Themed Design for Molten Salt Facility (Cheese's Concentrated Solar)

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Themed Design for Molten Salt Facility (Cheese's Concentrated Solar)

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EDIT: Improved design in next reply.

Really digging Cheese's concentrated solar tower mod and came up with the goal to offset all/nearly all of our accumulator needs during the night. My buddy and I are not currently using nuclear, and while this design is pretty basic I figured I'd share to at least show the creator some credit.

I'm calling this theme a "Molten Salt Facility" because 1) That's cool and 2) That's the realistic application and 3) I was getting tired of the standard accumulator play and needed to have a design goal in mind. Stats are as follows with 2 facilities at this time:
  • 186 MW production
  • 200k Steam
  • 32 Steam Turbines
  • 16 Heat Exchangers
  • 8 Storage Tanks
  • 12 Pumps
  • 1,104 Heliostats/Mirrors
With solar providing all of our power during the day, this setup provides enough steam to power through the entire night for a 186MW demand. We have a little extra power needs thanks to scaling up rocket launch production so the accumulators did kick in a bit, I just need to scale up another facility. It can scale up much more with additional turbines and steam storage tanks, but I'm pretty certain it needs a redesign to optimize the flow. Feel free to comment where this needs improvements. It's definitely not perfect.

Thanks for the cool mod, Cheese. Link to his mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ch-concen ... stribution.
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Re: Themed Design for Molten Salt Facility (Cheese's Concentrated Solar)

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UPDATED DESIGN: Scaled up and optimized the design to produce 371.2 MW of energy/power/steam storage. 12 steam storage tanks. 64 steam turbines. Dependent on the volume of solar panels you have for dusk/dawn (haven't determined the ratio yet).

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Re: Themed Design for Molten Salt Facility (Cheese's Concentrated Solar)

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Very pretty design!
Please wrap the blueprint strings into [bp]...blueprint string...[/bp] bbcode for better readability and to have a button to copy it to the clipboard. There's a "bp" button in the editor to create the bp/bp pair. Example:
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Re: Themed Design for Molten Salt Facility (Cheese's Concentrated Solar)

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Thanks! Blueprints updated.
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