Coal Tar Creosote

NFPA 704;
	3 2 0 Coal Tar Creosote

Coal Tar Creosote
	Coal Tar Creosote Fluid Icon
Properties
Type	Liquid
Made With/By	Pyrolysis
Difficulty of Production	Easy
Exists in Reality	Yes
Can Be Placed	No
Temperature	~20°C
Renewable?	No
Warnings
NFPA 704;
	3 2 0 Coal Tar Creosote

Coal Tar Creosote is part of the Creosote family, which is a category of carbonaceous chemicals formed by the distillation of various tars and pyrolysis of plant-derived material, such as wood, or fossil fuel. They are typically used as preservatives or antiseptics.

The two main kinds recognized in industry are coal-tar creosote and wood-tar creosote. The coal-tar variety, having stronger and more toxic properties, has chiefly been used as a preservative for wood; coal-tar creosote was also formerly used as an escharotic, to burn malignant skin tissue, and in dentistry, to prevent necrosis, before its carcinogenic properties became known.

Coal Tar Creosote is greenish-brown liquid, with different degrees of darkness, viscosity, and fluorescence depending on how it is made. When freshly made, the creosote is a yellow oil with a greenish cast and highly fluorescent, and the fluorescence is increased by exposure to air and light.

In Nuclear Tech Mod, Coal Tar Creosote is a flammable, viscous, and polluting fluid, giving you 250.0kTU per bucket. It is made from burning fossil fuels in a Combination Furnace. Coal Tar Creosote has very few uses in the mod, being practically its only "useful" use, making Coker Naphtha.

Production

As mentioned before, Coal Tar Creosote can be made from burning fossil fuels in a Combination Furnace, or Oven. There are 6 total ways of producing Coal Tar Creosote:

1 Coal Briquette > 1 Coal Coke + 150mB Coal Tar Creosote
1 Lignite Briquette > 1 Lignite Coke + 100mB Coal Tar Creosote
1 Coal > 1 Coal Coke + 100mB Coal Tar Creosote
1 Lignite > 1 Lignite Coke + 50mB Coal Tar Creosote
1 Coal Powder > 1 Coal Coke + 100mB Coal Tar Creosote
1 Lignite Powder > 1 Lignite Coke + 50mB Coal Tar Creosote

Uses

Coal Tar Creosote has a total of 3 ways to be used: In a Industrial Solidification Machine:

200mB Coal Tar Creosote > 1 Coal Tar

In a Coker Unit:

3,200mB

320mB

And in the Fractioning Tower(s):

1,000mB

100mB

900mB

Trivia

Real Life Facts:

To the naked eye, it generally appears brown. The creosote (often called "creosote oil") consists almost wholly of aromatic hydrocarbons, with some amount of bases and acids and other neutral oils. The flash point is 70–75 °C and burning point is 90–100 °C, and when burned it releases a greenish smoke. The smell largely depends on the naphtha content in the creosote. If there is a high amount, it will have a naphtha-like smell, otherwise it will smell more of tar.

The use of coal-tar creosote on a commercial scale began in 1838, when a patent covering the use of creosote oil to treat timber was taken out by inventor John Bethell. The "Bethell process"—or as it later became known, the full-cell process—involves placing wood to be treated in a sealed chamber and applying a vacuum to remove air and moisture from wood "cells". The wood is then pressure-treated to imbue it with creosote or other preservative chemicals, after which vacuum is reapplied to separate the excess treatment chemicals from the timber.

Coal-tar creosote, despite its toxicity, was used as a stimulant and escharotic, as a caustic agent used to treat ulcers and malignancies, cauterize wounds, and prevent infection and decay. It was particularly used in dentistry to destroy tissues and arrest necrosis.

Lignite-tar creosote is produced from lignite rather than bituminous coal, and varies considerably from coal-tar creosote. Also called "lignite oil", it has a very high content of tar acids, and has been used to increase the tar acids in normal creosote when necessary.

External Links

Creosotes Wikipedia Page (Tells everything about Coal-Tar Creosote, and the other Creosote variants)

Gallery

Tank of Coal Tar Creosote.
Derivation and general composition of coal tar creosote in real life.