Exhaust Scrubber

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Exhaust Scrubber

Filters 75% of pollutants from hot Exhaust gasses by extracting useful resources.
Construction
80
Workers 8
Electricity 200 KW
Maintenance 4.0 / 60 
Footprint8x6*
Required ResearchExhaust Filtration
Boost by UnityAvailable
DesignationWaste Management 

The Exhaust Scrubber is the sole machine capable of consuming Exhaust as an input. As a result, it can provide a significant reduction in overall Air Pollution emitted on the island, reducing or entirely preventing Population loss due to illness.

It produces Sulfur as a useful byproduct which can be utilized in Rubber or Acid production. Sufficient Steam (Low) is also output to run one Low-Pressure Turbine II which generates Electricity. Carbon Dioxide can be used to create Graphite or Fuel Gas or safely dumped into the ground via the Gas Injection Pump.

However, straight-up disposing of the byproducts (Sulfur via Burner and CO2 via Smoke Stack) still gives roughly 27% pollution reduction as compared to releasing the exhaust directly into the atmosphere.

Pollution per 180 / 60 of Exhaust at version 0.5.2
Way of disposing Air Pollution Water Pollution Health
Release Exhaust via Smoke Stack without scrubbing 90 - -4.5
Scrub Exhaust and ...
Convert Sulfur to Acid and dump it
Release Carbon Dioxide via Smoke Stack
42 72 -9.3
Scrub Exhaust and ...
Burn Sulfur via Burner (Solid)
Release Carbon Dioxide via Smoke Stack
66 - -3.3
Scrub Exhaust and ...
Convert Sulfur to Slag and dump it
Release Carbon Dioxide via Smoke Stack
42 - -2.1
Scrub Exhaust and ...
Convert Sulfur to Slag and dump it
Inject Carbon Dioxide via Gas Injection Pump
24 - -1.2

Recipes

Below are all the recipes, which this building is capable of producing. Note, that some of them may be locked behind Research, and not immediately available in your game.

30
180
4
24
10 
60 
1
6
12
72
4
24
4
24