"Minister Gao, an explosion occurred in the No. 1 blast furnace of Jinyang Steel. This is the fifth serious blast furnace accident in the steel industry in recent times. It has seriously affected the normal development of the steel industry. For our overloaded blast furnace, we must now have A comprehensive assessment and maintenance." Ma Shaocheng, director of the Iron and Steel Department, came to Gao Jianwu with a pile of reports to report.
Under normal circumstances, nothing major happens. These industrial departments are run by themselves, so there is no need to trouble Gao Jianwu.
However, in the rapidly developing steel industry, production capacity has been released. However, because the equipment cannot keep up, the current production capacity is quite extensive. At present, the overall product quality is poor, the output is low, and the cost is high. Except for a few special alloy smelting blast furnaces and Gao Jianwu provides technical electroslag remelting smelting equipment.
The technical level of smelting basic steel products such as crude steel and pig iron is basically maintained on equipment from the 10s or even older. The gap between the steelmaking level and the world's steelmaking level has reached more than 30 years. Now the world's main blast furnaces have reached 2,000 cubic meters. m volume, domestic blast furnaces are limited to technical level, and most are still below 500 cubic meters.
There are not many blast furnaces exceeding 500 cubic meters.
Jinyang Iron and Steel's No. 1 blast furnace has a capacity of 590 cubic meters and is considered one of the most advanced blast furnaces in the country. However, under normal circumstances, it produces more than 30,000 tons of steel per year. Unexpectedly, it is also closed now.
Gao Jianwu really doesn't want to take care of these troublesome things, but there is no way. He is the biggest one in the industry. If there is any big problem, he must still make the decision.
In order to increase production capacity in the past, Gao Jianwu did not care about quality due to limited domestic technology. At that time, all steel was in short supply. To solve the problem of availability, Gao Jianwu let large and small blast furnaces work together. Blast furnaces with a capacity of more than 100 cubic meters were considered large steel plants. The annual output is tens of thousands of tons; many places use antique-level small blast furnaces of tens of cubic meters.
For example, the small steel industry in the Ping An Base had an annual output of only a few thousand tons, consisting of a small blast furnace of more than 30 cubic meters.
The 101 Arsenal that supported Gao Jianwu's first phase.
"Director Ma, I will give you a task. Through Mr. Situ in the Americas, we will carefully investigate the advanced level of the foreign steel industry, and at the same time, we will also have a thorough understanding of our family. We must carry out a major transformation of the steel industry. Now Not to mention the high energy consumption and pollution of the technology, the output and quality are both unsatisfactory. This requires major improvements to fundamentally solve the problem." Gao Jianwu took Ma Shaocheng's report and thought about it carefully for a while before speaking to Ma Shaocheng. commanded.
He revealed several special steel production processes and world-leading refining methods such as electroslag remelting, but these had little effect on basic steelmaking.
They are all secondary processing on the basis of current steel, and the inherent shortcomings of the steel industry cannot be made up for.
Although there is now a large-scale 500 cubic meter blast furnace template built by Xiaoguizi in China, there is already experience in independent construction of 300 cubic meter blast furnaces based on the original 248 cubic meter blast furnace from Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant introduced by the Qing Dynasty.
But this kind of blast furnace is just usable.
According to Gao Jianwu's understanding, Hanyang Iron and Steel's current 248 cubic meter No. 1 blast furnace seems to have a daily iron output of about 100 tons, and the blast furnace utilization coefficient is less than 0.5!
Compared with Gao Jianwu's time and space utilization coefficient of more than 2.0, it is simply heaven and earth!
Ma Shaocheng collects information very quickly. After all, Mr. Situ is already a very important businessman in America. He has even purchased a steel plant with an annual output of 300,000 tons and entered the steel industry. He can basically get this information at his fingertips.
In this era, steel is still a worthwhile investment industry, and steel tycoons are frequent visitors to the world-class wealthy clubs. Mr. Situ, who has grown up, will naturally not let go of this industry and also purchased a steel plant.
Mr. Situ's steel plant has two blast furnaces with a capacity of 500 cubic meters. These are typical large old blast furnaces in the Americas built in the early 20th century. However, the daily iron production capacity reaches 450 tons, the utilization factor is 0.9, and the coke ratio is 1000 kg/ton of pig iron. It is much more efficient than the No. 1 blast furnace of Hanyang Iron Works built in China.
