Chemical plant

Chemical plant

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Recipe
5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 → 1
Total raw
16.25 + 7.5 + 20 + 5
Map color
Health	300 390 480 570 750
Stack size	10
Dimensions	3×3
Energy consumption	210 kW (electric)
Drain	7.0 kW (electric)
Crafting speed	1 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.5
Mining time	0.1
Pollution	4/m
Module slots	3 slots
Prototype type	assembling-machine
Internal name	chemical-plant
Required technologies
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The chemical plant is a building for processing fluids and solids, usually through chemical processes. Many recipes that either require or provide a fluid other than crude oil are produced here. The chemical plant has 2 inputs and 2 outputs in fixed positions (their positions can be flipped). Solid items can be both inserted and removed by inserters from any point (no need to target fluid input/output connections).

When chemical plants are in the process of crafting an item, they will billow out smoke that matches the color of their input ingredients.

Base Game Recipes

The Chemical plant has twelve available recipes in the base game, one of which must be set before it can begin processing.

Process	Technology required	Input	Output
Sulfuric acid	Sulfur processing	1 1 5 100	50
Heavy oil cracking	Advanced oil processing	2 30 40	30
Light oil cracking	Advanced oil processing	2 30 30	20
Solid fuel	Advanced oil processing	2 10	1
Solid fuel	Oil processing	2 20	1
Solid fuel	Advanced oil processing	2 20	1
Lubricant	Lubricant	1 10	10
Plastic bar	Plastics	1 1 20	2
Sulfur	Sulfur processing	1 30 30	2
Battery	Battery	4 1 1 20	1
Explosives	Explosives	4 1 1 10	2
Flamethrower ammo	Flamethrower	6 5 100	1

Space Age Recipes

Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

The Space Age Expansion adds eleven new recipes, some of which must be crafted on a specific planet. Most recipes are not exclusive to the chemical plant and can be crafted with other buildings, mostly the cryogenic plant.

Process	Technology Required	Input	Output	Exclusive to	Also crafted in
Acid neutralisation	Calcite processing	5 1 1000	10000
Steam condensation	Calcite processing	1 1000	90
Ice melting	Space platform thruster	1 1	20
Carbon	Tungsten carbide	1 2 20	1
Coal synthesis	Rocket turret	2 1 5 5	1
Holmium solution	Holmium processing	10 1 10	100
Fish breeding	Fish breeding	6 2 100 100	3
Ammoniacal solution separation	Planet discovery: Aquilo	1 50	5 50
Solid fuel from ammonia	Planet discovery: Aquilo	1 50 20	1
Ammonia rocket fuel	Planet discovery: Aquilo	10 3 50 500	1
Lithium	Lithium processing	20 1 50 50	5

Aquilo's recipes are able to be selected while on other planets, but because they require liquids that are exclusive to Aquilo and cannot be shipped off-planet, those recipes are effectively locked to the planet.

Fluid inputs

Unlike solid ingredients, which can be inserted anywhere, the fluid ingredients can only be added at the two fixed inputs. Furthermore, recipes which requires two fluid ingredients, will only accept each ingredient on a specific input. When the recipe that requires fluid ingredients is selected, the chemical plant will display icons on the inputs to show which ingredient goes to which input. These fluid inputs can be flipped with H or V.

Colored smoke billowing from the plants.

History

• 2.0.7:
  • Fluid inputs and outputs can now be flipped.

• 0.18.0:
  • Updated sound effects.

• 0.17.0:
  • Crafting speed decreased from 1.25 to 1.0.

• 0.15.0:
  • Module slots increased from 2 to 3.

• 0.11.6:
  • Oil refinery and chemical plant are now disconnected from pipes when the recipe is reset.

• 0.10.0:
  • Unused pipe connections don't connect to pipes.
  • Fluid input amount is limited to 2× recipe cost.
  • Fluid inputs for the chemical plant are now saved properly.

• 0.9.1:
  • Now accepts modules.

• 0.9.0:
  • Introduced

See also

• Fluid system
• Oil refinery