Packager
The Packager is a building used to package and unpackage fluids in and out of Empty Canisters or Empty Fluid Tanks. Both Canisters and Fluid Tanks are returned when fluid is unpackaged from them, allowing them to be reused. Packaged liquids can be transported with Conveyor Belts - this can be more efficient when transporting them with Conveyor Lifts due to the power usage of Pipeline Pumps, but only for very large vertical distances.
Recipes
Recipe | Ingredients | Duration | Products | Unlocked by |
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Packaged Alumina Solution | 1 sec | Tier 7 - Bauxite Refinement | ||
Packaged Fuel | 3 sec | Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging | ||
Packaged Heavy Oil Residue | 4 sec | Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging | ||
Packaged Ionized Fuel | 3 sec | MAM Sulfur Research - Ionized Fuel | ||
Packaged Liquid Biofuel | 3 sec | Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging | ||
Packaged Nitric Acid | 2 sec | Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment | ||
Packaged Nitrogen Gas | 1 sec | Tier 8 - Advanced Aluminum Production | ||
Packaged Oil | 4 sec | Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging | ||
Packaged Rocket Fuel | 1 sec | MAM Sulfur Research - Rocket Fuel | ||
Packaged Sulfuric Acid | 3 sec | Tier 7 - Control System Development | ||
Packaged Turbofuel | 6 sec | MAM Sulfur Research - Turbofuel OR Tier 7 - Control System Development OR Tier 5 - Oil Processing AND MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal | ||
Packaged Water | 2 sec | Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging | ||
Unpackage Alumina Solution | 1 sec | Tier 7 - Bauxite Refinement | ||
Unpackage Fuel | 2 sec | Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging | ||
Unpackage Heavy Oil Residue | 6 sec | Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging | ||
Unpackage Ionized Fuel | 3 sec | MAM Sulfur Research - Ionized Fuel | ||
Unpackage Liquid Biofuel | 2 sec | Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging | ||
Unpackage Nitric Acid | 3 sec | Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment | ||
Unpackage Nitrogen Gas | 1 sec | Tier 8 - Advanced Aluminum Production | ||
Unpackage Oil | 2 sec | Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging | ||
Unpackage Rocket Fuel | 1 sec | MAM Sulfur Research - Rocket Fuel | ||
Unpackage Sulfuric Acid | 1 sec | Tier 7 - Control System Development | ||
Unpackage Turbofuel | 6 sec | Tier 7 - Control System Development OR MAM Sulfur Research - Turbofuel OR Tier 5 - Oil Processing AND MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal | ||
Unpackage Water | 1 sec | Tier 5 - Fluid Packaging |
Overclocking
The Packager can be overclocked using Power Shards. Overclocking increases the input/output speed of the Packager at the cost of exponentially increased power demand.
Clock speed | 25% | 50% | 75% | 100% | 150% | 200% | 250% |
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Consumption (MW) | 1.6 | 4 | 6.84 | 10 | 17.09 | 25 | 33.58 |
Head lift
The Packager has a recommended head lift of 10 meters, measured from the center of its pipe outlet.
Unpackageable Fluids
The following fluids are not able to be packaged:
Using for vertical transport of fluids
For vertical transport of fluids, using Packagers and Conveyor Lifts instead of Pipelines and Pipeline Pumps can be more efficient, but only for extremely large vertical distances, due to the number of Packagers required to package/unpackage a full Pipeline of fluid. The break-even point varies by fluid as they all have different package/unpackage rates.
To approximately calculate the break-even amount of vertcal lift you:
- Calculate the number of Packagers required to package and unpackage a full Pipeline (300/s for mk1 or 600/s for mk2) of fluid
- Calculate the energy these Packagers require
- Packager count * 10MW
- Note this is simplified as it does not account for the lower-than-proportional energy usage of an underclocked machine, or the higher-than-proportional energy usage of a partially idle machine
- Calculate the number of Pipeline Pumps that can be powered for the same energy
- Packager energy / Pipeline Pump power
- (4MW for a mk1, 8MW for a mk2)
- Round the Pipeline Pump count down to the nearest whole number (as they do not underclock)
- Calculate the total Head lift this many Pipeline Pumps will provide
- Pipeline Pump count * Pipeline Pump Head lift
- (20m for a mk1, 50m for a mk2)
- This is the approximate break-even point
The equation for this is:
FLOOR( ( ( (pipe flow rate / package rate) + (pipe flow rate / unpackage rate) ) * packager power) / pump power ) * pump head lift
Where FLOOR() is a function that rounds down to the nearest integer.
Note this equation does not account for underclocked or partially idle Packagers, where a fractional number of Packagers is needed (e.g. 2.5 Packagers are needed to unpackage 300/s Water).
- If fractional Packagers are underclocked to the exact required fraction then power use and break-even will be slightly less than this equation indicates due to better power efficiency
- If fractional Packagers are left at 100% Clock speed and so are partially idle then power use and break-even will be slightly more than this equation indicates due to idle power draw
Fluid | mk1 Pipeline | mk2 Pipeline | ||
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mk1 Pipeline Pump | mk2 Pipeline Pump | mk1 Pipeline Pump | mk2 Pipeline Pump | |
Alumina Solution | 240 | 300 | 500 | 600 |
Fuel | 620 | 750 | 1240 | 1550 |
Heavy Oil Residue | 1240 | 1550 | 2500 | 3100 |
Liquid Biofuel | 620 | 750 | 1240 | 1550 |
Nitric Acid | 1240 | 1550 | 2500 | 3100 |
Nitrogen Gas* | infinity | infinity | infinity | infinity |
Oil | 740 | 900 | 1500 | 1850 |
Sulfuric Acid | 620 | 750 | 1240 | 1550 |
Turbofuel | 1500 | 1850 | 3000 | 3750 |
Water | 360 | 450 | 740 | 900 |
Even the smallest break even point for any combinaton is 240 metres, or 60 4m Wall segments.
*Nitrogen Gas is a gas, not a liquid. As such does not require Head lift to transport vertically, so does not require any Pipeline Pumps.
Trivia
- "PAC-IT MK1" is written on the machine, suggesting that higher marks would be available, though it has been denied by developers.[1]
- Before the introduction of the Packager, Refineries were given the job of packaging and unpackaging liquids. Refineries that were constructed after the update lost this ability.
- To calculate the energy spent to package / unpackage a certain fluid:
Energy = 600 MJ / (rate of un/packaging in X/min)
. The multiplier for the item recipe can be ignored as only the rate is concerned.
- Occasionally when overclocked the packager does an animation accompanied with audio that looks like its overloading and throwing the fluid around. This is only graphical, production is not effected.
Gallery
History
- Patch 0.3.6: Introduced