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If you boil petroleum to sour gas then condense it (at ~-165 C), you get 67% natural gas (liquid) and 33% sulfur.

This process creates a large power boost over using the petroleum in a generator.  And the natural gas generators produce more water than the petroleum generators.

I believe there is as of yet no use for sulfur.

7 minutes ago, Zarquan said:

If you boil petroleum to sour gas then condense it (at ~-165 C), you get 67% natural gas (liquid) and 33% sulfur.

This process creates a large power boost over using the petroleum in a generator.  And the natural gas generators produce more water than the petroleum generators.

I believe there is as of yet no use for sulfur.

My bad, I confused sulfur with lime for some silly reason.

So, when you've boiled the gas, you then have to condense it, which will usually use atleast 1 aquatuner, running at 1.2kw plus maybe a couple of pumps and a filter, which all adds up to about 1.5kw give or take.  I hope this boiling process is able to sustain at least 4-5 natural gas boilers running constantly, as there really would be no power gain from just pumping petrol into a petrol generator for a straight ~1.8kw (less some v's for the carbon skimmer)

30 minutes ago, Craigjw said:

My bad, I confused sulfur with lime for some silly reason.

So, when you've boiled the gas, you then have to condense it, which will usually use atleast 1 aquatuner, running at 1.2kw plus maybe a couple of pumps and a filter, which all adds up to about 1.5kw give or take.  I hope this boiling process is able to sustain at least 4-5 natural gas boilers running constantly, as there really would be no power gain from just pumping petrol into a petrol generator for a straight ~1.8kw (less some v's for the carbon skimmer)

It used to be something insane like 50x more energy.  The addition of sour gas made it less efficient and more complex, but it's still quite a lot better ( maybe 20x? ), even with all of the cost of liquefying it.

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