Fuel-Powered Generator

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The Fuel-Powered Generator is a power generator building that generates power by burning liquid fuel ( Fuel,  Liquid Biofuel,  Turbofuel) or gaseous fuel ( Rocket Fuel, or  Ionized Fuel).

At 100% clock speed, one Fuel-Powered Generator produces 250 MW. The type of fuel does not affect power production, only burning time.

Fuel Consumption

Fuel Energy Burn duration Burn rate
 Fuel 750 MJ 3 sec 20 m3/min
 Liquid Biofuel 750 MJ 3 sec 20 m3/min
 Turbofuel 2,000 MJ 8 sec 7.5 m3/min
 Rocket Fuel 3,600 MJ 14.4 sec 4.16667 m3/min
 Ionized Fuel 5,000 MJ 20 sec 3 m3/min

Overclocking

Main article: Clock speed

The Fuel-Powered Generator can be overclocked using Power Shards. Overclocking increases the fuel consumption rate and produced power linearly. The same amount of power is always produced from the same input resources.

Setting up Fuel power

Main article: Setting up Fuel Power
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See the main article linked above for a full tutorial in multiple stages, from Fuel to Turbofuel. Note: Always keep in mind the Pipeline throughput limit, 300 m3/min for Mk.1 and 600 m3/min for Mk.2

  1. Acquire 300 m3/min of Crude Oil (which is two impure Oil Extractors at 250%, one normal at 250% or one pure at 125%).
  2. Split the output of the Extractor and feed it to 5 Refineries.
  3. Merge the fluid output of all the Refineries into a single Pipe, then split it to feed 10 Fuel Generators; which can be done with ten at 100% clock speed. See Clock Speed For Power Generators for more details.
  4. A manifold arrangement (aka. in-line splitting and merging) is advised for the above setup.
  5. To deal with the Polymer Resin (this setup will produce 150/min), either sink it or refine it into Residual Rubber/Plastic. Ensure these byproducts never back up, or Fuel production will stop, which will eventually result in the generators running out of it and stopping.

This setup provides 2,500 MW of sustained power.

Generators per node

A single Crude Oil node, using only the original Crude Oil to Fuel recipe, can support the following number of Fuel Generators operating at peak capacity (fractional amounts of machines mean that the clock speed of the last machine needs to be adjusted for maximum efficiency):

Node purity Crude Oil/min Refineries Fuel/min Polymer Resin
byproduct/min 		Number of
Fuel Generators 		Gross power output*
Impure 60 m3 1 40 m3 30 2 500 MW
Normal 120 m3 2 80 m3 60 4 1000 MW
Pure 240 m3 4 160 m3 120 8 2000 MW
Overclock to 150 m3** 150 m3 2.5 100 m3 75 5 1250 MW
Overclock to 300 m3*** 300 m3 5 200 m3 150 10 2500 MW
Overclock to 600 m3**** 600 m3 10 400 m3 300 20 5000 MW
  • * Net power capacity is less due to the Oil Extractor and Refineries consuming power
  • ** This is either an impure node at 250% or normal at 125%
  • *** This is either a normal node at 250% or pure at 125%, the limit of Mk.1 Pipelines
  • **** This is a pure node at 250%, the limit of Mk.2 Pipelines

Fuel production can be greatly expanded by making use of Alt Diluted (Packaged) Fuel, even more when combined with Alt  Heavy Oil Residue. Using both of these recipes together exactly quadruples Fuel production, at the cost of adding 2.667 Blenders and 1 Water Extractor per 10 Fuel Generators.

Node purity Crude Oil/min Heavy Oil
Residue Refineries 		Heavy Oil
Residue/min 		Polymer Resin
byproduct/min 		Water
Extractors 		Fuel
Blenders 		Fuel/min Number of
Fuel Generators 		Gross power
output
Impure 60 m3 2 80 40 1.333 1.6 160 8 2 GW
Normal 120 m3 4 160 80 2.667 3.2 320 16 4 GW
Pure 240 m3 8 320 160 5.333 6.4 640* 32 8 GW
Overclock to 150 m3 150 m3 5 200 100 3.333 4 400 20 5 GW
Overclock to 300 m3 300 m3 10 400 200 6.667 8 800* 40 10 GW
Overclock to 600 m3 600 m3 20 800* 400 13.333 16 1600* 80 20 GW
  • *Requires multiple Mk.2 Pipelines

See also

Gallery

  • Using Fuel-Powered Generators is a good way of removing Heavy Oil Residue (by converting it into Fuel first), while also provide a boost to the Power production.

    Using Fuel-Powered Generators is a good way of removing Heavy Oil Residue (by converting it into Fuel first), while also provide a boost to the Power production.

  • A Fuel-Powered Generator Plan that uses 300 m3 Crude Oil which is converted into Turbofuel to generate 22,350 MW of Power

    A Fuel-Powered Generator Plan that uses 300 m3 Crude Oil which is converted into Turbofuel to generate 22,350 MW of Power

History

  • Patch 1.0:
    • Renamed from Fuel Generator to Fuel-Powered Generator
    • Changed power output from 150 MW to 250 MW
    • Changed 5 Computer cost to 30 Copper Sheet
    • Changed 10 Heavy Modular Frame cost to 15 Encased Industrial Beam
  • Patch 0.5.0.10: Fixed Fuel-Powered Generator Status Indicator being offset
  • Patch 0.4.0.0
    • Decreased Fuel burn rate in Fuel-Powered Generator from 15 per minute to 12 per minute
  • Patch 0.3:
    • Replaced Conveyor input with a Pipeline input, now only accepts fluids
    • Changed construction cost to five Computers, 10 Heavy Modular Frames, 15 Motors, 50 Rubber, and 50 Quickwire
  • Patch 0.1.5: Changed construction cost from three Heavy Modular Frames, five Motors and five Circuit Boards to 10 Heavy Modular Frames, 10 Motors and five Computers
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