Duke of Herrington

Chapter 60 Factory Planning
Just now the two wives were still questioning whether Xiaoguai is the devil. But in this world, no one can escape the law of true fragrance, and within a short while they get tired of being with this "devil".

As the saying goes, the devil is beautiful to confuse people, and the angel is ugly to scare away the devil.

As a carbon-based creature, a two-legged beast that walks upright, there will always be an inexplicable sense of intimacy towards creatures with good faces~
Since the wives at home are not disgusted with kittens, Ted simply bought a glass cabinet and put some of the items the cats need, so that the two wives who are idle at home can also help themselves to take care of the little boy.

As for the devil Ted, he didn't know what was going on.

However, according to my own experience as a 'traveler', demon kings can also be divided into types. Even if the little girl in my hand is a demon king, he is also a wise demon king.

"Forget it, it's a pet given to me by the system. What am I struggling with here?"

Instead of thinking about whether your pet will be the devil, it is better to think about the construction of the glass factory in a few days.

With star coins, I can buy some precious materials, and catch up with the progress in winter, so I don't have to search and search like before to save money.

But even if you have a little money now, you can't use it indiscriminately. From now on, every penny received and used should be recorded!
If you can save money on purchasing raw materials, you should spend money on machinery that is not easy to produce, because it takes decades or even hundreds of years to manufacture qualified machinery. By the time you manufacture industrial machinery yourself, the world will be in chaos.

so!Ted took out a large drawing and spread it on the table. According to his own understanding, he first listed the methods and eliminated them step by step. After the final screening, he bought those machines or lathes that could not be manufactured in a short time to fill in the technological gap.

Regarding the glass factory, it is actually not a difficult problem. This is one of the necessary knowledge for travelers. Even if there is no system, Ted knows how to make it.

Use quartz, that is, silicon dioxide, crush it, mix it with sodium carbonate powder and throw it into a high-temperature crucible, and finally pull it out to cool down, and then you can take it out~
Of course, this is the simplest soil method, and there is no ability to control the temperature at 1450 degrees, so I can only find a way to increase or decrease the firepower bit by bit.

Glauber's salt is a bit wasteful as a clarifying agent. At this stage, this thing has other uses. As for dolomite, calcite and coal powder, we will have to wait.

Whether the finished product is uniform and free of bubbles can only be done as best as possible, and there is no way to make the specified shape in this way, so it can only be barely made into a board as a window.

The production rate of good products by local methods is not high, but... you can only make do with it first, and your own resources must be invested in other places first.

As for more advanced glass, Ted would not consider it, because it is not necessary for the time being, and there is no such condition.

I can only wait until I have more money, and then slowly improve the process bit by bit. After adding heat treatment, the glass can be strong and durable.

A while ago, after the glass needed to make the greenhouse was made, the sodium carbonate in the territory was not enough.

And this time, my task is to help everyone find and make alkali~
Not only for the glass factory, but also for the future industrialization development. If the factory is completed and everyone has experience, they can continue to build factories and continue to develop.

Ted didn't know where the alkali in the territory came from, and that didn't matter, what other people used to make it was also someone else's, and he had to master it himself.

You can't rely on the system for everything. The chemical knowledge you learned back then, combined with the self-study content in books, it is indeed difficult to reproduce a standardized factory, but there are many things that cannot be handled!

Sodium carbonate is an inorganic chemical raw material in industry. As a basic raw material, you must master the manufacturing method yourself, because this thing is not only used in industry, but also widely used in food processing.

There are many ways to make alkali, and what Ted knows best is the world-famous combined soda method, which not only makes the best use of everything, but also conforms to the idea of ​​'reducing environmental pollution'.

Using the waste gas produced by an ammonia plant as a raw material for another factory can not only produce Jinkela and sell it to farmers in other places, but also obtain raw materials for production.

However, several raw materials have to be obtained in advance.

The raw materials are roughly sodium chloride, ammonia, carbon dioxide, coke, air and water.

There are several materials that I don’t lack. Water is everywhere, just use it to purify it. Salt and sodium chloride are not difficult. There are many salt mines in the Gobi not far away. The trouble lies in purification and transportation. Not too difficult.

The essence of coke is coal. I have an extra-large coal mine, and this is the most indispensable thing.

The only difficulty is ammonia.

Alkali plants are usually located next to the ammonia plant, and the carbon dioxide produced by the ammonia plant can be used directly. Just use it.

Industrial ammonia synthesis technology is generally catalyzed by hydrogen and nitrogen under high temperature and high pressure. This is also the main way to produce ammonia in the industrial era.

Nitrogen generally comes from the air, which is not difficult, and removing impurities is not a big deal.

As for the hydrogen gas, Ted drew a key symbol, this step is very important, and it is also very dangerous.

Since it is dangerous, factories cannot be built in the city and have to be moved to another location.

After thinking about it, Ted locked on a Gobi no-man's land based on his existing memory.

That wilderness, in the eyes of outsiders, is a paradise for beasts and a hell for human beings, as long as one goes in, no one will come out alive.

Of course, these are all made up, and only the northerners themselves know that these are all made up by them to deceive the outsiders, in order to prevent them from discovering the salt mines inside.

As for the occasional two birds flying by the beast, it's no big deal.

If you choose to build a factory there, you can continue to cover people up like you are doing now, and then fan the flames and fabricate rumors that 'there is a death zone', so you can cover yourself for building a factory.

After all, thick smoke can be emitted from a long distance, saying that he is the entrance to hell should make most people quit.

According to the existing information, the methods of producing hydrogen are very limited, and Ted will not consider other methods. It is better to strictly follow the whole process of Hou's soda production process and use coke to solve it.

