Perfluoromethyl

Perfluoromethyl
Properties
Type	Liquid
Made With/By	Mixing
Difficulty of Production	Medium-Hard
Exists in Reality	Yes
Can Be Placed	No
Temperature	15°C
Renewable?	Yes
Tooltip
Perfluoromethyl 15°C Thermal capacity: 300 TU per 1mB [Heatable] Efficiency 100% [PWR Coolant] Efficiency 100% [ICF Coolant] Efficiency 100% [Liquid] Hbm's Nuclear Tech
Warnings
Fire Diamond NFPA 704 1 0 1 Perfluoromethyl

Hot Perfluoromethyl
Hot Perfluoromethyl Icon
Properties
Type	Liquid
Temperature	250°C
Tooltip
Hot Perfluoromethyl 250°C Thermal capacity: 300 TU per 1mB [Coolable] Efficiency 100% [Liquid] Hbm's Nuclear Tech
Warnings
Fire Diamond NFPA 704 1 0 1 Hot Perfluoromethyl

Cold Perfluoromethyl
Cold Perfluoromethyl Icon
Properties
Type	Liquid
Can Be Placed	No
Temperature	-150°C
Tooltip
Cold Perfluoromethyl -150°C Thermal capacity: 300 TU per 1mB [Particle Accelerator Coolant] Efficiency 100% [Liquid] Hbm's Nuclear Tech
Warnings
Fire Diamond NFPA 704 1 0 1 Cold Perfluoromethyl

Perfluoromethyl is a liquid coolant derived from oil. Unlike other traditional coolants which have a standard and a hot version, perfluoromethyl also has a cooled variant at -150°C.

Production

Industrial Mixer

500mB 1,000mB 1,000mB

• Requiring only basic oil products and fluorite, perfluoromethyl is renewable, although for most purposes it is not consumed, rather just heated or cooled back into a usable form.

Uses

• Perfluoromethyl is usable as a coolant in RBMK fluid heaters, PWRs and the ICF, in fact it can hold exactly 300TU per mB of fluid used, yielding the same performance as standard coolant.
  • In addition, it can be cooled down using two sets of compressors, creating cold perfluoromethyl, which is necessary for particle accelerators to function.

• Finally, perfluoromethyl, both in standard and cooled form, can be used to create different types of control units:

Soldering Station

16 32 32 16 1,000mB

32 48 16 24 4,000mB

8 48 16 2 32 8,000mB

Hot Perfluoromethyl

• The result of heating perfluoromethyl, its only use is to heat up a heat exchanger and cool back down in the process.

Cold Perfluoromethyl

• Created by compressing perfluoromethyl in a compressor twice, cold perfluoromethyl is required by particle accelerators to cool the components down to 123K (-150°C), returning 15°C perfluoromethyl. Note that accelerators will consume perfluoromethyl constantly, even when not in use, so for saving power it's advised to turn the compressors off. The amount of perfluoromethyl returned by the particle accelerator parts is loss-free, so it's not necessary to produce more after the cooling cycle is running.

Trivia

• Perfluoromethyl is based on perfluoro(2-methyl-3-pentanone), with the name being shortened, and while not being terribly accurate it is easier to remember and spell.
• Perfluoromethyl is the only fluid that has three variants at standard, high and low temperatures. Steam is the only fluid with more heat-dependent variants, having five, but those start at 100°C.
• The addition of perfluoromethyl was inspired by Factorio's fluoroketone, and indeed, perfluoro(2-methyl-3-pentanone) is a type of fluorinated ketone.
• Perfluoro(2-methyl-3-pentanone) is sometimes called "dry water" and used as a fire suppressor in circumstances where water can't be used (e.g. in server rooms or museums) or as an immersion coolant for electronics, reflected by perfluoromethyl's use in the control unit recipes.
• Cooling perfluoromethyl using compressors makes use of the Joule-Thomson effect, where the fluid is heated up though compression, cooled back down to ambient temperature and finally expanded, causing it to cool down far below ambient temperature. It's the same principle used by refrigerators.