Fuel Generator

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Fuel Generator
Consumes Fuel to generate electricity for your power grid. Has an input so feeding Fuel can be automated.
Building
Category	Power
Subcategory	Generators
Unlocks at	Tier 6
Operation
Power Generated	150 MW
Fuel	Fuel, Biofuel, Turbofuel
Overclockable	Yes
Inputs	1
Outputs	0
Dimensions
Width	20m
Length	20m
Height	27m
Crafting
Ingredients
10 10 5 25
Resources breakdown [Expand] 10 ×  Heavy Modular Frame 50 ×  Modular Frame 150 ×  Reinforced Iron Plate 600 ×  Iron Plate 1200 ×  Iron Ingot 1200 ×  Iron Ore 3600 ×  Screw 600 ×  Iron Rod 600 ×  Iron Ingot 600 ×  Iron Ore 300 ×  Iron Rod 300 ×  Iron Ingot 300 ×  Iron Ore 150 ×  Steel Pipe 150 ×  Steel Ingot 225 ×  Iron Ore 225 ×  Coal 50 ×  Encased Industrial Beam 250 ×  Concrete 750 ×  Limestone 200 ×  Steel Beam 600 ×  Steel Ingot 900 ×  Iron Ore 900 ×  Coal 900 ×  Screw 150 ×  Iron Rod 150 ×  Iron Ingot 150 ×  Iron Ore 10 ×  Motor 20 ×  Stator 200 ×  Wire 67 ×  Copper Ingot 67 ×  Copper Ore 60 ×  Steel Pipe 60 ×  Steel Ingot 90 ×  Iron Ore 90 ×  Coal 20 ×  Rotor 440 ×  Screw 74 ×  Iron Rod 74 ×  Iron Ingot 74 ×  Iron Ore 60 ×  Iron Rod 60 ×  Iron Ingot 60 ×  Iron Ore 5 ×  Computer 60 ×  Cable 120 ×  Wire 40 ×  Copper Ingot 40 ×  Copper Ore 90 ×  Plastic 120 ×  Crude Oil 50 ×  Circuit Board 300 ×  Wire 100 ×  Copper Ingot 100 ×  Copper Ore 150 ×  Plastic 200 ×  Crude Oil 300 ×  Screw 50 ×  Iron Rod 50 ×  Iron Ingot 50 ×  Iron Ore 25 ×  Cable 50 ×  Wire 17 ×  Copper Ingot 17 ×  Copper Ore Total Base Ingredients 320 ×  Crude Oil 224 ×  Copper Ore 3649 ×  Iron Ore 750 ×  Limestone 1215 ×  Coal

The Fuel Generator is a Building which generates 150MW of Power by using  Fuel as input item. The fuel burn time is 5 seconds.

Fuel energy values

Energy is given in MJ.

Fuel Type	Energy	Stack Size	Energy/Stack	Burn time(sec)
Fuel	750	100	75k	5
Biofuel	300	200	60k	2
Turbofuel	2000	100	200k	13.3

Generators per node

A single crude oil node can support the following number of fuel generators operating a peak capacity:

Clock Speed: 100%
Oil Node Purity	Power Used	Oil Pumped/ Minute	Number of Oil Refinery	Number of Fuel Generators	Total Power	Rounded-down Power	Power Efficiency
Impure	40 MW	60	1	3.125*	468.75 MW	450 MW **	0.1125
Normal	40 MW	120	2	6.25*	937.5 MW	900 MW **	0.2250
Pure	40 MW	240	4	12.5*	1875 MW	1800 MW **	0.4500
Clock Speed: 150%
Oil Node Purity	Power Used	Oil Pumped/ Minute	Number of Oil Refinery	Number of Fuel Generators	Total Power	Rounded-down Power	Power Efficiency
Impure	76.5 MW	90?	1.5	4.6875	703.125MW*	450 MW **	0.0588
Normal	76.5 MW	180	3	9.375*	1,406.25MW*	1350MW **	0.1765
Pure	76.5 MW	360?	6	18.75*	2,812.5MW*	2700MW **	0.3529
Clock Speed: 200%
Oil Node Purity	Power Used	Oil Pumped/ Minute	Number of Oil Refinery	Number of Fuel Generators	Total Power	Rounded-down Power	Power Efficiency
Impure	121.3 MW	120?	2	6.25*	937.5MW	900MW **	0.0742
Normal	121.3 MW	240	4	12.5*	1875MW	1800MW **	0.1484
Pure	121.3 MW	480?	8	25*	3750MW	3750MQW**	0.3092
Clock Speed: 250%
Oil Node Purity	Power Used	Oil Pumped/ Minute	Number of Oil Refinery	Number of Fuel Generators	Total Power	Rounded-down Power	Power Efficiency
Impure	173.3	150?	2.5	7.8125	1171.875	900 MW **	0.0519
Normal	173.3	300	5	15.625	2343.75MW	2250 MW **	0.1298
Pure	173.3	600?	10	31.25	4687.5MW	4650 MW **	0.2683

•  ? The value is extrapolated from 100% clock speed values and experimental "Normal" purity values. (i.e.: I sat here and added power modules and wrote down the values for a Normal oil extractor. I'm fairly certain that the game doesn't do anything weird like scale output of oil pumps logarithmically, but someone should validate that and delete the "?"'s and this comment)
  • The decimal in the Number of oil refinery/fuel generator column means the last generator might not be able to run at 100%. Underclock the last generator to prevent power trip.

• ** Value calculated from the rounded down number of fuel generators.

The equation for the Number of Fuel Generators is:

$\frac{\mathit{OilPumpedPerMin}\times 0.625 \times \mathit{FuelBurnTime}}{60sec}$

The equation for Power Efficiency is:

$\frac{\Bigl( \frac{\mathit{RoundeddownPower}}{\mathit{PowerUsed}} \Bigr)}{100}$

Values closer to 1 are better. (maybe we just drop the /100 and call it "closer to 100 is better... but it's not exactly a percent it's a unitless measure that's designed to illustrate that you get less MW generated per MW used)

For a fuel generator that is not overclocked, Fuel burn time is 5 seconds (displayed next to the stopwatch in the fuel generator UI).

Fuel burn time and peak capacity

The real Fuel Burn Time with all generators depends on the amount of power actually being used. However, the UI does not show the real burn time, it shows the burn time if the generator is operating at peak capacity.

So, the 5 seconds burn time for Fuel Generators shown in game is how long it takes to burn 1 Fuel if all of the power that the generator can possibly produce is being used.

For example: if a base has 1 Fuel Generator, and is using all of the possible 150 MW, the fuel burn time will be 5 seconds. But, if the base is only using 75 MW, the fuel burn time will be (supposedly) doubled. (More research needed on this)

Trivia

• The Fuel Generator, like all power generating buildings, behaves differently to other buildings when overclocked. See Clock Speed for more info.
• Biofuel can be used to feed fuel generators.

History

• Patch 0.1.5 (experimental): changed crafting recipe from 3 Heavy Modular Frame, 5 Motor, and 5 Circuit Board to 10 Heavy Modular Frame, 10 Motor, and 5 Computer

See also

• Biomass Burner
• Coal Generator
• Geo Thermal Generator
• Nuclear Reactor