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Silo chain feeding reactor
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Linistitul
Gea'Vii Enterprises
#1 - 2012-05-06 20:41:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Linistitul
Hello, is it possible to feed a reactor using this setup?

(reactant 1) silo1 - > silo 2 -> silo 3 |
(reactant 2) silo1 ............................ -> reactor -> output silo
(reactant 3) silo1 ........................... |

I'm trying to setup a more time efficient polimer reaction chain, but somehow I can't make it work. I'm getting the message "Online - starting up" but nothing happends. All I want is for those 3 silos to chain feed the reactor. Is it possible?

Thank you!
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-05-06 21:07:38 UTC
You can only put one material at a time in a silo and it can only have one input and output at any given time. So, unless you have 6 silos (5 + 1 for the output), it won't work.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#3 - 2012-05-06 21:14:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Yes you can do: silo1 -> silo2 -> silo3 -> siloN

The only reason to do that is to increase capacity. In this example, siloN (the one closest to the reactor) must not be empty.

As above, you only have one input and one output to work with, and must be the same material.

Using a silo as both input and output of a reactor doesn't seem to be reliable, so the silo can't be empty (drug reactions do this for water).

Stuck on "Starting Up" usually means the routing is wrong.
Linistitul
Gea'Vii Enterprises
#4 - 2012-05-07 04:53:43 UTC
OK, I will try relinking. Thank you guys!