Chapter 17, continuous casting and rolling
As the two walked forward, Chen Shu paid attention to the refined molten steel, and he could see clearly here that the refined molten steel was transferred to the ladle farther away. But there is still a distance, and the two have not yet arrived.
The smell of smoke and dust here is still relatively heavy, and the workers are wearing work clothes, and everyone has a wet towel around their necks. When the sweat drips down, you can wipe it, after all, the environment here is too harsh. While the two continued to move forward, workers often greeted Li Feng.
No one wants to come to this kind of environment, and so many workers know Li Feng, it seems that Li Feng has definitely come here a lot, but thinking about the environment here, it is estimated that few people in sales are willing to come.
"Brother Li often goes down to the workshop, how do I feel as if many of the workers here know about you?" asked Chen Shu curiously.
"I was in the workshop for a while, and that was many years ago. At that time, I came to the company to apply for sales, and at that time, in addition to the nine directors of the company, there were three of them, namely Mr. Wang and Zhao Gang, but it was enough to sell goods. ”
"At that time, our company only had the 450 blast furnace, and the company did not roll strip steel, when I applied for the job, the company's 850 blast furnace was under construction, and it was estimated that it would take half a year before it could be put into production. After entering the company, I studied sales for more than a month, and I also collected so many households, so I couldn't sell much. “
"On the one hand, there is a shortage of goods, not enough to sell at all, and then you don't need to sell, a few old customers call every day, call the money early, the output of a day is not enough, the price is too high and not suitable. The chairman of the company totaled the money he had earned over the years, plus the factory as collateral, and several old customers supported him to make a lot of money and get on this 850 furnace. ”
"For several years, I used the blanks here to pay off the bills, and at the same time to repay the bank loan, before this furnace was built, I worked in the workshop for three months, do you think these people don't know me?" Li Feng smiled.
"That's enough. I think I'm ruthless enough, it's not like I haven't done dirty and tiring work, but it's really hard to say how long I can last in this environment. Chen Shu said.
"That's because you didn't go that far, and people's abilities and potentials are forced out. At that time, my father was sick and hospitalized, and needed more than 20,000 yuan, I just came to work in the company, and I was embarrassed to borrow from the leader, and I only had a salary of 700 when I interned, and I really didn't know when I would be able to treat the disease. When Li Feng said this, Li Feng stopped, and Chen Shu didn't look at Li Feng.
From the tone of Li Feng's speech, he could imagine Li Feng's mood at that time, and the choked voice made Chen Shu even more afraid to look at Li Feng. At this time, I really didn't know how to speak, let alone how to comfort Li Feng.
"Later, when I was paying my salary, I accidentally knew that the workshop workers could earn more than 2,000 a month, so I went to the leader to talk to the workshop to see if there was a suitable section for me, as long as the salary was high. Li Feng wiped the corners of his eyes, walked in front of Chen Shu and continued to move forward, as if he was a little worried that Chen Shu would see his expression.
"The chairman of the board of directors was the general manager of this place at that time, and he did not let me go to dangerous places, but worked for a period of time in all stages of feeding and sintering, molten iron, steelmaking, and billet casting, so that I had a comprehensive understanding of the entire ironmaking and steelmaking process. Four months later, another blast furnace came into operation, and I officially returned to sales. ”
"I was very unhappy when I was asked to go back to sales, I had already scraped together 10,000 yuan, my father had been hospitalized and started treatment, and once I had no stable income here, the treatment had to be interrupted. When the chairman asked me the reason, he learned about the situation at home, and at that time, he paid me 20,000 yuan from the finance, and asked me to treat my father first, and the money would be paid back slowly later, so I was not in a hurry. ”
"At the end of the year, when the bonus was issued, General Manager Wang Shoucheng had officially taken over the work here and gave me a bonus of 25,000, and others did not have so much, I knew this in my heart. During the Chinese New Year, my dad and I found the chairman and returned the money. Okay, let's not talk about that, let's move on to the production line. Seeing that it was about to reach the billet casting section, Li Feng stopped the topic.
"The billet continuous casting technology in our country is also related to your school, which is researched by professors from Hebei Institute of Technology and experts from the Ministry of Metallurgy. The top is a cast ladle, and the bottom has a water nozzle injected into the tundish, and the molten steel enters the water-cooled crystallizer below from the tundish. ”
"The molten steel flows down, the temperature of the part that comes into contact with the water-cooled crystallizer is low, and the molten steel first solidifies into a shell, and then penetrates and solidifies to the middle through heat conduction. The molten steel in the billet of the newly solidified steel shell is still in a liquid state, and it is pushed outward along the arc-shaped guide type, and there are several water cooling channels in the middle. At this time, the two of them had already seen the four billet exits that were coming out.
"Now the temperature of the billet that has just come out is not low, and it takes a long time to really cool down. You see, it's time to add molten steel again. The two watched from above, and the crane approached with the ladle hoisting, slowly pouring the molten steel into the cast ladle, and even splashed a lot of sparks.
"Further on, the process is relatively simple, there is no so much large-scale equipment tossed, and the front is cutting. All of them are numerically controlled, following the billet forward, coupled with the high temperature of the billet, the cutting is very fast. The two of them paused, and the speed of the cut was indeed not slow.
Then the two of them continued on, not listening.
"From here, once the billet has cooled and solidified, it is loaded and pulled away by crane. When the sales were not good, we also had a lot of blanks in storage. It's good not to put it into storage, but it's not only troublesome to put it into storage, but also to have a cost. The blanks from this furnace are basically sold. I'll show you another furnace, and half of the billets that come out of there go into the rolling mill. The two got out of the shelf where the workers were walking and turned to another workshop.
"This cart is loaded with such hot blanks, it can't be roasted?" Chen Shu asked curiously.
"It's fine to run, but if you don't put it on, the tires will blow up in a while. Li Feng didn't look at the big cars, and continued to walk to another workshop.
"How many tons does this car pull? It's not that a blank is about a ton, that car is loaded so much, how can it still be loaded?" Chen Shu glanced at it, and it was obvious that there were two rows of front and back, one layer was no more than eleven, and it had already been loaded with five layers, and it was already one hundred and ten tons.
"About one hundred and twenty tons. Haven't you heard of it? Hebei is overloaded across the country, and Tangshan is overloaded in Hebei. "It's normal to say that, and it's obviously common.
"Strip steel also pulls so much?"
"It's all the same, as long as it can be installed, dare to pull. The two walked while talking, and after walking for more than ten minutes, they finally saw the steel rolling workshop that Li Feng said, but Li Feng deliberately bypassed the warehouse and semi-trailer loaded with billets.