Making a line of Powered Furnaces

[Nighttblade]

Right now I have a line of Powered Furnaces, is there a way to feed in wood, say through a pipe, into the first furnace but make it move the wood down the line filling the last one first, and so on.

I want to use the wood to burn into charcoal.

 

[Maelstraz]

Just combine right placing with Input-Output Configuration (every TE machine have it in GUI).

Also, if you want to just charcoal, ignore next, but if you want to use it as a fuel,

I recommend to add a sawmill to your contraption.

Simple calculations:
When you use a stirling engine from BC

Cooked log = -80 MJ (Powered Furnace) +800 MJ (Burned Charcoal) = +720 MJ

Burned wood = +150 MJ
Sawed log = -80 MJ (Sawmill) +150*6 MJ (6 of wood) + Sawdust = 820 MJ + Sawdust
Compressed Sawdust = -0 MJ (Free craft from 8 of Sawdust) -80 MJ (Powered Furnace) +800 MJ (Burned Charcoal) = +720 MJ

So,
Sawed log = 820 MJ + 720/8 MJ = 910 MJ.

So,
8 of Burned Logs = 5760 MJ
8 of Sawn Logs = 7280 MJ (+1520 MJ or +26,3%)

A trifle, but nice. :3

 

[Omegatron]

You could use insertion pipes from thermal expansion (if you're in the right version, if you aren't diamond pipes with wood on the side going into the furnace would work but be more expensive), they would fill the first one first then move on to the next one but that would be equivalent (one furnace gets filled, then the next one, then the next one etc).

 

[Loufmier]

you can use supplier pipe from logistics pipes to spread charcoal evenly among them thus utilizing charcoal more efficiently.

 

[Nighttblade]

I ended up using ME Import/Export to each furnace. I had to use the back port for sending coal out, and the bottom port for taking wood in. I appreciate the help though guys!

 

[MadMan]

One word "Router"

 

[Zjarek_S]

Just put a pipe over furnaces, it is the simplest solutions that works really well. You don't need any fancy insertion or diamond pipes for this task.

 

[Exedra]

Factorization routers

 

[egor66]

With the TE gui there is not need for router of logi-pipes why over complicate this, line of TE furnaces pipe wood in one side/top/bottom, pipe charcoal out any of the reaming 2 sides, this is the whole idea of TE gui to automate small machine networks, for my early game power I hook up 2 TE steam engines to each furnace so 5 furnace = 10 engines = 40 mjpt, this setup the wood will fill the first furnace on the line then the next & so on, with a small mfr farm easy for for early game, you will have more that enough wood to run 8 furnaces so that 16 engines @ 4 mjpt, or pipe into boiler to make steam, but early game mfr/TE AA/furnaces & engines are good renewable power supply.

 

[Loufmier]

With the TE gui there is not need for router of logi-pipes why over complicate this, line of TE furnaces pipe wood in one side/top/bottom, pipe charcoal out any of the reaming 2 sides, this is the whole idea of TE gui to automate small machine networks, for my early game power I hook up 2 TE steam engines to each furnace so 5 furnace = 10 engines = 40 mjpt, this setup the wood will fill the first furnace on the line then the next & so on, with a small mfr farm easy for for early game, you will have more that enough wood to run 8 furnaces so that 16 engines @ 4 mjpt, or pipe into boiler to make steam, but early game mfr/TE AA/furnaces & engines are good renewable power supply.

2 steam engines/furnace? i`m pretty sure 1 is enough.

 

[egor66]

2 steam engines/furnace? i`m pretty sure 1 is enough.

2 engines twice the power ie 8mj pt.

 

[Loufmier]

2 engines twice the power ie 8mj pt.

power usage for powered furnace is 2mj/t, so even 1 is overkill.

 

[egor66]

power usage for powered furnace is 2mj/t, so even 1 is overkill.

sry you got the wrong end of the stick, the engines are to produce power to power all machines & quarry etc, the furnace are on the power network hence only two sides free to add engines too, if furnaces are inline face touching back that leaves 4 sides free, pipe for wood takes one, conduits take another, that leaves 2 for engines, charcoal is output into engine, so this system powers the machine room, one mid size quarry, mfr tree & melon farm & its self.

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[Loufmier]

sry you got the wrong end of the stick, the engines are to produce power to power all machines & quarry etc, the furnace are on the power network hence only two sides free to add engines too, if furnaces are inline face touching back that leaves 4 sides free, pipe for wood takes one, conduits take another, that leaves 2 for engines, charcoal is output into engine, so this system powers the machine room, one mid size quarry, mfr tree & melon farm & its self.

ok. i see what you`ve meant. however i`d use and induction furnace for this matter, because it can supply about 10 engines without proper fuel spread. using LP would allow to double if not triple amount of engines.

 

[MadMan]

U guys didint read the question, hes asking if u can feed wood trough one furnace in the line!
And the answer is yes you can, use 2 routers one to insert the wood one to pull the charcoal

 

[Loufmier]

U guys didint read the question, hes asking if u can feed wood trough one furnace in the line!
And the answer is yes you can, use 2 routers one to insert the wood one to pull the charcoal

while routers are decent way of doing this, but repeating yourself is the best thing you can do?

 

[loboca]

Another way: Round-robin pipe, with each connected pipe going to a different furnace.