Wang Hongtai, a young lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering of Pujiang Jiaotong University, was a little dizzy when he walked out of the small conference room of the heavy equipment office. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info thinks back to everything that has happened these days, and he has the feeling that he is sleepwalking.

The use of ruthenium catalyst to improve the ammonia synthesis process is a very unpopular topic. Wang Hongtai also discovered by chance that the use of a new catalyst with ruthenium as an accelerator can greatly improve the efficiency of ammonia synthesis, which may lead to a great change in the ammonia synthesis process. With his academic status, of course, it is impossible to say that it will lead to a technological revolution as Wu Shican, but such a process can at least make a major change in ammonia synthesis technology, which he can imagine.

For the birth of a new process, it is not enough to have an idea, it is also necessary to conduct repeated experiments, and find new problems and propose new solutions in the experiments. Ruthenium is only one of the elements in the new catalyst envisioned by Wang Hongtai, and the determination of its proportion and the selection of other elements need to be studied. These studies can start with theories, but ultimately they have to be tested experimentally, which costs money.

Wang Hongtai once submitted an application to the leadership for research, but it was unexpectedly rejected. At present, the country is still very poor, and the investment in scientific research is extremely limited, and these limited investments must be allocated to scientific research institutes and universities across the country, and then they will be dismembered into capitation fees, infrastructure costs, equipment costs, and so on. After many years of political campaigns, all scientific research institutions are in ruins, scientific research personnel must improve their welfare, office buildings must be renovated or even newly built under the banner of laboratory buildings, and the construction of staff dormitories, canteens, guest houses, and so on must be paid for from scientific research funds.

After the deduction, the remaining little bit of scientific research funds must be used to ensure the key scientific research tasks delivered by the state, because if these tasks are not completed, the next phase of funding will be worried. As for cutting-edge research like Wang Hongtai's proposal, in the eyes of the leaders, they are full of food and support, and they throw money into the water. If Wang Hongtai is a well-known professor, the department leader does not look at the face of the monk and looks at the face of the Buddha, and it is estimated that he will have to give a little money to fool around. But Wang Hongtai is just a small lecturer, and he actually wants to spend money on experiments, is there any mistake!

In the absence of any financial support, Wang Hongtai can only do theoretical research first, after all, this is something that does not cost money. In the past year or two, Wang Hongtai has accumulated a lot of theoretical research conclusions, which can be turned into valuable results after being verified by experiments. Every time he looks at some of the achievements occasionally reported in foreign academic journals, Wang Hongtai really sighs, if he has tens of thousands of yuan of experimental funds, the discovery of these achievements will definitely not let foreigners take the lead.

At this time, a notice was posted on the wall of the office of the Department of Chemical Engineering, on which the news of the bidding of the National Equipment Industry Science and Technology Fund was written, and the bidding content of the first phase was the large fertilizer equipment technology. The leaders of the Department of Chemical Engineering urgently convened a general meeting of all teachers of the department and called on everyone to actively bid. said that it was everyone, but in fact, the eyes of the head of the department, Gao Xinwei, had been turning around on several big bull professors, and these big bull professors also made a statement and said some "who else can I be".

After the mobilization meeting, the teachers of the whole department were agitated. Teachers who did not have enough "cows" came to the big cows, claiming that they were willing to lead the horses and whip them, even if they took a dung basket and followed behind to pick up horse dung. The bulls are not idle, calling their old friends one by one to ask about the details of this round of bidding, to see if they can get a bigger project through what relationship, and they will have to eat and drink spicy food in the next few years.

During this period, someone also approached Wang Hongtai and asked him if he would like to join the project team of a big cow, although the ranking may be outside the top ten, but once the big cow can eat meat, he can at least smell some meat. Wang Hongtai rejected these kind invitations, not because of how noble he was, but because the direction he did was not consistent with the big bulls, and the big bulls would not be willing to take a second look at the new ruthenium catalyst process he raised. Since the Tao is not compatible, why bother to join in the fun.

He spent a week in the library himself, wrote an application report, and poured his years of accumulation into it. In the final calculation of the project budget, he calculated the role of almost every penny to the extreme, and only then did he quote a figure of 80,000 yuan. He also knows that only 80,000 yuan is enough to do some basic experimental verification, and it is difficult to enter the frontier. However, being able to have 80,000 yuan is also very satisfying for him, and he doesn't dare to expect more.

The application reports of all teachers are submitted to the school as soon as they are collected by the chemical system and submitted to the project bidding office located in the rearmament office. When Wang Hongtai handed over his report to the department office, Dong Hongying, the head of the department office, wrinkled her beautiful eyebrows into a pimple, and asked angrily: "Teacher Wang, what are you kidding?"

