Conveyors, pipes , Oil tanks and Aggregate storage throughput / massflow

[bajecznie nawdychany]

Dear All,
I did not found any numbers yet. Could You, please, tell me what is the mass flow of Conveyor, pipes, Oil tanks and Aggregates storage?

I am currently wokring with conveyors... I think one conveyor rail can not supply steel mill with coal or iron. Right?

Can I use setup like: Two iron mines into one aggregate storage, then single conveyor rail line into three iron ore processing plants. Where will be bottleneck?

Thank You!

[Kamil]

I think you will have enough iron (eyeballing. :D), i dont build more than one conveyor from iron storage to steel mill.

[forzion]

I was able to run a steel mill at almost full capacity with one conveyor belt imput for each material.

[The Mustachioed Marxist]

As I recall, the throughput limit on conveyor engines and pipe pumps is approx 10 tons per second, or 600 tons per game day. So you should only run into trouble if you try to feed to many consumers from a single conveyor engine - one should be sufficient to transport from or to any one source or consumer. Except maybe a 100% source quality mine with 100% staffing? (as they produce approx 1000 tons per day). But I have not tested this.

And I do think connecting multiple conveyors does offer an improvement in the situation of ship/train loaders/unloaders. 2 connections should load twice as fast as one.

EDIT:

If you supply 3 iron processors from one conveyor, you shouldn't bottleneck, but that should be about the max capacity of the conveyor (3 processors need 675 tons of ore, but it is unlikely you have 15 of 15 workers at all times), so maybe not 4.

[gusgblaw]

I have Barges>Dock> 1 conveyor> 2 small agg. store > Steelmill, and it process all the stuff I am able to send it.
I have never seen a bottleneck caused by the conveyor not having enough throughput anywhere actually.

[DaveOath]

My current setup: one strap of coal and one strap of iron is enough (as long as you can supply the aggregate storages).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2192846019

[angry_bosmer]

You will not be able to run the coal at full capacity with one conveyor, you would need at least two coal inputs into your regular steel mill to run it above 90% or so efficiency. For iron 1 is fine.

Aggregate conveyors can support about 4 processor's worth before they cap out I believe. If you have an array of like 8 processors or something of the sort, you will not be able to feed all that into 1 conveyor line. Same with mines, you can't feed more than 2 or 3 into the same line.

Otherwise, I haven't reached other real limits. On pipelines for instance, I had almost all my map's oil converge on 1 or 2 pipelines no problem (That would amount to 60 or so oil derricks). It does take a while for it to manage that much oil at first, but it should. That covered the oil demand of 2 refineries and some... but I suspect if you converge the demand of 3-4 refineries into the same line that should bottleneck, but I never tested it.

Also, a steel mill needs about 2 processors of iron and a little less than 4 processors of coal to run at full capacity, which is 1 iron mine and 2 coal mines (depending on the quality of source)

[DaveOath]

Originally posted by angry_bosmer:

You will not be able to run the coal at full capacity with one conveyor, you would need at least two coal inputs into your regular steel mill to run it above 90% or so efficiency. For iron 1 is fine.

Nice to know. My steel mill is currently running w/~300 workers and based on that result, I was thinking that it did not need the second coal belt to run at full capacity.

I will plan accordingly.

[bajecznie nawdychany]

Thank You for Your answers.

Originally posted by DaveOath:

My current setup: one strap of coal and one strap of iron is enough (as long as you can supply the aggregate storages).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2192846019

How Your comrades are going to steel mill for work?

[DaveOath]

Originally posted by bajecznie nawdychany:

How Your comrades are going to steel mill for work?

There's a small train station platform next to the coal processing plants. It can supply a decent workforce to 1 steel mill, 4 coal processing plants, 2 coal power plants and 1 brick factory.

This line is supplied from a residential district with a centralized large train platform (that line also feed another small train platform in my "gravel industrial complex".

Here is some pictures of the residential and industrial zones (many of the buildings in the residential district are planned construction).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2193423671

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2193431540

I'm still learning, but so far so good.

[bajecznie nawdychany]

Thanks for sharing those setups. Really nice.