I have a few oily bees producing oily combs. I am going to produce an auto centrifuging and squeezing area soon. The oil will then get refined and put into a large iron tank. I am using the mindcrack pack on hard on a server. I want to use the fuel to help power a matter fabricator and my base. Is it better to pump the fuel into diesel generators are into a steam boiler and then steam turbine? Which one will produce more EU? I want the most EU in total not the most EU per tick.
EU Production with Fuel
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MJ->EU conversion via smelting cobble in Magma Crucibles and the pumping the lava to a GT Thermal Generator, will produce 1.5 EU/MJ.
Using Steam Turbines the result is 100 EU/64 MJ (because 320 steam produce 64 MJ) which is 1.5625 EU/MJ, only appicable with Boilers.
The Diesel Generator produces 384k EU. If we compare that to the number of fuelunits (RailCraft) in fuel (96k), we get a ratio of 4 EU/fuelunit.
Now with using Combustion Engines you receive 6.25 MJ/fuelunit, which is 9.375 EU/fuelunit via the Magma Crucible conversion route.
Burning the fuel in a fully heated 36HP boiler, will result in 225 EU (using 2.25 Steam Turbines) or 14,2045454545 EU/fuelunit.
I don't know the cost for smelting netherrack in a Magma Crucible from the top of my head, but it will result in more EU/fuelunit than using steam turbines.
Using Steam Turbines the result is 100 EU/64 MJ (because 320 steam produce 64 MJ) which is 1.5625 EU/MJ, only appicable with Boilers.
The Diesel Generator produces 384k EU. If we compare that to the number of fuelunits (RailCraft) in fuel (96k), we get a ratio of 4 EU/fuelunit.
Now with using Combustion Engines you receive 6.25 MJ/fuelunit, which is 9.375 EU/fuelunit via the Magma Crucible conversion route.
Burning the fuel in a fully heated 36HP boiler, will result in 225 EU (using 2.25 Steam Turbines) or 14,2045454545 EU/fuelunit.
I don't know the cost for smelting netherrack in a Magma Crucible from the top of my head, but it will result in more EU/fuelunit than using steam turbines.
I would prefer to just use diesel generators because I don't want to setup a big system just for eu. I am getting fuel renewable so I don't mind wasting a little.
The wiki says that the petroleum generator produces 300,000 EU off of one bucket of fuel at 25 EU/t
The wiki says that the diesel generator produces 384,000 EU off of one bucket of fuel at 12 EU/t
So the diesel generator would produce more EU but the petroleum generator would produce it faster
The wiki says that the diesel generator produces 384,000 EU off of one bucket of fuel at 12 EU/t
So the diesel generator would produce more EU but the petroleum generator would produce it faster
At first you want to know the efficiency of diesel gen vs steam turbine and want the most EU total. Now you just want the easiest version and don't care about EU, settling for less than a third of the efficiency of the steam boiler+turbine route. Can you make up your mind?
MilConDoin - Cobblestone takes 24,000 MJ to make one bucket of lava and 12,000 MJ for netherrack. Each bucket of lava gives you 30,000 EU, so that's 1.25 EU/MJ for cobble and 2.5 EU/MJ for netherrack. It also means you need 8 magmatic engines at 4MJ/tick to get the 30 MJ/t needed to run the magma crucible at full speed. I currently do this in my world. Any less than 8 and the Magma Crucible ramps down in speed and any more and you eat lava in the magmatics quicker than you can make it in the crucible. Cobblestone doesn't work at all, mind you, because it takes 24,000 MJ to make one bucket of lava and the magmatics only produce 18,000 MJ per bucket for a loss of 6,000 MJ per bucket.
Combustion Engines are 6 MJ/t and one bucket of fuel is 100,000 ticks, so it sounds like these would work better if going the magma crucible route. With that said, I think MilConDoin is right, and the Steam Turbines will give the most EU[DOUBLEPOST=1365026757][/DOUBLEPOST]*EDIT*
http://ftbwiki.org/Fuel
Looks like they already answer the question here:
Combustion Engines are 6 MJ/t and one bucket of fuel is 100,000 ticks, so it sounds like these would work better if going the magma crucible route. With that said, I think MilConDoin is right, and the Steam Turbines will give the most EU[DOUBLEPOST=1365026757][/DOUBLEPOST]*EDIT*
http://ftbwiki.org/Fuel
Looks like they already answer the question here:
This works great. We have a building of boilers and power converters currently running a matter fab. I'm not sure of the output, I'm not at home to check. I believe we were able to get two sets of steam consumers and converters to get ~700 eu/tick from each boiler. Ultimate pack.
Thanks for the correction, I totally forgot the change of 20K->24K. Man, I'm getting old, I live in the past
Thanks for the correction, I totally forgot the change of 20K->24K. Man, I'm getting old, I live in the past
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Thanks for the correction, I totally forgot the change of 20K->24K. Man, I'm getting old, I live in the past
Haha, no problem. It affects the numbers, that's why I mention it.
A fully heated maximum size boiler with steam turbines will produce 1,363,636 EU per bucket of fuel in 303 seconds (225 EU/t).