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| Steam Boiler (Railcraft) | |
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| The Solid Fueled Firebox | |
| Name | Steam Boiler (Railcraft) |
| Source Mod | Railcraft |
| ID Name | Unknown |
| Type | Structure |
| Stackable | Unknown |
The Steam Boiler is the heavy duty power generator of Railcraft. The Steam Boiler converts fuel into Steam, a kind of liquid that can be transported through your factory to power various machines:
- Hobbyist’s Steam Engine (10 Steam/tick)
- Commercial Steam Engine (20 Steam/tick)
- Industrial Steam Engine (40 Steam/tick)
- Steam Turbine (320 Steam/tick)
Steam Boilers come in different types and sizes:
- Liquid Fueled Firebox or Solid Fueled Firebox: determines the type of fuel the Steam Boiler accepts
- Low Pressure (LP) or High Pressure (HP) Boiler blocks: LP offers the best fuel efficiency, HP offers the most power per volume occupied.
- Boiler size WxDxH: 1x1x1, 2x2x2, 2x2x3, 3x3x2, 3x3x3, 3x3x4. Each Boiler block generates 10 (LP) or 20 (HP) units of steam per tick. Larger boilers are more effective in fuel consumption. (There must be 1 block of space on all sides, e.g. a 2x2x2 boiler would need to be centered within a 4x4x4 space. This is excluding the piping/tesseracts/chests.) You can upgrade the boiler size in the middle of its operation without exploding, but it will NOT retain the heat value, so it will reset to zero and begin anew.
Steam Boilers need to be supplied with water. For all types and sizes of Steam Boilers a single Aqueous Accumulator attached directly to the bottom of the Fuel Box is able to supply with enough water. An exploding Steam Boiler is as devastating as a nuclear explosion.
Steam Boilers need a considerable amount of fuel and time to heat up. While operational during heating up fuel consumption is dramatically ineffective. For example: A maximum size high pressure Steam Boiler takes 5 real hours to heat up. Its fuel consumption at startup is about 2 coal per second, which is about 20 times its fuel consumption at maximum temperature.
Detailed operational information about Steam Boilers can be found here.
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