Bitumen

NFPA 704;
	2 0 0 Bitumen

Bitumen
	Bitumen Fluid Icon
Properties
Type	Liquid
Made With/By	Chemical synthesis
Difficulty of Production	Easy-Medium
Exists in Reality	Yes
Can Be Placed	No
Temperature	~20°C
Renewable?	No
Warnings
NFPA 704;
	2 0 0 Bitumen

Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum. Depending on its exact composition it can be a sticky, black liquid or an apparently solid mass that behaves as a liquid over very large time scales. In the U.S., the material is commonly referred to as asphalt.

In material sciences and engineering the terms "asphalt" and "bitumen" are often used interchangeably and refer both to natural and manufactured forms of the substance, although there is regional variation as to which term is most common.

In Nuclear Tech Mod, Bitumen is also the main fluid used to make asphalt. A block which, if used to make some type of path, can be quite useful, as it will increase the player's speed by 50%. It also has a reasonable blast resistance of 72.0. Bitumen is viscous, and is a potent pollutant. It can be made from resources you can find or get somewhat easily, like Tar Sand and different variants of Oil Tar.

Bitumen has a few methods of production and even fewer direct uses. Bitumen isn't required for progression in the mod, but it can improve your bases aesthetics while vastly improving mobility.

Production

Bitumen has a total of 6 ways to be acquired, those being: 1 in a Chemical Plant / 3 in the Industrial Liquefaction Machine and 2 in Fractioning Tower(s). Firstly, let us have a look in the way to do it in a Chemical Plant in details:

Chemical Plant
Inputs	Recipe
Chemistry Template: Tar Sand Extraction Production Time: 10.0 seconds Inputs: Tar Sand, any Oil Tar Produces: Bitumen, Sand	16 1,000mB 4 4 4 4

For the Industrial Liquefaction Machine production of Bitumen, there are 3 processes, those being:

1 Coal Tar > 50mB Bitumen
1 Oil Tar > 75mB Bitumen
1 Crack Oil Tar > 100mB Bitumen

And for the Fractioning Tower(s) production of Bitumen, there is 2 processes, those being:

1,000mB

100mB

900mB

1,000mB

300mB

700mB

Uses

Bitumen has a total of 4 uses in the mod, being 1 in each of the following machines: Catalytic Cracking Tower / Chemical Plant / Industrial Solidification Machine and Coker Unit. Let us have a look at each process in details:

In the Cracking Tower:

1,000mB

2,000mB

800mB

200mB

20mB

In the Chemical Plant:

Chemical Plant
Inputs	Recipe
Chemistry Template: Asphalt Production Production Time: 5.0 seconds Inputs: Bitumen, Gravel, Sand Produces: Asphalt	1,000mB 2 6 16

In the Industrial Solidification Machine, there isn't much secret, 100mB Bitumen > 1 Oil Tar

And lastly, in a Coker Unit:

16000mB Bitumen > 1 Petroleum Coke + 1600mB Coker Oil

Trivia

Real Life Facts:

The largest natural deposit of bitumen in the world is the Pitch Lake of southwest Trinidad, which is estimated to contain 10 million tons.

Naturally occurring bitumen is sometimes specified by the term "crude bitumen". Its viscosity is similar to that of cold molasses while the material obtained from the fractional distillation of crude oil boiling at 525 °C (977 °F) is sometimes referred to as "refined bitumen".

The Canadian province of Alberta has most of the world's reserves of natural bitumen in the Athabasca oil sands, or also known as Athabasca tar sands, which cover 142,000 square kilometres (55,000 sq mi), an area larger than England.

External Links

Bitumen Wikipedia Page

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