Can't figure out properly the size my turbine should be. Found some spreadsheets but the numbers seem a bit unrealistic.
A. You have a reactor and want to build a turbine for it.
1. How much steam your reactor produces, you have 2 options to get the number.
- Test it by changing it to active and dump the steam in a tesseract
- Calculate it. You will get about your current RF x 0.55 in steam. For example you produce 2500RF/t now, if you change to active it would produce about 1375 steam/t.
Max steam per turbine is 2000/t.
2. How many coils you need.
Each material you can use for coils have a different amount of steam they can convert to RF, from lowest (Iron) to highest (Enderium). Look in the list linked down below (Turbine Testing) at "block
cost" for your material and rpm (900 or 1800).
For example: 1600 steam/t, Enderium Coils (54 steam/block), 1800rpm -> 1600/54 = 30 blocks -> 4 coils (3 full coils with 8 blocks, 1 coil with 6 blocks)
3. How many rotor blades
Each rotor blade needs 25 steam/t.
Example: 1600 steam/t -> 1600/25 = 64 blades
Because of 2000 steam max, 80 blades is the max.
Each rotor shaft can have up to 4 blades. Max length depends on your turbine 5x5->1, 7x7->2 and 9x9->3
Example: 9x9 turbine -> 5 shafts with 4 blades with a length of 3 + 1 shaft with 4 blades with length of 1 -> 5x4x3 + 1x4x1 -> 64 blades
4. RF production
The RF production depends on which coil you use, from least efficient (iron) to highest Enderium.
Look up the material you use in the spreadsheet (steam:RF) and multiply it with your steam.
Example: 1600 steam/t, Enderium coil: 1600x11.7 -> ~18.7kRF/t
B. You want to produce X amount of RF
1. Turbine
Example: You want 17.5kRF/t, Enderium coils
Steam requirement: 17500/11.7 = 1496 steam
Enderium Coils: 1496/54 = 28 blocks (3 full coils, 1 partial)
Rotors: 1496/25 = 60 blades
Choose your size, example 9x9 -> 5 shafts with 12 blades each
Turbine length is shafts+coils+walls -> 5+4+2 -> 11
Turbine is 9x9x11 with 28 enderium coils and 5 full rotors
2. Reactor
Depending on how efficient your reactor design is, you produce about 500RF per fuel rod which is about 275 steam.
Example: 2000 steam/t for the max for a single turbine -> 2000/275 -> 7.3 fuel rods so 8 rods
Build reactor with own design or choose one in the second spreadsheet I linked below (Reactor Testing).
Just as a side note, the most efficient turbine is a 9x9x14 1800rpm with Enderium coils, produces about 24kRF/t @2000 steam/t.
You need about 4 stacks cyanite, 12 stacks iron/steel, 4.5 stacks graphite and 333 enderium ingots. You also need about 700 hardened glass if you play AS or another pack that changes the glass to hardened glass in the recipes.
Hope this helps, numbers could be off because some packs use different multipliers.
Turbine Testing:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...lpERWtPMmtGT213bmc&f=true&noheader=true&gid=0
Reactor Comparison:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ckNzzHQhpgGFHkqNxB7ICrodStiq3fmfsyBFy-Z-smA/edit#gid=0
These spreadsheets are not mine but I don't know where I found them or who made them, but not my work.
