Chapter 443 - Recipe for Phosphate Fertilizer

Taking advantage of the time when Dr. Habaander gave Liu Shengbang and several others an ambulance, Hexin took the initiative to find Feng Yunshan. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It turned out that Feng Yunshan came to him several times before, all for Hexin's experiment.

After Hexin returned from England, he told Feng Yunshan that during his return to China, he found a man named Rouse in his hometown and opened a factory, specializing in the manufacture of a solid fertilizer made by decomposing phosphate rock with sulfuric acid, called superphosphate, which is used to grow plants, which can not only shorten the growth and maturity time of crops, but also significantly increase the yield of crops.

He came back from England with some fertilizer and was going to study it.

When Feng Yunshan heard this, he was very interested, although he actually studied chemistry-related background, but he forgot for a while that there was also the term chemical fertilizer. At this time, when I heard Hexin mention it, I remembered that I had already known a method of making chemical fertilizers: phosphate rock and sulfuric acid were heated and reacted to produce dicalcium diphosphate, which was a good phosphate fertilizer.

However, he didn't practice, he didn't know how the foreigners developed it, and although the manufacture of sulfuric acid was not very troublesome for him, the cost was relatively high, and it was really not cost-effective to use it to produce phosphate fertilizer, so he took the initiative to ask for funding to fund Hexin to study the development method of this phosphate fertilizer.

If there is really a good way to develop phosphate fertilizer, it will undoubtedly be a huge leap for this era and for the agriculture of the Holy Country.

Therefore, he attached great importance to it, and originally wanted Liu Changyou, vice minister of agriculture, to guard it, but later thought that Liu Changyou was not very interested in foreigners, so he personally came to watch it. Therefore, he would come to this clinic in Haba'an every few days to see if Hexin had developed it.

It may also be the case that the gang of people who were going to assassinate him figured out his travel habits and set up an ambush on the way to the clinic in advance.

"Your Highness, last time you said you went to Prussia to find that man named Krupp and help you make steel cans to produce life-saving medicinal materials, I don't know what happened now?" Holding a few glass jars in his hand, Hexin walked cautiously and asked.

Feng Yunshan was a little stunned. After a while, I remembered that I had asked Krupp to come to Shonan to make steel cans for the production of potions in order to fool Hexin back to Europe and help find Krupp in Prussia.

He hurriedly said: "Pastor Hexin, Mr. Krupp is already developing this steel tank in a place in Shaozhou, and I believe it will be made soon." Looking at the glass jar in Hexin's hand, he hurriedly changed the topic and asked, "Pastor Hexin, but you made the phosphate fertilizer you said?" ”

"Of course! His Royal Highness, after dozens of experiments, finally found the cheapest way to make phosphate fertilizer. Hexin was elated, and as a pastor, he was a little proud, which shows that he was very satisfied with finding this method: "It is to mix phosphate rock powder, serpentine jade, and coke with water, and burn them thoroughly in a closed tank to obtain phosphate fertilizer." ”

When Feng Yunshan heard it, it was true, this method of incineration seemed to have been talked about by a professor before, but he really didn't remember what it was mixed with.

The only method he remembers about the production of phosphate fertilizer is the heating reaction of sulfuric acid and phosphate rock, which is how most phosphate fertilizers in later generations were made. In addition, there is the slag of the ironworks, which contains phosphate and is also a good phosphate fertilizer.

Now that I think about it, this is because the large-scale production of sulfuric acid in later generations is cheap, and the production of phosphate fertilizer is cost-effective. Now, his sulfuric acid production is more precious than this fertilizer, and it is impossible to use sulfuric acid to produce phosphate fertilizer.

At present, only the sulfuric acid plant outside Guiyang City is in production in the Holy Kingdom, and the output is not as high as before. Although some are hoarded, if they are really used to produce phosphate fertilizer, they will be used up in three or two clicks.

There is too little sulfur in the raw material. Not to mention that all the natural sulfur directly mined is used to make gunpowder, if it weren't for the lack of technology, Feng Yunshan would have turned even the sulfur in the pyrite into gunpowder.

