Chapter 61 De-Petrochemical
Yang Jinghan took the life-prolonging medicine sent by his daughter-in-law Qu Xiaoyan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He lamented that now that science and technology are advancing so fast, people can live to be 200 years old, so I have just arrived at the middle and young age.
He opened the package and said to his wife, "We will have one bottle for each of these two bottles of potions." ”
His wife teased him and said, "Why are you so confused? Isn't this more than ten bottles?" ”
Yang Jinghan looked at the package carefully, he was stunned, there were really more than ten bottles of life-extending medicine in the package.
He sighed at his daughter-in-law Qu Xiaoyan and understood him as a person. Know if you take less life extension medicine. He will definitely give the opportunity to his mentor Zhang Shenghai first.
Yang Jinghan took out two bottles of life-prolonging medicine and said to his wife: "These two bottles, I will send them to my mentor Zhang Shenghai back to the Chinese Academy of Sciences." When I get back, we'll go to the hospital to inject life-prolonging drugs. ”
Zhang Jinghan saw the instructions for life extension drugs, life extension drugs need to cooperate with the necessary elements of the human body, and there is a detailed list on the instructions, these are ordinary medicines, and every hospital has them.
Seeing that his grandfather was leaving, Xiao Ming, who was playing next to him, pounced, and the silver-white metal in Xiao Ming's hand was very soft, and there were some fine metal particles hanging on Yang Jinghan's body.
Yang Jinghan comforted his grandson for a while and drove to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He entered the office of the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and did not find his mentor Zhang Shenghai.
Yang Jinghan went out and ran into a colleague and asked, "Academician Ji, do you know where the dean went?"
"Academician Yang, you have come back from vacation, and the dean has gone to your Institute of Chemistry. ”
After saying goodbye to his colleagues, Yang Jinghan came to the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
When the researcher saw him coming, he greeted him respectfully, and someone asked, "Director, didn't you take a leave of absence to travel on your 55th wedding anniversary?"
Yang Jinghan replied with a smile: "I just came back, and I still have a few days of vacation, I am at home to accompany my grandson, and by the way, I will sort out the next experimental ideas at home, it is too difficult to do this experiment, and there are no ideas so far." ”
"Do you see where the dean is?" asked Yang Jinghan.
The man thought for a moment and replied, "In the inorganic laboratory, I heard that the dean has brought a new equipment, and your experiment may be successful." ”
After Yang Jinghan said goodbye to him, he came to the inorganic laboratory. Next to the autoclave, he saw his mentor, Academician Zhang Shenghai. His mentor is ninety-nine years old this year, and he does not look old at all. There is a spirit that many young people don't have.
Yang Jinghan stepped forward to greet him: "Hello teacher, I heard that you have brought a new piece of equipment that will be helpful for the carbon dioxide conversion to ethylene experiment." ”
Zhang Shenghai pointed to the machine the size of a rice cooker next to him and said: "This is a new type of quantum computer sent by the prime minister, with the latest scientific research simulation system of Xingyu Technology." Through the scientific research simulation system, the industrial production method of carbon dioxide to ethylene was found. ”
Yang Jinghan was shocked. He knows what this means, and the method of converting carbon dioxide into ethylene has been successful in the laboratory for a long time. It's just that the cost is too high to be industrialized.
Once the industrial production is successful. Another important area of oil that will affect the petrochemical industry.
The petrochemical industry will abandon oil completely. Ethylene is a basic raw material for the petrochemical industry. It can be converted into any kind of organic matter through a series of chemical reactions. He is the most fundamental raw material in organic chemistry.
Since a few years ago, the state has laid out this project for the petrochemical industry and not to be curbed by foreign oil giants.
As long as this project is successful, the country's oil consumption will be reduced by one-third. It's not just money that you can save. It also gets the right to speak in the petrochemical industry.
The words of his teacher Zhang Shenghai woke him up and heard him talk all the time.
Xingyu Technology, which suddenly appeared, has made rapid progress in science and technology, and the quantum computer he produced is several generations ahead of the national development. ”
"This scientific research simulation system is really an excellent tool for the benefit of the scientific research community, and with this system, it saves a lot of work. Through the data of our experiments in the past few years, the system calculates the conditions for the conversion of carbon dioxide and water vapor into ethylene. Zhang Shenghai said excitedly.
