Biomaterials Laboratory.

The head of the scientific research office, Quinin Mark and the head of the management office, Pasteur (soldier), were also waiting for Li Qingye's arrival at the door at this time.

This laboratory specializes in the study of biological materials, and they have received a special material from Caragua Island some time ago, and they have almost studied it at this time.

Li Qingye, who came from the methanobacteria laboratory, finished reading the research report in his hand.

"You're doing a good job."

Quinine said excitedly: "Boss, this sponge you provide is really fantastic, if it can be mass-produced, or synthesized, it may be able to change the current industrial pattern." ”

The sponge he is talking about is actually a genetically recombinant organism.

The body of this genetically modified sponge is a new nanostructure, which is a new variety cultivated by Li Qingye in combination with biology, nanomaterials, and crystallography.

The function of the crystal storage resonance cavity is to press water and gas into its nanostructure through a certain pressure to turn it into special crystal water.

So what is the purpose of this crystal sponge composed of crystal storage resonance points?

Its purpose is to press into the gas, 1 cubic meter of crystal sponge, can be pressed into 460~500 cubic meters of methane, or other alkane gas.

The critical value of this compressive pressure is only 3.7 atmospheres.

Once the gas is pressed into the crystal sponge, a relatively stable unit cell state will be formed, even if the ambient temperature reaches hundreds of degrees Celsius, the gas stored in it will not be released, and the critical point release temperature is more than 148 degrees Celsius.

However, there is another characteristic of crystal storage resonance cavities, that is, at a specific resonance frequency, the stability of the unit cell will decrease rapidly, thus releasing the gas stored in it.

This allows the crystal sponge to store and release gases at a low cost.

It is important to know that the liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships currently on the market are not only extremely expensive, but also have low operation and maintenance costs.

The liquefied natural gas of the LNG ship liquefies the methane gas through ultra-low temperature, and the whole process of transportation must be guaranteed to be low temperature (-162 degrees Celsius), and the danger is extremely high.

1 cubic meter of liquefied natural gas can be converted into 625 cubic meters of gaseous natural gas.

The crystal sponge is 1 cubic meter, which can store 460~500 cubic meters of gaseous methane.

In terms of the unit storage capacity of the two gases, LNG is slightly superior; However, crystal sponges can be stored at room temperature and pressure, and LNG needs to be kept at a low temperature of -162 degrees Celsius at all times.

This is where the advantages of crystal sponges come in.

After all, the cost of building an LNG ship is very high, taking the Huaguo-made Dapeng as an example, its cost is as high as 160 million US dollars, which can transport 147,000 cubic meters of LNG at one time.

The Panamax carrier, which has a capacity of 4,500 standard containers, costs only about 70 million US dollars.

Usually the volume of a standard container is 24~26 cubic meters, and 4,500 standard containers are 10.8~117,000 cubic meters.

What's more, LNG ships also face another problem, because the LNG they transport is different from ordinary cargo, which requires specialized port handling, unloading and storage.

If crystal sponge is used as a storage container, there is no need for a specialized port that is too complicated, and it can also be modified with other container carriers.

However, at this stage, Li Qingye is not ambitious, and Homo sapiens has no plans to enter the natural gas carrier industry now, mainly because the water is too deep and it is easy to be targeted by the five hooligans.

Moreover, the yield of crystal sponge is also insufficient, even if growth hormone and nutrient solution are used, one acre of sea field can only produce 200~300 cubic meters of crystal sponge per year.

For a short period of time, it can only be supplied for internal use by Homo sapiens.

Now, if Homo sapiens wants to build a batch of methane plants, it needs crystal sponges to make storage containers, which can save a lot of costs.

The gaseous methane storage tank at room temperature and pressure occupies a large area and the cost is not low;

And the LNG storage tank, not to mention, plus a large number of supporting cryogenic maintenance equipment, gasification equipment, transmission pipelines and the like, at a glance you know that the price is expensive, but also very dangerous, once there is an operation error, the entire plant may have to go to the sky together.

In terms of crystal sponge storage tanks, according to the research of quinine et al. and the production process department.

To make a crystal sponge storage tank, in addition to the crystal sponge of the core material, a shock absorption and barrier layer, a flame retardant steel shell, a sonic generator, an electronic control system, a pressurized injection pump, a one-way air valve, a safety valve, an alarm and piping are required.

The technical difficulty of these things is not great, and the only thing with technical content is actually the production and deep processing of crystal sponges.

In fact, Li Qingye's main purpose in developing these things is not to make money, but for energy security.

Luzon is a place where energy resources are scarce.

There are only a few small coal and gas mines on its territory, and there are no oil fields worth exploiting.

At present, the thermal power plant of the subsidiary Emerald Energy, thermal coal has to be imported from Java and Australia, and it is extremely unreliable to rely on imports alone.

Since natural energy minerals are scarce, Li Qingye has found another way to directly use biogas as the core energy source.

As for whether biogas can meet the demand of Luzon, Li Qingye, who has mastered biotechnology, is very confident.

The recently developed transgenic methanobacteria can decompose organic matter and produce methane about 2.7 times more efficiently than the current natural strains, and the transgenic methanobacteria can complete the decomposition of organic matter by themselves without other auxiliary strains.

The reason why the efficiency can be improved so much is that the energy conversion chain is shortened, the reaction time is also shortened, and the energy is continuously decreasing in the process of multiple conversions for a long time.

Genetically modified methanogens can directly decompose organic matter, which reduces the waste of energy.

Moreover, the organic matter that can be decomposed by genetically modified methane bacteria not only includes animal excrement, animal and plant corpses, but also includes some artificial organic matter, such as the famous plastic products.

In this way, Emerald Energy can build garbage recycling plants near various cities, and then send the biomass waste and plastic products in them to ferment and decompose, which reduces pollution and waste, and can obtain methane.

In addition, it can also store factory waste from the surrounding area, crop waste from farms, and manure from farms.

Through this model, self-sufficiency in district energy can be achieved in general.

In the event of an emergency, the unicorn starch produced by Haitian can also be used as a raw material for the production of methane.

In today's human society, energy is not just about electricity and heat, but also about food security.

If Homo sapiens wants to become a giant enterprise that dominates the future of mankind, there must be no shortcomings, and energy has a vital position in the entire industrial chain.

Promoting Luzon's energy self-improvement is one of Homo sapiens' next strategies.

After inspecting the labs, Li Qingye was relatively satisfied with the current progress of the projects, just as he was about to return to Caragua Island.

Chen Jianxiong's feedback from Manila made him stop.