Petroleum Boiler

There are two ways to distill crude oil into petroleum:


 * 1) A Oil Refinery. But it requires the participation of dupes, turns only 50% of the crude oil into petroleum. It consumes 480 watts.
 * 2) By heating the crude oil to 400C. This method does not require dupes, gives 100% petroleum and may be cheaper in terms of electricity.

Previously I have considered the option of Cooking Petroleum on a Volcano. This article will discuss 3 cooking schemes: on a Thermo Aquatuner, with the help of a Metal Refinery and Rockets.

At the inlet of each circuit, crude oil with a temperature of 77°C was fed.

On Thermo Aquatuner



 * Produces 7 kg/s of petroleum
 * Cools the base


 * Thermium required
 * Consumes 1,368 watts.

The circuit uses a thermium AT. It has water in the circuit and this water can be used to cool the base, farms, any other buildings. The crude oil is fed through a counter-current heat exchanger against the hot petroleum coming out of the circuit.

The circuit is protected against overheating (if the crude oil supply has stopped), by a thermosensor in the chamber with the AT, and against freezing of the water by a pipe sensor. The output is about 7 kg/s, with a temperature of 125°C. If you need petroleum with a colder temperature, you can add a couple more "floors" of heat exchanger to the circuit. This will increase efficiency to about 8 kg/sec.

Sensors, materials

 * Hydrosensor at the door <760 kg
 * Hydrosensor at the pump >10 kg
 * Crude oil thermosensor >415°C
 * Thermosensor of AT pipe >15°C
 * Thermosensor in the AT chamber < 1020°C
 * Doors, pump - steel
 * Pipes are ceramic at the Liquid vent, the rest are copper/gold
 * Facing in hot part - ceramic, the rest - mafic rock
 * AT - thermium.

Second option


The same, but the vent is not stopped by the sensor, but by the excess pressure. When starting, petroleum must be poured into the cooking chamber, in a volume of not less than 2 cells. The capacity of both schemes is the same. Considering a little more time to build and a little more consumption of materials, the scheme does not make much sense, but let it be.

Flow from left to right
The scheme uses the bug described by mathmanican, which causes the temperature for liquids flowing from left to right to not be calculated correctly.

Sensors, materials

 * Liquid vent thermosensor: >401°C
 * AT thermosensor: <405°C
 * AT, pump: thermium
 * Tubes, tempshift plate: copper

The circuit uses a liquid compressor consisting of two cubes of different gas.

Petroleum output: 190°C, which is more than any other circuit. You can lower the temperature by applying aluminum/thermium tubing or extending the ladders. The AT run time is 38%, which saves 744 watts. The capacity of the circuit is 10 kg/s, versus 7 kg/s for the first option.

On Metal Refinery



 * Produces 10 kg/s of petroleum
 * Only consumes 240 watts (not including the metal refinery)


 * Longest ramp-up time

Here was used the scheme of inclusion of the Metal Refinery with two tanks, which was already considered earlier. It is known that the Metal Refinery heats the liquid (petroleum in this case) by a certain number of degrees, depending on the recipe of melting.

When melting steel - at 132.9°C, iron - at 76.3°C, gold (the most inefficient recipe) - at 15°C. In the test I was melting steel. If you melt more fusible metals the circuit will take a very long time to reach operating mode.

The thermosensor setting is >405°C. The rest is like the first circuit. The output is 125°C petroleum (temperature can also be lowered).

On the rockets



 * Produces 10 kg/s of petroleum
 * Consumes only 240 watts

The construction of the rocket silo to produce electrical power was discussed earlier. Here, on the side of the rocket silo, there is an oil cooking circuit. The settings are the same as in the diagrams above.

On Liquid Tepidizer
Warning! The scheme works only until the next load of the safe. After loading, its performance drops from 10kg/s to 0.5kg/s. This behavior either by mistake or deliberately appeared a couple of years ago. It can be fixed by rearrangement of the tepidizer, which of course is not acceptable. I publish in the hope that the tepidizer operation will be changed someday.

Blueprints
On Thermo Aquatuner

On Metal Refinery

On the Rockets