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Industrial Turbine Not Dumping Excess Steam

ArchieBeepBoop opened this issue ยท 7 comments

commented

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Issue description:

Apparently, industrial turbines are no longer dumping excess steam. The only option that works is dump, as dumping excess does nothing.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create a turbine
  2. Hook it up to a fission reactor
  3. Set it to dumping excess

Version (make sure you are on the latest version before reporting):

Forge: Dedicated Server running 35.1.13
Mekanism: Mekanism-1.16.4-10.0.18.445
MekanismAdditions-1.16.4-10.0.18.445
MekanismGenerators-1.16.4-10.0.18.445
Other relevant version: Modpack: ATM6 v1.3.7

Other relevant data:

Turbine UI
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Pipes being filled with excess steam
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commented

I, it is possible having the same issue on the 1.19.2 version?

commented

I am not positive but I believe the turbine doesn't function at all if it is full on energy this may include the dumping of excess steam. It may be worthwhile to try and add space for the energy you have stored in it and see if it starts working again afterwards.

commented

Unfortunately it seems that even adding energy space for it to pump energy out again, as soon as it fills whatever energy storage device it has to store energy in, it will again prevent the reactor from dumping excess steam, which becomes a problem when the fission reactor is outputting too much of it.

commented

You should be stopping your fission reactor when you have no space for power, not to mention to properly cool your reactor it is highly suggested to reclaim the water from the turbine, and if you are dumping the excess steam you won't be reclaiming water. I will leave this open to remember to re-evaluate if we maybe should make dumping excess run anyways, but unsure currently if it will end up being moved.

commented

Currently I've been running my fission reactor because I have enough materials to keep it running for plutonium and polonium, even at max power in my network. The excess steam comes from the fact that I have a set of pumps to also pump water into the reactor if it's not being cooled rapidly enough, which is why it gets some extra steam build up which eventually just clogs the whole thing.

commented

as a workaround (for now) maybe connect a chemical tank to the pipes and set it to dump excess steam.

commented

Finally got a chance to look into this a bit further and turns out I was wrong about them only dumping excess when they still have an energy buffer and dumping excess was just entirely non functional for turbines.