"Exactly!" Wu Shican said with a smile, "Back then, we spent a lot of money to support Wang Hongtai to engage in ruthenium catalyst technology, and over the years, he has made a lot of achievements, and has also applied for dozens of patents." Compared with the traditional process, this process he engaged in is very different, and it needs to redesign some equipment, and the initial investment is relatively high, so it has not been popularized and applied. I thought to myself, since Iketani Manufacturing didn't allow us to use their technology, we might as well use the ruthenium catalyst process and catch Iketani off guard. ”

Xue Ducang knew about this, and he sighed with emotion: "Old Wu, Xiaochen, you two really have a vision, this idle piece that was laid down back then is now coming in handy." ”

As early as 10 years ago, with the introduction of Japan's large fertilizer technology, the Heavy Equipment Office used the large fertilizer fund raised from the European market to launch a large-scale technical research activities, calling on scientific researchers from universities, scientific research institutes, enterprises and institutions across the country to declare projects according to their own expertise and carry out technology research and development.

Most of the projects set up in this research activity are production process problems that are matched with the imported technology, such as a certain welding technology, the smelting technology of steel used in a certain equipment, and so on. After the development of these technologies, the problems encountered in the introduction of technologies have been directly solved, and good benefits have been achieved in production practice.

Among all the projects, there is one project that is more special, that is, the problem of synthetic ammonia process based on ruthenium catalyst proposed by Wang Hongtai, a young lecturer at Pujiang Jiaotong University. The project was a bit ahead of its time and a bit of a retreat. The international research on the ruthenium catalyst ammonia synthesis process is still in its infancy, and most chemical companies are not very interested in it. As a country where chemical equipment technology is still relatively backward, it is even more meaningless to engage in this kind of process research.

However, at that time, Wu Shican and Feng Xiaochen were in charge of project approval, one of them was a technical authority in the field of chemical industry, and the other was a time-traveler with advanced vision. Seeing Wang Hongtai's application, both of them felt that the project was very valuable, and immediately decided to give him 500,000 yuan of financial support, which was a super big project that year. The thoughts of the two people are similar to what Xue Ducang said, and they really regard this topic as an idleman. Of course, being able to come up with 500,000 yuan of funds to set up an idle man also shows the courage of Wu Shican and Feng Xiaochen. Later, the 500,000 yuan of scientific research funds also triggered a series of contradictions in the Department of Chemical Engineering of Jiaotong University, which was a digression.

Wang Hongtai did not live up to the hopes of Wu Shican and Feng Xiaochen, and has made a lot of achievements in the research of ruthenium catalyst technology over the years, which has also caused a lot of sensation in the international chemical field. The ruthenium catalyst ammonia synthesis process is a major improvement on the traditional ammonia synthesis process, and it has been highly praised by the academic community and the industry.

However, the formation of a process is not so simple, and it will affect the entire process and the redesign of many equipment. Those international chemical giants have their own mature ammonia synthesis processes and are not in a hurry to introduce new processes. In the past few years, the main task of Chinese enterprises was to build new fertilizer plants for various places, and the time was tight and the task was heavy, so it was natural to choose the most stable technical route. If there is an off-the-shelf Iketani process that can be used, why should you take the risk of adopting the immature ruthenium catalyst process?

In this way, although the ruthenium catalyst process proposed by Wang Hongtai is very advanced, it has not been applied. However, Wang Hongtai himself does not mind this, he has formed a large number of papers in the research of this process, won the reputation of the University, and at the same time, he was also rated as a professor and doctoral supervisor early, becoming a recognized winner in the life of the "green pepper" of Pudong Jiaotong University.

Feng Xiaochen always remembered Wang Hongtai and his ruthenium catalyst process, and when he heard Wu Shican talk about his own ammonia synthesis process, he thought of him directly. Sure enough, what Wu Shican said was Wang Hongtai, according to Wu Shican, the project released back then can be described as ten years of sharpening a sword, and now it's time to take it out and try it.

"After Wang Hongtai completed the design of the ruthenium catalyst process, I helped him contact a fertilizer factory and did industrial experiments, which proved that this process is completely feasible and more advanced than the Ikegu process we use, as well as the Dutch and French processes. However, at that time, the scale of the experimental equipment was relatively small, it was a small synthetic ammonia plant with an annual output of 20,000 tons, and now it is necessary to make some adjustments to apply this technology to a large equipment of 300,000 tons. Wu Shican said.

Feng Xiaochen said with a smile: "Old Wu, you helped Wang Hongtai contact the industrial experiment, why don't I know at all?"

