gritted his teeth and hardened the electric furnace project, and it was also a last resort to cross the public.

The reason is simple: there is no coal.

Without coal, there would be no coke, and there would be no need for open-hearth converters.

There is coal in Taipei, but it rains 200 days a year, and coal has to be excavated in the jungle of Taipei in the 17th century...... How many people are going to die to open the road and fill the pits? What's more, we must first drive out the Spaniards, build a convoy of convoys, and open a base......

There is no need to think about Taipei's coal mines, even if they are from Guangdong and Vietnam, they are far more reliable than Taipei, which seems to be very close. But at the moment, a certain force simply does not have the extra resources to go south: Zheng Zhilong in Xiamen and the surrounding pirates, the Portuguese in Macao and the surrounding pirates, these hostile forces are so numerous that they are stuck in the passage through the south.

Coal, a cheap commodity, can only be used in small quantities now, and there is simply no spare capacity to pull this thing.

As a result, the electric furnace steel project has become the only choice for the crossing.

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The power resources in the kiln area have great potential, especially after the import of a batch of lithium battery chainsaws, the logging efficiency has increased greatly, and the scraps produced by the wood factory alone can not be used up every day.

However, it is not so easy to take advantage of resources.

At the beginning, there was only one generator at the kiln base, which was a small 6000KW Siemens steam turbine. This set of generator sets is enough to cover all existing electricity projects including timber mills, brick kilns, small agricultural machinery, lighting, etc.

However, as soon as the electric stove came, it didn't work.

After a small 3-ton electric furnace is started, it will occupy at least one-third of the power generation. This is not the main thing, because the principle of the electric furnace is actually to rely on the short circuit of the positive and negative electrodes to produce high temperatures, so the electric furnace in the smelting process, the voltage will fluctuate and flicker.

As long as the electric furnace is opened, the current instantly produces a huge change in the harsh environment, and the thin power grid in the kiln area is probably going to kneel on the spot, so it has become a prerequisite to build a circuit system for steel mills, which is why a 3-ton small electric furnace can use up 5 boxes of import quotas: the equipment outside the electric furnace occupies too much space, especially the power equipment, to take into account the future development, so it is necessary to be in place at one time, and the transformers are large, leaving enough margin.

The round small electric stove is a specially purchased product of Swedish General Motors, with a diameter of 2.8 meters. The electric furnace may not seem to be large, but it comes with a lot of equipment: hood smoke pipe, water-cooled cable, lid lifting equipment, trolley, slag barrel, hydraulic cylinder, hydraulic control system......

The above is just the electric furnace part. There is also a new set of steam turbine system for power generation, supporting high-voltage power supply system, rectifier, transformer, as well as low-voltage console, various control boxes, and never too many cables......

Testing equipment: direct reading spectroscopy, fluorometer, sulfur carbon analyzer, grinding machine...... And so on and so forth.

There were five boxes of these equipment, and one more was added for consumables such as high-power graphite electrodes......

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One of the earliest brick kilns in the kiln area has been demolished. This kiln is an emergency product, it is an old-fashioned trapezoidal kiln, and only one brick can be produced at a time; Later, as the power plant was started, the brick machine began to produce a steady stream of bricks, and the old kiln soon couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

In the downstream of the kiln area, a large area of wheel kiln was built, the main body of the wheel kiln was built with basalt and red bricks, and the refractory bricks were self-produced magnesia bricks.

Magnesia bricks are a by-product of boiling salt, yes, boiling salt. At the beginning, the salt that crossed the public was bought in Hangzhou, and after the operation of the power plant in the kiln area, it was changed to use the waste heat of the power plant to build several pools to boil salt in seawater...... It's a bit LOW, but the product is good, and the aborigines say it's good.

After the lime kiln is built, magnesium hydroxide is extracted through concentrated seawater + lime milk, and then magnesium oxide is extracted by heating, which is how magnesia bricks are made.

After the new brick kiln, the original old kiln and the supporting small brick yard have become the natural location of the new steel mill. Nowadays, the old kiln has long disappeared, replaced by a brick and concrete structure, with a crane at the top, a slide rail at the foot, and a large workshop with a height of 5 meters.

A silvery-white, shiny electric furnace system has been erected in the middle of the workshop. Above the round furnace body is a metal cross arm, which is responsible for the clamping system of the graphite electrodes; Behind it are rectifiers and transformers connected by cables.

The electric stove system, which has a strong post-modern industrial style, does have a bit of a sci-fi flavor: all kinds of silver-white metal boxes and electric stoves, connected by silver-white water-cooled cables in the middle, like the beard of some kind of metal octopus monster, a bit weird.

In the eyes of the Ming furnace workers in the workshop, the set of iron objects that the old man spent half a month building was not like an iron-making furnace, like a monster.

However, in the eyes of the industrial crowd in the workshop, this set of electric stoves is an out-and-out baby, and a sexy young lady who exudes industrial beauty.

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The young lady who can operate is naturally not an ordinary person.

Chen Jingtai, 33 years old, thin and capable, is a former manager of Yonghengli Metal Processing Company. The company specializes in producing all kinds of strip steel, undertaking all kinds of orders, profile processing, and today he is standing here, properly belonging to the professional counterpart.

However, Chen Jingtai knows very well that if he dares to use this Swedish electric furnace to refine a furnace of strip steel for everyone today...... He's going to be thrown into the hearth while it's hot, there's no police in this place!

To put it bluntly, the Yonghengli company started by Manager Chen was a small private processing factory, specializing in providing inferior strip steel to the market. The quality of the strip steel of the Yonghengli brand is still good, and the steel ingots of other people's houses will be broken when they fall one meter high, and the three meters of Yonghengli will be broken, so the confusion is stronger, and they often pass the test in confusion.

Whenever the wind is tight, Chen Jingtai closes his doors, and reopens as soon as the wind passes, and the small life is enjoyable back then, until the storm of regulation and control comes, and Manager Chen is destroyed by the joint investigation team.

Now in the 17th century, Comrade Chen Jingtai actually saw a full set of electric furnace systems produced in Sweden in such a wild land, and then looked at the furnace laboratory full of equipment in the corner of the workshop, even if he was as cheeky as him, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed at the moment.

You know, in addition to the two intermediate frequency furnaces in his factory back then, the rest was the ditch and scrap steel, not to mention any laboratory equipment, even the intermediate frequency furnace was portable, and it was the kind that could run away by loading it on a truck before the big inspection.

Alas, reminiscing about the glorious past...... Chen Jingtai sighed lightly and came back to his senses, looked at his watch, and then stepped forward, drove all the traversers who came to visit the workshop to a safe position, and ordered everyone to wear goggles. After that, he personally inspected the charge and all the electrical links that had already been piled up, and then beckoned the crossing crowd and Mingren furnace workers from several steel mills to check the whole body protective equipment and take their places, and then they were ready to open the furnace.

Chen Jingtai must be careful, the full name of this electric furnace in front of him is "3 tons of DC electric arc furnace", not the gentle intermediate frequency furnace in his factory; The electric arc furnace works with a relatively strong momentum and many links, and if you are not careful, you will die, so you must be careful.