Chapter 136: Production and Accidents
After dividing them into three shifts and twelve groups, Xia Lin held a detailed production meeting for these thirty-eight people, whether they understood it or not, first explained the production principle of this production line, and then arranged the positions that each person was responsible for one by one, and told them in detail what they needed to do in this position.
Then Xia Lin put them on a thick and simple insulating suit soaked in resin for insulation, put on gloves and masks, and began to practice familiarizing themselves with the production process.
After seven exercises using water as the basic raw material, and everyone was familiar with the operation process, Xia Lin announced the official start of trial production with this chlor-alkali production line.
"Feed!"
Under Xia Lin's command, the workers in charge of putting the raw materials into the salt pond immediately poured white sugar and crude refined salt from the refined salt factory.
"Add water!"
An employee connected the water truck and the inlet canal of the caustic soda plant through a pulling mechanism, and the water flowed down the height difference into the salt tank, and then the two men began to stir it with wooden sticks.
"Activate the Rune Disc and open Valve No. 1!"
The dissolved brine flowed into the long trough, and under the power of the Purification Rune Disc, the stratification began.
Seeing no specific changes in the phenomenon, Xia Lin asked the team leader in charge of opening the No. 2 valve to taste the taste of the solution in the middle half, and after confirming that it was salt water, he opened the No. 2 valve.
The purified brine flows into a fifteen-meter-long spiral-shaped heating channel, and after fine sodium chloride crystallization is observed at the end, Xia Lin finally announces the opening of the No. 3 valve leading to the electrolysis cell.
The fully concentrated saturated salt water slowly flowed into the three electrolyzers through three channels, and when it was almost full, Xia Lin asked people to quickly close the wooden lid of the electrolytic cell and activate the arc magic rune disk.
This step is the most critical step, the frightened Xia Lin saw that the yellow-green chlorine gas was slowly flowing through the pipeline through the transparent crystal observation tank specially processed on the pipeline, which proved that the chlorine gas had successfully entered the anode pipeline, so he was a little relieved.
After a while, the small wooden fan blades inside another pipe connecting the cathode also suddenly rotated, which is proof of hydrogen production.
"Boss Xia Lin! What gas leaked out!
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Just as Xia Lin was nervously counting the time, waiting for the electrolysis to be almost complete and the caustic soda solution could be released, a team leader in charge of the combustion reactor suddenly shouted.
"What!"
Xia Lin was suddenly startled in his heart, and looked along the long pipe, and indeed found that at the connection of a stonewood pipe, a light yellow *** smoke slowly appeared, and he immediately shouted with a solemn expression:
"Stop trial production! Do what I taught you! The fourth group hurried out of the combustion reactor!"
Seeing the true appearance of the terrifying gas described by Xia Lin, the group panicked and quickly disconnected the connection between the Arc Rune Disk and the Magic Stone in accordance with the measures taken during the exercise, and the same was true for the Purification Rune Disk.
Then they quickly pulled up the wet towel around their necks, squinted and ran out of the factory.
Xia Lin also immediately led the second team in charge of the electrolytic cell to quickly evacuate the factory from the vicinity of the electrolytic cell, and ran to the open space more than 20 meters away from the factory before Xia Lin stopped.
Seeing that everyone was happy for the rest of their lives, Xia Lin immediately counted the number of people and asked cautiously:
"Everyone's alright, right? Has anyone been exposed to that gas and feel unwell? Speak up, especially Group 4!"
"It's okay, Boss Xia Lin! We're running fast!"
"Yes! We're all right!"
"Thankfully, Captain Taut took a closer look and spotted the gas!"
The employees of the caustic soda plant all said nonsense.
"It's okay, Tauter, you've done a good job this time! Wheeler, give Taut an extra five silver mars this time!"
Seeing that a terrible crisis was resolved invisibly because of the alertness of the employees, Xia Lin let out a long sigh of relief, patted the shoulder of the leader of the fourth group and said approvingly
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"This is what I'm supposed to do!"
When Tauter Grant heard himself shouting that he could still receive an extra five silver mar bonuses, he immediately replied with a smile.
The surrounding employees also showed envious looks, five silver mar, even for regular employees, is half a ten's salary, this money is not small.
Xia Lin is to achieve such an effect, using the reward and punishment system to stimulate the enthusiasm of employees, so that they can maintain a high degree of concentration at all times, so as to detect the signs of accidents in advance, so as to greatly reduce losses.
Seeing that the employees were fine, Xia Lin nodded with satisfaction, and then covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel to the front of the caustic soda factory, and performed a ring of wind magic inside.
Long before the start of trial production, the employees followed Xia Lin's instructions to open all the doors and windows of the caustic soda plant.
Xia Lin manipulated this wind technique to blow into the factory, and the already shallow chlorine quickly escaped along the rapidly flowing air, and the chlorine concentration in the factory quickly decreased to a harmless level.
"Sure enough, the error of the pottery pipe is still a bit big!"
After a while, after confirming that the chlorine gas generated in the electrolyzer had completely dissipated, Xia Lin re-entered the factory with people and checked the air leak on one side, and Xia Lin discovered the cause of the gas leak.
That's the question of the size of the clay pipe.
Although Xia Lin carefully specified the size and specifications of these reaction vessels, the firing level of the pottery workshop was not high, and the specifications of this pottery pipe were obviously different from the requirements on the drawings, resulting in the acid-resistant mud and leather blocks used for sealing and the cotton rope did not fully take effect, and a small gap was broken under the washing of chlorine gas.
However, this is not a big problem, Xia Lin re-sealed it, comforted everyone, and promised that if the trial production was successfully completed, each person would receive a bonus of five silver mar, and after boosting morale, the trial production began again.
Salt, purification, electrolysis, this time with experience, there is no problem with the previous steps.
About two minutes after the hydrogen gas was passed into the combustion reactor, Xia Lin had the Fire Rune Disk activated.
Xia Lin now uses the rune disk is no longer as rough as the previous electric arc furnace smelting, but uses the yellow mechanism and the magic stone to create a contact switch, which can be turned on and off by pressing it.
After the open flame generated by the rune disc of the flame technique entered the reactor along the small channel inside the reactor and ignited the hydrogen, Xia Lin then asked the chlorine valve to be turned in both directions, so that the chlorine produced by the anode would pass into the combustion reactor and the slaked lime absorption tower at the same time.
This step is extremely crucial, if the chlorine concentration is too high, the combustion reactor will not burn, but will explode, for which Xia Lin used five mage armor scrolls to surround the combustion reactor to prevent it from exploding and causing casualties.
However, after opening the valve for more than ten seconds, Xia Lin did not see any signs of explosion in the combustion reactor, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Having people open the valves of the electrolytic cell and the chlorine absorption tank, Xia Lin finally obtained two important products of the chlor-alkali industry - a caustic soda solution mixed with sodium chloride and a dilute hydrochloric acid solution mixed with hypochlorous acid.
Looking around at the employees of the caustic soda plant who were looking at these transparent solutions in confusion, Xia Lin raised his hand and announced:
"Everyone, our production has been successful! From now on, caustic soda and hydrochloric acid will no longer be obstacles to the development of our industrial parks!"
"Oh!
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Hearing Xia Lin's words, they first looked at each other for a while, and then the surrounding employees all cheered.