Cooling Towers and Condenser
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Cooling towers are perhaps the most visually iconic part of a nuclear power plant (although they are not technically unique to them). After steam has completed it's cycle of generating electricity, the residual heat and pressure are not sufficient to produce any more, so the waste heat must be released. Cooling towers release this heat into the atmosphere and turn the waste steam back into water, completing the Rankine cycle.
Condensers do the same thing, but not to the same capacity or visual appeal.
Crafting
Steam condensers use a simple crafting table recipe, which requires 4 Steel Ingots, 4 Iron Plates, and a Copper Panel. The full cooling towers use anvils.
The auxiliary cooling tower (which has an appearance closer to a chimney) requires at least a Tier 3 anvil to make using the following components:
The full sized hyperbolic tower uses the following recipe and requires at least a Tier 4 anvil:
The High-Power Steam Condenser requires an Assembly Machine to make:
Usage
Simply pipe in low pressure steam and pipe out the cooled water.
The following table shows the conversion rates:
| Condensation Rate | mB/t | mB/s |
|---|---|---|
| Steam Condenser | 5 | 100 |
| Auxiliary Cooling Tower | 50 | 1000 |
| Cooling Tower | 500 | 10000 |
| High-Power Steam Condenser | 60 | 1200 |
Note: Low pressure steam condenses into the same volume as water.
Trivia
- They emit steam clouds that blow along "fictional" winds where they collect into a cloud. The cloud will eventually dissipate when it stops being fed steam from a tower.
- The auxiliary cooling tower is visually designed after the ones in Chernobyl and the hyperbolic ones are a typical design commonly seen at nuclear or coal plants.
- The cracked concrete in the former is purely aesthetic.
- The steam clouds used to have a visual glitch where sometimes the clouds will appear either gray or even black instead of the clean white. This has the effect of making them look like chimneys instead of cooling towers.
Gallery
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Steam condenser
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Auxiliary cooling tower
