Liquid Petroleum Gas
| LPG | |||||||
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 LPG fluid icon | |||||||
| Properties | |||||||
| Type | Liquid | ||||||
| Made With/By | Chemical synthesis | ||||||
| Difficulty of Production | Easy-Medium | ||||||
| Exists in Reality | Yes | ||||||
| Can Be Placed | No | ||||||
| Temperature | ~20°C | ||||||
| Renewable? | Yes | ||||||
| Flammable | 1.81MTU | ||||||
| Combustible | 4.53MHE | ||||||
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| LPG [Flammable] Provides 1.81MTU per bucket [Combustible] Provides 4.53MHE per bucket Fuel grade High [Polluting] When burned: - 0.0004 SOOT per mB [Liquid] Hbm's Nuclear Tech | |||||||
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Liquid Petroleum Gas, or LPG, 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 the mod as it provides a subpar yield of solid fuel compared to the gas form and has no other recipes associated with it.
LPG is a flammable, combustible and polluting fluid with a high fuel grade, providing 1.81MTU and 4.53MHE per bucket.
Production
LPG can be produced in 2 ways, those being in an chemical plant and in a compressor in a 2:1 ratio:
| Inputs | Recipes |
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| Chemical Template: Petroleum Gas Liquefaction
Production Time: 5.0 seconds Inputs: Petroleum Gas Outputs: LPG |
 2,000mB   1,000mB |
2,000mB   1,000mB |
Uses
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. 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 of 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.
