Diesel

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Diesel
Properties
TypeLiquid
Difficulty of ProductionMedium
Exists in RealityYes
Can Be PlacedNo
Temperature~20°C
Renewable?No
Warnings
Fire Diamond
NFPA 704
NFPA 704 four-colored diamondHealth 1: Exposure would cause irritation but only minor residual injury. E.g. turpentineFlammability 2: Must be moderately heated or exposed to relatively high ambient temperature before ignition can occur. Flash point between 38 and 93 °C (100 and 200 °F). E.g. diesel fuelInstability 0: Normally stable, even under fire exposure conditions, and is not reactive with water. E.g. liquid nitrogenSpecial hazards (white): no code
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Diesel

Diesel fuel, also called diesel oil or historically heavy oil, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and then injection of fuel. Therefore, diesel fuel needs good compression ignition characteristics.


The most common type of diesel fuel is a specific fractional distillate of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel are increasingly being developed and adopted.

In Nuclear Tech Mod, Diesel is an important fluid, being often used as a great source of power generation at the early-game. Especially by the fact Diesel isn't hard to produce, and it is much better than many other fluids you can have at the early-game stage of the mod.


Diesel is a slightly gray-ish, flammable, combustible, and polluting liquid, providing 550.0kTU and 1.37MHE per bucket. Diesel as stated earlier, is a great source of power generation at the early-game stage because of the amount of energy per bucket Diesel can provide, and at the early-game there really aren't many options to quickly get power for the machinery you might have, of course, you have other options that are perhaps good ones, but a tip is to potentially produce Diesel for some sweet energy at the start before you get to the real deal energy producers.

Production

Diesel has 2 ways of being produced: In a Hydrotreater and in the Fractioning Tower(s). Let's firstly talk about the Hydrotreater method of producing Diesel in the following way:

Liquid Hydrogen
100mBCracked Diesel
1,000mBDiesel
800mBSour Gas
300mB

(Note: The Liquid Hydrogen must be at 1 PU, for this, run the fluid through a Compressor at 1 PU).


And to the way of making it in the Fractioning Tower(s), which are 2 ways of producing Diesel:

Naphtha
1,000mB
Heating Oil
400mB
Diesel
600mB
 Light Oil
1,000mB
Diesel
400mB
Kerosene
600mB

Uses

Diesel has many ways of being used in the mod, let's start by its use in the Catalytic Cracking Tower:

Diesel
1,000mBSteam
2,000mB
Kerosene
400mB
Petroleum Gas
300mB
Low-Pressure Steam
20mB


In the Industrial Solidification Machine:


In a Coker Unit:

Diesel
590mBPetroleum Coke
Coker Naphtha
59mB


In a Industrial Mixer:

Reformate
100mB
Diesel
900mB
High-Octane Diesel
1,000mB


Diesel can also be used for a weapon called "Mister Topaz", which is a flamethrower. It requires Diesel Tanks, which are made in the Crafting Table as the following recipe:

Steel Plate
Steel Bolt
Universal Fluid Tank: Diesel
Steel Bolt
Steel Plate
Diesel Tank

(Each tank counts as 100 ammo in Mister Topaz).


Another weapon it can be used on, is the Chainsaw, holding up to 5000mB of many other fluids which you can find out in-game about, including, Diesel.


Another use for Diesel is the infamous armor called the "Diesel-Powered" set. Each piece of the Diesel-Powered armor can hold up to 64000mB of Diesel. The armor only consumes that Diesel if you, the player, takes damage, meaning it does not passively consume Diesel like other armors such as the T45 Power Armor.


And lastly, it is used as main fuel in the Diesel Generator, alongside other fuels which can also be used providing different number of energy depending on their fuel grades. Diesel has a high fuel grade, therefore, you get 75% fuel efficiency in the generator.

Trivia

  • Diesel fuel has many colloquial names; most commonly, it is simply referred to as diesel. In the United Kingdom, diesel fuel for road use is commonly called diesel or sometimes white diesel if required to differentiate it from a reduced-tax agricultural-only product containing an identifying coloured dye known as red diesel. The official term for white diesel is DERV, standing for diesel-engine road vehicle. In Australia, diesel fuel is also known as distillate (not to be confused with "distillate" in an older sense referring to a different motor fuel), and in Indonesia (as well in Israel), it is known as Solar, a trademarked name from the country's national petroleum company Pertamina. The term gas oil (French: gazole) is sometimes also used to refer to diesel fuel.
  • Diesel fuel originated from experiments conducted by German scientist and inventor Rudolf Diesel for his compression-ignition engine which he invented around 1892. Originally, Diesel did not consider using any specific type of fuel. Instead, he claimed that the operating principle of his rational heat motor would work with any kind of fuel in any state of matter. The first diesel engine prototype and the first functional Diesel engine were only designed for liquid fuels.
  • In the United States, petroleum-derived diesel is composed of about 75% saturated hydrocarbons (primarily paraffins including n, iso, and cycloparaffins), and 25% aromatic hydrocarbons (including naphthalenes and alkylbenzenes). The average chemical formula for common diesel fuel is C12H23, ranging approximately from C10H20 to C15H28.

External Links

Diesel fuel Wikipedia Page

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