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Metal Refinery is a Refinement Building, which serves the purpose of turning Metal Ore into Refined Metal, as well as producing alloys. It produces a lot of heat, and dumps part of it into coolant liquid.

A Metal Refinery requires a Liquid Intake and Output Pipes, 400 kg of Liquid as a coolant (stores 800 kg, and can accept 400 more while the task is scheduled), Duplicant operation, and 1.2 kW of Power. It refines metals 100 kg at a time, leaving the Refined Metal on the floor at 40 °C, as well as producing 16 kDTU/s of heat and outputting 400 kg of coolant at a higher temperature. The heat added to the coolant is 80% of the heat required to heat the refined metal from 40 °C to its melting point. Recipes take 40 seconds but it can be reduced by the Machinery attribute.

While the Metal Refinery can operate with just 400 kg of coolant, it is advised to supply 800-1200 kg so that it can operate continuously.

Liquids where the temperature increment is bigger than the temperature range between solid and gaseous transition are struck out. Liquids that can only perform one operation at a time are underlined.

Liquids that cannot be obtained outside of sandbox mode are not listed. These are Helium, Mercury, and Propane.

All temperature ranges are 6 degrees larger than expected, since materials need to go 3°C beyond a phase change temperature to actually change their state.

All values are truncated to 3 decimal places.