Chapter 60 Factory Planning
Just now, the two wives were still questioning whether the little girl was the demon king... But in this world, no one can escape the law of true fragrance, and after a while, he will get tired of being with this 'demon king'.
As the saying goes, demons are beautiful to deceive people, and angels are ugly to scare away demons.
As a carbon-based creature, a two-legged beast that walks upright, there will always be a trace of inexplicable intimacy with good-looking creatures~
Since the wives at home are not disgusted with kittens, Ted simply bought a glass cabinet and put some of the items that the cats need, so that the two wives who are idle at home can also help themselves take care of the little ones.
As for the Demon King... Ted didn't know what was going on.
However, according to the experience of his own 'traverser', the demon king will also be divided into types, even if the little boy in his hand is the demon king, he is also a wise demon king.
"Forget it, it's the pet given to me by the system, what am I struggling with here?"
Instead of thinking about whether your pet will be a demon king, it is better to think about the construction of the glass factory in a few days.
With Star Coins, you can buy some precious materials and catch up with the progress in winter, so you don't have to pick and search for them like before.
But even if you have a little money now, you can't use it indiscriminately, from now on, every star coin should be recorded in and used!
The purchase of raw materials can be saved, and the money should be spent on those machinery that is not easy to produce, because it takes decades or even hundreds of years to create qualified machinery.
So! Ted took out a large drawing and spread it on the table, according to his own understanding, first listed the methods, gradually eliminated them, and after the final screening, bought those machines or lathes that could not be manufactured in a short period of time to fill the technological gap.
The glass factory is actually not a difficult problem, it is one of the necessary knowledge of the traverser, and even if there is no system, Ted knows how to make it.
Use quartz, that is, silica, crush it, mix it with sodium carbonate powder and throw it into a high-temperature crucible, and finally pull it out to cool down, and you can take it out and use it~
Of course, this is the easiest way to do it, and it doesn't have the ability to control the temperature at 1450 degrees, so you can only find a way to increase or decrease the firepower little by little.
Miscanthus as a clarifier is a bit wasteful, at this stage this thing has other uses, as for dolomite, calcite and pulverized coal... You'll have to wait.
Whether the finished product is uniform and free of bubbles, you can only do your best, and there is no way to make the specified shape in this way, so you can only barely make a board as a window.
The yield of good products in the local law is not high, but... can only make do with it first, and their own resources have to be invested elsewhere first.
As for the more advanced glass, Ted wouldn't consider it, because it wasn't necessary for the time being, and there was no such condition.
You can only wait for your own money to be more, and then slowly, little by little, to improve the process, after adding heat treatment, the glass can be solid and durable.
A while ago, after the glass needed to make greenhouses was built, the sodium carbonate in the territory was not enough.
And this time, my task is to help everyone find and make alkali~
Not only for the glass factory, but also for the future industrialization development, if the factory is built, everyone has experience, you can continue to build the factory, continue to develop.
Ted doesn't know where the alkali in the territory comes from, and it doesn't matter, what soil method others use to make it is also someone else's, only if he masters it.
You can't rely on the system for everything, the chemical knowledge you learned back then, combined with the self-taught content in the books, it is indeed difficult to reproduce a standardized factory, but a lot of it can't be done!
Sodium carbonate is an inorganic chemical raw material in industry, as a basic raw material, the manufacturing method must be mastered, because the use of this thing is not only in industry, but also widely used in food processing.
There are many ways to make alkali, and the one Ted knows best is the world-famous joint alkali production method, which not only makes the best use of things, but also conforms to the idea of 'reducing environmental pollution'.
By using the waste gas from the ammonia plant as a raw material for another plant, it is not only possible to produce the raw material for the production of Jinkela and sell it to farmers elsewhere, but also to obtain the raw material for production.
It's just that a few raw materials have to be done in advance.
The raw materials are roughly sodium chloride, ammonia, carbon dioxide, coke, air and water.
There are several materials that are not lacking by themselves, water is everywhere, just take it to purify, salt sodium chloride is not a difficult matter, there are many salt mines in the Gobi not far away, the trouble is purification and transportation, mining is not too difficult.
