Circular Kovarex Enrichment Setup

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Re: Circular Kovarex Enrichment Setup

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spiral_power wrote:
Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:16 am
By the way, why was I using the blue modules at the time...was red unavailable?
There was a time period between 0.15 and 0.17 where it wasn't usable with Kovarex, as seen on the Wiki.
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There was a time period between 0.15 and 0.17 where it wasn't usable with Kovarex, as seen on the Wiki.
I see. I understand. Thank you.

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Finally figured out a self starting circular set, for bots anyway.

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Re: Circular Kovarex Enrichment Setup

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My simple Kovarex enrichment circle:

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The system does not require any setting of inserters (only 6 splitters is set).

Unsorted uranium from "spent fuel reprocessing" and "ore processing" comes along the belt from the right. (The lower side of the inlet belt has priority.)
The second belt in the lower part is important so that when the belts are filled, the remaining enriched uranium-235 overflows to the outlet in the lower left part. Otherwise, U-235 is kept in cycle by the output splitter (primary output right).
U-238 is split in half between cycle and output. Only single substation is sufficient for power supply.

At the beginning of production, build only one centrifuge. If the belt begins to fill with (light) enriched uranium-235, another centrifuge can be added.
Temporarily store the dark uranium-238 falling from the output in chests. When the Kovarex process is up and running (you collect enough U-235 to cycle), return the unneeded U-238 to the entry belt.

(Optional: In the right part, there is a pair of "Requester chests", the upper one requests U-238, the lower one U-235. Chests not necessary to start the process. It is only used to clean the logistics warehouse.)

// Google translator helped with the translation from the Czech language //
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