Kayser's Cracking Auto-Cracker

Kayser's Cracking Auto-Cracker - The Most Cracking Cracker Around

Properties:

• Cracks Diesel/Naphtha/Fuel Gas into Diesel/Naphtha/Fuel Gas in arbitrary proportions.
• Automatically balances your supply and demand of Diesel, Naphtha, and Fuel Gas.
• Most efficient use of workers and construction materials.
• Compact design for minimal space footprint.
• Works in conjunction with Kayser's Compact Refinery and Kayser's Heavy Oil Cracker.
• Storage array (optional) included for easy testing and mapping of inputs/outputs.

Features:

• Back-Up protection - fills output tanks but never backs up internally.
• Overflow protection - takes from input tanks but never overflows internally.
• Waste protection - Never makes a product that is already abundant. Stops gracefully when all outputs are full.
• Efficient - Uses both cracking units for all products.
• No Pipe III or other Construction Material III - Can be built directly when Cracking is unlocked.
• Accessible tanks for easy connections or truck transports.

Input/Output:

• The i/o balancer has capacity to pass through a full Pipe III (450) of each of the main fluids (Diesel/Naphtha/Fuel Gas).
• Primary ingredients: 0-72 Fuel Gas, 0-48 Naphtha, and/or 0-48 Diesel, depending on supply/demand.
• Primary products: 0-48 Diesel, 0-36 Naphtha, and/or 0-60 Fuel Gas, depending on supply/demand.
• Auxiiliary ingredients: 0-6 High Steam (alternatively, if using boiler, 0-6 Water), 0-24 H2 (optional*)
• By-products: 0-12 Water, 0-12 Sour Water

Note that feeding the Sour Water to a Sour Water Stripper will return all Water needed for the High Steam.

*If H2 is not supplied, the cracker cannot crack Naphtha directly to Diesel. It will still make Diesel from Naphtha (via Fuel Gas), but at a much lower rate (about 20 Diesel per minute instead of 48).

Usage:

• Basically plug-and-play.
• Place blueprint. Ensure no downgrades (Pipe II is required for correct operation).
• Connect your surplus supply of Diesel/Naphtha/Fuel Gas to the input tanks (if using storage array) or directly to the respective balancers labeled "I/O" for each product. Input connection should not be prioritized in the i/o balancer.
• Connect your output tanks to the tanks labeled output (if using storage array) or directly to the respectice i/o balancers. Output connection should be prioritized in the i/o balancer.
• Connect auxiliary H2 or ensure it is filled by trucks.
• Connect auxiliary steam or (if using storage array + boiler) water. Connecting steam from e.g. a nearby refinery is recommended due to the low volume of steam required (6/60).
• Ensure Water and Sour Water is transported away by pipe or truck. Note that the Sour Water tank is inaccessible to trucks if the storage array is used in its default position.

Design Notes/Operational Description:

1. From the I/O balancers, the primary fluids (Diesel/Naphtha/Fuel Gas) are passed around in four basic loops (one for each recipe in the cracking unit).
2. I/O balancer tries to send the primary fluids to output and "cracking candidate". Any surplus is sent into a surplus pipe to indicate that a surplus is available.
3. Next, a balancer in each loop checks if that recipe's main product (ingredient) is available in surplus. If so, it passes that surplus along in the loop. If not, the cracking candidate (product) is passed on instead.
4. Next, a pair of tanks in each loop sorts the fluids. If the product was passed along, it is simply sent back to the I/O balancer to close the loop. If the ingredient was passed along, it will be sent to cracking.
5. Next, balancers in each loop checks if the cracking unit is already overloaded. If so, it sends the ingredient back to sorting, to stop the loop from adding more ingredient.
6. Naphtha and Diesel are mixed with H2 or Steam in exact proportions. (O2 is fed to a dedicated port.)
7. Fluids enter a feeder loop and are eventually cracked.
8. All output is sorted.
9. Primary fluids are sent back to the I/O balancer to be output (or cracked again, if needed).

Crack away!