing

Any ideas on how to fill the tanks faster?

Why flying?

[Black_Fox]

Originally posted by Enorats:

What's even worse is that when you get back to base you can hook up a whopping 1 line to empty into your base tanks. Emptying even a tiny fuel tank can take ages. I have no idea why they designed it this way, because it's incredibly annoying.

You don't need to empty fuel tanks into the base with pumps though, just despawn the vehicle and all the fuel will be transfered to the base tank

[pontfogel]

Originally posted by ZBRUH10:

Why flying?

Why not? Making what should be impossible builds possible is what this game does best. :)

Originally posted by VlamBallas:

Perhaps a deep sea salvage crane/vessel or something...

Or a flying container carrier? If it's that big you should be able to load a bunch of containers on it.

[bendigo (1983-2023) RIP]

So flow rade is usually maxed out at about 75ish L/S on large pumps.

Pressure in tanks is a thing again. So add 3 large pumps per tank. Add a vent on top of the tank with a filter that allows only gasses.

Avoid T pipes and cross connections,

Use the # pumps to assist the land based pumps to increase flow rate. You could use 3 in and 3 out or use valves to reverse the flow (not reccomended).

Try to keep tanks to a max volume of 50kL to reduce the amount of pressure that slows flow rate. 25k max is even better.

If you can average 50L/S/pump. each set of 3 will pump 150L/s (I will let you do the math on that) fill one tank at a time.

You could just use 3 pumps and pipes with shutoff valves to direct the flow and reduce the number of pumps.

That is the fastest way I have found to fill tanks.

I know the large impeller pumps have a higer pressure and flow rate, but it throws off the balance of the pumps at the station and causes fluctuations. so I use (and reccomend using) the large electric pumps.

The key is to allow air in and out of the tank and not through the liquid pumps.

[pontfogel]

Originally posted by bendigo:

Avoid T pipes and cross connections,

Out of curiosity, why?

[VlamBallas]

Originally posted by ZBRUH10:

Originally posted by VlamBallas:

I'm building a massive flying nuclear oil tanker, capable of carrying 1,060,000L..
But the pump speed at the oil refineries sucks.
Its gonna take HOURS to fill this thing

Any ideas on how to fill the tanks faster?

Why flying?

Because travelling long distance to sell oil takes a lot of time...
So I figured a nuclear powered flying tanker would solve that problem

[VlamBallas]

[/quote]
Or a flying container carrier? If it's that big you should be able to load a bunch of containers on it. [/quote]

Each of the 32 oil tanks are about container size...
Haven't thought about making a container carrier!

Originally posted by bendigo:

So flow rade is usually maxed out at about 75ish L/S on large pumps.

Pressure in tanks is a thing again. So add 3 large pumps per tank. Add a vent on top of the tank with a filter that allows only gasses.

Avoid T pipes and cross connections,

Use the # pumps to assist the land based pumps to increase flow rate. You could use 3 in and 3 out or use valves to reverse the flow (not reccomended).

Try to keep tanks to a max volume of 50kL to reduce the amount of pressure that slows flow rate. 25k max is even better.

If you can average 50L/S/pump. each set of 3 will pump 150L/s (I will let you do the math on that) fill one tank at a time.

You could just use 3 pumps and pipes with shutoff valves to direct the flow and reduce the number of pumps.

That is the fastest way I have found to fill tanks.

I know the large impeller pumps have a higer pressure and flow rate, but it throws off the balance of the pumps at the station and causes fluctuations. so I use (and reccomend using) the large electric pumps.

The key is to allow air in and out of the tank and not through the liquid pumps.

Should each set of pumps be T-jointed to a single output?

If so, then theoretically: I can hook up the gantry + the 3 hose connectors, then pump from/to 4 individual tanks, to get a total output of 600L/s?

[bendigo (1983-2023) RIP]

Originally posted by pontfogel:

Originally posted by bendigo:

Avoid T pipes and cross connections,

Out of curiosity, why?

T pipes mess with flow rate because it is trying to fill both sides at once but may only have enough to fill one at a time.

[bendigo (1983-2023) RIP]

Originally posted by VlamBallas:

Or a flying container carrier? If it's that big you should be able to load a bunch of containers on it. [/quote]

Each of the 32 oil tanks are about container size...
Haven't thought about making a container carrier!

Originally posted by bendigo:

So flow rade is usually maxed out at about 75ish L/S on large pumps.

Pressure in tanks is a thing again. So add 3 large pumps per tank. Add a vent on top of the tank with a filter that allows only gasses.

Avoid T pipes and cross connections,

Use the # pumps to assist the land based pumps to increase flow rate. You could use 3 in and 3 out or use valves to reverse the flow (not reccomended).

Try to keep tanks to a max volume of 50kL to reduce the amount of pressure that slows flow rate. 25k max is even better.

If you can average 50L/S/pump. each set of 3 will pump 150L/s (I will let you do the math on that) fill one tank at a time.

You could just use 3 pumps and pipes with shutoff valves to direct the flow and reduce the number of pumps.

That is the fastest way I have found to fill tanks.

I know the large impeller pumps have a higer pressure and flow rate, but it throws off the balance of the pumps at the station and causes fluctuations. so I use (and reccomend using) the large electric pumps.

The key is to allow air in and out of the tank and not through the liquid pumps.

Should each set of pumps be T-jointed to a single output?

If so, then theoretically: I can hook up the gantry + the 3 hose connectors, then pump from/to 4 individual tanks, to get a total output of 600L/s? [/quote]

One pump per connector and to one port at a time. You can use Ts or even cross or omni pipes for diverters. but connect it to shutoff valves so it is only pumping to/from one at a time. using flow valves from the pump also helps.

You could set it up so each single pump is pumping to a tank at a time for balance. and it will still pump the same amount/second jus ill each tank slower.

[pontfogel]

Originally posted by bendigo:

T pipes mess with flow rate because it is trying to fill both sides at once but may only have enough to fill one at a time.

I can see how it could be a problem if the pump is placed before the t-pipe. But if I have one fluid connector leading to a t-pipe with each branch leading to a pump leading to a fluid port, shouldn't the output be the same as a single pipe and pump regardless? Even if there isn't enough to fill both pipes after the t-pipe, both pumps will still pump out whatever they recieve, right?