Distiller(Refinery) stops working during use after a few minutes of being active.

Only fix is to save, quite and reload.

Inventory icon is also missing.

when it stops working does it still have fluids and energy in it's internal buffers?

That appears to have fixed the problem, I didn't realise I needed to drain both tanks. Thanks!

The missing icon is still an issue though.

Yes, I have a constant supply running to it.

You probably closed this by accident.

@playhazard is it accepting the input or rejecting it? if it's rejecting what are the internal buffer statuses? are the full/empty/paritally filled?

I'll take a look next time I have it happen but oil is full and stops flowing in because its full.

Typically the combustion engines stop functioning as well, regardless of whether you remove and replace them.

I assume the lower rear section with a sort of brownish buffer level is power?

The lower rear section is a tank containing (most likely) Heavy Oil, and the top tank most likely contains Gaseous Fuel.

Ok it appears that the conversation from heavy oil to gas is stalling. I took a screenshot

http://imgur.com/wXgRdvx

Looks like the bottom tank is full. Can you try putting a wooden fluid pipe below it and pumping the fluid out?

you have to pump that fluid out the bottom of the distillery, as it now has 2 outputs