Industrial Combustion Engine
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The Industrial Combustion Engine is a pseudo-multiblock machine that can burn combustible fuels directly for power. It has a 2.5 MHE internal power buffer and a 24,000 mB fuel input buffer. It can be considered an upgrade to the Diesel Generator due to its higher efficiency, throughput and customizability. This machine requires a piston set to be usable, but provides different efficiency values for each of the sets.
Recipe
The Industrial Combustion Engine can be made in an Assembly Machine with the following recipe:
Usage
This generator accepts combustible fluids provided through a Universal Fluid Duct after designating the fuel with a Fluid ID, or by using barrels/tanks. The GUI has an on-off switch that can be used to turn the generator on or off on demand, and it also has a slider element that allows a fixed fuel consumption rate, between 0.0 mB/t and 6.0 mB/t, in increments of 0.2 mB/t. When active, it will consume the fuel supplied to it at the specified rate and generate power based on the rate of consumption, the fuel's energy value and the efficiency for the fuel type.
The efficiency for each combustible fuel type is decided by the piston set added to the machine. One piston set is required for it to run, and it is input in the middle slot in the GUI, under the fuel rate slider and the piston icon. There are four piston sets available, in increasing cost: Steel, High-Speed Steel, Desh and Starmetal. The more expensive sets favor higher-quality fuels, with more efficiency for them, while the cheaper sets favor lower-quality fuels, with the exception of Starmetal which retains some efficiency for all fuels. The efficiency values for each piston set and fuel type are as follows:
| Piston Set | Low | Medium | High | Aviation | Gaseous |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steel | 100% | 75% | 25% | 0% | 0% |
| High-Speed Steel | 50% | 100% | 90% | 50% | 0% |
| Desh | 0% | 50% | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Starmetal | 50% | 75% | 100% | 90% | 50% |
Power Generation
The Industrial Combustion Engine can generate power at 100% efficiency with all low, medium and high fuel grades, depending on the piston set, and a maximum of 90% for aviation and 50% for gaseous, which makes it useful for all fuels except for gaseous, where the Combined Cycle Gas Turbine can burn at 100% instead of the ICE's 50%. The rate of fuel consumption is fixed, up to a maximum of 6mB/t, regardless of fuel, and the energy generation rate goes as high as that consumption rate can sustain it. For fuels with very high values, such as NITAN Superfuel, at 6mB/t, the ICE can generate as high as 19.2MHE/s.