Chapter 82: Steel

After about thirty minutes passed, Xia Lin asked people to open the furnace door with an iron drill, and took a closer look at the internal melting, and found that the melting of the furnace was okay.

He asked the workers to go up to the tunnel and use a special clamp to remove the magic crystal, stop the discharge and heat, and then start the second feeding and pounding the furnace.

He also began to explain to the three dwarven masters how to observe the melting of the charge, and how to deal with various abnormal situations, because this knowledge has a lot in common with the experience accumulated by the dwarves during smelting, these dwarven masters can even draw inferences from each other.

There is a special recorder on the side to record these points and various data, which are left for the reference of other furnace managers in the future to improve the quality of electric arc furnace smelting.

The furnace edge of the electric arc furnace is at least 500 degrees Celsius high, and these workers sweat profusely under such heat, and the molten charge is more difficult to stir than the ore pile in the exercise.

In just one minute, the leader of the cooking team had to ask the next worker to go up to replace him, and the wet towels and masks of the workers who came down had become dry, leaving only a little area soaked with sweat just flowing.

"Alright, it should be almost! Reopen the furnace!"

Xia Lin saw that the slag from the furnace was in good shape, so he asked the workers to close the furnace door again, inlay the magic crystal into the rune plate, and start heating it again.

After another ten minutes, Xia Lin finally announced the start of slag discharge, and the staff next to him picked up the iron drill and pried open the furnace door again.

Several workers went to the side of the electric arc furnace to start the hydraulically driven winch, and little by little through the iron cable, the furnace body weighing six or seven tons was raised, and when the winch clamping seat was in place, the slag was dumped out.

Since there is no deoxidizer, Xia Lin can only let people sprinkle some toner into the charge during the reduction period to protect the molten steel from absorbing too much oxygen during the reduction period and causing the quality of the steel to deteriorate.

After waiting for another ten minutes or so, Xia Lin finally announced that he could start tapping, and the five steel tanks with different specifications, but with a thickness of 2, were moved to the furnace.

With Xia Lin's order, fifteen of the two groups of workers began to turn the ratchet winch, and the red-hot molten steel flowed down the open tapping trough to the cast iron shell, and the steel trough lined with refractory bricks emitted an astonishing high heat.

After five pourings, all the molten steel in the furnace enters the molten steel tank and begins to cool.

"Success!?"

After all the molten steel was poured out of the furnace, Xia Lin took the three dwarf masters to look at the inside of the electric arc furnace along the open furnace lid, and found that everything was in good condition, and there were no bad things such as hanging materials and broken inner walls, and said a little incredulously.

He was ready for repeated experiments, after all, even if he had the electric arc furnace drawings he had seen in his previous life as a reference, but after a real magic change, there would be many differences, which might lead to some hidden dangers that would lead to the failure of steelmaking.

To be able to succeed in such a trial production, it can only be said that these magic changes made by Xia Lin have not caused too much impact, and the furnace body of the electric arc furnace has not changed much except for the furnace cover, and there is indeed no problem according to the principle of the electric arc furnace.

Even the 5-ton furnace body is still a little too small, which sounds like a lot, but in fact, the volume of steel produced at one time is not even 1 cubic meter.

But even so, the production efficiency of the electric arc furnace has completely exploded the traditional blacksmith shop's 100 steels or inferior group steel, and now it depends on the quality of this batch of steel.

After the molten steel has cooled down to form slabs, thin slabs, and billets, Xia Lin uses the spark identification method.

The spark identification method is to determine the type of steel by the shape and color of the spark generated by the grinding wheel rubbing the steel at high speed, where the bright line represents the iron component of the steel, and the spark is generated by the friction burst of the carbon component inside the steel, that is to say, the more sparks mean the higher the carbon content of the steel.

After some testing, based on his own experience, Xia Lin made a judgment that the output of this furnace is high-carbon steel, and it seems that the amount of pig iron is still a little more, and it may also be the influence of the toner sprinkled during the reduction period.

