Fuel

Fuel can be inserted into burner devices and burned to power them. Different types of fuel provide different amounts of energy, measured in megajoules (MJ).

Types

This is a list of all items usable as fuel in burner devices, ordered by fuel value:

Item	Fuel value	Fuel value per raw total	Vehicle acceleration bonus	Vehicle speed bonus	Train max speed
Wood	2 MJ	4 MJ per raw wood	100%	0%	259.2 km/h
Raw wood	4 MJ	4 MJ per raw wood	100%	0%	259.2 km/h
Small electric pole	4 MJ	8 MJ per raw wood	100%	0%	259.2 km/h
Wooden chest	4 MJ	2 MJ per raw wood	100%	0%	259.2 km/h
Coal	8 MJ	8 MJ per coal	100%	0%	259.2 km/h
Solid fuel	25 MJ	2 MJ per unit of crude oil1	120%	5%	272.2 km/h
Rocket fuel	225 MJ	1.8 MJ per unit of crude oil1	180%	10%	298.1 km/h
Nuclear fuel	1.21 GJ	9.68 MJ per unit of crude oil1 1.21 GJ per Uranium-235	250%	10%	298.1 km/h
Uranium fuel cell	8 GJ2	507 MJ per uranium ore3	Unusable	Unusable	Unusable

(1) This assumes the crude oil is processed completely into solid fuel using advanced oil processing and heavy oil cracking as intermediate steps, but not light oil cracking. More efficient methods are possible. In practice, the petroleum gas is more likely to be used for something other than solid fuel.

(2) This fuel type can only be used in a nuclear reactor. Unlike other fuel types, it cannot be placed into standard burners.

(3) Assuming that all U-238 is enriched, all used up cells are reprocessed, and there is no reactor neighbor bonus.

Consumption

The following formula can be used to find how long a fuel will last in a device: Burn time (s) = Fuel value (MJ) / Energy consumption (MW)

For example, when using coal in a burner inserter with an energy consumption of 188 kW (or 0.188 MW): Burn time = 8 / 0.188

we find that the burn time is approximately 42.55 seconds.

History

• 0.15.0:
  • Fuel type affects vehicle acceleration and top speed.

See also

• Burner devices
• Electric network
• Nuclear Ratios