Wood Oil

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Wood Oil
Properties
TypeLiquid
Made With/ByOther
Difficulty of ProductionEasy
Exists in RealityYes
Can Be PlacedNo
Temperature~20°C
Renewable?Yes
Tooltip
Wood Oil
[Flammable]
Provides 110.0kTU per bucket
[Polluting]
When spilled:
- 0.00005 POISON per mB
When burned:
- 0.004 SOOT per mB
[Liquid]
[Viscous]
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Warnings
Fire Diamond
NFPA 704
NFPA 704 four-colored diamondHealth 2: Intense or continued but not chronic exposure could cause temporary incapacitation or possible residual injury. E.g. chloroformFlammability 2: Must be moderately heated or exposed to relatively high ambient temperature before ignition can occur. Flash point between 38 and 93 °C (100 and 200 °F). E.g. diesel fuelInstability 0: Normally stable, even under fire exposure conditions, and is not reactive with water. E.g. liquid nitrogenSpecial hazards (white): no code
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Wood Oil

Wood oil is a viscous, flammable, polluting liquid which provides 110 kTU of heat per bucket when burned. Its main use is as a limited source of petrochemicals and/or tar before proper oil production.

Production

Wood oil is made in a combination oven from a sawdust briquette, wooden log, or tree sapling:

Sawdust Briquette
Charcoal
Wood Oil
500mB
Oak Wood
Charcoal
Wood Oil
250mB
Oak Sapling
Wood Ash
Wood Oil
50mB

Uses

Wood oil can be cracked into heating oil and aromatic hydrocarbons:

Wood Oil
100mB
Steam
200mB
Heating Oil
40mB
Aromatic Hydrocarbons
10mB
Low-Pressure Steam
2mB

It is used to make wood tar in the industrial solidification machine:

Wood Oil
1,000mB
Industrial Solidification Machine
Wood Tar



It is also used to make coker gas in a coker unit:

Wood Oil
3,000mB
Charcoal
Coker Gas
300mB


Wood oil can be mixed with fish oil or sunflower seed oil to make biofuel:

Wood Oil
500mB
Fish Oil
500mB
Biofuel
1,000mB
Wood Oil
500mB
Sunflower Seed Oil
500mB
Biofuel
1,000mB


It can also be used to make various chemical dyes in the ore acidizer.

Trivia

  • If wood oil is made from sawdust sourced from stirling sawmills for maximum yield, and is then fully cracked, reformed, and the products burnt in a CCGT and fluid burner, each log of wood will yield ~2 MHE depending on the design of the processing chain. While this may seem overpowered, by the time you can construct the machines required to do this, you will have already made an RBMK, making the relatively small amount of power yielded and the large effort required to set this up largely pointless. Still funny though!