Chapter 24: Race Against Time

When many chemical raw materials are synthesized, they need to maintain a specific temperature, so that the molecular activity in the raw materials is intensified, the energy is increased, and the catalyst reacts, and then it is converted into another substance.

Whether it is a reactor that is not much larger than a pressure cooker in the real yĆ n room, or a large chemical plant, it is dozens of meters high and can reflect hundreds of tons of behemoths at a time.

But anyone who is engaged in chemical industry cannot leave this tool.

In Gangjie Chemical, the reactor that encountered failure was a steam-heated reactor.

This behemoth is divided into two layers, and the middle spacer layer is injected with high-pressure steam, which can quickly increase the temperature inside the reactor.

Now the high-pressure steam pipeline has burst, a large amount of steam has leaked out of the center of the lake, and the temperature in the reactor, of course, cannot rise.

"Professor Zhang, Professor Zhang. The boss Rong Wei anxiously called the expert over: "Do you think you can stop the steam boiler temporarily?"

Professor Zhang, who had gray hair, walked over and rubbed his wrinkled forehead: "The synthesis of diethanolamine is now the last step, which enters the reactor and is heated to 120 degrees Celsius, and reacts with the catalyst to dehydrate. ā€

"If the temperature can't go up, the dehydration step can't be carried out. The catalyst has an active time of only eight hours. It's been an hour now. If the steam is cut off, the temperature in the kettle will drop rapidly......"

"There is only one hour at most, and after the steam can be heated normally, then the steam pressure is increased to increase the temperature, and the pumping power of the raw material warehouse, which should be able to save it, and there is little hope if it is too late. ā€

Feeding catalysts is an irreversible process.

It's like a bullet that is fired, once it fails to hit the target, the bullet is wasted.

In the same way for catalysts, once the reaction fails, all the raw materials are discarded, and no one knows the specific role of pollutants, and they must be destroyed at a high price.

Now that there is still an hour to go, the boss Rong Wei's tears are about to come out, and the employee who grabbed the dragon's underwater infrastructure shouted anxiously: "You guys prepare first, and when you're ready, I'll cut off the steam immediately." ā€

"One hour?" The employees of the dragon underwater infrastructure were unhappy again: "Don't say 500,000, give 1 million, you can't get the underwater pipeline welding in an hour." ā€

"I've seen your steam pipes, double-deck steel structure. Now it is two layers that are broken, and the upper layer must be cut off and the fiberglass cleaned before it can be welded. ā€

"Five hours is too little for me, and we're not machines. Besides, even if you can really find the machine, it won't be able to complete it in an hour. ā€

"A million, I beg you, I'll give a million. "The boss Rong Wei hated to change into a wetsuit in person and go down together.

"Do you know how difficult it is to start an arc in underwater welding?"

The divers of the underwater infrastructure of the dragon patiently gave the gold master popular science: "When you are unlucky, you can only succeed in arcing once dozens of times, and a waterproof welding rod can only weld a few centimeters of welds underwater, and you have to float to the surface to replace the welding rod." ā€

"Of course I know the difficulty, otherwise why would I get a million?" The gold lord Rong Wei was a little crazy at this time: "I don't care what method you use, if the welding is done within an hour, I will give one million." ā€

"Take a few more welding torches and weld together. A worker said.

"At most two welding guns, the pipe is so thick, you play mahjong when people are crowded?"

One million, that's a small astronomical amount, and no underwater construction company can be indifferent to this money.

They were hesitating to pick up when a small JAC truck arrived at the scene again.

This truck is printed with [Qianjiang Underwater Engineering], it seems to be another underwater welding company of Zhongyun, and the two companies of Zhongyun are all here.

Li Huaxing, chairman of the board of directors, immediately greeted each person, handed out a cigarette to each person, and then pointed to the artificial lake and said that as long as the pipe can be welded within an hour, the owner of the factory can give a reward of 1 million.

"It should be fine with welding, but it certainly won't work for an hour. The manager who led the team looked at the fountain-like leaking steam and said patiently, similar to the previous colleague.

Of course, a million is very attractive.

The two peers who originally saw each other like enemies actually got together at this time, muttering that if everyone would work together once, we would see if we could earn this million.

"Give it a go, what if a miracle happens!" the two managers who led the team quickly agreed.

Ye Qing didn't know how to speak at this time, and when he came to the two professionals, he decided to wait and see if they were handling equipment like doping.

If they can't, they'll go up again.

After all, people do this professionally, with a lot of equipment, and they are alone.

Oxygen cylinders, electric welding machines, special underwater welding guns with tens of meters of pipelines, cutting guns, all the equipment were quickly unloaded.

Workers from Gangjie Chemical also towed the power line early, and there were two small boats on the edge of the artificial lake that specialized in cleaning up garbage on the water surface.

"Notify the steam boiler room to cut off the gas. Seeing that all the processes were ready, the boss Rong Wei gave an order.

For about ten seconds, a huge column of fog in the middle of the lake slowly descended, gurgling water cannons.

On the small boat, two divers with exhalation tubes first fixed the underwater searchlight, and then slowly entered the water with a lit cutting gun.

The man-made lake is huge, and the steam leaking has scalded some of the herring fish that are not in a hurry. But when the steam was turned off, the temperature of the lake did not rise too high.

The temperature of the lake is not high, and the temperature of the pipes near the broken mouth is not high.

Under the illumination of several high-power halogen lamps, everyone on the shore could see clearly, and the two divers had just entered the water and immediately exploded like cats stepping on their tails.

"Why is the pipes still steaming hot?" shouted the diver as he spat out his breathing apparatus and bared his teeth.

"Residual heat, residual heat!" Rong Wei, the boss on the shore, was sweating profusely: "This is a pressure pipe, the valves on both sides are closed, just wait for the air pressure in the pipeline to leak." ā€

After ten minutes of waiting, the two divers who kept testing the water temperature with their feet could not go down.

Listening to the employees keep reporting the temperature changes in the reactor, Rong Wei was completely anxious: "What are you waiting for, thinking that I am asking you to do a pedicure?"

"You can do it, I'm not iron, this pipe keeps spraying hot water, you want to burn me to death. ā€

Rong Wei didn't say a word, and asked the security guard to row a small boat to carry him over.

When it came to the leak, Rong Wei put his hand in and tried it, but he was completely silent.

After five minutes, the lake stopped bubbling. Rong Wei was like a wild goose that had been shot, and suddenly stood up from the small boat.

The two divers also came to the spirits, lit the cutting gun and slowly went into the water.

How many people have seen underwater cutting operations?

There were a large number of workers on the shore, more active than watching the star concert, and even the two firefighters who stayed here stretched their necks and looked towards the center of the lake.