But this is not yet
It is the advanced level in the Americas. There are currently large blast furnaces of 1,000 cubic meters in the Americas, with a daily iron production of more than 1,200 tons, a utilization factor of 1.2, and a coke ratio of about 900 kg/ton of pig iron. The annual output of a blast furnace exceeds 430,000 tons.
The volume of the No. 1 blast furnace of Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant is half smaller, 248 cubic meters, but the daily iron output is less than a quarter of Mr. Situ's blast furnace. The utilization coefficient is 0.4. Under normal circumstances, the daily output is 100 tons, and the annual output is 36,000 tons. Ton! Compared with foreign advanced levels, it is only a fraction of others! The coke ratio is 2000 kg/ton of pig iron, and the energy consumption gap is huge.
However, this is not the bottom line. The utilization coefficient of those small blast furnaces is even lower. Some may be around 0.3, with a coke ratio of 2,500 kg/ton of pig iron! The energy consumption is so large that it cannot be compared with foreign advanced levels.
The differences in this industry were so appalling that Gao Jianwu couldn't bear it anymore.
After some internal research, Gao Jianwu came up with his own method.
"100 engineers from all aspects of blast furnace construction and operation management were recruited from the steel industry and sent to the Americas to learn the experience of advanced blast furnace construction and operation management. They will first study in depth at Mr. Situ's steel plant, and then see if there are opportunities to go to more advanced Learn from the steel factory. At the same time, we will find a group of available steel talents in the local area.
In addition, as for the European steel powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary and other steel powers have sent teams to explore local smelting technology and talents. Don't be afraid to spend money, these costs are only a small amount.
Our technical level in steel must at least catch up with the level of the early 20th century. This is the bottom line. On this basis, we will look at how to narrow the gap with the advanced level of the world's steel industry. For example, the steel utilization coefficient will break through the 1 mark! "After Gao Jianwu put forward his plan and requirements, Ma Shaocheng looked embarrassed and did not dare to answer the question for a while.
In his view, it is too difficult to double the technological debt left over from history.
Gao Jianwu saw what Ma Shaocheng was thinking, smiled and said to him: "There is a huge technological gap between us and the world's steel industry, but now we are not without opportunities to catch up quickly. Others have already made mistakes. After trial and error, we have now avoided many unnecessary corners. Although it is impossible to overtake based on our foundation now, after several years of catching up, there should be a chance to catch up with others' average level.
We must believe that our intelligence is no weaker than that of any other nation in the world. As long as the people we send out are diligent in learning and willing to work hard, they will be effective in a short time. "
"Although we are lagging behind, being behind means that we have the advantage of being a latecomer. We can save scientific research costs and time by introducing technology and equipment from advanced countries, quickly cultivate domestic talents, and promote technological progress at a higher level. We are also latecomers. We can learn from the experiences and lessons of advanced countries, avoid or reduce detours, and adopt optimized catch-up strategies, which may shorten the time for technological evolution.”
"If nothing else, in the small days next door, they were lower than us at first, but they were more determined and persistent than us in technical learning. If nothing else, steel technology caught up with Western technology in just a few decades. Technical level, their method is also very simple, which is to send a large number of overseas students to Europe and advanced countries in the Americas for further study. Thus, from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, they introduced many advanced steel technologies from abroad and absorbed them to catch up with world steel. The smelting level can provide qualified steel for aircraft carriers, artillery, aircraft, tanks, etc.”
"Now that we have such conditions, as well as more practical steel plants and a large number of personnel, we believe that our time to catch up is faster than theirs."
After some encouragement from Gao Jianwu, Ma Shaocheng finally gained some confidence.
"Yes, Minister Gao, I will go down and select a batch of elite soldiers in the steel industry to achieve leapfrog development of the overall technology of the steel industry." Ma Shaocheng said.
"I would like to remind you that the development of the steel industry is a very practical science. The candidates selected must be mainly experienced engineers on the front line. Don't choose some unscrupulous people. This is not the time to gild them. Don't worry about the language. Mr. Situ and his team will have a group of good translators to follow you.
Study with them.
