Feng Xiaochen came to Pudong Jiaotong University in person to invite Wang Hongtai out of the mountain. Over the years, Wang Hongtai's fame has become louder and his status has become higher, Feng Xiaochen feels that he should be given some necessary respect, and he can't be summoned with a direct phone call as in the past. But who would have thought that Feng Xiaochen came to the door in person, and he didn't invite Wang Hongtai, fortunately, there was also a doctoral student Xu Zhiyuan who came out to play a round, saying that he could bring a few junior brothers and sisters over to respond to the emergency first, so that Feng Xiaochen had a step and would not be hung in the air.

Feng Xiaochen was very unhappy about Wang Hongtai's arrogance, but he also planned to fight back. Wang Hongtai was previously funded by the equipment company, but he also completed the project requirements and submitted a set of synthetic ammonia processes based on ruthenium catalyst to the equipment company. This process has been patented by the equipment industry company in China, Europe and the United States and other countries, and has become one of the intangible assets owned by the company. The relationship between Wang Hongtai and the equipment company is considered to be a double deal, and Feng Xiaochen really has no strong reason to force Wang Hongtai to help him.

Please don't move Wang Hongtai, just invite one of his doctoral students, for Feng Xiaochen, it is better than nothing. He and Wu Shican came out of Wang Hongtai's office and had a brief conversation with Xu Zhiyuan, and unexpectedly found that the level of this doctoral student was quite good, although it was not as good as Wang Hongtai today, but compared with Wang Hongtai a few years ago, it was not inferior. A few years ago, Wang Hongtai was able to make a ruthenium catalyst process, and Xu Zhiyuan, as Wang Hongtai's doctoral student, not to mention creativity, at least the ability to draw scoops based on gourds, right?

Feng Xiaochen wrote a note to Xu Zhiyuan, asking him to take the note to Binhai No. 2 Fertilizer Plant first, and report to Leng Feiyun, who was organizing technical research there. As for Feng Xiaochen himself and Wu Shican, they have to stay in Pujiang for a few more days and visit the researchers of several other units, hoping to find a few experts with excellent skills to strengthen their strength.

Among other experts, Feng Xiaochen also heard some discussions about Wang Hongtai, and the more concentrated comments were that this young scholar became famous too early, and he was a little arrogant. In addition, nowadays, all universities and scientific research institutes are engaged in a paper-only system, as long as you publish more papers, your status will be high, all kinds of honors are yours, and it doesn't matter how bad other work is. As a result, there are some "big names" in each unit who only have papers in their eyes and do not have any social obligations, and they have nothing to do with national interests, collective honors, etc., and in the words that were very popular in later generations, they are a group of refined egoists.

"How good we were at that time, no matter what achievements you made, the right to name belonged to the collective, no matter how big the 'wrist' was, it was also a member of the collective, which is like now, everyone only cares about themselves, a little data or something, they have to hide it, for fear of being seen by others and robbing him of his results. ”

During the visit, Feng Xiaochen heard more than once that some old experts were so indignantly criticizing the evils of the times, and at the same time took Wang Hongtai out as a negative example and counted them down. For such words, Feng Xiaochen can only listen to it, collectivism has advantages, but also disadvantages, the biggest problem is that it is difficult to mobilize individual enthusiasm. In the fifties and sixties, this approach may have had some effect, but in the seventies people became more and more "practical", and it was actually self-deception to call on everyone to forget about selfishness.

"It is still necessary to establish a more comprehensive talent evaluation mechanism. On the train leaving Pujiang for Binhai, Feng Xiaochen discussed with Wu Shican, "It is unrealistic to completely erase personal achievements." However, how to effectively guide scientific researchers to serve national construction requires a new evaluation mechanism. Theses are very important, but only theses are not enough, social service should also be regarded as the obligation of scientific researchers, except for a few purely theoretical directions, most of the experts must have social service points, otherwise they cannot be promoted and rewarded. ”

"It's too difficult. Wu Shican shook his head helplessly and said, "I have thought about this issue for a long time, but it is too difficult to implement." The evaluation of domestic universities and scientific research institutions is based on the number of published papers, so the requirements of each unit for scientific researchers are bound to be multiple papers. To change this situation, it is not possible to rely on our equipment industry company, I am afraid that we have to standardize it from the highest level. ”

Feng Xiaochen nodded and sighed: "Old Wu, you're right, the evaluation of colleges and universities is not something that our equipment company can do. In the past, colleges and universities had no money, and we had projects in hand, and colleges and universities still depended on how much we faced. Now that the country is paying more and more attention to scientific research, the funds of colleges and universities are more adequate than in the past, and we don't care about our projects. ”

"Anyway, Wang Hongtai was quite polite to us and didn't snub us. ”

"Maybe he thinks we still have some use?"

