From Propulsion City To Multiverse

After seeing a series of factories of Zhoushan Glass Company, Zheng Sen and Long Sha went to the cement factory, lime factory, red brick factory and pottery factory in the industrial zone.

These four factories belong to Zhoushan Building Materials Company.

At present, our cement factory has two sets of earthen furnaces, and the annual output is about 300-400 tons of high-speed iron cement.

The clay furnace can reach this scale, which is already very good. Zheng Sen affirmed this.

After all, this is not the era of industrialization for later generations, and there are no coal mining areas near the Zhoushan Islands, so it is very difficult to expand production.

Long Sha also introduced the situation of the lime factory, red brick factory, and pottery factory, which were also so-so.

After listening to Longsha's introduction, Zheng Sen thought about it and said, The fuel problem must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise our industrial zone will not be able to expand.

You should discuss this with Bai Yulou!

Then a group of people came to Zhoushan Iron and Steel Plant. .

Three mini-blast furnaces have been built, which can produce about 30 to 40 tons of pig iron per month. These pig irons are raw materials for steelmaking and ductile iron.

Longsha and the others worked from dawn to dusk in the industrial zone in order to find out the most cost-effective method of steel industrialization.

At present, there are four main sources of iron ore for steel plants.

First, there are three small iron mines in the Zhoushan Islands, with a total reserve of 57,000 tons, all of which are pyrite, with varying grades, about 7-15%.

Second, imports from the Yangtze River, mainly hematite, can import 50-150 tons per month, and the grade is also very unstable.

Third, waste steel recycling.

Fourth, organize boy scouts to use magnets to absorb iron oxide particles in small rivers, seashores, and fields. Six to seven tons of iron oxide particles can be collected every month.

The first two sources are the main sources, and the latter two are just supplementary.

The mining of iron ore in the Zhoushan Islands has already started, but the ore of pyrite is very important. Long Sha explained.

Zheng Sen looked at the iron-making blast furnace in full swing: I will instruct Hao Jian to increase the import ratio of pyrite.

Pyrite is very important because this iron ore,

Sulfuric acid and ferric oxide (iron oxide) can be produced by the lead chamber method.

After sulfuric acid refining, iron oxide powder is a very high-quality iron-making material.

At present, the sulfuric acid plant of Zhoushan Chemical Company can extract 15 tons of sulfuric acid with a concentration of 65% every month.

These sulfuric acids can be heated together with saltpeter to produce fuming nitric acid with a concentration of 99%; they can also be heated to produce hydrochloric acid like sodium chloride (salt).

Similarly, there are two products of sulfuric acid and sodium chloride, hydrochloric acid and sodium sulfate.

Sodium sulfate plus limestone, dry distillation with charcoal, can produce sodium carbonate (soda ash) and calcium sulfide mixed powder, because the powder is black, also known as black ash, sodium carbonate can be purified by water-soluble method.

After the sodium carbonate is purified, carbon dioxide gas can also be introduced to obtain calcium carbonate and hydrogen sulfide. The former can be recycled in the production of soda ash, and the latter can be used to make sulfuric acid.

Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) can then be produced by causticizing soda ash and lime.

After a big cycle, Zhoushan Chemical Company can produce sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, soda ash and caustic soda.

Pyrite and saltpeter, the core raw materials, are definitely the strategic materials of Zhoushan Chemical Company.

Fortunately, pyrite is currently in a state of no interest, because the core component of pyrite is ferrous disulfide, and there is no way to produce good iron without desulfurization technology.

Zheng Sen instructed Gu Yuanzhao: The strategic reserve of pyrite must be arranged as soon as possible. We must beware of the possibility of the inland import channel being completely cut off.

I will remind Commander Hao of this matter. Gu Yuanzhao said while recording.

They came to the next door to the blast furnace area again.

This is the steelmaking area, and the process is the crucible method. Dozens of kaolin crucibles and graphite crucibles of varying sizes are producing steel with various carbon contents.

Among them were several female secretaries of Longsha, who recorded all the details and data during the smelting process.

Only by scientific quantification and standardization can the quality of steel be guaranteed. Otherwise, if we produce a crucible of high-carbon steel today, a crucible of low-carbon steel tomorrow, and a crucible of wrought iron the day after tomorrow, then how to manufacture weapons and tools?

Now they have summed up the general range of low-carbon steel and high-carbon steel, and can produce the required steel by adjusting raw materials, temperature, and time.

Yes, science is not metaphysics. We have to learn from these lesbians. Only in this way can the way of science become the right way in the world.

In fact, many of Zheng Sen's secretaries have done many chemical experiments through their own manual experiments, and have also built several hand-operated generators.

I have a preliminary understanding of standardization, quantification, controlled experiments, and the periodic law of elements.

They walked into the steel plant step by step. The sense of power in the industrial age was like a catalyst, making these people believe in science more and more.

On the side of the crucible steelmaking area is the parts casting area. A 12-meter-high tower was built with cement and red bricks on the outside, and a large windmill was running slowly on it.

The power generated by the windmill, through the transmission shaft, gears, and pulley blocks, lifts each large iron block to a height of five meters.

A sapper places a freshly cast steel plate on a solid anvil.

Another sapper pulls down on the control lever.

boom! Fortunately, the steel plate that was not completely cooled was smashed into a piece of plate armor in an instant.

Zheng Sen picked up the plate armor parts that have been refined twice. The breastplate part of this plate armor is only 1.8mm thick, but its strength is good. After all, it is made of steel and stamping.

Long Sha introduced to him: I have adopted a modular design, which not only can adapt to various body types, but also can be adjusted into full body armor, half body armor, cavalry armor, and sailor armor according to the needs of the arms.

What about the defense? Zheng Sen asked as he put down the parts in his hand.

Long Sha explained: Ordinary bows and arrows can't penetrate plate armor head-on. Of course, the arrows of martial arts masters can pierce armor at about 30 meters.

It doesn't matter much. We also have martial arts masters. When the time comes, soldiers will fight soldiers and will fight generals.

Except this pinwheel punch.

Not far from the coast at the foot of the mountain, a row of large windmills was also erected. The purpose of those large windmills was to extract seawater and transport it to a natural valley on the mountain.

It's still under construction there.

Zheng Sen saw the purpose of the whole project at a glance.

After all, the wind power is not very stable. As the power of the stamping machine, it is already very reluctant. If it is used as the power of the grinder, hydraulic hammer, hydraulic drilling machine, and hydraulic cutting machine, it is difficult to adjust.

Therefore, Longsha designed wind power to lift water, store seawater in the reservoir, and then form a channel that can control the flow of water, and then arrange hydraulic equipment on both sides of the channel.

When will this system be built?

Long Sha thought for a while: Around the end of the year, I took advantage of a natural valley on the mountain and reduced a lot of engineering work.

Let's go to the cannon casting area to have a look!

A group of people walked to the cannon casting area not far away.

As for muskets, Zheng Sen is not in a hurry yet. Now the main force of the CRLF is at sea. The range and lethality of muskets are destined to fail to become the main force in naval battles.

In naval battles, artillery is the real core force.

Whether it was a battle of warships or a landing on a coastal area, artillery made the difference between the outcome of both combat situations.

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