Industrial Turbine

The Industrial Turbine is a modular multiblock structure added by Mekanism. Its sole purpose is turning Steam into power, using either Mekanism's own Joules or Forge Energy. Being highly customizable, it can be relatively small and compact, but also very large and expensive, and may therefore be adapted to the player's needs. It is considered an exceptionally powerful generator due to its ability to process massive amounts of steam and generate extremely high quantities of power. Industrial Turbines are often used in tandem with Thermoelectric Boilers or a water-cooled Fusion Reactor.

Construction
While the Industrial Turbine can be built at varying sizes, there are many rules and limitations which have to be followed:


 * the structure must be a rectangular cuboid
 * its orientation can only be vertical
 * it must have a square base, i.e. length and width must be equal
 * length and width must be between 5 and 17 blocks, and must be an uneven number (5x5, 7x7, 9x9, …)
 * maximum height of the entire structure is 18 blocks, with an additional limit of $$~2*\mbox{Turbine Width}-1~$$ (example: a turbine with a 7x7 base may be up to 13 blocks tall, as $$~2*7-1=13$$)
 * maximum height of the rotor shaft is 14, with an additional limit of $$~2*\mbox{Turbine Width}-5~$$ because turbine blades must not touch the hull (example: a turbine with a 7x7 base may have a rotor shaft up to 9 blocks tall, as $$~2*7-5=9$$)

The following table lists all components that are used in building an Industrial Turbine and how they should be placed. It roughly follows the order in which most players would build this structure, which is from the bottom and up.

Example Structure
This is a small (5x9x5) yet efficient Industrial Turbine. With default settings, it is able to produce up to 1.17 million FE/t.

Links

 * Industrial Turbine on the official Mekanism wiki
 * Industrial Turbine on the Unofficial FTB Wiki - the article contains maths with which power production and other things can be calculated, and includes a table of efficient turbines of various sizes.