Is there a way to make oil prossesing automated?

[Mad Alex]

Well I know the awnser is yes, but I am having the hell of a time doing it. What I got going is I am making batteries, and so I need to go back from sulfur to making the acid, then that to the batteries. But, whenever I need sulfur made I need to go back to the refinery and tell it to make petrolleum again. It is really frustrating, any help would be appreciated.

[Nailfoot]

Your refineries should be making petro, light, and heavy oil automatically. The 3 products are produced at the same time, and are always being made anytime the refinery is running.

I may be missing your question.

[Mad Alex]

Originally posted by Nailfoot:

Your refineries should be making petro, light, and heavy oil automatically. The 3 products are produced at the same time, and are always being made anytime the refinery is running.

I may be missing your question.

Well, after a certain point my refinery stops producing, so I have to go back and reset it.

[Qhris]

Can you post a picture of your oil processing setup?

[zytukin]

It will stop producing if any of the three items are full.
When it stops, look inside to see if it has 10 in stock of heavy, light, or gas.
If so, you need to build something to use that item. Either a steam engine to 'trash' the item, a tank to hold it (temporarily solution as they will fill up) or a chem lab/assembler that uses the liquid.

A chem lab can also crack it (if you have the researches done) into something you can use.
Heavy Oil can be cracked to Light Oil
Light Oil can be cracked to the Gas.

[Mad Alex]

Originally posted by Chrjs:

Can you post a picture of your oil processing setup?

http://imgur.com/EqmBDig

[Qhris]

Originally posted by Double Helickß:

Originally posted by Chrjs:

Can you post a picture of your oil processing setup?

http://imgur.com/EqmBDig

I meant a screenshot, not an actual picture bruh...

Also press the ALT key on your keyboard so that it shows what is going on in the game.

[Mad Alex]

Originally posted by Chrjs:

Originally posted by Double Helickß:

http://imgur.com/EqmBDig

I meant a screenshot, not an actual picture bruh...

Also press the ALT key on your keyboard so that it shows what is going on in the game.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=659027787

[AlexMBrennan]

Refineries produce three output liquids simultanously. Unless you add a drain of some kind (e.g. a storage tank, or a chemical factory making solid fuel) production will stop (just like every assembler will stop if you don't remove the output)

As for automating sulphur => sulfuric acid => battery, you need to use multiple chemical plants and assemblers in sequence.

[The Chaotic Coder]

The gas from the refinery is going into the chem plant, but you need to do something with the light and heavy oil -- the refinery won't keep running if they don't have somewhere to go. You can build 2 storage tanks for now, and save them for later. The best thing to do with light oil is make solid fuel, you can turn some of the heavy oil into lubricant and once you get advanced oil processing, crack heavy oil into light oil and then light oil into gas.

[Qhris]

I took a picture of what my setup looks like right now for batteries. It's NOT optimal in any way because of the lack of automation when it comes to iron and copper plate injection, but that's because I have biters attacking all the time, and I put the refinery too far away from my main bus, so whatever..

But the idea still applies: Gas and water is pumped into sulfur plant, which then directly outputs it's sulfur to the acid plant. The acid plant gets water pumped into it and has a seperate chest that adds iron plates as needed. Acid is fed into another plant which takes in separate iron and copper plates, which then output it into a chest which then feeds the batteries onto a belt.

If you want a more optimized setup, you obviously want to automate the input for iron/copper plates as I mentioned above.

Picture: http://imgur.com/NuCuLf4

[The Chaotic Coder]

OP's issue is that the heavy oil and light oil from the refinery aren't going anywhere. So he can only produce a couple of "batches" of gas at a time until the refinery's H/L outputs fill up, then he has to cancel the process (destroying the unused oil) and restart it. Just needs to add storage tanks and/or chem plants to do something with the products.

[Mad Alex]

I see. Thank you guys.

[Physical_Instrument]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=659081324
always make sure of heavy oil,light oil and gaz goes out ,or it will stop

[Callsign Crim]

Originally posted by Double Helickß:

Well I know the awnser is yes, but I am having the hell of a time doing it. What I got going is I am making batteries, and so I need to go back from sulfur to making the acid, then that to the batteries. But, whenever I need sulfur made I need to go back to the refinery and tell it to make petrolleum again. It is really frustrating, any help would be appreciated.

I have 5 factories being supplied by about 10 rigs, each rig is over 120%. those factories pump fuel into 3 sets of 3 storage tanks, those storage tanks then split off to 4 other chem factories, producing batterys, plastics, explosives, sulfer, and chips. I have 3 other chem factories that split heavy oil into light, light into gas. Now I got lucky with my oil spawns so you may have to tweak your setup a bit, if you are producing to much gas, but not enough heavy or light, then make items that require gas. A good way to figure out what you have too much of is to use storage tanks, Also remember to put a pump from your crude oil line to your oil factory, as this will pull that slack oil in the pipes ( Usually helps when you dont have alot of crude oil available)

Sometimes I switch one of my chem fabs over to produce lubricant in a seperate tank that is used to create my electric engines, once the tank is full i return it back to splitting heavy oil.

Screenshot to come, but I have alot of my pipes underground because I tend to run over them ith my tank = /


(Screenshot)

https://gyazo.com/edfd414fa7464e60582f062ad2743d9d

[Mansen]

Basically just set up silos for Heavy and Light initially - You'll need heavy for lubricant soon enough (so never, EVER convert it into petro, terrible ratio), and light into petro (DO convert it) and solid fuel blocks.