Powerplant Engineering: Design & TODO

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Powerplant Engineering: Design & TODO

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Power Balance Spreadsheet

PE Content Design Ideas

Mercury Boiler:

• Can take most liquid fuels and selected solid fuels
  • Accepts only powdered and low water value solid fuels:
    • Nonrenewable Fuels: Coal Coke Dust, Petroleum Coke Dust, Coal Dust (?)
    • Renewable Fuels: Charcoal Dust, Blaze Powder
  • Accepts any liquid fuel light enough toable to be aeroslized by the burners:
    • Petroleum Fuels: (Sulfurized) Diesel, Kerosene, Benzene, Gasoline, Naphtha
    • Renewable Fuels: Creosote Oil, Biodiesel, Seed Oil, Ethanol
• Boils pressurized liquid mercury into mercury vapor which can be used in the turbine
• Heatup & cooldown processes are long and fuel-intensive, as are production capacity changes
• Safety valve blows if pressure is too high, wasting mercury vapor and possibly contaminating blocks

Mercury Turbine

• Produces power (~24576IF/t) from mercury vapor and exhausts pressurized liquid mercury
• Integrated pump to repressurize mercury from the attached condenser-boilers
  • Condenser-boilers boil water into steam for use in the steam turbine
• Internal governor tries to limit turbine speed to prevent overspeed and keep the turbine in the optimal range
• Has an integrated motor to spin up the connected turbine to bypass low speed efficiency
• HV machine with 6 HV plugs for output

Steam Turbine

• Produces power (~9216IF/t) from steam and exhausts exhaust steam
• Steam comes from either the condenser-boilers on the mercury turbine or from geothermal taps
• Internal governor tries to limit turbine speed to prevent overspeed and keep the turbine in the optimal range
• Has an integrated motor to spin up the connected turbine to bypass low speed efficiency
• HV machine with 3 HV plugs for output

Cooling Plant:

• Forced draft cooling tower with a V-shape that takes a small amount of power to turn heated water into water
• Each plant only processes a small amount of heated water, requiring batteries of them for a full set of turbines
• Terrain characteristics of the world surrounding the cooling plant affect condensing rate

Geothermal Wellhead

• Immersive Petroleum reservoir interface machine
• New "heated aquifer" reservoir which produces saturated geothermal brine, a mixture of steam and brine-water
  • After drilling into the reservoir with the derrick, the geothermal wellhead is used instead of the pumpjack
  • Wellhead can also be used to re-inject water to increase the productivity of the reservoir
  • Brine produced is constant over time and passive, if more resource intensive to set up than other methods
• The only passive generation system in PE & is significantly location-locked

Brine Separation Unit

• Separates steam, water, aggregate, and dissolved salts from geothermal brine for their respective uses
  • Produced sand and gravel from suspension in the geothermal brine
  • Produces sulfur dust & nitrate dust slowly as dissolved salts
  • Steam produced at volume can supply steam turbines for power
• Does not need power to operate, as it is all mechanical. Redstone can automatically close valves to disable

Nether Blaze Fissure Tap:

• A collection of multiblocks, not just one, that work together in concert to produce power from nether features
  • A fusion-reactor style project for a mod without the technology level to ever have fusion
  • The collected blaze powder can be burnt in boilers, the main object of setting up the portal
• The central feature is a large, gleaming obsidian-and-steel portal that requires lots of power to upkeep
  • Can transport massive amounts of fluid back and forth between linked portals easily
  • Cannot transport players, but can transport any fluid, not just blaze-ethanol solution
• Main multiblocks at the portal and the drills, other equipment is from PE and IE and not particularly special
• The portal and machinery would require around 20kIF/t to keep online, most from the nether side
• Blazing Fissures are features created via controlled detonation of nether bedrock in the presence of blaze thermite
  • Blazing Fissures glow and give off massive amounts of heat, hurting players without environmental protection
  • Special drills can drill into the fissures and extract blaze powder (possibly blazing powder?)
  • Blazing Fissures can also be used for their latent heat in other processes
• Blaze powder from the fissures can be transported back from the Nether to the Overworld en masse via the portal
  • A fully-exploited Blazing Fissures feature can produce in the ballpark of 120kIF/t before machinery costs
• Blazing Fissures may have other environmental effects including excessive heating or nether transformations

Content to Implement: Multiblock Models

• Steam Turbine
• Cooling Plant
• Mercury Turbine
• Brine Separation Unit
• Mercury Boiler
• Wellhead

Content to Implement: Multiblock Structures

• Steam Turbine
• Cooling Plant
• Mercury Turbine
• Brine Separation Unit
• Mercury Boiler
• Wellhead

Content to Implement: Multiblock Code

• Steam Turbine
• Cooling Plant
• Mercury Turbine
• Brine Separation Unit
• Mercury Boiler
• Wellhead

Content to Implement: Manual Pages

• Steam Turbine
• Cooling Plant
• Mercury Turbine
• Brine Separation Unit
• Mercury Boiler
• Wellhead
• Steam Systems
• Geothermal Extraction
• Powerplant Fluids