Steam
| Steam | |
|---|---|
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| Properties | |
| Type | Gas |
| Difficulty of Production | Easy |
| Exists in Reality | Yes |
| Can Be Placed | No |
| Temperature | 100°C |
| Renewable? | Yes |
| Tooltip | |
| Steam 100°C Thermal capacity: 2 TU per 10mB [Boilable] Efficiency 100% [Heatable] Efficiency 25% Thermal capacity: 200 TU per 100mB [Turbine Steam] Efficiency 100% [Coolable] Efficiency 50% [Gaseous] [Ignored by siphon] Hbm's Nuclear Tech | |
Steam is a gas that can be obtained by boiling water. It can be used for power generation, as well as some chemical processes (notably oil cracking).
Higher densities of steam in the RBMK will produce more power, up to a 25% bonus at Ultra Dense Steam
Production
- Steam is generated from multiple sources, including boilers and RBMK steam columns, and can be produced with varying levels of compression.
- When water receives 200TU of heat energy, it turns into steam.
Uses
- Apart from its uses in power production, steam is a vital part of hydrocarbon cracking.
- Higher levels of dense steam can be stepped down into less dense variants by piping it through a steam turbine, industrial steam turbine, or leviathan steam turbine, producing power and increasing the volume of steam by 10x for each stage. The final stage after all the useful energy has been extracted is low-pressure steam, which must be condensed back into water in a cooling tower or similar.
Types of Steam
| Dense Steam | |
|---|---|
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| Properties | |
| Can Be Placed | No |
| Temperature | 300°C |
| Tooltip | |
| Dense Steam 300°C Thermal capacity: 18 TU per 10mB [Boilable] Efficiency 100% [Heatable] Efficiency 25% Thermal capacity: 2 TU per 1mB [Turbine Steam] Efficiency 100% [Coolable] Efficiency 50% [Gaseous] [Ignored by siphon] Hbm's Nuclear Tech | |
Dense Steam
By applying another 200TU of heat energy, steam will turn into dense steam, and increase in temperature to 300°C.
| Super Dense Steam | |
|---|---|
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| Properties | |
| Temperature | 450°C |
| Tooltip | |
| Super Dense Steam 450°C Thermal capacity: 120 TU per 10mB [Boilable] Efficiency 100% [Heatable] Efficiency 25% Thermal capacity: 18 TU per 1mB [Turbine Steam] Efficiency 100% [Coolable] Efficiency 50% [Gaseous] [Ignored by siphon] Hbm's Nuclear Tech | |
Super Dense Steam
By applying 180TU more heat energy to dense steam, it will turn into super dense steam, increasing in temperature yet again to 450°C. This is the steam stage output by the ZIRNOX and Fusion boiler, which can't be modified. This means that to return water back to one of these reactors for a closed loop, you'll require 3 steam turbines and one condenser.
| Ultra Dense Steam | |
|---|---|
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| Properties | |
| Temperature | 600°C |
| Tooltip | |
| Ultra Dense Steam 600°C Thermal capacity: 120 TU per 1mB [Turbine Steam] Efficiency 100% [Coolable] Efficiency 50% [Gaseous] [Ignored by siphon] Hbm's Nuclear Tech | |
Ultra Dense Steam
The final and densest steam stage, which can be reached by applying yet another 180TU of heat energy to super dense steam or an RBMK steam column.
| Low-Pressure Steam | |
|---|---|
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| Properties | |
| Can Be Placed | No |
| Temperature | ~20°C |
| Tooltip | |
| Low-Pressure Steam [Gaseous] Hbm's Nuclear Tech | |
Low-Pressure Steam
Low-pressure steam is created as an output product when standard steam is fed into a turbine. This steam type cannot be used to generate power, and instead needs to be cooled in a cooling tower or steam condenser. This will output water, allowing for a closed loop where the recycled water is fed back into a boiler.
Trivia
- Ultra dense steam, along with the other densities were added due to the second iteration of the fusion reactor making too much steam to fit inside its internal tank.
- In older versions of NTM, after the steam densities were added, lower steam densities in the old Nuclear Reactor would produce exponentionally less energy.
- Low pressure steam was added after steam because cooling towers look cool.