Let the recorder record his conclusions and arrange for the steel to be transported to the machine tool factory, as Xia Lin is

Continue steelmaking with the three Dwarven Furnace Masters.

There are still 10,000 or thousands of pig iron and wrought iron raw materials purchased from the market in the industrial park, which must be digested quickly.

Not long after, Master Faun, who had received the first batch of steel produced by the steelworks, and the other dwarves rushed to the steelworks to watch the excitement.

"Boss, I didn't expect you to really be able to use this electric arc furnace to make steel, and it will weigh more than a thousand pounds at a time! The quality is also very good! Then our machines and the machines on the drawings will be in place!"

As soon as Master Faun saw Xia Lin, he grabbed his mage robe with excitement on his face and shouted loudly.

"That's good, don't worry, Master Faun, now that our steel mill has just started production, it will be able to produce 7,500 pounds of steel every day in the future, and we can use steel to pave the way when the time comes!"

Xia Lin didn't care about Master Faun crumpling his silk robe, and when he heard Master Faun say that the steel smelted by the electric arc furnace was of good quality, he was quite happy to comfort him.

Steel is the backbone of industry, and Xia Lin knows very well why Master Faun is so excited to see the large amount of steel smelted in his factory, if there is no steel, Xia Lin's next industrialization plan will suffer from hypochondria and brittle bones.

Moreover, steel is also the most critical step in the heavy industry that the industrial park has really taken, and with this, there will be a joint steel industry in the future, and even a coal-iron composite industry.

Therefore, when the quality of steel was tested, even Xia Lin himself had irrepressible joy in his heart, not to mention the dwarven masters who regarded smelting and forging as their greatest hobby.

"Pave the way with steel? How much steel does that have to be consumed, and how is that possible? You must be lying to me!"

Master Faun shook his head in disbelief when he heard Xia Lin's newly painted cake, although he was still immersed in excitement.

"Of course, it is possible, and when the equipment of each factory is completed, I am ready to use the steel produced by the steel mill to build a railway from the wharf to the factories in the industrial park, of course, because of the limited production capacity, these railways will only be wood-to-steel for the time being.

At that time, the unloading of the ships that come to transport the raw materials every day can be directly loaded onto the flatbed wagons running on the railway, and the flatbed wagons can move along the railway by manpower, a kind of chain gear disc rotation device.

This makes it easy, fast and easy to deliver those raw materials to the warehouses of each factory!"

Xia Lin looked at the electric arc furnace that was smelting steel, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he painted the scene after the railroad for Master Faun and the employees around him.

With the expansion of the production scale of the industrial park, there are more than 100 horse-drawn carriages and employees carrying raw materials every morning, and if there is such a railway, it will undoubtedly greatly improve efficiency and reduce labor costs.

"Sounds like something can be done, so you need to build this railroad as soon as possible!"

Master Faun imagined the wood-clad steel road that Xia Lin said, and felt that there was indeed some possibility of realization, and said to Xia Lin excitedly.

"Don't worry! Sooner or later!"

Xia Lin also nodded with a smile, with the electric arc furnace, a big killer that transcends the times, it is 25 tons of steel output in a day, and almost 9,000 tons of steel in a year.

Even if a real railway is built, it will be enough for the entire 100 kilometers.

Magic is really a good thing, it can help me overcome the technical hurdles so easily, and I don't know how many years in advance to get the electric arc furnace.

After completing the three-day trial production, during which there were also many problems in the electric arc furnace, Xia Lin solved them one by one, officially ended the trial production, and announced that each of the 50 employees of the steelmaking plant would be given a bonus of 1 gold lunt.

Amid the cheers of these employees, Xia Lin asked the three dwarf masters who had gradually gotten to work as the furnace leader to take turns to be responsible for the production of the electric arc furnace, and he himself came to the machine tool factory.