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Coal Liquefaction to Plastic

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:56 am
by DaveMcW
This design converts coal into plastic, just add water!

Input
Coal 67.2/s (1.68 blue belts)
Water 538/s (0.45 offshore pumps)

Output
Plastic 40/s (1 blue belt)

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Re: Coal Liquefaction to Plastic

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 9:11 am
by Bauer
Nice design. Very compact. Aren't you afraid that you run dry on heavy oil if the coal suplly is low?
I find the liquid handling unpredictable and just because the refineries are closer than the chem plants doesn't mean much...

Re: Coal Liquefaction to Plastic

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 6:26 pm
by DaveMcW
No, the longer distance to the chemical plant is enough to prevent the heavy oil from leaking. The refinery only needs to recycle 55% of its heavy oil, and it collects much more than that from each cycle until it is full.

Re: Coal Liquefaction to Plastic

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:50 pm
by quyxkh
Needs one hand-loaded coal and four barrels' worth of heavy oil to kickstart the loop (plus the temporary unbarreller/ug pair, lower left corner looks good for that), then it's golden.

Re: Coal Liquefaction to Plastic

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:57 am
by vanatteveldt
for a similar setup without beacons: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=51253&p=302103&

Re: Coal Liquefaction to Plastic

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2018 3:27 pm
by herkalurk
quyxkh wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 7:50 pm Needs one hand-loaded coal and four barrels' worth of heavy oil to kickstart the loop (plus the temporary unbarreller/ug pair, lower left corner looks good for that), then it's golden.
Basically how I got it started, 10 heavy oil barrels and 100 logs to get some steam. I've got 2 nearly full coal lines going into it and it uses them consistently, but outputs a full line of plastic.
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