Ethanol Distiller

Ethanol Distiller

Refines Wood into Ethanol.

Ethanol distillers convert Wood into burnable Ethanol fuel.

Research

Distillation

Dimensions

4×3 tiles

Category

Refinement

Power

-240 W

Heat

+4.5 kDTU/s

Decor

-10 (Radius: 2 tiles)

Piping

Output: Ethanol Output

Requires

Wood: -1000 g/s

Effects

Ethanol: +500 g/s @ 73.4 °C / 164.12 °F+
Polluted Dirt: +333.33 g/s @ 93.4 °C / 200.12 °F+
Carbon Dioxide: +166.67 g/s @ 93.4 °C / 200.12 °F+

Auto In

Green: Enable
Red: Disable

Other Properties

Susceptible to flooding

Materials

Metal Ore

200 kg

Ethanol Distiller converts Wood into Ethanol , Polluted Dirt , and Carbon Dioxide .

All outputs have minimum temperatures, and will be higher in temperature if the input wood's temperature is above those minimums (e.g. 80 °C / 176 °F wood will produce 80 °C / 176 °F Ethanol , and Polluted Dirt and Carbon Dioxide at the minimum of 93.4 °C / 200.12 °F).

Usage

The Ethanol Distiller requires an input of 1 kg/s of Wood , which can be automated using Auto-Sweepers. While active, it will drop Polluted Dirt in lumps of 20 kg from the hatch down its furnace part. Produced Ethanol can be piped into a Petroleum Generator to produce Power, or into Hydroponic Farms to grow Nosh Sprout or Plume Squash Plant.

Tips

• Ethanol Distillers do not overheat.
• 1.8 domestically growing Arbor Trees (or 7.2 wild trees) provide enough Wood to keep an Ethanol Distiller running, assuming the branches are instantly harvested when ready.
• One Ethanol Distiller can feed 5 Slicksters, and irrigate 15 Nosh Sprouts or 20 Plume Squash Plants.
• 4 Ethanol Distillers are required to support one constantly running Petroleum Generator.
  • This produces a net power gain of +260 W per distiller (1040 W total), or +510 W (2040 W) if the Petroleum Generator is boosted.
  • Alternatively, if all Carbon Dioxide from the distiller and the generator are converted to Petroleum using Molten Slicksters, 3 distillers are needed per generator (the other 500 g/s is provided by the slicksters). This will require 30 Molten Slicksters per generator.
• One constantly running Ethanol Distiller provides almost 200 kg/cycle Polluted Dirt , enough to keep 3.33 Composts occupied if they are instantly flipped.
  • Which produce enough Dirt to fertilize ~20 domesticated Arbor Trees.
  • Alternatively, it can be used to feed ~3 Pokeshells or ~1.4 Sage Hatches.
• Three distillers supply enough Polluted Dirt to fully supply one Sublimation Station.
• There are no clean golden ratios of production here short of extremely large setups.
  • Example, 108 trees to 60 distillers to 20 generators, 15 of which are running on Ethanol and the remaining 5 of which are running on Petroleum from Molten Slicksters. This setup would produce:
    • Up to 60 kW of power (with Engie's Tune-Up)
    • 1.44 t/cycle of excess Polluted Water beyond what the trees consume, and 9 t/cycle total that needs to be pumped (1.5 pipelines and pumps)
    • 12 t/cycle Polluted Dirt , of which 1.08 t/cycle needs to be composted into Dirt to feed the trees (at least 18 compost heaps). A minimum of 200 compost heaps would be needed if all of it were to be converted into Dirt .
    • 12 t/cycle of Carbon Dioxide that would need to be routed to the slicksters. This would require a total of 600 Molten Slicksters, assuming all of them are always happy or satisfied, or 3000 if they are left in a glum state.
  • Needless to say, this is not recommended.
  • "Good enough" ratios:
    • 8 trees to 4 distillers to 1 generator, if not using slicksters
    • 6 trees to 3 distillers to 2 generators (1 Ethanol, running 75% of the time, 1 Petroleum running 25% of the time) if using slicksters (30 happy/satisfied slicksters or 150 glum slicksters required).

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