The µSGB - a teeny tiny sour gas boiler

[Saturnus]

So I was challenged to do a compact SG boiler to run on plastic from 3 breeder glossy ranch with starvation shearing.
That's just a tad over 450kg/cycle, so why not just limit it to that as that'll mean one full gas pump output generating 4444W in NG generators. This is the most compact I could make it without resorting to buildings-within-buildings shenanigans.

Since it's so small there's no room for traditional safety features, so it'll fluctuate quite a lot between the boiler part getting really hot (up to 800c) and the condenser getting really cold (down to -200c). It was quite challenging to get just the right amount of heat transfer to the outgoing NG in order to make it self-correcting.

It was achieved with an igneous rock gas bridge, an igneous rock liquid bridge, and a steel regular automation bridge for this crucial part.

Due to it's size there's also no room for making start up features, so the build should be primed with 20kg/tile -166c (or colder) supercoolant in the condenser and 200kg/tile 600c (or hotter) molten lead in the boiler.

The plastic is boiled in the molten lead so no plastic comes out of the chute except in the very beginning. But since empty rail baskets are only cleared by the chute when active the timer sensor simply moves the rail forward 3 steps every 40 seconds with 10kg packets in debug. In survival it'll be 3 steps every 80 seconds with 20kg packets.

That gives 750g/s input plastic and 500g/s output natural gas.

Since timer sensors have an unavoidable drift over time where they operate faster than they should the atmosensor in the NG room overrides the timer sensor when pressure builds up too much thus prevent pressure build up.

The output pump is manually turned on when condensing starts because it should be constantly on. It is important to note that even though the output chamber is technically an infinite storage you should not let the output pump stop or allow the output to be blocked for any reason.

AT, sweeper and radiant pipes must be thermium. The rest can be steel or pretty much any refined metal or metal ore. Insulite is used throughout. Temp shift plates in both the condenser and the NG chamber but not in the boiler.

For input you can use 750g/s crude oil or petroleum from for example slicksters instead of plastic from dreckos by replacing the chute with a vent although you'd have to experiement yourself a little to get it right.

[ScreamingPict]

That is... mind-bogglingly small! Wow.

[SamLogan]

You should try with Tallow.

[Saturnus]

15 hours ago, SamLogan said:

You should try with Tallow.

Tallow melts into crude oil using a tepidizer. I've already mentioned it can be used with crude oil or petroleum with some adjustments.