A Simplified Version of the Platinum Treatment Process and Passive Treatment Methods
Author: @s6014770
First, please find the end-to-end process flow chart for the Platinum Department in the group; feel free to edit it directly if there are any areas that need optimization.
If you want the results, just skip to Part One and Part Four
I. Raw Material Procurement
Most compounds are crafted using recipe templates via requesters; some elements feature fully cyclical processes, allowing for seamless recycling.
Nitric Acid: If you’ve enabled the End, you can directly collect nitric acid in the End using an HV air purifier; otherwise, use a requester to maintain your inventory.
Sulfuric acid: Similarly, use an air purifier in the Nether.
Hydrochloric acid: a requestor, chlorine plus hydrogen. Hydrochloric acid is also in demand elsewhere—stocking up won’t hurt.
Obtaining nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, and chlorine: For nitrogen and oxygen, simply keep the small steam centrifuge running continuously; for hydrogen, operate a single electrolysis cell to electrolyze water; as for gaseous chlorine, use an evaporation tower (which can also produce sodium hydroxide).
Other materials:
Potassium pyrosulfate, soda ash powder, sodium nitrate, sodium chlorate powder, nitrogen dioxide, formic acid, ammonium chloride: Simply craft the desired pattern using a requester. Note that the byproduct sodium sulfate from formic acid can be electrolytically recovered.
Salt: The more it’s produced, the more it’s used—so it shouldn’t be in short supply.
Calcium powder: Only platinum powder is required; electrolyze calcium chloride for complete recovery.
Sulfur Powder: It seems that some areas consume sulfur without fully recycling it. When you’re short, head to the mining area—or grab some Centrifuged Lava Powder (it’s been upgraded to EV, so most slaughterhouses should have it).
Zinc powder: Electrolytic zinc sulfate powder can be fully recycled.
2. Linear Organization of Text
The platinum series has six initial products, some of whose steps also yield these initial products.
1. Platinum slag powder, output 6
1.1 At high temperatures, 6 parts of platinum slag powder, 11 parts of potassium bisulfate, and 1 part of oxygen are added to produce 5 parts of platinum leaching residue, 0.5 parts of gaseous rhodium sulfate, and 7 parts of potassium sulfate powder (for electrolytic recovery). (This step consumes 4 parts of oxygen and 1 part of sulfur.)
1.1.1 High‑Temperature Reaction: 40 tons of platinum leaching residue are mixed with 11 tons of soda ash and 3 tons of oxygen, yielding 20 tons of rare metal concentrate and 21 tons of sodium ruthenate. The resulting carbon monoxide is recovered via electrolysis (this step ensures sodium–carbon mass balance). (This process line concludes here; further discussion will follow in the sections on inert metal and rare metal processing.)
1.2 The gaseous rhodium sulfate in the reactor is converted into rhodium sulfate by adding water.
1.3 Dehydrator: Rhodium sulfate is reacted with zinc to produce crude rhodium metal powder and zinc sulfate powder (for electrolytic recovery).
1.4 High-temperature reaction to produce crude rhodium metal powder; add salt and gaseous chlorine to generate rhodium salt powder.
1.5 Add rhodium salt powder to water in the mixer to produce a rhodium salt solution.
1.6 Reactor: Add rhodium salt solution to oxygen, nitrogen dioxide, and sodium nitrate powder to produce rhodium nitrate powder and salt.
1.7 The rhodium nitrate powder is fed into a filter, producing rhodium filter cake powder.
1.8 Add water to the rhodium filter cake powder in the mixer to produce a rhodium filter cake solution.
1.9 Distillation Chamber (Note) Circuit No. 1, producing 6 reprecipitated rhodium powder
1.10 Reactor 7: Redeprecipitate rhodium powder, add hydrochloric acid to produce 1 rhodium powder, 6 ammonium chloride, and 1 hydrogen gas.
Congratulations on completing the rhodium plating!!!
2. Coarse palladium powder, yield 3
Add formic acid to the reactor to obtain palladium powder, ammonia, and carbon monoxide.
3. Rough Platinum Powder, Output 2
Add 1 calcium powder to the crude platinum powder in Reactor 3, yielding 1 platinum powder and 3 calcium chloride (for electrolytic calcium recovery).
4. Platinum sludge, output 2
Centrifuge 5 yields 3 gold powder and 2 silicon dioxide powder.
5. Inert Metal Mixture (Output 4) (Ruthenium Treatment)
5.1 Packing Machine Packaging
5.2 High‑Temperature Reaction: 6 inert metals + 10 sodium nitrate + 1 sulfuric acid yield 6 sodium ruthenate and 0.6 gaseous rhodium sulfate (rhodium treatment see Section 1).
5.3 Reactor: 7 sodium ruthenate + 3 chlorine yield 3 liquid ruthenium tetroxide and 12 salts.
5.4 Cracking Machine – Circuit 1: 1 Liquid Ruthenium Tetroxide + 1 Steam yields 1 Hot Ruthenium Tetroxide
5.5 Distillation Tower 3: Heat generates 2 salts, 1 water, and a 0.9 solution of ruthenium tetroxide.
5.9 Fluid curing machine 1: Ruthenium tetroxide solution is transformed into 5 ruthenium tetroxide powder.
5.10 Reactor 5: Ruthenium tetroxide powder + 6 hydrochloric acid → 1 ruthenium powder, 2 water, 6 chlorine
6. Rare Metal Alloy (Output 1) (Apparently, the primary source is platinum slag powder) (Iridium and Osmium processing)
6.0.1 Packaging machine packaging
6.0.2 High-Temperature Reaction: 7 Rare Metal Mixtures + 4 Hydrochloric Acid yield 5 Iridium Metal Slag + 1.6 Acidic Osmium Solution
6.1 Iridium Treatment
6.1.1 High-Temperature Reaction: 6 Ir metal slag + 1 hydrogen gas + 5 sodium chlorate powder yield 3 iridium(IV) oxide powder, 2 salts, and 1 dilute hydrochloric acid (distilled and recovered for reuse), with a chance to produce platinum sludge.
