Noob Tries to Blow Up Boiler in Steam Engine Simulator

what causes the vacuum in the boiler is actually really neat. basically as the water cools it condenses which creates a negative pressure (vacuum) inside the boiler which also in this game is simulated that it sucks the water into the boiler faster. pretty fascinating stuff and its also really neat

It's like you woke up this morning wanting war with Hyce

Ange is really good programmer, he made engine simulator (not steam one) and is able to reproduce many engine configurations and making software for generating engine sounds for games. BeamNG developers are even supporting him. :)

There's another mode. If you click on the A icon in the lower-right corner a few times, it unlocks "hell mode". It's possible to get the engine up to several thousand RPM.

Look next to the water valve, it says water at 50psi. It's a low pressure source, not a high pressure injector. You had more than 50psi of boiler pressure which is why you couldn't add water. In theory, unless there's a one way valve that's not displayed, you should have had water leave until boiler pressure equalised at 50psi. The amount of water is a balancing act. Think of of ANY fluid tank. Open a valve and the fluid will flow out at a set rate and do so for a specific period of time. Make that tank half the size with the same valve at the same rate, and the period of time it flows is halved. Your boiler is that tank, steam is your fluid and half water filled to 50% is cutting your "steam tank" capacity in half. Of course, you can't make steam without hot water so you need some and every time you add water it reduces the temperature which reduces or stops steam production. So the percentage of fresh cold water to existing hit water affects much much steam production is affected. So, you need sufficient hot water to maintain good steam production, whilst keeping enough room for a good supply of ready to use steam.

The thing that verified to me most (without looking into the game properly) that the simulation is probably accurate is the fact that as the pressure drops the water starts evaporating significantly faster. Basically, as the pressure drops the boiling point of the water drops too. So the water must start boiling off rapidly, carrying off heat so that the liquid water drops temperature quickly enough to remain at boiling point rather than sitting above it.

you should try spam clicking the A logo, it gives the engine a higher max RPM

Advice: Have patience and wait for the water get to 300 C and Max Pressure,and then start it with the engine starter,and apply extremely little pressure into the chamber,and slowly open the valve at max!

Glad you enjoyed it, it is a neat little simulator.

Oh nice to see you play this, I was wqnting yo know it but were lazy to try. Btw, the smaller thing on the valve indicates that it doesn't block steam so yeah there's a way out. That piston keeps switching between both entrances as you would initially expect.

there's a funny thought: based purely on the sound of that whistle and it's size in relation to everything else this steam engine is MASSIVE. ...actually, that's really the only gripe here: the sounds are generated well but the baselines are all over the place: the scale on each sound source is completely separate. that said getting it even vaguely right is actually pretty damned impressive considering this is literally one guy making the thing as a pet project because the mostly nonfunctional "game" they made as a way to make an animation for a youtube video was a meme in their little community.

I don't know why this is so satisfying. I used to always try to make steam engines in Falling Sand games. It would be really cool to have something like this but with actual fluid dynamics and physics and structural integrity, and the pressure vessel can explode.

Glad you enjoyed it, it is a neat little simulator.. Water cannot be added under pressure..

Kosmonaut needed to stop the video there or everyone would see that his engine either would stop, as it has used up all water, or won't be that stable anymore, because the new water cools down everything. 😉😂

I thought he was gonna have a boiler explosion but it was fun watching

Water cannot be added under pressure.

I'd like to see some sort of feed water pump or injector get added to the mix. Same with a super heater of some sort.

gotta love those water lubricated bearings 😂

played this myself and found it cool that you couldnt inject more water above 100 psi, because the label says water 100 psi

I just watched the video a couple days ago from the guy the made this. Pretty funny to see it here.