I was following a blueprint for uranium processing, but I ended up with excess uranium-238. What could I do?
#Excess Uranium-238
gloomy niche
tulip slate
I was following a blueprint for uranium processing, but I ended up with excess u...
if you need shiny, turn it into shiny
wild lantern
kovarex turns 238 into 235
ember swift
This build looks like it has a major design flaw.
The Kovarex Centrifuges can outsert any products (U-238 or excess U-235) only to its left belt.
That lane is currently full, and it looks like it's designed to be that way.
gloomy niche
This build looks like it has a major design flaw.
The Kovarex Centrifuges can ou...
yikes, is there a way to fix it? or should i scrap it and find a new one online
ember swift
I do not sufficiently understand that particular bp to be sure how to fix it.
Usual advise is to make your own bps.
wild lantern
tried making one yourself ?
gloomy niche
tried making one yourself ?
i tried, but i had a hard time, so i resorted to finding one online
ember swift
Yeah, Kovarex is the "Königsdisziplin" of bp designing.
Couldn't properly translate from German. "Most prestigious discipline", but doesn't quite fit.
wild lantern
it can be as simple as you want
warm zephyr
It's as simple or complicated as you want it to be. It usually becomes complicated once you try to squeeze every last drop of optimization out of it but really you only need to make sure >40 input gets priority
ember swift
Or as complex as you want. There are more Kovarex blueprints than Factorio players. I have like 13 of them 
edit: it's only 12 bps (11 of which are my own design)
warm zephyr
that can be accomplished by either creating a closed loop that gets outputted to first or an inserter picking up everything that was put out until the machine has 40/80 again
ember swift
Think of it as a two step process.
Uranium processing turns ore into both types of Uranium.
Kovarex turns excess U-238 (the sad rocks) into U-235 (the happy rocks).
In order for neither step to lock up, the Kovarex input needs to prioritise sad rock consumption from Kovarex output, and happy rock consumption from Uranium processing.
@gloomy niche how many happy rocks do you need btw?
Is it for a few nuclear reactors, or mass producing nukes?
gloomy niche
for reactors
ember swift
how many? a single Kovarex centrifuge can supply a lot of reactors.
let me get the faq
rigid elkBOT
ember swift
What I'm trying to say is, you might need only a single Centrifuge doing Kovarex. And that simplifies the design by a lot.
sterile anchor
if you still insist, you can also do this. No wires, no combinators.
But its absolute overkill
ember swift
That's a new one for me.
I wouldn't trust that those buffer belts are long enough though.
tulip slate
That's a new one for me.
I wouldn't trust that those buffer belts are long enoug...
looks like they hold about one inserter worth
mostly need to hope that it grabs shiny while the other one is dumping shiny
and will overall work out in the larger system
ember swift
I didn't spend much time thinking about it.
Sad rocks should be good, the recipe uses only a few of them. And the belt buffer is large enough to hold them.
Happy rocks backing up should not be a problem, it means the Centrifuges can stop. And it should clear up when happy rocks are consumed.