Liquid Petroleum Gas
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| Properties | |||||||
| Type | Liquid | ||||||
| Difficulty of Production | Easy-Medium | ||||||
| Exists in Reality | Yes | ||||||
| Can Be Placed | No | ||||||
| Temperature | ~20°C | ||||||
| Renewable? | No | ||||||
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Liquid Petroleum Gas, or LPG as it is known in NTM is a liquefied form of petroleum gas that is primarily used as an energy dense high grade combustible fuel. Currently, it has few other uses as a material or usable product in NTM as it provides subpar solid fuel yields compared to petroleum gas solidification and has no other recipes associated with it.
Production
LPG can only be produced with a chemical plant recipe which compresses petroleum gas at a 2:1 ratio.
2,000mB
1,000mBUses
LPG is primarily used for its high combustion energy density in addition to the fact that petroleum gas is one of the most plentiful products of the crude oil refining process. When combusted, LPG is a high grade fuel that provides 4.53MHE per bucket and 1.81MTU per bucket when burned. When compared to petroleum gas's 2.47MHE per bucket and 1.65MTU per bucket, it is clearly best to never burn LPG and instead always combust it. Additionally, it may be better to combust petroleum gas in a combined cycle gas turbine if such a machine is available as petroleum gas will yield more HE than LPG per mb.
The only other use of LPG is in conversion to solid fuel in the industrial solidification machine, but this process is far less efficient than conversion of petroleum gas to solid fuel as petroleum gas converts at a ratio 0f 1,000mb to 1 solid fuel and LPG converts at a ratio of 990mb to 1 solid fuel despite being doubly compressed petroleum gas.
Trivia
- LPG has a multitude of uses in real life such as heating, combustion, acting as an aerosol propellant, refrigeration, and more.
- Due to being the liquefied form of a compound that is a gas at standard temperature and pressure, LPG must be stored in high pressure conditions in order to maintain its liquid form which gives rise to the existence of spherical storage containers to consistently maintain its liquid status in storage.