The essence of coke is coal, and I have a very large coal mine, and the last thing I need is this thing.
The only thing that is difficult is ammonia.
The alkali plant is generally next to the ammonia plant, and the carbon dioxide produced by the ammonia plant can be used directly, that is, the carbon dioxide is counted as a by-product, and you don't have to collect the breath of others all over the world, just collect it and reuse it.
Industrial ammonia synthesis technology, generally using hydrogen and nitrogen, catalyzed under high temperature and high pressure, is also the main method of producing ammonia in the industrial era.
Nitrogen generally comes from the air, which is not difficult to do, and removing impurities is not a big deal.
As for hydrogen, Ted drew an important symbol, this step is crucial, and it is also very dangerous, the slightest carelessness will lead to a collective ascension to the sky, and it will be cool on the spot.
Since there is a danger, you can't build a factory in the city, you have to change places.
After thinking about it, Ted locked on to a no-man's-land in the Gobi based on his existing memories.
That wilderness, in the eyes of outsiders, is a paradise for wild beasts, a hell for humans, and as long as you walk in, no one will come out alive.
Of course, these are all made up, only the people of the north themselves know, and they all deceived outsiders into making nonsense, in order to prevent them from discovering the salt mines inside.
As for the beast... Occasionally, two birds flew by, no big deal.
If you choose to build a factory there, you can continue to cover up people's eyes and ears like now, and then fan the flames and fabricate rumors that 'there is a forbidden area of death', and you can cover up for your own factory.
After all, smoke can come out from a long distance, and saying that he is the entrance to hell should make most people retreat.
According to the available information, the method of making hydrogen is very limited, and Ted will not consider other methods, so it is better to strictly follow the whole process of Hou's alkali production method and use coke to solve it.
It's just that, before that, it has to be desulfurized and the sulfur in the raw material is cleaned...
Ammonia catalysis is a good choice, and it can also be recycled without increasing the demand for other materials~
Every invention, every brilliant idea, is a simplification of complex things, and only then can it be in line with the core values of industrialization.
After desulfurization, hydrogen and carbon monoxide are produced by the action of steam and hot anthracite, and carbon dioxide, in order to purify, carbon monoxide can continue to react with water vapor~
This can then be used as the raw gas for ammonia synthesis, and the next step is to decarburize these gases into impurities, ammonium bicarbonate.
After obtaining ammonium bicarbonate, the semi-finished product needs to continue to be refined, which can be done by cupra ammonia absorption method, and it is not difficult to remove excess water.
If science and technology progress a little more, we can use natural gas as raw material to make ammonia like Damao, and use nickel as a catalyst for refining, which is a better process.
The next step, another critical step, is that after multi-stage treatment, the remaining mixture, catalyzed by iron oxide, is heated and pressurized to 500 degrees Celsius, 32 megapascals, to obtain ammonia.
If this continues, the ammonia required for alkali production can also be produced when producing nitrogen fertilizer~
The rest is much simpler, transporting the ammonia to the soda plant next door for waste use.
In terms of alkali production, all science students who have gone through the college entrance examination should know this process, that is, one carbonization, two ammonia absorption, one salting, and ice cooling.
And the steps that almost every high school student who has studied chemistry can memorize...
"Chillers have to pay for ... Hey, that's another expense. ”
During this period, it is also important to control the temperature.
After writing out the method, Ted drew several more drawings of the principles of the industrial equipment, which were based on memory, and then had to be integrated with the data after a while.
The method of alkali production is indeed recorded in the book, but every detail will not be told, and the details that are not written have to be completely supplemented by themselves under the deduction of chemical textbooks little by little.
"Whew..."Three hours later, Ted was finally done.
When they were hungry, the two wives stayed by their side very tacitly, and as long as they opened their mouths, they would be fed a dumpling.
Thanks to the dumplings I ate, if it were something else, it would be oily.
Mia, as a little sister, stayed for a while and then became sleepy, turned her head to take a nap... Of course, I slept with the 'Demon King' little girl.
Gentle and virtuous, Alice sat beside Ted with a small stool, quietly observing what he was doing.
