No one else heard the instructive conversation between the two. Ji Wusheng didn't pay attention to their actions, but ran back and forth to check whether all the preparations were in place. [No pop-up novel website]
The lighting ceremony officially started at 8 a.m., and Ji Wusheng had already prepared seven or eight burnt rods soaked in tar and burning red. After Zhan Wuya's simple speech, Wen Desi, Zhan Wuya and four other elders who were selected by lot after registration began to poke into the furnace from various vents. The dry shavings immediately burst into flames. Warm applause and cheers immediately broke out among the senators and naturalized citizens who gathered around the blast furnace, especially the senators. Each of them deeply understood the significance of igniting the blast furnace.
"Open all the tuyere, slag outlet and steel tap to ventilate the blast furnace." Ji Wusheng had no time to express his celebration and loudly ordered the workers. Wearing goggles specially designed for steel workers, he observed the firelight in the vent. The firewood had been ignited by the burning shavings. The first step of igniting the fire has been successful. The burning of the wood will gradually introduce the coke.
Black smoke billowed out from the top and openings of the blast furnace, and there was a commotion among the onlookers. Some elders who were desperate for their lives were already retreating.
"It doesn't matter, this is the smoke when firewood is burning." Ji Wusheng shouted loudly. As he spoke, he turned to look at Engineer Li, "From now on, when you stare at the stove, the air vent, slag outlet and steel outlet are all open. Don't Send air and let the blast furnace burn by itself. Come back to me when the smoke turns white."
At first, the blast furnace was allowed to burn freely without air supply to prevent the firewood from burning out prematurely, causing the coke to fail to ignite or ignite insufficiently.
Ji Wusheng arranged all the work in front of the furnace and checked the condition of the entire workshop. The elders in the workshop gradually dispersed, leaving only a few elders from the industrial department, Zhan Wuya and Wu De from the Planning Institute.
"After the No. 1 blast furnace is put into operation, when are you going to ignite the open-hearth furnace?" Wu De asked.
"After the first batch of pig iron is produced, come to my office to discuss." Ji Wusheng built a small room in the blast furnace workshop as an office. He often has to work on-site and provide technical guidance, so each workshop must prepare such a small room.
"To be honest, I have never built an open-hearth furnace." Ji Wusheng tidied up the table that had just been delivered. "The ones I have seen in steel companies are all electric arc furnaces, or at least oxygen converters. I am not very interested in directly using concentrate powder to make steel. I am sure - we will stick to the old method and start with the mature technology I have mastered."
Ji Wusheng's idea was that the first time he made steel in an open-hearth furnace, he would mainly use pig iron ingots and add some of the open-hearth ore. This is safer.
"There is also the need to set up a special chemical laboratory for steel plants. Coke, iron ore, limestone...these all need to be analyzed for their chemical composition. Of course, the carbon content in the molten iron also needs to be analyzed. A laboratory is a must-Dalian In the steel industry, blast furnaces were equipped with laboratories."
This request can only be made to the Planning Institute, and the laboratory needs to establish a project. Some equipment and instruments in the laboratory require special customization, and some require the use of controlled items - such as 1/1000 scales, microscopes, fans for making fume hoods, platinum crucibles...
These are either currently unable to be produced by Lingao, or they are of very high value. Finally, there were no suitable chemical analysts among the indigenous people, and professionals had to be selected from among the elders to serve as chemical analysts.
After D-Day, the Cross-Travel Group established multiple laboratories, but they were mainly focused on biological research. The only laboratories used for industrial production are those directly under the Ministry of Chemical Industry and the analytical laboratory located in the Ma Niao Salt Factory. Cement plants and steel plants all require chemical experiments to analyze the composition of raw materials and finished products.
"If you want to refine special steel and alloy steel, it's just wishful thinking without a laboratory." Ji Wusheng said emphatically.
Zhan Wuya said: "Not only steel plants, but also cement plants are in urgent need of a laboratory."
Wu De thought for a moment: "Logically speaking, these are reasonable requirements. However, we do not have enough reserves of some key equipment, and there are not many veterans who are willing to do chemical analysis full-time." He thought that Mo Xiao'an also mentioned it to him a few days ago. Laboratory configuration.
Finally, Wu De suggested setting up an industry central laboratory in each of the heavy industry and light industry systems. It is configured according to high standards and is specifically responsible for the experimental analysis within this system.
"It's okay." After listening to Wu De's idea, Ji Wusheng felt that this was a compromise solution, "But Ma Niao is 12 kilometers away from Bairen, and the journey is too long. There is no time to analyze the molten iron and slag materials. "
"The laboratory of the heavy industry port will be located in Ma Niao Industrial Zone - this is our heavy industrial zone in the future. It will include a modern cement factory." Wu De was very generous: "In addition, I will help you build a simple one in the steel factory. Laboratory, as long as you don’t mind the rudimentary equipment.”