6.1.2 Reactor 3: 3 parts of iridium dioxide powder + 1 part of hydrochloric acid yields 1 acidic iridium.
6.1.3 Reactor 1: Acidic iridium + 18 ammonium chloride yields 4 iridium tetrachloride + 2 ammonia.
6.1.4 Reactor: 4 IrCl₄ + 3 H₂ → 1 Ir powder + 3 HCl
6.2 Osmium Treatment
6.2.12 Distillation Tower: Acidic Osmium Solution yields 5 Osmium Metal Powder + 1 Water + 1 Hydrochloric Acid
6.2.27 Chemical Leaching Machine: Oxidize osmium metal powder with 1 part sulfuric acid to produce 4 parts osmium tetroxide powder and 2 parts dilute sulfuric acid.
6.2.35 In the reactor, osmium tetroxide powder reacts with 4 hydrogen molecules to produce 1 osmium powder + 4 water.
3. Organize the input for certain formula types.
1. High-Temperature Reaction
1.1 Platinum slag powder, potassium bisulfate, oxygen,
1.2 Platinum leaching residue, soda ash powder, oxygen
1.3 Roughly processed rhodium metal powder, salts, gaseous chlorine
1.4 Inert metals, sodium nitrate, sulfuric acid
1.5 Rare metal mixture, hydrochloric acid
1.6 Iridium metal slag, hydrogen gas, sodium chlorate powder
2. Large Chemical Reactors
2.1 Gaseous rhodium sulfate, water
2.2 Rhodium salt solution, oxygen, nitrogen dioxide, sodium nitrate powder
2.3 Re-precipitation of rhodium powder with hydrochloric acid
2.4粗钯 powder, formic acid
2.5 Coarse platinum powder, calcium powder
2.6 Sodium ruthenate, chlorine
2.7 Ruthenium tetroxide powder, hydrochloric acid
2.8 Iridium dioxide powder, hydrochloric acid
2.9 Acidic Iridium, Ammonium Chloride
2.10 Iridium chloride, hydrogen
2.11 Osmium tetroxide powder, hydrogen
Fluids: Water, oxygen, nitrogen dioxide, hydrochloric acid, formic acid, chlorine, hydrogen.
IV. Specific Methods for Implementing Passive Voice
You’ll need a Reactor, a Large Chemical Reactor, and a Distillation Tower—no need to build a new one; just reuse the existing ones.
1. Distillation Tower
It is recommended to use a me input bin (or a precision output bus) for this purpose (you’ll also need it when performing wood processing). You can mark multiple slots without worrying about residual liquids blocking the inputs—mark hot ruthenium tetroxide, dilute hydrochloric acid, dilute sulfuric acid, and acidic osmium solutions.
2. High-Temperature Reaction
Assuming your reactor is also used for producing titanium ingots and other materials, and the pattern provider is aligned with a single input assembly, enable isolation on the original input assembly—though this isn’t strictly necessary, as reactors rarely mix recipes.
Add two more input assemblies, with optional isolation and input limits enabled. Install the AE output bus.
The first batch includes platinum slag powder, potassium bisulfate, platinum leaching residue, soda ash powder, crude rhodium metal powder, salt, gaseous chlorine, and oxygen.
The second tag denotes inert metals, sodium nitrate, rare metal alloys, iridium metal slag, sodium chlorate powder, hydrogen gas, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid.
3. Large Chemical Reactors
As above, add three input assemblies for larger-scale reverse processing, fully enable isolation and input restrictions (in practice, the only component requiring isolation is hydrogen).
The first marker indicates gaseous rhodium sulfate, rhodium salt solution, sodium nitrate powder, oxygen, nitrogen dioxide, and water.
The second step involves precipitating rhodium powder, crude palladium powder, crude platinum powder, calcium powder, sodium ruthenate, chlorine, ruthenium tetroxide powder, iridium dioxide powder, formic acid, and hydrochloric acid.
The third marker is acidic iridium, ammonium chloride, iridium chloride, osmium tetroxide powder, and hydrogen.
4. Other Simple Steps
Most output buses can be directly connected to AE; it’s recommended to use older MV and HV machines (if the machines are still used for patterned crafting, be mindful of potential residue that could cause blockages). Assuming you have a universal factory, simply add an input assembly.
Rhodium sulfate with zinc in a dewatering machine
Add water to the rhodium salt powder in the mixer, and add water to the rhodium filter cake powder.
Rhodium nitrate powder for screening machines
Distillation Room No. 1 Circuit, Rhodium Filter Cake Solution
Cracking Unit No. 1 Circuit: Liquid Ruthenium Tetroxide + Steam (with a single input assembly)
Centrifuge platinum sludge
Ruthenium tetroxide solution for fluid curing.
Chemical immersion machine: osmium oxide metal powder + 1 sulfuric acid
The packaging machine packs two types of fine powder (may require precise bus output).
V. Electrolytic Recovery of Byproducts
Potassium sulfate powder, carbon monoxide, sodium sulfate (a byproduct of formic acid), calcium chloride