Cooling Oil

[Oni Noob]

Hi Guys,

I am planning to start my space adventure and I found a leak oil fissure near the top part of the map. I am planning to use as a fuel to my petro engine but the problem is its too hot for a steel oil refiner. I am planning to cool it off first before sending it to my refiner.

[Sasza22]

The oil refinery doesn`t care about the temperature of the oil you put in. Just make sure the input pipes are insulated as they can heat it up. The oil is distilled and petrol always comes out at 75^oC.

[Oni Noob]

I was worried that the refinery might over heat?

I realize one more problem, the pumps will overheat when its only made of steel

[Neotuck]

This is why I perfer using oil wells instead of oil fissures.  The temp from those is 80C

[Lilalaunekuh]

9 hours ago, Sasza22 said:

The oil refinery doesn`t care about the temperature of the oil you put in.

There should be one tile below the refinery, that will exchange heat with the content. (I think it was the 3. tile counting left to right.)

 

I recommend using a shutoff valve before the refinery in combination with a liquid reservoir for already processed petroleum.

=> You can keep your pipes and the refinery empty (Less unwanted heat transfer)

(And using the refinery to process larger quantities at once increases the efficiency quite a bit.)

 

PS: I am no real fan of leaky oil fissures either, but considering my current map they could be used before your forced to use a petroleum engine. So better get some niobium/thermium before tinkering with the fissure.

 

[beowulf2010]

8 hours ago, Lilalaunekuh said:

PS: I am no real fan of leaky oil fissures either, but considering my current map they could be used before your forced to use a petroleum engine. So better get some niobium/thermium before tinkering with the fissure.

Agreed. As far as I'm concerned, the only use of a leaky oil fissure is to melt ice biomes.

There is more than enough oil through oil wells at the bottom of the map that I have never actually needed the oil from a fissure before. 

[biopon]

That 300-odd g/sec will not get you very far if you're planning on doing serious stuff with oil. Just go dig for some in the oil biome. Oil wells need a steady water input but you'll also find plenty of loose crude down there. Pump it up and mix your fissure output into that if you're worried about temperatures. 

[Lilalaunekuh]

Just some math to show how bad leaky oil fissures are:

- A perfect leaky oil fissure can produce up to 208,33kg oil each cycle

- Every oil well can produce up to 2 000kg oil each cycle

(And an oil well is still producing more water than it consumes, considering your using (most of) the oil to generate power)

[Neotuck]

26 minutes ago, Lilalaunekuh said:

Just some math to show how bad leaky oil fissures are:

- A perfect leaky oil fissure can produce up to 208,33kg oil each cycle

- Every oil well can produce up to 2 000kg oil each cycle

(And an oil well is still producing more water than it consumes, considering your using (most of) the oil to generate power)

20833kg per cycle? I haven't checked but that seems unlikely

[avc15]

Leaky oil fissure makes a convenient input to a petroleum cooker since its output is fairly close to boiling temp already.

 

Of course, it will require some brute force cooling since you can't do heat recovery below 300c. So, you choose between the dupe labor & water cost with oil wells, or brute force cooling required with a fissure.

I wouldn't just cool the oil directly, I'd cook it into petroleum and then cool it, but only just enough to avoid breaking my pumps.