Construction

The structure has two layers, one layer of fire boxes downstairs to burn the fuel and one to four layers of boiler. Fireplaces can be 1×1, 2×2 or 3×3 and are made either of Solid Fireled fireboxes or Liquid Fuel-fireboxes . The boilers can be manufactured from all boilers Low pressure Or all The high pressure boilers .
The size of the boiler you can build depends on the size of the fireplace. A 1×1 camera can process only one cubic meter tank, the 2×2 can hold 8 or 12 cubic meters of boiler tank, and the 3×3 can support 18, 27 or 36 cubic meters of boiler tank. A 36 cubic meter low pressure boiler is called 36 LP , while a 18 cubic meter high pressure boiler is called 18 HP .

The simplest structure is a Low pressure boiler plus a Solid Fueled Firebox . A boiler of 1 LP can produce 10 steam / tic, which is enough to power a single boiler Hobbyist & # x27; S Steam Engine , and produce 2MJ compared to the 1.6MJ produced by putting fuel directly into the Hobbyist Steam Engine.

The smaller size boiler that can fully power a steam turbine, _ Blank “> Steam Turbine is 36 LP or 18 HP.

Video Tutorial Edit

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Steam Boiler – How FTB in Minecraft – 54-0

The following video shows how to build and configure a steam boiler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7vbteN5nX0

Configuration Edit

Water can be placed in the boiler with buckets, or channeled into the combustion chamber (not the tanks). The internal storage of water can contain 4,000 mB per cubic meter of boiler. Only one Aqueous accumulator at full speed under the firebox / The boiler is sufficient to provide a boiler and does not require pipes.

WARNING! Connect a regular water supply to the fireplace before turning on the boiler! Adding water to a dry, warm boiler will take place at Explodes !

Solid fuel such as Charcoal Coke hoof and Coal can be placed in Solid Fueled Firebox and it has 4 internal storage stacks. The Liquid Bomb Burns Liquid fuels such as creosote oil , Biofuel and Fuel and has 16,000 m of internal storage. Note lava can not be used. (This is intentional)
The steam will be produced at full power once the temperature reaches 100 ° C. Liquid pipes can be used to extract steam from boilers:

Power connections are required to draw more than the top 50% of the boiler’s internal steam storage. s. The design of this additional steam will not affect the operation of the boiler. Steam generated beyond the storage capacity of the boiler will be wasted unnecessarily. Each cubic meter of low pressure boiler can hold 16,000 m of steam and each cubic meter of high pressure boiler can contain 32,000 m of steam.

Changing the size or type of the boiler will lose all heat. Moving a block may cause a boiler to lose its special shape and stop it, but you can restore it without loss by fixing the shape.

Low vs High Pressure Edit

Each cubic meter of low pressure boiler produces 10 vapors / ticks, and each cubic meter of high pressure boiler produces 20 vapors / ticks. High pressure boilers use more than twice the fuel of low pressure boilers and reach a maximum temperature of 1000 ° C rather than 500 ° C. The larger boilers are less efficient in the short term, taking longer and In fuel to heat, but allow for more compact and powerful designs. Low pressure boilers are recommended for typical use, unless the cookers, iron or space are higher. By comparing a high-pressure and low-pressure boiler to the maximum, running temperature, the low-pressure boiler is ~ 18% more efficient when using fuel. Check out external links for more details.

Sample Math Edit

Each cubic meter of high-pressure boiler produces Steam At 20 Steam / tick, so a 36 cubic meter high pressure boiler can produce up to 720 Steam / tick, feeding 18 RailCraft Industrial steam engines , which requires 40 Steam / tick each and produce 8 MJ, for a total of 144 MJ.
After a few tests, a 36 cubic meter high-pressure boiler needs about 1,932k of heat to reach 100 ° C (from 20 ° C) and about 22,300k of heat to reach 1000 ° C (from 20 ° C). This means you need 696,875 Millibuckets (mB) of Bio-Fuel (in a Iron Tank for example) to achieve total heat. On a fully heated high pressure boiler (1000 ° C) of 36 cubic meters, a bucket of biofuel (32k of heat) lasted about 101 seconds, which means 1k of fuel every 3.1566 seconds. Each 1k fuel gasoline will produce 45,455 vapors that can be used on 3 Steam Turbine “target =” _ blank ” > Steam turbines for 14 205 EU to 225 EU / t (100 EU / p) or for engines for 9 091 MJ. If these 9 091 MJ are used on a Magma Crucible with Cobblestone and will generate 11,364 EU or 22,728 EU if the Magma Crucible uses Netherrack .
On a 1 cubic meter high pressure boiler it takes about 30k of heat to reach 1000 ° C. At 1000 ° C, the heat of the 1 kg fuel will burn for 63.3 seconds, 25 320 vapors which can be converted into 5,064 MJ or 7,912.5 EU to 6,25 EU / t (100 EU / p) using a steam turbine.

See the external links for more details.

Recipes Edit

Tips Edit

Using a Firestone can heat up a solid fuel boiler in a matter of minutes. You can then remove it a go back to your usual fuel.

External LinksEdit

 * Railcraft Boiler Calculator - Calculator for fuel usage and energy production
by Forecaster
 * The Final Word on Steam Boiler Efficiency - a detailed analysis by Omicron