I am running a big nuke plant and have plenty of coal and steam leftover. So why not turn it into rocket fuel?
The ratios arent totally nice, but according to helmod they are pretty close (everything fully boosted) , with 2 refineries supporting approximately 4 light->solid, 3 PG->solid, 1 heavy cracking, and 7 rocket fuel. Since 2 plants can fit in the vertical space of a refinery, this allows for a pretty neat stackable layout:
Each set of 2 refineries converts 5.5k steam plus 1.1k coal into 107 rocket fuel per minute.
Steam is fed in lower right, water lower left. All solids are handled with bots, you could probably also use belts and use UG belts to cross the beacon line from solid to rocket fuel, but that might not be balances since the light fuel is boosted more than the PG fuel.
helmod
Note:
- multiplied by 10 to get fractions;
- heavy cracking and PG solid are boosted with 4 beacons, all others with 8;
- # of beacons and presumably power use is nonsense, I didn't fill in the factory per beacon ratio
Would there be a net gain if you burned that rocket fuel instead of burning coal? My calculations show true, how is it?
Re: Coal to rocket fuel (Tileable+boosted)
Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 10:00 am
by vanatteveldt
quinor wrote:Would there be a net gain if you burned that rocket fuel instead of burning coal? My calculations show true, how is it?
Did you take into account the energy required to create the steam and the power draw of the plants and beacons?
Re: Coal to rocket fuel (Tileable+boosted)
Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 12:30 pm
by mophydeen
Solid fuel from petro ?
Re: Coal to rocket fuel (Tileable+boosted)
Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 2:00 pm
by vanatteveldt
mophydeen wrote:Solid fuel from petro ?
Was that a question?
Re: Coal to rocket fuel (Tileable+boosted)
Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 4:28 pm
by mophydeen
vanatteveldt wrote:
mophydeen wrote:Solid fuel from petro ?
Was that a question?
Why would you use petro to solid fuel.
best ratio is light to solid. not petro, not heavy.
Re: Coal to rocket fuel (Tileable+boosted)
Posted: Wed May 17, 2017 4:43 pm
by vanatteveldt
mophydeen wrote:
vanatteveldt wrote:
mophydeen wrote:Solid fuel from petro ?
Was that a question?
Why would you use petro to solid fuel.
best ratio is light to solid. not petro, not heavy.
Sure, if you actually need the PG. This setup is meant to be isolated from your main refinery and just convert coal+steam into rocket fuel.
Re: Coal to rocket fuel (Tileable+boosted)
Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 7:48 pm
by aober93
Easy to transport petroleum with the liquid wagon tho.
Re: Coal to rocket fuel (Tileable+boosted)
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:23 am
by moldilocks
Nice!
Looks like you've got a few heavy oil pipes in the lower middle that don't go anywhere.
Re: Coal to rocket fuel (Tileable+boosted)
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:25 am
by vanatteveldt
moldilocks wrote:Nice!
Looks like you've got a few heavy oil pipes in the lower middle that don't go anywhere.
Good catch
I moved the heavy from the bottom to the middle to make room for the substation, and forgot to clear out the bottom pipes.
I actually ended up not using this design but shipping steam to the refinery, easier to distribute the different liquids and the refinery needs coal anyway for plastic production...
Re: Coal to rocket fuel (Tileable+boosted)
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 7:55 pm
by hi_impact
Cool stuff. Does this run without backing up? Looks nice and isolated.