Wang Hongtai was quite surprised, and asked rhetorically: "Director Dong, why am I joking?"

Dong Hongying said: "This application is a key project issued by the State Economic Commission, and the applications of our department are all hosted by a respected professor, and you are a lecturer...... When the time comes, what the State Economic Commission thinks of us, people will think that we don't pay attention to this matter!"

"Is there such a request?" Wang Hongtai was stunned, and he defended: "Director Dong, I have carefully read the notice issued by the Economic Commission, and there is no restriction on the applicant's title. Besides, when Director Gao was mobilizing, he also said that you can apply regardless of your professional title and seniority, and I am also echoing the call of the department. ”

Director Gao is teasing you, you can't hear it!

Dong Hongying despised Wang Hongtai in her heart, and then changed her expression to a more relaxed expression, and said: "Teacher Wang, although there is no such requirement in the state's notice, if the applicant's professional title is higher, the impression on the superior leaders will be better, right?

Wang Hongtai shook his head and said, "Director Dong, I have also thought about it. However, Professor Wu, Professor Cheng, and Professor Qu from our department have all applied for this project, and it is not appropriate to be the person in charge of another project. In addition, they are not ...... to my project. Well, it's not particularly promising. ”

Wang Hongtai's words were already quite polite, what he originally wanted to say was that these big professors didn't understand what he was doing at all. Among them, the big cow named Qu Shoulin, who came back from studying in the United States before liberation, is quite famous in the circle, and when he saw the application sent by Wang Hongtai for the first time, he came directly: "What nail catalyst, unusual!"

"That word pronounces ruthenium...... "Wang Hongtai corrected.

"That's also unconventional and worthless!" Lao Qu waved his hand and kicked Wang Hongtai out of his office.

To talk about it, you can't blame these professors for not learning and not knowing, chemical industry is a very large system, even if it is a synthetic ammonia process, including hundreds of branches, a professor can't distinguish between "nails" and "ruthenium", it is really not a big problem, and it does not damage its academic reputation. But it would be extremely inappropriate to let such a professor preside over this project on ruthenium catalyst under his name, and people will think that you want to smash the field.

Dong Hongying finally accepted Wang Hongtai's application report, and after several leaders in the department discussed it, they decided to hand over this report together with the reports submitted by other big bulls. There are three reasons for the leaders of the department to do this: first, mixing a lecturer among several professors can show that all the teachers of the Department of Chemical Engineering attach importance to this matter, and even ordinary lecturers are involved in it; second, the applications submitted by other professors are all aimed at improving the existing process, which is an applied research, and Wang Hongtai's project is the only one that conducts theoretical research, which can be regarded as filling the gap; third, according to the general practice, the projects applied by a unit will be brushed down individually, so as to show the fairness and authority of the evaluation body, Wang Hongtai is neither tall nor short, not fat or thin, just suitable as the denominator, which is also considered waste utilization.

After the application report was submitted, in less than half a month, the bidding office sent a notice informing that some of the applications had passed the preliminary examination, and required the project host to go to Beijing to participate in the second-instance defense to determine whether it could be funded. To the surprise of all the leaders and teachers of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Wang Hongtai's name actually appeared in the second-instance list, and two top bulls in the department actually fell off the list.

"What's going on, who rated it!"

After Qu Shoulin, one of the losers, got the news, he went directly to the office of Gao Xinwei, the head of the department, and slapped the table. In fact, he also knew that he should go to the capital to shoot the table, because this matter had nothing to do with Gao Xinwei. Besides, he really didn't really care whether his application could be approved or not, and he was depressed that someone else had passed it, but he himself had failed to make the list, so how could he have face in the department? Asking the head of the department to slap the table was also a way to save face.

"Lao Qu, don't worry, something must have gone wrong. ”

Gao Xin did not hurry to pacify. In his heart, he could more or less guess the reason why Qu Shoulin fell off the list. This old man used to be a good man, but in recent years, he has been a little out of tune, basically relying on his old books to make a living. If you don't do scientific research, you can put a name on other people's achievements if you have nothing to do, and the ranking can't be too low, otherwise he will turn his face. This time, the topic he applied for was really not very technical, and some of the ideas were still from the theories of the 50s, which have long been outdated. Originally, he expected that the people over there in the Heavy Equipment Office would turn a blind eye and close an eye to his fame, but now it seems that people don't give this face, no wonder Lao Qu feels that he can't hang his face.

"That Wang Hongtai, what kind of nail catalyst, how did he pass the preliminary examination? This is completely unusual, those people in the State Economic Commission, do they understand chemical engineering!" Qu Shoulin scolded and shouted.