Solid and Liquid Fueled Boilers

[Beleriond01]

Dear fellow FTB'ers,

Since blaze rods were nerfed I've decided to add a liquid fueled boiler to my boiler room (both will be 3x3x5 boilers). Since I have an SC tree farm and a Forestry peat bog fueling my solid fueled boiler I figured, why waste what you have?

My question is this: if I set up my liquid fueled steam boiler up next to the other one and then hook both boilers up to my 8 industrial steam engines...will that make a difference or is it better to hook up the new boiler to some new and separate steam engines. Sort to creating a secondary power supply?

I have resources enough ATM to warrant either approach but I was just wondering what the most efficient approach would be.

Thanks for any and all advice,
Bel*.

 

[lolpierandom]

I'm pretty sure they can handle 9 each, so you'd ideally want 18 steam engines.

And make sure that you're pumping enough steam to them, or you're basically wasting it.

 

[Beleriond01]

On my current setup I believe I have 6 or even 8 liquiducts pumping steam into the engines...I intended to repeat that setup for the new boiler anyways, just wasn't sure it would be wasted on the number of engines I'm currently using.

From your answer I take it I do indeed "need" more engines lol.

Thanks!

 

[zaekeon]

A 36 low pressure boiler should do 9 industrial engines and a 36 high pressure should do 18 industrial engines. Each liquiduct connection should handle 2 engines and they compress so just make one liquiduct attached to the boiler for every two engines and make them all run into a single liquiduct pipe. For a better view watch direwolf20 season 5 episode on turtle power

 

[Beleriond01]

HOLY COW! Then I'm now looking at making another 18 industrial steam engines LOL.

Have almost finished hooking up the old (solid fuel) boiler back to its steam engines (had to reorganize the room to make space for the 2nd 36hp boiler...

Oh well...what has to be done has to be done I suppose! 36 industrial steam engines, 18 per HP boiler it is then.

Cheers,
Bel*.

 

[lolpierandom]

A 36 low pressure boiler should do 9 industrial engines and a 36 high pressure should do 18 industrial engines. Each liquiduct connection should handle 2 engines and they compress so just make one liquiduct attached to the boiler for every two engines and make them all run into a single liquiduct pipe. For a better view watch direwolf20 season 5 episode on turtle power

Wait wat, I gave him the numbers for LP?

Oops. My bad.

 

[Spikednate12]

Make sure thermal expansion is updated as well, otherwise your going to be wasting that steam due to a slight bug with liquiducts in the old version.

 

[Beleriond01]

Make sure thermal expansion is updated as well, otherwise your going to be wasting that steam due to a slight bug with liquiducts in the old version.

I'm using the DW20 pack and always check for updates prior to playing.

Jsut for the record 36HP boilers can power 18 steam engines per boiler then? Means I'm looking at making 36 of them in total...might have to extend the room as well lol!

Bel*.

 

[Daemonblue]

Why would anyone need 36 36hp boilers? Each one produces enough steam to make 144 MJ/t, meaning 36 of those would produce 5,184 mj/t. Quite frankly, that could probably power a relatively decent sized server. At the very least it would be able to power 100 quarries running at full speed (not factoring in MJ loss from transport).

I have some designs that you can use with some liquid tesseracts that I posted a good while back that work fairly well starting at this post in another thread. The post linked is a 1-3 boiler design and the second post is a design that works with 4 boilers. The 4 boiler design uses less space than the single boiler design, but due to how it works it requires 4 boilers, while the single boiler design can be used with fewer. You could probably extend the 4 boiler design as long as you keep a square shape - so you could probably extend it to 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, etc. and keep the efficiency (I say square shape, should actually say rectangles including squares).

Personally I prefer to go with the 4 boiler design since you can set up a total of 16 boilers in one chunk on the same level and have a walkway between them.

 

[Neirin]

I think he meant 36 steam engines, not boilers. 36 boilers is... excessive.

 

[Hydra]

If it's worth doing it's worth overdoing

 

[Poppycocks]

Got 6 boilers atm, 2 of 'em are there just to supply my fermenters and stills - the fuel isn't used anywhere..... YET .