Oil Refinery

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Oil Refinery
Refining Facility
The extracted crude oil is further refined to obtain refined oil and hydrogen.
Icon Oil Refinery.png
Production Speed1x
Work Consumption960 kW
Idle Consumption24.0 kW
Made InAssembler
Hand-MakeReplicator
Stack Size30

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1
6 s
Icon Steel.png
10
Icon Stone Brick.png
10
Icon Circuit Board.png
6
Icon Plasma Exciter.png
6
Icon Hydrogen.png
1
Icon Refined Oil.png
2
4 s
Icon Crude Oil.png
2
Icon Energetic Graphite.png
1
Icon Hydrogen.png
3
4 s
Icon Refined Oil.png
1
Icon Hydrogen.png
2
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3
4 s
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2
Icon Hydrogen.png
1
Icon Coal.png
1

Summary

The extracted crude oil is further refined to obtain refined oil and hydrogen.

Production Chain

Recipe Building Replicator? Technology
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1
6 s
Icon Steel.png
10
Icon Stone Brick.png
10
Icon Circuit Board.png
6
Icon Plasma Exciter.png
6
Icon Assembling Machine Mk.I.pngIcon Assembling Machine Mk.II.pngIcon Assembling Machine Mk.III.pngIcon Re-composing Assembler.png
Tech Plasma Extract Refining.png

Production Progression Chart

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5
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30
Icon Iron Ingot.png
30
Icon Steel.png
10
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1
Icon Stone.png
10
Icon Stone Brick.png
10
White arrow right.svg White arrow right.svg
Icon Iron Ore.png
6
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6
Icon Circuit Board.png
6
White arrow right.svg
Icon Copper Ore.png
3
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3
Icon Iron Ore.png
24
Icon Magnet.png
24
Icon Magnetic Coil.png
24
Icon Plasma Exciter.png
6
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12
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12
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36
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24
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12

Player Tips & Tricks

  • The output of X-ray Cracking directly aligns with the requirements to create Energy Matrix, and is the primary purpose.
    • It is not recommended to use X-ray Cracking outside of this purpose as there are simpler, more power efficient ways to obtain Hydrogen and Energetic Graphite directly.
  • The products of X-Ray Cracking (3 total refineries) have a total energy of (6.3 MJ/Energetic Graphite * 30 Energetic Graphite/min) + (8 MJ/Hydrogen * 45 Hydrogen/min) = 549 MJ/min = 9.15 MJ/s = 9.15 MW
    • Given that this setup consumes only 2.88 MJ, plus (18kW * 11 Sorter Mk.I) = 0.198 MW (one sorter per input/output), and an additional 0.84 MW for the oil extractor (which can be spread across multiple triplicates of refineries), this is an energy positive process.
    • It is not recommended to use X-ray Cracking to generate sustainable power due to the limited nature of Crude Oil when Thermal Power Stations are relevant.
  • Reforming Refine (Tech) with refineries coverts 2 Refined Oil, 1 Hydrogen, and 1 Coal into 3 Refined Oil.
    • For the cost of a coal this, combined with Plasma Refining, allows the production of Refined Oil without byproduct production of Hydrogen.
    • Combined with X-ray cracking, and a one-time jump-start input of refined oil and hydrogen, this allow conversion of Coal to Energetic Graphite at a 1:1 ratio; rather than Smelting Purification's 2:1 ratio.


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