355 Rubber Hope

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Before the Phoenix Kingdom became prosperous, the people in Quagmire City never knew they were guarding a treasure. It can’t be considered completely ignorant, but the semi-finished products of crude oil processed by hand at home are not more advantageous than coal. In addition, because iron was expensive at that time, the cost of oil transportation also evened out the gap a little. There were a few businessmen who would Buy it, but sales are very limited.

Ever since the Manu brothers brought a small fractionation tower with a height of several meters to Mitan City, the people in Mitan City have gradually discovered that they are sitting on the golden mountain begging for food!

For the entire Quagmire City, there is no noble person in the world who is more important than the Phoenix King. Legend has it that he is eight feet tall and has an eight-foot waist. He has the head of a bird and the body of a bird, and his eyes can breathe fire. Now many people in the city have phoenixes in their homes. Statue of the king.

Provide the Phoenix King instead of the Manu brothers, because the Manu brothers are just errands, and the industry connection rate between the Phoenix Kingdom and Quagmire City is 100%.

After fractionation technology became popular, some oil products no longer had the pungent smell and black smoke, and these oils became products that businessmen in other directions were willing to sell in volume.

But Phoenix Kingdom is different. They bring high-pressure cylinders to buy the gas produced during fractionation. They also want medium-density oil and heavy oil that are not easy to burn. They even want the black lake left over from refining heavy oil!

Whatever was separated from the crude oil in Quagmire City, the Phoenix Kingdom wanted it in large quantities. This attitude even made the status of these wastes rise to a higher level. Unknowingly, Quanquan City seemed cleaner.

Obviously, the Phoenix Kingdom is the one who really understands yellow mud oil. Of course, they must offer a statue of the Phoenix King to ask the gods to bless him, otherwise he will die. Other families are not that knowledgeable.

No matter where it is, when an industry becomes big, it will start to involute, and it is the same in Quagmire City. In order to reduce the temptation of each company to lower each other's prices, the more than 40 existing oil refining workshops in Nitan City all have their own superior products.

For example, Mr. Judd's workshop, which was the first to join the industry and later worked as an equipment procurement agent, had a lot of experience in the chemical industry because it traveled to the wind valley. It also hired several workers at a premium and did a better job in desulfurization.

Desulfurization can not only protect the equipment, but also significantly reduce the pungent smell of the finished product, so his products have no worries about selling, and a lot of foreign businessmen are waiting at the door.

It's a pity that outsiders don't know much about the goods and have little interest in diesel, heavy oil, and asphalt. They still need to contact the businessmen of the Phoenix Kingdom.

About a year ago, the workshop owners in Quagmire City received a commission from the Phoenix Kingdom, hoping that they could try to synthesize rubber and provided information on the properties of rubber.

But everyone had no idea at all, so they hired some alchemists and came up with some weird things. They didn’t know where they were going to be used, and they didn’t complete the design for mass production.

A few months ago, Rainbow Group got involved and let the workshop owners see what it means to be generous. Relying on the original basis of cooperation between the two parties, Rainbow Group pushed Manu Brothers and the Pressure Vessel Factory to come forward and establish a new company with local workshop owners.

The name was decided by a vote of shareholders. The workshop owners in Quanquan City had some aesthetic issues, but they had more people. The name of the new company was Golden Chemical.

The reason why a new company is needed is because Quanquan City itself cannot assemble the equipment required for low-temperature synthesis. With the existing transportation conditions, it is impossible to transport large-scale equipment in its entirety. All needs to be coordinated locally.

Gold Chemical plans to digest all other refining products into higher-grade raw materials except paraffin, sulfuric acid and asphalt.

This kind of chemical company does not count the recycling part during the production process, and also evaporates a huge amount of water, so it cannot be placed in Quagmire City.

After coordination with many parties, it was decided to open a piece of land in the east of Nanpangxun City and build a new factory close to the Luna River. This will also facilitate the transportation of larger semi-finished equipment from within the territory.