Although she couldn't read at all, or even what Ted was doing, it didn't matter.
Quietly accompanied, sometimes more charming than intense love.
...
"Whew!"
After another hour, Ted had taken care of everything, rolled up the six large drawings, and poked them in the bag beside him.
The drawings include the initial salt refining, purification, and ammonia plant production of gold and chemical raw materials from the transportation of waste to the adjacent alkali plant.
The detailed steps inside, as well as the various principles, were all pulled from the book by Ted.
"Hmm... Since it is going to be changed, let's change it thoroughly, first dismantle the small iron-making workshop in the city, build an iron-making plant directly near the iron mine, and transport the coal mine and copper ore there to solve it together! ”
The best choice for building a factory is to be near the origin of raw materials, which reduces the trouble of transportation and saves a lot of trouble.
After such an operation, as long as everything goes well, Ted can temporarily get rid of the shackles of the system!
With these factories, the steady development of training knowledgeable trainees and workers... Then the life you are looking forward to is not far away!
When production capacity and demand reach a balance, Ted can consider digging for oil...
Because benzene is needed to make propellants, and later chemical industries also need this kind of thing, and the coal tar in petroleum is the raw material needed to produce benzene.
In this way, as long as you spend a reasonable amount of Star Coins to buy equipment, and then use the equipment to make more equipment, you can temporarily dominate one side!
The idea is good, but now there's a problem...
That's money...
If you want to promote industrial development, you must have a strong enough family foundation and sufficient money.
A while ago, he scattered coins, which caused half of his property to be gone, and according to the estimation of Chris and his team, if you want to promote the development of the North, promote the circulation of currency, let everyone have money to spend, and let them spend it...
Even if Ted threw all his money away, it wouldn't be enough, because the people wouldn't spend all their money, they would keep some of it as a backup, after all, there were no banks in the north.
According to the data calculated by the model, the overall wealth possession in the north is insufficient, and there is still a difference of about 40% according to the target point, and this gap can only be made up by borrowing money or plundering.
If it is a modern society, you can use paper money to print money year by year to alleviate it, but not now, everyone is still using gold coins...
Monetary reform is anachronistic and hasty to carry out, so this article is skipped.
If you want the north to achieve its predetermined goals, it will probably need 80% of your wealth before the reform to make the city run well.
As for why not to use goods as a reward or food as a reward...
Ted believes that the development of society should look forward, not turn back the wheel of history, and unless there is a corner, society will not return to the era of barter, let alone use goods to hire people to work.
If the boss of the Stygian Coin Factory uses the Stygian to pay his employees, then is there still a royal law in this country?
Even if the currency has a certain value, it cannot be used as a coin to give to people, and in the same way, food cannot be paid as a salary, because this kind of item, like the currency of the underworld, carries too many uncertainties and changes.
Unlike gold or silver coins, these two things are both natural money and industrial materials, and they don't change with the changes around them, at least not in today's society.
Even when the drought comes, gold coins can still be used to buy food, and although it is a little more expensive, it can still be bought.
If you take a bundle of Stygian coins and go to the boss to buy... It's just going to be blasted out.
This kind of thing, it is not enough to burn it for heating, when the butt paper is too hard, it is better to go outside to pick up branches, it is convenient and fast, and you can throw it in the stove to burn after scraping the shit.
Cash-for-work, such as Roosevelt's New Deal, used money as wages, not food.
Since this method is filtered out, then ~ borrowing money for financing can be considered.
Right now, there is just one goal, and that is Steve, the wronged man with tools!
He said that he would give everything in exchange for peace, so Ted promised him to keep him safe, pushed him to be emperor, and then continued to make a fortune in his back!
"Perfect!"
With the plan ready, Ted stretched, picked up Alice and spun around the sky three times before stopping.
At this time, the little obedient moved, and after drinking water, he came to the cat litter box.
Mia doesn't know when she woke up...
The three of them gathered together very tacitly, squatting behind the little boy to observe.
"You say, what is she going to do?"
"I don't know, dear, you know what?"
Ted turned his head slowly, smiled and said, "You'll know right away." ”