Yang Jinghan just wanted to take out the life-prolonging potion. I heard the experimenter next to him shouting: "The dean has a result, the conversion rate is 15%, and this experiment failed." ”
Li Jinghan asked, "What is the reason for the failure of the experiment?"
"Dean, it's the director, you're back. The experimenter said in surprise, "The pressure of the reactor is not enough, and the pressure required for the experimental conditions is higher, but this is the strongest reactor in the world." ”
Yang Jinghan thought for a while and said: "The pressure can't go up, you have considered the temperature, or the catalyst." ”
Zhang Shenghai replied: "The temperature is taken into account, and the catalyst is ferric tetroxide. ”
Yang Jinghan felt that he had said redundantly, how can anyone who does chemistry know how to use catalysts. It is a common tool in chemical reactions. It accelerates the rate of chemical reactions by reducing the activation energy of reactants, while its mass and chemical properties do not change before and after the reaction.
Its function is simply to lower the threshold for chemical reactions. For example, the various enzymes of the human body can reduce the chemical reactions that require very high conditions to be achieved in the human body.
"Don't be afraid of difficulties, open two more reactors and try it. Zhang Shenghai said on the side.
Watch as the experimenter puts the catalyst into the reactor. Yang Jinghan also aroused interest. He also picked up ferric tetroxide. What he didn't notice was that ferric tetroxide was magnetic, and the metal particles on his clothes were adsorbed to it.
The reactor closes, carbon dioxide and water vapor are introduced into it, and the experiment begins.
After waiting for a while, the reaction ends. The experimenter calculates the conversion rate in the two reactors.
He took the result and said in surprise: "This is impossible, how can this be?"
The experimenter handed the results to Zhang Shenghai and Yang Jinghan. They saw the results and thought it was incredible, the same experiment. One has a conversion rate of 15% and a conversion rate of 99.9%.
Zhang Shenghai said excitedly: "Other conditions are the same, it must be a problem of catalysts, go to the reactor to find catalysts." ”
Yang Jinghan hurriedly stepped forward and collected all the objects in the reactor that had successfully reacted, and now it is not known whether the catalytic substances that work are solids, gases, or liquids.
By means of experimental equipment, it is separated one by one. Most of them are reactants and products.
There is only one solid particle that looks like ferric oxide.
The experimenter said: "It's impossible, it's the same ferric tetroxide, one is from me, and the other is from Director Yang." ”
Yang Jinghan took the particulate matter to an electron microscope for observation, and found that on the surface of ferric oxide, there was also a metal substance.
They all know that this metallic substance is the catalyst.
The experimenter picks up this substance, and under the electron microscope, you can see that this particulate matter, when you are pinched, it becomes soft.
Soft metal, Yang Jinghan thought of it, the metal that his grandson played with. It's it, it's got to be.
Yang Jinghan excitedly called home, and after a while, his wife sent the metal to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The experiment continued with that metal as a catalyst, and every reactor succeeded.
The people at the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were boiling, it was a small step forward in chemical science and technology, but he sounded the death knell of oil.
Yang Jinghan took advantage of the happiness of his teacher Zhang Shenghai to take out the life-prolonging elixir and said to his teacher: "Teacher, you and your mother are so old, I have never had any gifts to honor you, you take this." ”
Zhang Shenghai saw the life-prolonging elixir, shook his head and said, "I can't use this, I can live for a few more years, give it to other older comrades." ”
Yang Jinghan explained: "My daughter-in-law is in Xingyu Technology, according to him, the country will unify to the elderly scientists, distribute life-prolonging medicines, I give you this bottle, you are saving a bottle for the country, and one more scientist will have the opportunity to get a bottle." ”
Zhang Shenghai took the life-prolonging medicine in Yang Jinghan's hand.
Zhang Shenghai said: "Use all the technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to figure out the composition of this catalyst. Now it can be reported to the state, and the experiment was successful. ”
The burden in Zhang Shenghai's heart was finally put down, but he didn't figure out the ingredients of this catalyst. Such a large piece of metal is enough catalyst for more than a dozen factories.