Fortunately, after occupying Moss Bay Island a while ago, Feng Yunshan had asked Zhu Caizhe, the prefect of Moss Bay, to send people to look for natural sulfur mines. Moss Bay and Benben are rich in sulfur, and Feng Yunshan believes that news will come soon.

"Great! Pastor Hexin, you have done great things for the Holy Kingdom and the people! Feng Yunshan said with a smile: "With this method, this king must make this phosphate fertilizer as soon as possible, so that the crops can grow better and produce more food, and the people will not starve!" The king decided to name this phosphate fertilizer Hexin phosphate fertilizer. ”

Hexin was praised by Feng Yunshan for a while, a little shy, rubbing his hands, not knowing what to say, but with a red face full of light, he must have been very excited. He was a devout Christian, he could do things for the people, and he had God's praise in his mind, and that's why he was so zealous.

Immediately afterwards, Hexin talked about the ratio of phosphate rock powder, serpentine jade, coke and water, as well as the temperature to be reached. Feng Yunshan asked people to take a pen and write it down carefully.

With this recipe for producing phosphate fertilizer, these raw materials are also quite common, and the holy country can produce phosphate fertilizer in the future. Feng Yunshan is looking forward to how fruitful the crops will be in the 19th century, when phosphate fertilizer has never been polluted.

Feng Yunshan suddenly thought that he had been pursuing the industry of foreigners, but he had forgotten the field he was familiar with, that is, petroleum and chemical industry. I still have to give full play to my strengths and make a difference in this area. Follow the pace of foreigners, and you will never be able to surpass them.

Thinking of oil, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but recall the upcoming "lamp oil era". In five years, the first oil well drilled in Pennsylvania will appear, and the oil industry will begin to develop.

Feng Yunshan had spent many years in the petrochemical industry in his previous life, so he naturally knew where oil was produced. But this is only an approximate direction, where is it exactly, and how can you find it?

Oil reservoirs such as the Daqing Oilfield, Shengli Oilfield, Zhongyuan Oilfield, and Jianghan Oilfield, which are hundreds of kilometers deep, will definitely not be able to be exploited with the current technology, and Feng Yunshan does not think about it. The shallow oil field, which he knows is famous, is also located in the Changqing Oilfield in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Basin, but now it is still in the Qing Demon sphere of influence. In addition, in the land of Sichuan and Shu, where natural gas is produced, there will also be a small amount of oil coming out of the ground.

The rest of the shallow oil fields, it seems that there are several very small oil fields in the area of Tianyang and Tiandong County in Baise, Guangxi, with shallow burial depths, but the reserves are very small and not very famous.

Feng Yunshan decided to ask Luo Qiongshu, who had been stationed in Guangxi and other places for two years, to send someone to investigate. Suddenly, Feng Yunshan suddenly remembered that Luo Qiongshu had written a letter to report an incident, saying that when he led his troops from Wantu Prefecture through a basin, he suddenly encountered a poisonous gas eruption from the crypt and lost two or three hundred people, and Luo Qiongshu also said that he himself was almost poisoned. At this time, Feng Yunshan recalled that it was the oil field of Tianyang and Tiandong in Baise that would spew out poisonous gas with sulfide blue?

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan became excited. He wanted to hurry back to check the map and Luo Qiongshu's original letter to confirm the matter!

If you can really find a shallow oil field and exploit it on a large scale, even if it is considered a small oil field in later generations, it is a super treasure for yourself today. What's more, now that there is a steam engine as the power, I am also familiar with the principle of those oil production machinery, so I let the first machine factory of Nanyang Company manufacture it according to its own requirements.

Feng Yunshan raised his head suddenly, but saw Dr. Haba'an packing up the medicine box and wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead. And Liu Shengbang, who was lying next to him, was also sweating profusely, his face was pale, but the back of his right hand was dripping with blood.

Feng Yunshan doesn't want to cut it off, Liu Shengbang is now his right-hand man and personal guard, and he can't do without Liu Shengbang.

"Dr. Habaander, does it matter if my brother wants it?" Feng Yunshan asked worriedly.