Chapter Seventy-Three: High Purity Olefins

The demolition of the inhabitants around the new pyrolysis furnace was quickly finalized according to the plan.

The new base purchased a 3,000-mu radius of land centered on the new pyrolysis furnace at a price of US$200,000 per mu.

The land is located just southwest of the new base, near the equator, where Mr. Li plans to plan a future space launch center.

The proximity to the equator is convenient for the launch of spacecraft, which can maximize the use of the earth's rotation power, so as to achieve the purpose of saving fuel.

The government in Wakaba gave $300,000 in subsidies to each of the evictioned residents, while also directing them into the new base, which is unimaginable for the residents of Wakaba.

Because few investors and businessmen have gone to Wakaba for business investment in the past, Wakaba rarely acquires land from residents, and people never know that land acquisition and demolition can be a way to make a quick fortune.

The output value of an ordinary family in Wakaba is about 3,000 US dollars a year, and it is almost impossible to save any money a year except for basic living expenses, and it will take decades for an ordinary family to save such a large amount of wealth without eating or drinking.

At the same time, the residents are also very satisfied with the resettlement work after land acquisition and demolition.

Moving into the new base means a decent life, the working environment of the new base in Wakaba has been heard, three hours to five hours a day, but can reach tens of thousands of dollars in salary, the new base residents work is allotted in packages, as long as they can live in the new base, then not only the family's work problem is solved, the standard of living is skyrocketing.

The new base is conditional for the absorption of the people of Wakaba, and the intelligent program carries out a planned increase in personnel according to certain rules.

The first attraction is the displacement of foreign nationals, who have been displaced by war or other reasons, but these people usually have skills and a certain level of literacy.

Only refugees with a certain level of cultural literacy will choose to stay away from their homeland, those who do not have any skills or cultural literacy do not want to leave their homeland, the new base gives priority to absorbing these population, on the one hand, the rich living environment can quickly enhance the sense of belonging in the hearts of these homeless refugees, on the other hand, these people have a certain level of cultural literacy, can better devote themselves to the construction of the new base.

The second is to absorb the poorest and most deprived people in Wakaba.

These people are already at the lowest end of the entire human society, and if they do not rely on the help of the new base, then they will not be able to live on their own, and absorbing such a population can also quickly improve the cohesion of the new base, and at the same time relieve the pressure on Wakaba's already tight finances, so that more money can be invested in public infrastructure construction.

Finally, it is the conditional absorption of the local ordinary people in Wakaba.

Almost 98 percent of the local population has no education, and it is very difficult for these people to improve their cultural literacy in a short period of time, after all, their habits of thinking have formed a fixed format, and it is difficult to change them because of the short training at the new base.

Rushing to absorb them, even if the welfare benefits of the new base are good, the low-quality people are likely to cause chaos within the base.

People do not suffer from poverty, but from inequality, especially when everyone is poor.

The resettlement of the people requisitioned and demolished was also a small-scale experiment, with only a few hundred households on the 3,000 acres of land, and the total number of people was less than 800, which is insignificant for the capacity of the new base, and if they can successfully integrate into the environment of the new base, then Li Mingyu is ready to continue to expand the scope of the resettlement of people.

The current population of the new base is far from reaching its maximum capacity, and there is still a lot of space, and the economic circulation system of the new base requires the participation of a large number of people, whether it is the staff of the store or the guide who guides the tourists, these still need to be involved, and the pure use of androids is not only a waste of resources, but also does not provide effective jobs.

These new placements are sent to vocational and technical schools for short-term training, and then AI assigns them appropriate jobs based on their skill skills.

After the construction of the new cracking furnace was completed, the shortage of olefin-3 polymer materials in the new base was quickly alleviated, and it has to be said that this thing was really fierce, and the crude oil in the transportation pipeline was dumped into the new cracking furnace all the time, and then it was quickly smelted into the olefin-3 type that was in large demand in the new base.

Although there is a small amount of radiation, the cost is negligible in the face of its ultra-high efficiency.

In addition, in the large-scale smelting process, the new cracking furnace also produces a small amount of high-purity olefin-3 type, which is additional good news.

In the past crude oil smelting, the smelting purity of olefin-3 type reached about 97%, and the previous production line of Matrix Technology Co., Ltd. can control the purity of smelting at about 98.93%, this purity of olefin-3 type is already a high-quality product, at present, many international crude oil producers have built a new production line smelting purity of only about 87%, which is also one of the reasons why Li Mingyu can not purchase a large number of olefin-3 type in the world.

The production line of the new base has strict requirements for the purity of olefin-3 type, and the polymer materials that can be combined with different purities are different.

The purity of 98.93% has always been a barrier in the current smelting technology, which has also led to the fact that many new materials have complete technical solutions, but they have never been manufactured.

Among them, the combination of graphene and high-purity olefins is one of the most critical difficulties.