"Didn't he send Xu Zhiyuan and a few master's students to Binhai? This can be regarded as saving face for us. ”

"I just don't know if Xu Zhiyuan can come in handy......"

Feng Xiaochen's questions were answered when he arrived at the construction site of the Binhai No. 2 Fertilizer Plant. Leng Feiyun personally drove him and Wu Shican from the train station to the construction site, and heard that Feng Xiaochen wanted to know about the work of Xu Zhiyuan and his party, Leng Feiyun did not delay, and took the two of them to a small open space between a pile of tower tanks.

There were more than a dozen people sitting in the small clearing, each holding a notebook in their hands, writing and drawing, looking very engaged. At one end of the open space hangs a blackboard, which is fixed to an iron bracket. There were three people standing in front of the blackboard, each holding a piece of chalk in their hands, arguing about something, perhaps because they felt that something could not be expressed in words, and they were writing chemical equations on the blackboard as they spoke, or drawing a schematic diagram, which made people feel unfathomable at first glance.

Feng Xiaochen saw that one of the three people was Xu Zhiyuan, and the other two were also known by Feng Xiaochen, one was Zhou Ting, an engineer from the National Petrochemical Design Institute, who was engaged in pressure vessels, and his level was quite good, and the other was Jiang Xianyu, the technical director of Beihua Machinery, who was even more famous in the industry. Looking at the way they argued, it seemed that Xu Zhiyuan was not inferior in front of the two, but the two of them nodded at Xu Zhiyuan from time to time, obviously Xu Zhiyuan said something that inspired them.

"Mr. Feng!"

"Minister Wu!"

"Teacher Wu!"

As soon as Feng Xiaochen and Wu Shican appeared, sharp-eyed people saw them, so they got up to greet them, and those who were not familiar with the two of them, when they heard others greeting them, they also followed suit, for fear of snubbing the leaders and seniors. As soon as everyone got up, the three people in front of the blackboard also noticed, turned their heads in unison and glanced at them, then immediately stopped arguing and cast enthusiastic glances at Feng Xiaochen and Wu Shican.

"Director Jiang, Zhou Gong, Dr. Xu, you have a lively discussion. ”

Feng Xiaochen walked up to the three of them and asked with a grin. He glanced at the contents of the blackboard, shook his head with a smile, and said, "What you have written is too profound, I can't understand it at all, what are you discussing?"

"Mr. Feng, you are too modest, who doesn't know that you are a technical expert in the equipment industry. What we just discussed was about the activity of ruthenium catalysts, and Dr. Xu told me and Zhou Gong a lot of knowledge, which made us pause. Jiang Xianyu said that he was the oldest of the three and the highest-level, so this kind of scene was naturally for him.

Hearing Jiang Xianyu's words, Xu Zhiyuan was a little embarrassed, he said: "Director Jiang has won the award, I actually just introduced the principle of ruthenium catalyst. Director Jiang and Zhou Gong proposed to change the ammonia synthesis tower from vertical to horizontal, which I think makes sense, but I can't prove it theoretically for a while, and Zhou Gong is explaining this reaction process to me just now. ”

"Actually, I just have a conjecture. Dr. Xu said that the ruthenium catalyst is 10 to 20 times more active than the iron-based catalyst and has a 12 to 26% higher conversion rate, so that the entire ammonia conversion process can be greatly accelerated. Changing the synthesis tower from vertical to horizontal can increase the contact surface between the catalyst and the gas, so as to give full play to the advantages of the ruthenium catalyst. However, this idea also needs to be calculated to be confirmed, and I was just discussing the calculation method with Dr. Xu. Zhou Ting explained.

Xu Zhiyuan said ashamedly: "Compared with Director Jiang and Zhou Gong, I realized that I was really a scholar, I knew some theories, and I didn't know anything about industrial principles. As soon as I talked about the situation of ruthenium catalyst, Zhou Gong immediately proposed that the synthesis tower should be changed to a horizontal type, and we just made a rough calculation, so that the efficiency can be increased by at least 20%. Zhou Gong was able to make this judgment without calculation, this kind of ability, I really can't catch up. ”

"Look at what you said, isn't this all practical experience, and you will have it in the future. Zhou Ting tried to make a disapproving look, but his face still showed some smugness. Not everyone with practical experience has such an intuition, what Zhou Ting showed just now is an outstanding understanding, of course, only those who know how to know how rare this understanding is.

"A few of you, didn't you participate in the discussion?" Feng Xiaochen turned his head to the few young people sitting next to him to take notes, he had also seen these people in Pujiang, and knew that they were master's students led by Wang Hongtai, and this time they came with Xu Zhiyuan. However, judging from their performance, the value of their trip is just soy sauce.

"How can we have the ability of Senior Brother Xu, he just discussed with Director Jiang and Zhou Gong, we have a hard time just trying to understand, how can we still have the ability to participate in the discussion. A master's student replied timidly.