Oil Rafinery

[Sweepeer]

First to say this game is in the top 20 games ever made so big thanks to Klei !

Is it better that you send produced petroleum into a tank or directly send it to needed industry what is more productive? Since dupes come and go and i have decent amounts of pipes going to industry anyway empty.  Talking about medium size base casual game. 

Thanks

[Yoma_Nosme]

The petrol is only needed for petrol gen and plastic production. I can't remember the numbers now but basically the temp of the plastic press bottlenecks the amount of petrol needed( presses need cooling) and you should not run them when room temp is above ~70°C because plastic will melt at 75°C and the petrol generator I think outputs 2kw but since smart batteries they don't run constantly anymore.

My suggestion is only run the oil refinery when you need petroleum and have some extra long pipe going to the generators and presses so you have some overflow inside the pipe.

Btw. You can use the petrol as cooling agent with aquatuner but oil is almost as good

[Kasuha]

1 hour ago, Sweepeer said:

Is it better that you send produced petroleum into a tank or directly send it to needed industry what is more productive?

There are multiple kinds of storage. You can keep the produced material in pipes and just build very long pipe to store more of the material. Then you don't lose anything as even the long pipe will eventually deliver the stored material for free. If you build a storage room, then you need to pay some power for the pump to get the material back into the pipe when you need it. And finally you can liquefy (if it was gas) and freeze the material to push even more into single tile - then you pay a lot of power to draw the heat out and eventually some more power to unfreeze it again.

In general, storage is only needed to cover temporary differences between production and consumption. These are probably the worst in case of spanning geyser dormancy periods. For oil refinery-polymer press, pipe buffer is usually quite enough. Here's a solution for it I posted some time ago:

 

 

[avc15]

Send directly to consumers if you want to save power and keep your systems simpler. Buuut, having a tank gives you some buffer, and also leaves room for expansion.

In other words, (1) your power will not just shut off if you take your refining systems offline for some work or upgrades, or some kind of failure happens

Also (2) if you're using petroleum for something else that requires a return header (pipe cooling!) you might want a tank. Tanks make temperature regulation a little easier / more stable, and also allow the size of your system to change without all kinds of wierd things happening. (expansion)