I'm planning on upgrading to nitro diesel sometime in the future. What's the actual process and machines needed for a good setup, and how do I automate it? MV components and machines are not yet available to me unfortunately.
For example:
Oil->Machine 1->Machine 2->Appropriate Generator
this is from memory so check up on it before you build it all
oil > distillery (I turned mine into light fuel since I had primarily "raw oil" from my oil drill rigs)
sulfuric light fuel > chemical reactor with 1 hydrogen cell + 1 empty cell (gives 2 sulfuric acid cells back as well as light fuel (so it isn't sulfuric light fuel anymore))
to make hydrogen, there are a few different ways, I automated it by electrolyzing regular water, but that is a relatively expensive way (power wise,), I think it is a base cost of around 45k EU for 1 or 2 buckets worth of hydrogen. (although 1 hydrogen will de-sulfurize 6000mb sulfuric light fuel, and 4000mb light fuel + 1 glyceryltrinitrate will give 5000mb nitro diesel at 512k EU per 1000mb,so still worth it
)
then light fuel into a chemical reactor, with glyceryltrinitrate i think it's called.
to make glyceryltrinitrate you need to have a chemical reactor with water as liquid and then 1 nitrogen cell + 1 carbon dust.
carbon dust you can gain from various ways, early on an easy source of it is all that dark dust you get from making steel in bronze blast furnaces, centrifuge 2 dark ashes into 2x 1 ashes, and then centrifuge 1 Ash into 1 carbon.
if you feel like it, you can centrifuge or is it electrolyte diamond dust for a full stack of carbon per diamond dust (not worth it in my opinion, but if just doing it once or twice it's a nice start amount f
of carbon, and it will give alot of EU back when all used to make nitro
)
I had fully automated the distillation process and de sulfurization process, I used enderio item conduits to move cells back and forth, since they can be used to round Robin and with a speed Downgrade, they only round Robin 1 item at a time.
to start with, I'd recommend getting a couple chemical reactors, a distillery, an electrolyte (or other means of getting hydrogen) a fluid canner if you went with electrolyte for hydrogen, and then in the start, possibly use light fuel instead of nitro diesel in diesel generators, as I think light fuel once de-sulfurized is still 256k per 1000mb.
then once you have enough power output you can make glyceryltrinitrate and process the rest of the light fuel I to nitro diesel for double the EU
mind you, I used MV machinery for my setup, (well some was lv) but it should be doable entirely with lv, even if you have to get hydrogen or nitrogen differently.
oh forgot nitrogen.
I got nitrogen from Uhh.. compressing empty cells into compressed air, then using a fluid canner (very important, else the cell is lost when you empty a compressed air cell) into an electrolyzer i think,abd made nitrogen and oxygen that way, then had another fluid canner to empty oxygen cells so I could reuse the cell for making more compressed air (I just vented the oxygen into a liquid trash can)
