Turbofuel

Turbofuel
A more efficient alternative to Fuel. Can be used as-is to generate power, or packaged to be used as fuel for vehicles.
Unlocked by	MAM Sulfur Research - Turbofuel
Class name	Desc_LiquidTurboFuel_C
Liquid
Abbrev­iation	Turbo
Fluid color	#d4292e
Fuel
Energy	2,000 MJ
Fuel-Powered Generator 8 sec (7.5 / min)

Turbofuel is an improved version of  Fuel mixed with  Compacted Coal.

Obtaining

Unlocking

All Turbofuel recipes require Tier 5 - Oil Processing to be researched, directly or indirectly.

The default Turbofuel recipe is unlocked in MAM Sulfur Research. The research itself costs  Compacted Coal, thus it needs to be researched first.

 Turbofuel is unlocked via the Sulfur Research chain in the MAM using:

1

15

50

The Turbo Heavy Fuel and Turbo Blend Fuel recipes are unlocked by scanning Hard Drives in the MAM. Each recipe has different prerequisites to appear in the selection pool: Turbo Heavy Fuel requires  Compacted Coal to be researched in MAM Sulfur Research, while Turbo Blend Fuel requires Blenders to be available and  Sulfur to be researched.

 Turbo Heavy Fuel is unlocked via the Hard Drive Research chain in the MAM using:

1

 Turbo Blend Fuel is unlocked via the Hard Drive Research chain in the MAM using:

1

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Unpackage Turbofuel	2 × Packaged Turbofuel20 / min	Packager 6 sec	2 × Turbofuel20 / min 2 × Empty Canister20 / min	Tier 7 - Control System Development OR MAM Sulfur Research - Turbofuel OR Tier 5 - Oil Processing AND MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal
Turbo Blend Fuel Alternate	2 × Fuel15 / min 4 × Heavy Oil Residue30 / min 3 × Sulfur22.5 / min 3 × Petroleum Coke22.5 / min	Blender 8 sec	6 × Turbofuel45 / min	Tier 7 - Control System Development
Turbo Heavy Fuel Alternate	5 × Heavy Oil Residue37.5 / min 4 × Compacted Coal30 / min	Refinery 8 sec	4 × Turbofuel30 / min	Tier 5 - Oil Processing OR MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal
Turbofuel Alternate	6 × Fuel22.5 / min 4 × Compacted Coal15 / min	Refinery 16 sec	5 × Turbofuel18.75 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Turbofuel

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Packaged Turbofuel	2 × Turbofuel20 / min 2 × Empty Canister20 / min	Packager 6 sec	2 × Packaged Turbofuel20 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Turbofuel OR Tier 7 - Control System Development OR Tier 5 - Oil Processing AND MAM Sulfur Research - Compacted Coal
Rocket Fuel	6 × Turbofuel60 / min 1 × Nitric Acid10 / min	Blender 6 sec	10 × Rocket Fuel100 / min 1 × Compacted Coal10 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Rocket Fuel
Turbo Rifle Ammo	25 × Rifle Ammo125 / min 3 × Aluminum Casing15 / min 3 × Turbofuel15 / min	Blender 12 sec	50 × Turbo Rifle Ammo250 / min	MAM Sulfur Research - Turbo Rifle Ammo

Notes

• Packaged Turbofuel can be used as Vehicle fuel and in the Jetpack.
• It can be used to power Fuel Generators.

Fuel vs Turbofuel Efficiency

Using the Turbo Blend Fuel and Diluted Fuel recipes:

• 1m³ Heavy Oil Residue creates 1m³ Turbofuel, or 2000 MJ
• 1m³ Heavy Oil Residue creates 2m³ Fuel, or 1500 MJ

This makes Turbofuel 1.33x as efficient as Fuel, at the cost of Sulfur.

To create 2,000MW of power 60m³/min of Turbofuel is needed or 160m³/min of Fuel is needed. Using the same recipes as before, the Turbofuel is made from 45m³/min Crude Oil and 30 Sulfur/min while the Fuel is made from 60m³/min Crude Oil. This gives Turbofuel a weighted point value of about 82.32 and Fuel a weighted point value of about 51.28 for 2,000MW of power. This means that for weighted resource efficiency Turbo Fuel is about 1.6x as expensive for an equivalent amount of power.

However turning Fuel into Turbofuel raises the maximum potential MW production from 390,000MW from Fuel alone, to 504,000MW (456,000MW via Turbofuel + 48,000MW turning remaining Crude Oil into Fuel)

Tips

• Two Turbofuel power setup tutorials are available, see Fuel Generator#Setting up Fuel power for a generalized setup or Tutorial:How to play#Turbofuel Power for a specific detailed setup.

Gallery

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  Schematic of Turbofuel production based on 300 m³/min of Crude Oil and 533.34 Sulfur and Coal/min to yield 666.66 m³/min of Turbofuel. Uses Diluted Packaged Fuel loop. Less power efficient but available earlier than the Blender version. Note that this diagram was made before patch 0.3.6 introduced the Packager, and so shows packaging operations being performed by Refineries.

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  Schematic of Turbofuel production based on 300 m³/min of Crude Oil and 533.34 Sulfur and Coal/min to yield 666.66 m³/min of Turbofuel. Uses Blender version of Diluted Fuel to reduce complexity and power usage.

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  Schematic of Turbofuel production based on 500 m³/min of Crude Oil and 333.34 Sulfur/min to yield 666.66 m³/min of Turbofuel. Reduces Sulfur usage and eliminates coal usage. However increases oil usage.

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  A setup of Turbofuel Power.

History

• Patch 0.6.0.4: Can no longer be unlocked from Hard Drive research
• Patch 0.6.0.0: The default recipe can now be unlocked through Sulfur Research in the MAM, while still being an alternate recipe that can be unlocked from Hard Drives
• Patch 0.4.0.0: Introduced Turbo Blend Fuel alternate recipe
• Patch 0.3.0.1: Fixed default recipe, now produces liquids properly
• Patch 0.3:
  • Now a liquid
  • Introduced Turbo Heavy Fuel alternate recipe
  • Loading a save created before Patch 0.3 converts Turbofuel items to Packaged Turbofuel
• Patch 0.1.7: Changed default recipe's Compacted Coal cost from 2 to 4

See also

•  Packaged Turbofuel
•  Fuel