Wu Shican said with a little apology: "This is the daily work of our strategic planning department, and I didn't report to you." ”

Feng Xiaochen waved his hand and said, "Old Wu, you are serious, what do you not report." I've just been thinking about Wang Hongtai's topic, and I've thought about when I can find a project to experiment, but I didn't expect you to do it in advance. ”

Wu Shican said: "I will keep an eye on all the projects of our strategy department. Wang Hongtai's project is an advanced project and has not been applied. I saw in the journal that some foreign scholars made a high evaluation of the ruthenium catalyst ammonia synthesis process, and felt that it was a pity that such a promising technology was shelved there. So, I contacted a small fertilizer factory and persuaded them to invest in the transformation using Wang's technology. As a result, in the trial production, the effect of this process is very obvious, and the production efficiency is increased by more than 20%. Because the company's investment was limited at that time, some equipment was replaced with the original equipment, and it was difficult to achieve stable production, so the experiment was completed after two months. ”

"Two months of experimentation was also enough to discover the main problems in the process. "On this basis, we can make improvements, and then carry out larger-scale experiments." Once the second experiment is complete, we will be able to use the process in our project in Argentina. ”

"That's what I thought, too. Wu Shican said that this is the benefit of expert leadership, as long as everything is said, the leader can understand, saving the time for subordinates to explain. "What I'm not sure about now is how much time the Argentine side will give us and whether we'll be able to finish the next round of experiments," he asked. ”

"Drag it out. Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Time is like a ...... Uh, anyway, you can always squeeze it out. The Argentine side is indeed very anxious about this project, but according to Lao Cao, the Argentine Agricultural Bureau is in a hurry, and at the same time, it is arguing internally, and the bidding alone has dragged on for almost a year. Now let's stir up trouble for them, make them uncertain, and it should be no problem to drag on for more than half a year. ”

Xue Ducang also smiled: "Xiaochen, you are so dark." If it were our own project, who would dare to drag on with you for half a year, I'm afraid you would have been in a hurry with him a long time ago, right?"

"What's the hurry, whoever dares to delay my time, I just flipped the table. Feng Xiaochen said confidently.

Wu Shican and Xue Ducang glanced at each other, both of them looking helpless. Xue Ducang is a little better, he is actually a more eclectic person, Wu Shican is different, the old gentleman is rigorous and has a good character, this kind of thing that he does not hesitate to disrupt the other party in order to buy time for himself, he can't do it. However, what he is most convinced of Feng Xiaochen is precisely this, at any time, Feng Xiaochen can choose the most beneficial plan for the country, and he does not hesitate to resort to all kinds of conspiracies and tricks for this purpose.

Feng Xiaochen didn't care about the expressions of the two seniors, he said, "This matter is decided. Lao Wu, we have to do the two sets of plans you mentioned. I will arrange for Wang Genji to negotiate with Iketani Productions and ask them to transfer the license for the international market, as for the price, we can pay a little, but if the other party wants the lion to open his mouth, then I am sorry. Wang Hongtai's side, to move immediately, let the Chemical Design Institute, Xinyang No. 2 Chemical Machine, Beihua Machinery are all on it, it is really not possible, from the Petrochemical Design Institute to invite a group of people to come, concentrate on strength, at most half a year, must improve this process, so that it is foolproof. ”

"Iketani Manufacturing's side shouldn't agree, right?" said Wu Shican.

Feng Xiaochen smiled mysteriously and said, "It doesn't matter, anyway, Wang Genji also likes to do things, so let him toss Chigu." ”

"But since we've decided to use the ruthenium catalyst process, what else are we going to talk to Iketani?"

Xue Ducang couldn't listen anymore, he patted Wu Shican's shoulder and said, "Old Wu, you let Xiao Feng go around." He asked Xiao Wang to negotiate with Iketani, but he didn't feel good at all. What he used was a trick to make the Japanese think that we were at the end of our rope and could only beg them, so that they would not notice that we were engaged in ruthenium catalysts. ”

Feng Xiaochen said with a smile: "There is another reason, that is, we want to delay the time of Argentina and strive to complete the research on the ruthenium catalyst process, which can deceive the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture, but it may not be able to deceive the Iketani Manufacturing." I asked Lao Wang to negotiate the license with them, so that they could attract their attention and make them ignore the Argentine side of the matter. ”

Wu Shican suddenly realized, he patted his head in annoyance and said: "Alas, you are all too shrewd, I can't think of these things in my life." ”

Feng Xiaochen said: "Old Wu, this is called a specialization in the art industry, if you think about these things wholeheartedly, I am not sure." Your strength lies in discovering the frontier of technology, you see, the ruthenium catalyst you were optimistic about ten years ago has now become our magic weapon?"

"Haha, so to speak, I'm still a bit of a useful old man?" Wu Shican also smiled, it was also a pleasure to be recognized as valuable.