Graphene is a single-layer graphite structure, this material has very excellent physical properties, but the simple graphene structure is difficult to carry out large-scale application, the physical structure of graphene leads to it can only exist in the form of a single-layer crystal, single-layer graphene is almost a two-dimensional plane, even if the physical properties are excellent, it is meaningless to be applied to the production scene.

The wide range of application characteristics of olefin-3 type can just make up for the shortcomings of graphene in this regard.

However, the combination of the two has unusually high requirements for the purity of the olefin-3 type, because the single layer of graphene is already close to a two-position plane, contact with any related impurities will destroy its complete physical structure, and graphene, which has lost its ordered physical structure, is just a bunch of useless carbon atoms.

According to Xiaoyu's technical scheme, if the olefin-3 type and graphene are to fully react to form a new polymer material, the purity of the olefin-3 type must reach at least 99.999... 99%, with thirteen nines omitted in the middle.

This difference in purity is already close to the most essential structure of the object, that is, the electronic level.

As long as it is at this purity, the combination of olefin-3 type and graphene can form a perfect solid structure, while retaining the excellent properties of graphene itself, this material is called graphene polymer material.

In the aerospace exploration industry in the near future, graphene materials will become the key materials for aerospace equipment manufacturing, and whether graphene polymer materials can be mass-produced is an important factor for the development of the aerospace industry of the new base.

On the one hand, the cracking furnace itself needs to run and adapt for a period of time, mainly to produce ordinary olefin-3 type, on the other hand, the new cracking furnace has not been upgraded with higher specifications, and many parts of the furnace are old equipment, which cannot operate at the highest efficiency.

However, the current output has made Li Mingyu very happy.

According to the capacity of the launch vehicle to be launched at the new base, Li Mingyu plans to complete the construction of his own space station in the first step, although the current production of high-purity olefins is not high, but it is enough to be used in the space station.

The introduction of high-purity olefins was soon posted on the Wakaba public resource information trading network, and the polymer materials that can be combined with high-purity olefins were also roughly listed.

Since Li Mingyu announced that the Matrix Research Institute was stationed in Wakaba, this small African country that has not been passed on has quickly entered the field of vision of various countries, and the technology announced by the Matrix Research Institute every time is too cutting-edge, and whoever can take the lead in mastering these technologies will be able to take the lead in controlling the right to speak in the world, which is a valuable experience summed up by various countries after the previous technological innovations.

Countless eyes are paying attention to the Wakaba public resource information trading network all the time, this is the fastest place to understand the research results of the matrix research institute, everyone has figured out the urine nature of this institute, it will not hide privately, all the research results will be generously published on the website, as if to tell everyone that even if you put the plan in front of you, you can't learn.

In Shangjing City, China, a scientific research unit specializing in the field of polymer materials, all the researchers of the unit are discussing the emergence of this new material on the Wakaba public resource trading information network.

"Professor Yang, you are an expert in the field of graphene, from your professional point of view, can this pure olefin really be perfectly combined with graphene as they say?" The person in charge of the scientific research unit asked the relevant technical experts.

Yang Jiaojiao is an old man with a gray beard and glasses, he is currently the most authoritative expert in the field of graphene in China, and has published dozens of papers related to graphene, a new material, which has become the most frequently cited in the entire graphene research field.

Pushing the glasses, Professor Yang sighed deeply: "At present, I can't give a detailed conclusion, but it is theoretically possible to succeed. ”

"We used low-purity olefins to combine with graphene, but the combination experiments were not successful, and the low-purity olefins were completely incompatible with the single-layer graphene, so we concluded that this widely adapted polymer material was not compatible with graphene."

"But now they have put forward a new point of view, if the combination of olefin and graphene is because of the purity problem, then with our current smelting equipment is completely unable to involve this field, I am curious about what kind of smelting method or smelting equipment they use, in order to smelt crude oil into that purity, you must know that the purity of the olefin is almost a single material structure, even the modern society has the highest purity requirements for silicon wafers, there is no institution that can smelt the purity of silicon to that point, Not to mention crude oil, which has an already complex material composition. ”

It is not difficult to hear Professor Yang's admiration for the Matrix Institute in his words, and at the same time express his sincere admiration for the advanced technology they have announced.

The attendees are experts who have been working in the field of polymers for a long time, and naturally understand how difficult it is to smelt olefins to that purity.

Looking at the still puzzled expression of the person in charge of the research institute, Professor Yang explained again: "That kind of purity olefin is already the ultimate in the field of molecular materials, and the impurities contained in the period can no longer affect the intermolecular action, even if it is graphene, a substance with a single layer close to the two-dimensional plane, will not be affected by this subtle impurity." ”

After a pause, Professor Yang said in an unquestioning tone:

"If the results of the experiment are really as calculated in their scheme, then there is no doubt that they have discovered a superpolymer material with immeasurable application value!"