Total pollution of the electric furnace

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Total pollution of the electric furnace

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I thought it was interesting to calculate the pollution of the Electric furnace and Steel furnace and see which one creates more pollution. I have used 100% steam based electricity generation for the calculation.

Some pollution calculations (all pollution is per tic)
Pollution boiler
  • Pollution boiler at full power - 6
  • Full power boiler - 390kW
  • Pollution per KW Boiler - 0,0154/KW
edit: However as lxl said the coal needed for the boiler also gives pollution.

Pollution coal mining
  • Boiler - 390kW
  • Boiller eff - 0,5
  • Boiler input - 780kW
  • Coal energy - 8000kJ
  • Speed req coal - 0,0975 coal/sec
  • Drill - 90kW
  • Poll per tic - 9
  • Speed - 0,5 coal/sec
  • % output mine for boiler -19.5%
  • % output mine for kw power - 0,05%

    So the pollution from mining
  • Pollution mining per KW- 0,0045/KW
  • Pollution mining electricity per KW- 0,000693/KW
  • Pollution mining total per KW - 0,0052/KW
Direct pollution electric furnace
  • Pollution Electric furnace - 0,9
  • Pollution Electric furnace per KW - 0,005/KW
Total pollution electric furnace
  • Pollution Total Electric furnace per KW- 0,0256/KW
  • Pollution Total Electric furnace- 4,61
Steel furnace
  • Pollution steel furnace per KW- 0,02/KW
  • Pollution coal mining is half of electric furnace since the steel furnace is 100% efficient
  • Pollution mining per KW - 0,0026/KW
  • Pollution total steel furnace per KW - 0,0226/KW
  • Pollution full power - 4,068
They have the same production speed, so with 100% steam generated electricity the steel furnaces generated less pollution then the electric ones.
One level 1 efficiency module for the electric furnace will reduce all the pollution with 30% giving 4,61*0.7=3,27, so 1 efficiency module is enough for the electric furnace to be less polluting than the steel furnace.
Last edited by sebas on Sat Nov 15, 2014 1:35 pm, edited 4 times in total.

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Re: Total pollution of the electric furnace

Post by Align »

sebas wrote:[...]since it's no longer possible to use energy saving modules in electric furnaces.
It is, just, a bug prevents you from manually slotting them in. If you ctrl- or shift-click with a stack of modules in hand it works.

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