Cao Limei originally wanted to name this small river Blue-Green Creek, because the water of this river is crystal clear, under the sunlight, aquatic plants and the surrounding blue-gray carbon shale, the riverbed and river water are blue-green, when she heard that the two wanted to live in seclusion here, Cao Meizi couldn't help but smile in her heart, and said that this will be an industrial area, who will be hiding to find an industrial area that is smoking everywhere?

However, Cao Limei eventually named the river Yimi, and she knew exactly what the blue-green, crystal-clear water would be polluted by a nearby industrial project.

Therefore, the beautiful name of Bluegreen Creek should be saved for later.

After the construction of the brick and tile factory began, Kangda and Wang Zhanwu, who were majoring in electric power, were also busy, and their task was to direct everyone to build a dam in the middle and lower reaches of the Yimi River, which is the main tributary of the Xiliu River.

According to the hydrological data provided by Cao Limei, the two decided to directly build a flood dam, and after forming a water level difference, they installed a small vortex generator in the pilot canal, which can not only generate electricity, but also raise the water level to form a small lake for energy storage, and also facilitate the diversion of water to supply the production needs of the brick and tile factory and the subsequent cement plant.

As for the selection of power generation equipment, the two decided to use the 50 kilowatt micro vortex generator set in the cave, including the supporting distribution pipelines, there are many sets of this type of generator set, and after accumulating experience this time, they can also draw gourds for use on other rivers.

As for the cement for building the dam, it is necessary to let Hou Xianglin take out some of the building materials brought by the old world.

Hou Xianglin has no disagreement on this, and he does not dare to have an opinion.

Hou Xianglin thought that anyway, as long as the brick and tile factory can start production and have building materials, the subsequent cement factory will be able to start construction, and then the cement will be self-sufficient.

Fortunately, building a hydropower station on this small river is not as difficult as everyone thinks, the Imi River is just a stream with a larger volume, the water is not deep, the deepest part is not up to the chest, and the river is clear and slow.

Cao Limei, Kang Da and Wang Zhanwu redetermined the dam site, and in order to make full use of the flow and drop, they pushed the site another kilometer downstream.

On January 11, 1656, the construction of the Yimi River Hydropower Station officially began.

Six excavators made a detour to the south, digging an aqueduct on the south bank of the Imi River to divert the river's water, and then blocking the main channel with excavated earthworks.

In the following days, the group excavated the foundation on the original river channel that bottomed out, and poured a cement dam with a width of four meters at the bottom and two meters wide at the top with valuable reinforced concrete, and on this basis, the entire dam height reached 2.8 meters.

After a week of hard work, the dam was finally built, and then a 1.5-meter-wide narrow canal was dug on the north bank of the cement dam, on which the vortex generator sets would be installed. With the help of construction machinery, this channel was quickly completed.

Then the supporting gate in the cave was installed, followed by various pipelines and power distribution facilities, these equipment are ready-made, Kang Wang and the two are experts in this area, and everyone gave them a hand, and the installation of these micro equipment was completed in only two days.

The rest was simple, blocking the aqueduct on the south bank and the dam began to fill up, and it was full in just two days.

So on a sunny morning ten days after the start of the hydropower station, Kang Wang and his wife slowly pushed the winch and twisted the sluice gate under the enthusiastic watchful eyes of everyone, and the turbulent river water instantly flowed into the narrow canal, and the water began to push the rotor of the vortex generator.

After a while, with the continuous flashing of the indicator lights in the distribution room, the onlookers couldn't help but applaud warmly.

On January 21, 1656, it was a memorable day when the first miniature river hydropower station built by the travelers came to the New World!

After testing, Kangwang and Wang announced that the miniature run-of-river hydropower station had a power generation capacity of 50 kilowatt hours, which met the design requirements of the equipment.

For Hou Xianglin, this is excellent news, because the power consumption of the entire miniature brick and tile track kiln is 455 watt hours, which means that there is no need to open the Stirling coal-fired generator set, which not only saves a lot of raw material transportation workload, but also can use the saved coal in other aspects, everyone is relieved to hear it, at least there is no need to dig coal now.

