Valve and Flow Screen
Tip
The indicator lights in this project make extensive use of red vs yellow vs green. If you have a colorblindness, please set that when configuring your device. Details on this can be found here. Note that any green indicator light will be blue in any colorblind mode.
Valves on this display are shown with a >< icon. This is meant to match the standard symbols used on PI&D's (process/piping & instrumentation diagram). All valves except the turbine relief valves have the valve name/identifier next to a green light to indicate the connection, then a white on/off light to indicate the OPEN state of the valve (white/on = open).
The steam relief valves (PRV stands for Pressure Relief Valve) that the turbines have have a hashed icon to the right of the valve, as I could not with much accuracy re-create actual pressure relief valve symbols with the limited character set used in ComputerCraft. These do not have a connection light due to space constraints to fit up to three of them, but the connection is implied by the turbine being connected. These lights are tri-state, and match the turbine's Steam Relief Valve Open annunciator indicator.
The cooling loop display is reminiscent of the main unit overview on the main view screen, as it shows the reactor, the boilers, and the turbines. Due to space constraints, 1 to 2 boilers are displayed as one block, and the 1 to 3 turbines are displayed as another single block. For all the pipes flow rates, when there is more than device involved, the sum of all of those values is indicated. For example, if there are three turbines, the flow rate of water return is the sum of the flow rates of all three turbines.
To assist in indicating the direction of flow, the blocks in the cooling loop contain arrow markings where pipes originate to indicate flow direction.
For both water and sodium cooling, the water/steam loop is present and indicated by the pair of white + blue pipes connected to the turbine. The blue (top) pipe is for water, and is labeled with the turbine's flow rate. The white (bottom) pipe is for water, which when the reactor is water cooled is labeled with the reactor's heating rate, and when sodium cooled is labeled with the boiler's boil rate. Comparing these two numbers is what the software does when determining if there is a Steam Feed Mismatch transient.
In the sodium cooling configuration, the light blue (top) pipe is for cooled coolant and labeled with the boiler's boil rate * 10 flowing back towards the reactor. Below that is the orange (bottom) pipe for heated coolant, which is labeled with the reactor's heating rate. Comparing these two numbers is what the software does when determining if there is a Boil Rate Mismatch transient.
Dynamic tanks are identified by either F-# or U-# where F is for facility, U is for unit, and # is the identifier. Facility tanks' identifiers will always count up from 1 starting from the top down to the bottom, whereas unit tanks will have an identifier matching the unit identifier. Unit tanks will always be drawn right next to the row for that particular unit, whereas facility tanks will be listed as early as they can be, based on the facility tank configuration.
Important
These facility identifiers will match up to the RTU configuration's index field for those particular tanks, so be sure to match the config to where the screen shows the tank should be (e.g. index 1 = F-1). For unit tanks, the index will always be 1.
The dynamic tanks on the screen begin with a status tag, similar to other blocks on the main monitor, which are listed in the next section. Below the tag is fill information. This includes the fill percentage and the actual quantity in mB. Below that is the water level, which is a blue-on-gray horizontal bar. Next are two indicators (white is on, gray is off) that show if the tank is allowing itself being filled and/or itself being empty. These line up to the "Fill", "Empty", and "Both" container modes that the dynamic tank has. Both lights are on for both, then the respective lights are on for the other two modes.
Tip
In most situations it is recommended to have the tanks set to "Empty" or "Both". If an event occurs where the supervisor determines it needs to dump in emergency coolant, it will change the tank mode to "Both" if the mode was previously "Fill" in order to get access to the stored water.
- OFF-LINE (yellow) → dynamic tank disconnected
- NOT FORMED (orange) → dynamic tank not formed
- RTU FAULT (orange) → PPM fault
- ONLINE (green) → connected, but not low fill or full (see below)
- LOW FILL (yellow) → fill percent < 20%
- FULL (green) → fill percent >= 99%
Emergency coolant valves enable flow from dynamic tanks to the water supply in a reactor cooling loop. Flow should be entering at the point of water return from the turbine(s), which then routes back into either the reactor or the boiler, depending on cooling type. The valves identifiers are as follows: unit 1 = PV05-EMC, unit 2 = PV10-EMC, unit 3 = PV15-EMC, and unit 4 = PV20-EMC.
The waste route begins at the reactor, where unprocessed waste is indicated with the brown pipe, labeled with the waste production rate (current actual reactor burn rate). This is followed by a split through two valves. The plutonium valve (unit 1: PV01-PU, unit 2: PV06-PU, unit 3: PV11-PU, unit 4: PV16-PU) controls routing waste through your centrifuge(s). The polonium valve (unit 1: PV02-PO, unit 2: PV07-PO, unit 3: PV12-PO, unit 4: PV17-PO) controls routing waste through your SNA(s).
The plutonium waste route then shows the unprocessed waste traveling through the centrifuge(s), at which point the pipe is then colored green, indicating plutonium. Then, it routes into the pressurized reaction chamber(s), and out as spent waste. The rate of plutonium flow used for pellet production is labeled below the green pipe near the PRC for plutonium.
The polonium waste route shows the unprocessed waste traveling through the SNA(s), at which the pipe is then colored cyan, indicating polonium. The output from the SNA(s) has the flow rate of polonium right below the pipe to the right of the SNA(s). Then, it splits off using two other valves. The polonium pellets valve (unit 1: PV03-PL, unit 2: PV08-PL, unit 3: PV13-PL, unit 4: PV18-PL) controls routing waste through to polonium pellet production via the pressurized reaction chamber(s), and out as spent waste. The rate of that polonium flow used for pellet production is labeled below the cyan pipe right by the PRC block. The polonium to antimatter valve (unit 1: PV04-AM, unit 2: PV09-AM, unit 3: PV14-AM, unit 4: PV19-AM) controls routing waste through to the SPS for antimatter production. The flow rate of polonium to the SPS is labeled below the cyan pipe after that valve.
Spent waste flow is labeled by the black lines before the "SPENT WASTE" block shown below.
An overview of all solar neutron activators (SNAs) assigned to a unit are displayed in a block for that unit's waste processing.
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ACTIVE: [green] on while the sum production rate of all SNAs for that unit is greater than 0 -
CNT: indicates the total count of SNAs for that unit -
PEAK: peak sum production possible for the assigned SNAs in optimal conditions (daylight, clear weather). This is the output rate, the peak input rate is this number times 10 -
MAX: current max sum production possible for the assigned SNAs. This is the output rate, the max input rate is this number times 10 -
IN: current input rate from reactor waste output if input valve is open
The SPS block is used to indicate the status of the supercritical phase shifter. This begins with a status tag, listed in the next section, then is followed by an input rate and production rate. The input rate is the polonium production rate of all units assigned to antimatter production, and the production rate is the process rate reported by the SPS. This is displayed in microbuckets and may or may not match the input rate. This is due to the SPS rate sometimes rapidly flipping ±1 microbuckets (you can see this by looking at the UI of your SPS), whereas the input in millibuckets is much larger proportionally, so it has more displayed precision. The SPS does not report fractional microbuckets of process rate.
- OFF-LINE (yellow) → SPS disconnected
- NOT FORMED (orange) → SPS not formed
- RTU FAULT (orange) → PPM fault
- IDLE (green) → process rate is 0
- ACTIVE (green) → process rate is greater than 0
"Proc. Waste" displays the sum totals of all units waste production. Pu is the total plutonium, Po is the total polonium (including when routed to the SPS), and PoPl is the total polonium being routed to pellet production, NOT the SPS.
"Spent Waste" displays the sum total of spent waste produced by all units. Spent waste is generated when producing plutonium or polonium pellets.