Fluid Reactor: Difference between revisions

This guide offers a brief overview of the components of a fluid reactor. The high level idea behind a fluid reactor system is: hot coolant is created by passing regular ic2 coolant through a (heat-generating) fluid reactor. The hot coolant is cooled down and recycled with distilled water in a [[Large Heatheat Exchangerexchanger]]. As a result of this process, the Large Heat Exchanger creates absurd amounts of either steam or superheated steam, which is then passed in through an appropriate [[Steam Turbinesturbines|Large Turbine]] to turn it into usable EU.

The [[Large Heatheat Exchangerexchanger]] converts hot coolant and distilled water to coolant and either steam or superheated steam depending on how much hot coolant is feed into the exchanger, see the large heat exchanger [[Large_Heat_ExchangerLarge heat exchanger|page]] for full details. You should keep a small buffer of coolant and a way to restore coolant automatically as some can be lost on reactor heat up.

This type of large high pressure turbine converts superheated steam to normal steam and energy. Superheated steam is converted to normal steam at a 1:1 ratio and uses the same fluid flow rates as normal large steam turbines but with double the energy output. As with all large generator, and or [[Steam_TurbinesSteam turbines|steam turbine]], types make sure you use fluid regulators to ensure that you are meeting optimal flow if you can for your chosen turbine/fitting type.