"General Engineer He, I've been waiting for you to come." Qiu Yang led Baosan's management and technicians to greet him outside the factory.
"Hello, Mr. Qiu." He Xingzhou shook hands with him and said briefly: "We have preliminarily tested the smelting furnace at the research institute, and trial production can be carried out here."
"That's great!" Qiu Yang told his assistant: "Hurry up and get the workers over and install the furnace!"
At the same time, he whispered to He Xingzhou: "General Manager He, there are a few technical experts from Sakura Country who would like to observe. Do you have any questions?"
Before He Xingzhou could answer, he took the initiative to explain: "They all belong to Sakura Steel Company. We in China import two million tons of special steel from them every year. Recently, they have been raising the price of special steel."
"If they knew we could also make special steel, the price of special steel would come down very quickly."
He Xingzhou nodded and said: "No problem. Even if I dismantle my equipment for them, they won't be able to figure out how it was made. You can't see anything during the smelting process, so they can visit it."
"Okay, I'll find them right now and kill their majesty!" Qiu Yang asked people to invite Nishikawa Kenta and others.
In the factory area, workers transported and installed plasma furnaces under the command of experts from the scientific research institute.
This is a big thing, divided into several major components, including a plasma generator, a smelting furnace, a refining chamber, a water-cooled crystallization chamber, etc.
It took several hours to install these things.
During this process, He Xingzhou directed and followed the entire process, and Baosan's technical experts were also studying beside him.
It wasn't until they were installed that the experts at Sakura Steel were allowed in.
"Is this the plasma furnace they produced?" Nishikawa Kenta looked at the new equipment in the smelting workshop. From the appearance, there was really nothing visible.
The difference between this kind of equipment mainly lies in the internal structural design.
Several other Sakura Country experts were also making eye contact, most of them with doubts.
They had discussed it before coming.
Experts led by Kenta Nishikawa stubbornly believe that this so-called plasma furnace cannot produce special steel with excellent performance!
"Nagata-kun, keep an eye on them, don't let them get away with us." Nishikawa Kenta told one of the experts to keep an eye on the inlet and outlet.
Make sure these people don't "slip" the smelted steel.
"Hi!" Nagata Yusuke looked serious and followed the workers on the production line to check the raw materials.
After a while, Nagata Yusuke came back and replied: "There is no problem with the materials."
"We can start." He Xingzhou said. Ding Yue had already set up a camera to take a video of him.
He Xingzhou explained to the camera: "Everyone, we are now in a steel smelting workshop of Baosan Iron and Steel Group, testing the plasma smelting furnace we use to make special steel. Let's start smelting!"
The picture is aimed at the feed port, and a large amount of raw materials are put into the smelting chamber of the furnace.
He Xingzhou turned on the button of the furnace. The experts remained silent and observed the dashboard.
At this time, current enters the plasma generator, heating the mixed gas inside to generate plasma.
The plasma begins to generate electricity and form an arc. When the arc is compressed by external airflow, the wall or the external magnetic field, the arc column becomes thinner, the temperature is higher, and the energy is highly concentrated, a compression arc is formed.
The compressed arc begins to melt the raw material, which is melted by the plasma flame in a very short time and undergoes various refining and purification processes.
"In three minutes, the power has exceeded our existing high-temperature arc furnace!" Qiu Yang looked at the numbers on the dashboard in surprise. The power soared and reached the world's top level.
Just looking at the power meter, Nishikawa Kenta and other Sakura Country experts' expressions became serious. With this power, it would be hard to think of a difference in the smelting effect of this plasma furnace!
Soon, the first melting of the plasma furnace was completed, and the raw materials were melted into molten metal.
At this time, the smelting of the special steel has not been completed, and a second remelting is required. During the remelting process, impurities are further removed, and other required elements are added, such as carbon and other elements of the required alloy metal.
The special steel they want to smelt this time is an ultra-pure bearing steel. It can be used to make bearings for automobile engines and motors, as well as tanks, airplanes, and aircraft carriers!
This kind of steel is currently only produced by a very few countries including the Lighthouse Country, Germany and Sakura Country!
China has always relied on imports before, and in many cases it was difficult to buy even if you had money!
Everyone waited patiently. The furnace reaction process remained stable. As time passed, the technicians of He Xingzhou's team and the senior executives of Baosan slowly felt relieved.
There have been no problems in the smelting process, which shows that the safety and stability of the equipment are good. Just wait for the performance testing of the special steel!
"Nishikawa-kun, this equipment seems not simple!" Nagata Yusuke whispered to Nishikawa Kenta, he already felt something was wrong.
This plasma furnace has been running at extremely high power for half a day, and the molten metal has also been re-melted. The operators have prepared alloy materials and added them. In the water-cooled crystallization chamber, the special steel has begun to form!
"Be patient. Smelting metal doesn't mean anything. You have to test the properties of the product." Nishikawa Kenta said this, but he began to feel a little unconfident in his heart.
"It's out, the first product!" At the discharge port, the plasma furnace has melted several special steel samples.
The smooth surface reflects the metallic luster, and the steel color looks very "powerful", like a Ruyi golden hoop!
"Test immediately!" Qiu Yang said impatiently, "Experts, Mr. Nishikawa, can we come together?"
"Let's go test the performance!" Baosan's senior management and a large number of experts crowded into the testing area.
Nagata Yusuke was also afraid that they would fake it, so he personally participated in the testing.
They want to test the strength, stiffness, toughness, plasticity, corrosion resistance and other properties of steel.
"@何星zhou, have the steel test results come out?" Qin Peng asked impatiently in the Xuanwu Executive Officer's chat group.
He and He Hongwei have been paying attention to this matter. If they can produce special steel and other high-grade metals themselves, they will also usher in great development in the manufacturing of military weapons and equipment!
"Right now, wait a few more quarters of an hour." He Xingzhou replied.
In the testing area, samples are undergoing various tests, and each piece of data is recorded into the computer system.
Finally, all testing items were completed, and a final testing report was printed out by the printer.
He Xingzhou first got the test report. As he thought, all the indicators perfectly met the needs of ultra-pure bearing steel. The steel smelted this time was a super-first-class special steel!
His expression was indifferent, which was expected, but the people around him were all looking at him nervously, waiting for him to announce the result.
