Metal refinery and magma power plant

Melting copper/gold ore into raw metal can be done in 2 ways:


 * 1) Rock Crusher, with the loss of half the ore and a time cost of Duplicants and 240W of Power
 * 2) With a Metal Refinery, time consuming Duplicants and 1200W power

Below are 2 circuits that allow:


 * melt gold/copper/iron ore into metal, no Duplicants, at a 1:1 ratio
 * receive up to 2kW extra electric power
 * with different materials (steel in one, termium in the other)

Mini variant


It is essentially a retarded version of the second scheme, at the expense of using steel instead of thermium, and the temperature limitations of the door.

Materials/installations

 * Tubes - copper, granite, magmatic.
 * Insulated Tile - ceramic/mafite.
 * Water under the turbines - 200kg.
 * In the lower chamber - crude oil, petroleum, water, 400kg/cell (you can do only crude oil, but it will need more + water).
 * In the coil tube at the button - crude oil/petroleum.
 * Electrics/Conveyor rail - copper.
 * Auto-Sweeper/Loader - steel.
 * Mesh Tile - steel.
 * Top door - wolframite, bottom door - steel.
 * Metal Tile - steel.
 * Conveyor and door thermosensor - 140ºC. You have to adjust them to your own magma/ore temperature.
 * Cyclic sensor - 1% - needed for auto-start of circuit, after downtime (no ore was fed, no power).
 * Buffer - 20 sec.
 * Right chamber (where the doors/buttons are) - vacuum.
 * The electrics layer are elementary.

Output is about 700W and 1000...1500 kg of copper/gold per cycle.

Materials/settings

 * Same as option 1, but instead of steel cells, thermium.
 * It is not necessary to use thermium, you can use steel.

The output would be about 1500W and 2700...4000 kg of copper/gold per cycle. Power would be about 2KW and the metal would be cooler if you put 5...6 turbines instead of 4 and lower the gauge settings.

This scheme is suitable for refinery iron ore, but I will not give numbers - everything will depend on the temperature of the magma.

Conclusions
The output of both schemes is raw metal with a temperature of about 125...140ºC. I don't consider it necessary to cool the metal to room temperature. Being in the cage it does not heat the air around it. Duplicants tolerates hot metal just fine, up to 400ºC. Buildings created from hot metal still have a temperature of about 40ºC.

Tested on copper (as it is more heat intensive, it would be easier on gold amalgam), in debug. You need external power to start the circuit (the moment the crude oil/petroleum/water gets hotter than 125ºC).

These are not simple circuits, they require steel/vacuum. The second circuit is difficult to build without atmosuits. I will describe simple metal refinery circuits in the near future.

Blueprint
Mini variant

Maxi version