I decided to go poking in the files:
For reasons not currently known to science, despite the exact same format, liquid fuel just isn't being accepted as a new category.
Changing the fuels to chemical works fine if you're not particular about making tanks require these fuels.
Many/most equipment Item names are only listed under equipment and not the item name, making them all return the unknown key issue
Energy units are coded in units of power for some reason. They're coded as MW instead of MJ.
The reason no equipment shows as equipment is because of a typo - everything is written as "placed" instead of "place" for place_as_equipment =