Kerosene

Kerosene
Kerosene Fluid Icon
Properties
Type	Liquid
Difficulty of Production	Easy
Exists in Reality	Yes
Can Be Placed	No
Temperature	~20°C
Renewable?	No
Warnings
Fire Diamond NFPA 704 1 2 0 Kerosene

Kerosene, or sometimes even called lamp oil or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum. It is widely used as a fuel in numerous things, such as in Jetpacks. It can also be burned for some energy.

Production

• There are a few ways of making Kerosene. These are: Cracking or Fractioning. Let's see how to get Kerosene in both ways.
  • Firstly, Cracking. You can get crack Steam and Cracked Diesel, which gives you 40mB Kerosene + 30mB Petroleum Gas / 2mB Low-Pressure Steam.
  • Or you can crack Steam and Diesel, that will give you 40mB Kerosene + 30mB Petroleum Gas + 2mB Low-Pressure Steam.
• Next way of getting Kerosene is through Fraction in a Fractioning Tower. There are 3 ways of getting Kerosene through fraction. They are:
  • 100mB Vacuum Light Oil > 70mB Kerosene + 30mB Reformate Gas
  • 100mB Cracked Light Oil > 70mB Kerosene + 30mB Petroleum Gas
  • 100mB Light Oil > 40mB Diesel + 60mB Kerosene

Uses

• As mentioned in the description of Kerosene, a use for Kerosene is in Jetpacks. All Jetpacks in-game use Kerosene as fuel and can be re-fueled from a barrel or tank.
• Other uses include cracking. First recipe is Kerosene and Steam, that gives you 60mB Petroleum Gas + 2mB Low-Pressure Steam.
• Another use for Kerosene is in a Chemical Plant. You can use it in 2 different ways. These are:
  • Creation of NITAN© 100 Octane Super Fuel through use of Template: NITAN Super Fuel Mixing. In the template, you use: 600mB Kerosene + 200mB Mercury + 1 Nitanium Blend. Giving you 1000mB of NITAN© 100 Octane Super Fuel.
  • You can also get NITAN© 100 Octane Super Fuel through an Industrial Mixer with Kerosene. You will need 1 Nitanium Blend + 200mB Mercury + 600mB Kerosene and you will get 1000mB NITAN© 100 Octane Super Fuel.
  • Creation of BF Rocket Fuel through use of Template: BF Rocket Fuel Mixing. In the template, you use: 6000mB Kerosene + 1 Balefire Shard. That will give you 8000mB of BF Rocket Fuel + 1 Thermonuclear Ashes.
• You can also use 700mB Kerosene in a Solidification Machine to get 1 Solid Fuel.
• Also in the Industrial Mixer, you can use 900mB Kerosene + 100mB Reformate to get 1000mB Jet Fuel.
• As Kerosene is Combustible and Flammable, you can get energy from it. It gives 3.85MHE per bucket and 2.56MTU per bucket.

Trivia

• Real Life Facts:
  • Its name derives from Greek: κηρός (kērós) meaning "wax", and was registered as a trademark by Nova Scotia geologist and inventor Abraham Gesner in 1854 before evolving into a generic trademark.
  • Kerosene is widely used to power jet engines of aircraft (jet fuel), as well as some rocket engines in a highly refined form called RP-1
  • It is only known as paraffin only in Chile, Eastern Africa, South Africa, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The term lamp oil, or the equivalent in the local languages, is common in the majority of Asia and the Southeastern United States.
  • Confusingly, the name paraffin is also used to refer to a number of distinct petroleum byproducts other than kerosene. For instance, liquid paraffin (called mineral oil in the US) is a more viscous and highly refined product which is used as a laxative. Paraffin wax is a waxy solid extracted from petroleum.

External Links

• [1] Kerosene Wikipedia Page