Since this is a power station on the Yimi River, Kangda and Wang Zhanwu named this power station Yimi No. 1 Hydropower Station.

Everyone knows that from this name, it is foreseeable that there will be a No. 2 hydropower station on the Imi River, because this river has the conditions for cascade development.

Obviously, the two of them successfully built a hydropower station independently, even if it was a miniature one, which made King Kang, the two hydropower novices from the old world, more confident.

After the dam was impounded, a small lake about 200 meters long and more than 100 meters wide at its widest point was formed, which Cao Limei solemnly marked on the map as Yimi Lake---- and Mi Anfei and Yi Shanjing were very happy about it.

On January 23, the track-type annular steel structure brick kiln began trial operation.

The production process of this brick kiln is very eye-opening, starting with the clay production line, and a pulverized coal machine powered by an electric motor crushes the lignite and stone coal that has been accumulated on site into pulverized coal, and then feeds it into a mixer.

There, a small amount of pulverized coal is mixed with a large amount of clay in proportion, and then it becomes a semi-dry mud embryo after adding water, and then the mud embryo is sent to the steel wire clay blank cutting machine to be extruded, which is the mud embryo brick used to burn red bricks.

Under the command and demonstration of Brother Hou, everyone carefully stacked the mud embryos, placed them neatly and staggered on the five layers, and placed them on the rail car in the greenhouse.

The mud embryo basically does not need to be completely dried, and the rail car is pushed onto the loop track.

At this time, the firing process of the brick embryo begins, under the traction of the electric hoist, the rail car slowly drives into the annular furnace, and the mud embryo is dried, preheated, roasted and cooled in the kiln chamber along the line.

It only took three hours before and after, and the steaming finished bricks were freshly baked.

After visiting this process, everyone was amazed, and they all said that they had never seen such a brick-burning method!

It turns out that you don't need the kind of smoke of the adobe brick kiln that burns bricks!?

It turns out that we don't need to chop wood, burn coal, and make a fire every day?

The only heavy physical work here is shoveling the clay into the mixer---- if you use a shovel.

Another physical task is to put the extruded mud embryo on the rail car, and then push it to the annular track and hang the traction hook of the electric hoist.

Well, there is no such thing as the smoky fire roasting the big mud as imagined.

So everyone finally remembered it, and said that the choice of these devices was not all Anna's idea! I should give Anna a thousand likes!

After the bricks were released, everyone except Hou Xianglin was cheering, but Hou Xianglin was not much excited, thinking that this brick-burning technology had long been popularized in the old world......

However, at this time, Hou Xianglin did not have the heart to complain about everyone's traditional prejudice against burning bricks, and after the first brick came out, he put on a serious face to tell everyone that the quality of this brick is generally fine, but the yield is not high, only 45%.

That is to say, most of the mud embryos are deformed and broken in the firing process, this is because we use the internal combustion method, and the fuel ---- pulverized coal in the mud embryo participate in the firing process of the mud embryo, the advantage is that a lot of energy is saved, the firing period is shortened, and the time and effort are saved, but if the mixing ratio of pulverized coal and mud embryo is not mastered well, or if it is not stirred evenly, a large number of waste products will appear, which is the main reason why the current firing product rate cannot meet the requirements.

However, the excited people have said that it doesn't matter, anyway, we have just started, the coming day is long, you don't tell us these technical details, we don't understand much, you will grope and explore in the future, research and research, check the information will not be solved?

Hou Xianglin nodded and explained that he understood, because everyone's excitement is that doing this kind of work is not so tiring.

Everyone didn't deny it when they heard it, and they all said, okay, okay, no matter what, we can make our own bricks and tiles anyway! And the labor intensity does not seem to be very large, and now the most worrying labor intensity problem is solved, which is already very happy.....

After that, the excited people let the brick and tile factory start production for four days in a row, producing a total of 10,000 bricks and tiles of various specifications, and soon used up the lignite, stone coal and clay piled up in the yard.

Happily, the yield of the last few furnaces finally reached 65 percent, which was the result of Hou Xianglin's exploration and research.

Since the beginning of January, everyone has tossed to the present, and the brick and tile factory has been considered a successful production.

So, the next step is to solve the problem of cement production.