There is a big hole here. As one of the shareholders, the Pressure Vessel Factory is actually a government-owned subsidiary of Phoenix Iron Works. Even when they go abroad, they must resolutely implement production requirements, that is, production sewage must be treated before being discharged.

This is not difficult to achieve in Fenggu. The industrial areas in Fenggu are connected together. Except for a few dangerous sewage that require pre-treatment, most of the industrial sewage is sent to special treatment areas according to pipeline types for centralized treatment. The enterprises themselves only need to pay a little fee. Just pay more.

Now it is a big burden for Gold Chemical to open a sewage treatment plant on its own. It must either make it bigger and stronger so that sewage treatment accounts for a small proportion of the cost, or wait and lose money.

When the pressure vessel factory launched this proposal, everyone was unhappy at first, but when they came up with the design draft of the oil refining unit, others did not dare to say anything.

Since the factory is located by the Luna River, oversized workpieces can be in place within less than three kilometers from the factory area to the railway, the railway to the sub-port of Pangxun City in the north, and then from the new port in Pangxun City in the south. The pressure vessel factory directly took out the pressure vessel bottom Live, we need to build a 25-meter-high fractionation tower!

Just looking at the numbers, the 25-meter tower seems to be less than three times larger than the original tower of less than seven meters. But as this thing gets taller, it also gets thicker, and the production capacity is not comparable to that of two or three workshop fractionation towers. .

Moreover, the new refinery is designed based on the Phoenix Kingdom’s own needs and the positioning of Gold Chemicals. It includes more than one-stage fractionation, including multi-stage fractionation, cracking, hydrogen production from purified gas, hydrogen-oil cracking, etc.

There are dozens of towers ranging from 15 to 25 meters alone. These are also chemical industries, but they are not the final products. The final products of gold chemical industry are various polymer materials.

But that’s not necessarily the case. If there is no polymer material left after the factory is built, just make some polypropylene and polyethylene for use first, and sell the remaining oil as normal.

The factory plan is too big, construction is extremely difficult, and the cycle is long. It is still early. But Caihong Group is pushing this matter because it is anxious to get rubber, so it must first set up the gas separation area and the cold chemical test area, and first try it with gas and oil produced by others.

Caihong Group directly supports its own ammonia cooler technical data, free of charge, and offsets the payment for future rubber or other products.

After several months of hard work, part of the preliminary work was completed only after the directors of Rainbow Group moved into Nanpang Xuncheng and watched.

This bunch of pushers worked hard and even spent their own money to provide extra meals for all the construction workers. It took another half a month before the equipment needed for the experiment was ready.

It's not all bad news. Looking at the behavior of these Phoenix Kingdom people, the owners of the oil refining workshops feel that if they don't do something useful, they will have nothing to do in the factory in the future. In the past few months, they have also been struggling with Miquan City and Nanpangxun City. of alchemists.

By this time, an alchemist had already confirmed the reaction temperature and catalyst components of butyl rubber!

In fact, synthetic rubber has been created by alchemists a long time ago, but it was the work of magic and could not be mass-produced.

The Rainbow Group requires a minimum of two hundred tons per month. Even if the alchemists are killed, they won't be able to produce that much. Moreover, the alchemists' products are calculated in pounds, and sometimes the weight unit is smaller. Even if the alchemists are really organized, For mass production, the price would be unbearable for Rainbow Group.

So in recent times, everyone has pooled their money to buy the synthesis process and distribute it to various alchemists, trying to complete pure Muggle production.

Once the Muggle production is completed, there will be no need for alchemists. It’s just that the stuff is too unpopular. Alchemists can’t even produce and sell a single wheel by hand. It’s not of much use elsewhere. The money offered here is huge, so there’s no one to refuse. reason.

As a result, at this step, the temperature encountered a bottleneck again. According to the process analyzed by the alchemist, the reaction temperature must be lowered to minus 100 degrees. Ammonia cooling cannot complete the task. This thing will become hard at minus 70 degrees and can only be used as a heat sink for heat exchange. It must be developed based on Cooling device for petroleum gas components.

In short, there is a role for rubber, but it will definitely not come out recently, so we still have to wait. 23shu8*net