In addition, although there are many of us, we must be careful not to all appear in the same steel factory at once. You all need to pay attention to some skills and have to be secretive. When selecting candidates, you must consider many aspects. You must have knowledge and culture, at least writing and reading. There can be no problems. During your stay abroad, you must organize and record what you have learned every day to form systematic industry knowledge.
In addition, the emotional intelligence of the personnel should be relatively high and it is easy to get along with others. When we arrive in the Americas, let Mr. Situ arrange the identities of some Chinese Americans. The current international relations situation does not allow us to study openly. We must pay special attention to this aspect and select talents. At the same time, we must also consider that after being selected, certain relevant professional training must be carried out to ensure that this group of talents is foolproof in their studies. "
Ma Shaocheng listened and recorded Gao Jianwu's request. After Gao Jianwu's guidance, he knew better what to do.
When such a new thing came up, Gao Jianwu let Ma Shaocheng do the preliminary preparations. After he selected the people, he took the time to go through this group of people and also gave them some advice.
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Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant.
Sun Chengfang, deputy director of the No. 1 blast furnace, received the transfer order.
"What, you want me to prepare to salute and go on a business trip for more than half a year? Factory director, what are you doing? Can you not go? Our production tasks are so heavy now, I really can't leave." Sun Chengfang issued an order to the Steel Department of the Ministry of Industry I was puzzled by the transfer order, so I went to the factory director Wang Gentang and asked.
"The superiors want to conduct a half-year round of intensive training for core talents in the steel industry. Our factory has sent 10 key personnel to participate in the training this time. Each of them is a core member of each position.
[In view of the general environment,
This is an honorable task entrusted to you by the organization, and there is no room for bargaining. Hand over the work immediately and go back to prepare relevant matters. "Wang Gentang didn't explain too much about Sun Chengfang and just said it. For these people, if you try to reason too much with them, it often won’t make sense.
"Yes! Director, the work here will be handed over to furnace manager Chen Shiqiang and Zhou Shikun as soon as possible. Give me three days to complete the handover!" Sun Chengfang straightened his body and said.
For large companies, work is still based on line leadership.
Even though Wang Gentang was the selected factory director, his appointment was directly under the Ministry of Industry.
It's just that he has been the director of the old factory since before, and he already has a lot of experience in managing a large steel company. After Gao Jianwu took over Hanyang Steel, he recruited a group of talents and turned the steel plant back into a new one. Operate effectively.
This organizational model ensures that the Ministry of Industry has a very strong mobilization capability.
As a direct management unit, Ma Shaocheng is of course very clear about the list of core backbones of each core steel plant.
Major large-scale steel plants in the base area will allocate personnel this time, and backbone steel plants such as Hanyang Steel and Jinyang Steel will need to provide more talents.
Following Gao Jianwu's prompts and requests, the people Ma Shaocheng transferred this time were basically deputy or substitute candidates for important production links like Sun Chengfang. Although for the original factory, such transfers would double the workload of those on duty. Because the people who changed shifts were removed, there were originally opportunities for rotation and rest, but now there are no opportunities!
But in such an extraordinary period of development, these people actually understood it very well and did not cause any commotion about this wave of personnel transfers.
After all, everyone knows that such an arrangement by the superiors must be based on the overall consideration of the superiors. Now everyone is also very aware. After changing from 996 work to 007, there seems to be nothing unacceptable about having food and accommodation in the factory.
When these were gathered together and ready to be sent out, Gao Jianwu conducted a two-day short-term surprise training for them, explaining why they should do this, how to get along with foreigners abroad, and how to learn skills.
Talents like Sun Chengfang understand that they, the front-line workers in the factory, now also
There is an opportunity to study abroad!
Even though they were going to a factory, everyone cherished such an opportunity very much. After returning one by one, they made the worst arrangements for their families, and were prepared not to come back until they had learned all the skills!
Even though not all of these people have joined the organization, there is no difference between them in terms of patriotism, especially after Gao Jianwu set the ambitious goal for them to learn to reach the world's advanced level and catch up with the blast furnace utilization coefficient of 1, each of them is like It’s like a chicken blood shot!
After all, after opening your eyes, it turns out that everyone is just a frog in the well. People outside have advanced to an unimaginable level. Now they have the opportunity to see how they achieve these miraculous results!
