Chapter 46: Encountering Difficulties
"Where, I have only studied the topic of tungsten and molybdenum separation, so I have studied their properties by the way." Zhang Yi said with a smile.
After listening to Zhang Yi's explanation for a long time, Director Wu's doubts about him slowly faded, in fact, when Zhang Yi first entered the door, Director Wu was still very distrustful of him in his heart.
After all, it was the first time that such a big project was handed over to a college student, and it was under great pressure that he decided on the project.
If it weren't for the urgency of the project, and only the plan provided by Professor Zhong was the most likely to be done, he wouldn't dare to joke with his future.
Now it seems that he was right.
From the information submitted by Zhang Yi, to Zhang Yi's familiarity with tungsten and molybdenum separation, and his deep research on the properties of tungsten, it shows that the project is developing in a good direction, and it is even possible to complete it in two months, as Zhang Yi said.
Now Director Wu is not only not the slightest dissatisfied with Zhang Yi, but even appreciates him more and more, there are too few outstanding young people like Zhang Yi.
Moreover, after listening to Zhang Yi's work report, Director Wu's mind also became active.
The people in the institute think that the difficulty of the research topic is the separation of tungsten and molybdenum, after all, this problem has not been solved.
But they were all wrong, and the tungsten metal material to be studied next was the most difficult.
At present, there are not many talents in this area of the institute, although many of these people are Ph.D. graduates from various prestigious universities, but tungsten molybdenum separation can make them at a loss.
After hearing Zhang Yi's report just now, Director Wu also realized that the person in front of him was a talent, and he might be able to solve the next scientific research projects.
Director Wu said quietly: "Zhang Yi, this project will depend on you in the future." ”
But now I'm not sure if Zhang Yi can do it, but there's no need to worry, anyway, there is still time, Zhang Yi still needs to constantly report the results to him, and take advantage of this time to assess him.
"Director Wu is polite." Zhang Yi replied lightly.
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After reporting to the research institute, Zhang Yi came directly to Norman.
These two places are not far away, and it seems that Zhang Yi will save a lot of distance when he runs back and forth between these two places in the future.
Zhang Yi's secretary has not yet been chosen, and after he arrived, Pei Xiaoyun followed him, and if he needed anything, he just ordered Pei Xiaoyun directly.
After Zhang Yi arrived in Norman, he stayed in his office for a few hours, mainly to sort out the construction plan again, and he had to finalize the equipment that needed to be purchased and the materials used.
These devices require high precision, and when doing experiments in Professor Li's laboratory, Zhang Yi also needs a high degree of mental concentration to successfully complete the experiment.
With an operation level like Lin Xiayu, it takes many times to succeed once.
However, the machine equipment is different, as long as the debugging is good, the accuracy of the machine is definitely much better than that of people, and the machine will not get tired, and the amount of reagent added can always be controlled accurately.
Feeling that Wang Ruoyi was very anxious about the progress of the project, Zhang Yi also sped up the pace, and he completed the amount that would have taken two days to complete, but he did it in half a day.
After coming out of Norman, Zhang Yi went straight back to school.
When he returned to school, it was more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and seeing that there was still time, Zhang Yi went to the Shiseiyuan laboratory.
Now the tungsten and molybdenum separation experiment is progressing rapidly, and there will be many problems at the same time, he is worried that he is not there, and there is no way to solve the problems encountered by the graduate students doing the experiment.
As soon as Zhang Yi entered the laboratory on his front foot, Liu Rui came over.
"Senior Brother Zhang, Professor Zhong has something urgent to look for you." Liu Rui saw Zhang Yi from a distance, and directly trotted all the way over and said.
Zhang Yi also seemed to realize that something was unusual, Liu Rui said "urgent" this time, and looking at his anxious appearance, it seemed that things were not small.
Now that Liu Rui has become Professor Zhong's confidant, he will naturally explain to Liu Rui as soon as he has anything.
Zhang Yi hurriedly went to Professor Zhong's office.
When Zhang Yi arrived, he saw Professor Zhong sitting in the boss's chair without saying a word, his face pale.
"Professor Zhong, are you looking for me urgently?" Zhang Yi asked after coming in.
"Well, there are two things I want to tell you." Professor Zhong waved his hand and motioned for Zhang Yi to sit down.
There was a sofa in front of the desk, and Zhang Yi sat down casually.
Professor Zhong said expressionlessly: "The first thing is that the mine owner who provided us with wolframite ore before closed the mine after selling the ore and stopped producing, and there are not many ore samples for our experiments. ”
"Discontinued? What is the reason? Zhang Yi was surprised.
This problem is not small, the previous experiments have always used their ore samples, if the ore samples are temporarily changed, the previous experiments are in vain.
Because the technical details of different ore samples will be different, and there is no continuity in the experimental data done before, it is necessary to ensure that the same batch of ore used in this project is the same mine.
"It is said that the technology is not mature, the quality of wolframite in their mine is average, and there are more other metals mixed with it, and the tungsten metal produced can only be used as rough industrial building materials, and then it is simply out of market, so it is shut down." Professor Chung said.
"And what about their wolframite reserves?" Zhang Yi continued to ask.
"The reserves are very rich, several large mines have millions of tons of reserves, worth billions, but mining has always been tepid, mainly because there is no production technology." I have cooperated with the mine before, and helped them do some small projects, Professor Zhong still knows a lot about the mine, so the tungsten ore used now also comes from there.
"Anyway, you're going to have to go over in a few days and get this thing done." Professor Chung directly arranges the task.
Without waiting for Zhang Yi to reply, Professor Zhong continued: "You have to be mentally prepared for the second question. ”
"Oh? So serious? Zhang Yi was a little surprised, listening to Professor Zhong's tone, it seemed that the matter was not small.
Professor Zhong nodded, and said in a cold tone: "The tungsten and molybdenum separation technology we are studying now has been applied for a major by Haotian Chemical Group Company. ”
"This..." Zhang Yi frowned, he didn't expect Li Mowen to do such a thing, this is naked plagiarism.
Zhang Yi also communicated with Professor Zhong about patents a few days ago, and Professor Zhong was also working on this matter in the past two days, but he didn't expect that the patent was stolen by others, and he was still a person who had done experiments together.
Li Mowen's move is ruthless enough, once the patent is applied, the tungsten and molybdenum separation technology can no longer continue to be done according to the plan.
For Professor Zhong, this is a devastating blow, and the contract that he finally managed to get can be lost at any time, and he has to be responsible.
In terms of technology, Zhang Yi is not worried, for Zhang Yi, this is a small problem, he can have 100 solutions to get tungsten and molybdenum separation, but thinking that stealing technology actually stole from him, Zhang Yi was extremely unhappy.
The technology was stolen from him!
"Hmph, a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised." Professor Zhong also scolded.