suicide commando Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Since Napha has a lot of intersting properties, such as a higher SHC than petrol but similar boiling point and such, I was thinking of melting some plastic to get some. Thus I put a temp shift plate of plastic next to some 1500 degree abyssalite.. sadly it's not heating up very quickly, any tips on what would be a good way to set up a proper plastic melter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve8 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Try some other hot material. Maybe diamond or some stone. Plastic melts at 160°C so you don't need that much heat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suicide commando Posted February 27, 2022 Author Share Posted February 27, 2022 Yeah, I realised that I only need 160 C to melt it. My brain is currently not working as it's 2 am, so I'm going to sleep on it, and build a proper melting room. The 800kg of plastic I'm trying to melt all at once is also not helping. A steam room with a conveyor rail should work much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve8 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 The temp shift plate definitely works, almost instantly, but it may be the abyssalite that's the issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Occam Blazer Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 I considered making this build using a conveyor rail, and it does work well, however you likely have to tie up 1,000 kg of plastic sitting in a conveyor loader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheaker Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 I am always using naphtha in early game for airlock if there is no crude oil nearby. As I remember I was using gold amalagam thermo regulator with start/stop automation loop to melt plastic gravitas ladder merged in hydrogen. In Your case abbysalite is barely exchanging any heat with anything. Try creating Your own heat source just above melting point of plastic. For example You can use metal refinery to heat up crude oil and use this hot crude oil to melt plastic ladders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakemw Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Melt a plastic tempshift plate using diagonal heat transfer to a hot tile, magma is completely fine, the naphtha will come out at around 159 C and the liquid can't exchange heat diagonally, fully isolating it from the magma. It is IMPORTANT that any extremely hot abyssalite tile (e.g. like those 1000 C tiles) is replaced by a constructed tile, because hot abyssalite can immediately flash some of the naphtha into sour gas. You can carefully check the temperature of each abyssalite tile or just replace them all with obsidian insulated tiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRup Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Abyssalite can indeed be used to melt plastic with minor adjustments to OP's plans... Any tile that comes into contact with abyssalite will receive its blessing... So I can recommend an obsidian tile in direct contact with abyssalite. The plastic tempshift plate can then be used to produce the precious naphtha. Or even better: a diamond tempshift plate that moves the heat into said obsidian tile; it should be somewhat easier to take it from there: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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