Exhaust Scrubber

Exhaust Scrubber

Filters 75% of pollutants from hot Exhaust gasses by extracting useful resources.

Construction	80
Workers	8
Electricity	50 KW
Maintenance	4.0 / 60
Footprint	8x6*
Required Research	Exhaust Filtration
Boost by Unity	Available
Designation	Waste 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 0.4.10

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	24	-4.5
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

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