"Okay, as long as it works."
"The cement plant built in Ma'an Industrial Zone can use the by-products of steel plant production: waste heat, waste gas and waste slag. The large amount of slag and slag produced by steel and iron making are good raw materials for making cement - rather than just using To pave roads or be used as fertilizer. This new version of the cement plant is planned to be built with more advanced process equipment. The commissioning of the steel plant has opened up the possibility of manufacturing large-scale equipment for the Lingao industrial system.
Zhan Wuya was very excited: "Steel and cement must not increase tenfold, and our costs are getting bigger and bigger. I will solve the welding problem next."
"I would say that our industrial layout must be rushed out of Lingao as soon as possible - the lack of water in this place is very restrictive." Wu De recently participated in an internal seminar organized by the executive committee, with about 50 participants. Professionals from all walks of life, in addition to technicians, also include veterans who are familiar with the land and human environment. A discussion was held on future industrial layout.
The consensus reached by everyone is that Lingao and Danzhou are not places for large-scale industry - northwest Qiongzhou has always been short of water. Historically, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, water collection facilities were continuously built, irrigation main canals were dug, and Songtao Reservoir was built. It took a series of reservoirs to basically meet the water needs of modern Lingao's industrial and agricultural production and population life. But Lingao was not an industrial county in the old days, and the industrial output value of Lingao was very low even in the 21st century.
However, Hainan Island under the control of Chuan Chuan Group is not very stable at present, and the supply of machinery, equipment, construction materials and workers cannot keep up. It is impossible to open branches everywhere, and the industry can only be left in the core area of the rule, Lingao. Rather than implementing optimal configuration.
"Let me ask you: Why not move the light industry system to Guangdong?" Zhan Wuya said, "The Pearl River Delta is rich in various agricultural products, coal and raw materials are guaranteed, the water resources are in the Pearl River, and the labor force is abundant. The products we produce can be Selling locally. It can even attract private capital to join in. Aren’t wineries and mirror assembly factories very successful in Guangzhou?”
After Ji Wusheng saw off the last batch of seniors, he went back to the office to take a nap. At noon the maid brought him lunch and woke him up. He had a quick lunch and walked around the workshop. Foreman Li was still standing guard in front of the furnace, observing the fire from time to time.
"How about it?"
"The firewood is almost burned out," Foreman Li reported, "The smoke has begun to fade."
While talking, someone pushed a trolley and delivered lunch to the workers in the blast furnace workshop - large portions of steamed rice and fried rice noodles in lunch boxes. Each portion contained 500 grams. The workers in front of the blast furnace were special For heavy manual labor, food subsidy is the highest level. Today was the day to light up the stove, and as usual it was a bit richer. According to Ji Wusheng's instructions, an extra piece of fried fish steak was added to each worker.
The workers ate in front of the furnace. Dozens of people were chatting while eating. Ji Wusheng took this opportunity to talk about concepts such as chemical reactions in blast furnace ironmaking. Workers are very interested in iron-making technology and will ask many questions whenever they have the opportunity. The elders advocate learning technology and attaching importance to skilled workers promotes workers' enthusiasm for learning technology.
The old technology owned by the elders virtually broke the bad habit of keeping secrets between craftsmen in the original handicraft era - in the face of the elders' technology, any traditional secret skills were like scum.
Explaining redox reactions is quite difficult for workers who don't even have primary school education. Ji Wusheng tried his best to explain it in a simple and clear way - he also hoped to select enough technical backbones from this group of workers to spread them to various workshops. ——You must know that he has barely managed to gather enough staff for the No. 1 blast furnace and the No. 1 open-hearth furnace. There are more than 100 workers working in three shifts at the No. 1 Blast Furnace alone - the location of the operators of the No. 2 Blast Furnace is not yet known.
"There's white smoke coming out." Just after the noon class ended, the workers who went to see the fire started shouting loudly.
"Okay, get ready to blow the air." Ji Wusheng quickly put on his sunglasses. The black smoke had completely disappeared, and now white smoke came out, which meant that the firewood was basically burned out and the coke had been completely ignited. He observed that the burning condition was very good.
"Start sending half the wind." Following his order, the workers quickly opened the transmission lever to transmit the power from the sky shaft to the blower drive shaft. The blower started running and made a loud roar.
A blower powered by a steam engine is not as efficient as an electric blower, but its air output capacity is much more powerful than that of human power, animal power, water power or wind power. Originally, a blast furnace of this size cannot be provided by the power system of traditional handicraft industry.
Ji Wusheng focused his attention on the flames in the furnace. Although only half of the wind was blowing in, the firepower in the blast furnace immediately made a qualitative leap. The flames in the furnace gradually turned white, which was a sign that the temperature was increasing.
"Seal the slag outlet," Ji Wusheng shouted loudly, "Get ready to remove the ash." ..
