Ethanol

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Ethanol
Ethanol Fluid Icon
Properties
TypeLiquid
Made With/ByChemical synthesis
Difficulty of ProductionEasy
Exists in RealityYes
Can Be PlacedNo
Temperature20°C
Renewable?No
Warnings
Fire Diamond
NFPA 704
NFPA 704 four-colored diamondHealth 2: Intense or continued but not chronic exposure could cause temporary incapacitation or possible residual injury. E.g. chloroformFlammability 3: Liquids and solids that can be ignited under almost all ambient temperature conditions. Flash point between 23 and 38 °C (73 and 100 °F). E.g. gasolineInstability 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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Ethanol

Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH3CH2OH. It is an alcohol, with its formula also written as C2H5OH, C2H6O or EtOH, where Et stands for ethyl.


Ethanol is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid with a characteristic wine-like odor and pungent taste. In nature, grape-sugar breaks up by the action of fermentation into alcohol or carbonic acid, without anything being added.


As a psychoactive depressant, it is the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages, and the second most consumed drug globally behind caffeine.


In Nuclear Tech Mod, Ethanol is a fluid used in the production of Biofuel and also Engine Lubricant, other than that, nothing. Maybe in the future Ethanol might have a use for alcoholic purposes (?).


Ethanol is a light-blueish flammable, combustible and polluting fluid, having a high fuel grade, providing 275.0kTU and 687.0kHE per bucket, so it can be technically used as a less powerful alternative to Diesel. The processes to the production of this fluid are quite almost the same, since it's mostly a product acquired from fermentation in real life, so in the mod, it is basically a few processes that lead to the production of Ethanol.

Production

The production of Ethanol uses 3 different machines in the mod, those being the Chemical Plant, the Industrial Liquefaction Machine and the Combination Oven. Firstly let's have a look at the Chemical Plant way of producing Ethanol:

Chemical Plant
Inputs Recipe
Chemistry Template: Ethanol Production

Production Time: 2.5 seconds

Input: Sugar

Sugar10
Ethanol
1,000mB

Secondly, at the Industrial Liquefaction Machine:

  • 1 Mustard Willow > 50mB Ethanol
  • 1 Sugar > 100mB Ethanol
  • 1 Hemp > 150mB Ethanol

And lastly, on the Combination Oven:

  • 1 Sugar Canes > 2 Sugar, 50mB Ethanol

Uses

As stated before, Ethanol doesn't have uses apart from producing Biofuel and Engine Lubricant, in the Biofuel Production, a Chemical Plant is used, and for the Engine Lubricant, a Industrial Mixer is used. Firstly a look in the Biofuel production from Ethanol:

Chemical Plant
Inputs Recipe
Chemistry Template: Biofuel Transesterification

Production Time: 3.0 seconds

Inputs: Biogas, Ethanol

Biogas
1,500mB
Ethanol
250mB
Biofuel
1,000mB

And in the Industrial Mixer:

Ethanol
200mB
Fish Oil
800mB
Engine Lubricant
1,000mB

Trivia

History

  • 1.0.27_X4704:
    • Ethanol can be used as fuel in the Automatic Buzz Saw.
  • 1.0.27_X4543:
    • Liquefaction Machine receives new recipes: 1 Mustard Willow > 50mB Ethanol / 1 Hemp > 150mB Ethanol
  • 1.0.27_X4445:
    • Combination Oven recipe added, 1 Sugar Cane > 2 Sugar / 50mB Ethanol
  • 1.0.27_X4438:
    • Ethanol recipe in Chemplant changed:
      Sugar10
      Ethanol
      1,000mB
    • Liquefaction Machine recipe changed, 1 Sugar > 100mB Ethanol.
  • 1.0.27_X4152:
    • Ethanol recipe in Chemplant changed:
      Sugar6
      Ethanol
      1,000mB
  • 1.0.27_X4144:
    • Ethanol Liquefaction Machine recipe added, 1 Sugar > 150mB Ethanol.
  • 1.0.27_X4053:
    • Introduced.
    • Originally, Ethanol was produced from Biomass in the Chemical Plant:
      Biomass6
      Ethanol
      50mB

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