However, before that, desulfurization is required to remove the sulfur in the raw materials
Ammonia water catalysis is a good choice, and it can be recycled without increasing the demand for other materials~
Every invention, every brilliant idea is to simplify complicated things, and only in that way can it conform to the core value of industrialization.

After desulfurization, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide are produced by the action of steam and hot anthracite. For purification, carbon monoxide can continue to react with water vapor~
In this way, it can be used as the raw material gas required for the synthesis of ammonia, and the next step is decarburization, and these gases are synthesized into ammonium bicarbonate with impurities.

After the ammonium bicarbonate is obtained, the semi-finished product needs to be refined continuously, which can be done by the cuproammonia liquid absorption method, which can also remove excess water, which is not difficult in theory.

If technology advances a little bit more, we can use natural gas as raw material to produce synthetic ammonia and use nickel as a catalyst to refine it, as Da Mao did.

The next step is another key step. After multi-stage treatment, the remaining mixed gas is heated and pressurized to 500 degrees and 32 MPa under the catalysis of iron oxide to obtain ammonia gas.

If this continues, the ammonia gas needed for alkali production can also be produced when nitrogen fertilizer is produced~
The rest is much simpler, the ammonia gas is transported to the soda plant next door for waste utilization.

For alkali production, all science students who have gone through the college entrance examination should know this process, that is, one carbonization, two ammonia absorptions, one salt addition, and ice machine refrigeration.

And the steps can be memorized by almost every high school student who has studied chemistry
"Refrigerators cost money, which is another expense."

During this period, the control of temperature control is also very important.

After writing out the method, Ted drew a few drawings of the principles of industrial equipment. These are all based on memory, and will be integrated with the data after a while.

The soda making method is indeed recorded in the book, but not every detail is described, and the details that are not written have to be deduced bit by bit from the chemical engineering textbooks and supplemented completely.

After three hours of "huh", Ted finally finished tidying up.

When I was hungry, the two wives stayed by my side very tacitly. As long as I opened my mouth, I would be fed a dumpling.

It's also thanks to the fact that what I ate were dumplings. If it was something else, my face would be greasy.

As a little sister, Mia got sleepy after staying for a while, and turned to take a nap. Of course, she slept with the 'devil king' Xiaoguai.

Alice is gentle and virtuous, dragging a small stool and sitting next to Ted, quietly observing everything he does.

It didn't matter that she couldn't read anything, or even know what Tad was doing.

Accompanied quietly, sometimes more charming than fierce love.

"call!"

After another hour, Ted had dealt with everything, rolled up the six large sheets of drawings, and stuck them in the bag beside him.

The content on the drawing includes the initial extraction and purification of table salt, as well as the Jinkela produced by the ammonia plant, and the chemical raw materials produced by transporting the waste to the soda plant next door.

The detailed steps and various principles in it were all taken out of the book by Ted.

"Well, since you want to change it, let's make it more thorough. First, dismantle the small iron-smelting workshop in the city, build an iron-smelting plant directly near the iron mine, and transport the coal mine and copper mine there to solve the problem together!"

The best choice for building a factory is to be near the origin of raw materials, which reduces the trouble of transportation and saves a lot of trouble.

After such an operation, as long as everything goes well, Ted can temporarily get rid of the shackles of the system!
With these factories, the stable development and training of knowledgeable students and workers will not be far away from the life you expect!
When production capacity and demand reach a balance, Ted can consider digging for oil
Because benzene is needed to make propellants, and later chemical industries also need this kind of thing. Coal tar in petroleum is the raw material needed to produce benzene.

In this way, as long as the star coins are spent reasonably to buy equipment, and then use the equipment to manufacture more equipment, he can temporarily dominate one side stably!

The idea is good, but now there is a problem.
that is money
If you want to promote industrial development, you must have a strong enough family background and enough money.

A while ago, I scattered coins by myself, which resulted in the loss of half of my property, and according to the estimates of Chris and the team, if we want to promote the development of the northern border, promote currency circulation, and let everyone have money to spend , and let them spend.
Even if Ted gave away all his money, it would not be enough, because the people would not spend all their money, they would keep some of it as a spare, after all, there were no banks in the north.

According to the data calculated by the model, the overall wealth in the northern border is insufficient, and it is still about [-]% short of the target point, and this gap can only be made up by borrowing money or plundering.

In a modern society, paper currency can be used to print money year by year to alleviate the problem, but not now, everyone is still using gold coins
The implementation of currency reform is untimely and too hasty, so skip this one.

If you want the Northern Territory to achieve your intended goal, you need about 8% of your wealth before the reform to make the city run smoothly.

As for why not use items as rewards or use food as rewards
Ted believes that the development of society should look forward instead of turning back the wheel of history. Unless there is no way out, society will never return to the era of barter, let alone use goods to hire people to work.

If the boss of Mingbi Factory uses Mingbi to pay employees wages, is there still a law in this country?

Even if the ghost coin has a certain value, it cannot be used as a coin to distribute to people. Similarly, food cannot be distributed as wages, because such items, like the ghost coin, have too many uncertain factors and changes.

Unlike gold coins or silver coins, these two things are both natural currency and industrial materials, and will not change due to changes in the surroundings, at least from the perspective of the current society.

Even if the drought comes, gold coins can still buy food. Although it is a bit more expensive, it can still be bought.

If you go to the boss to buy a bundle of ghost coins, you will only be thrown out.

This kind of thing is not qualified to be burned for heating. It is too hard to use as a butt wipe. It is better to go outside to pick up branches, which is convenient and quick. After scraping the shit, you can throw it in the stove and burn it.

Food for work, such as Roosevelt's New Deal, they used money as wages, not food.

Now that this method is filtered out, you can consider borrowing money for financing.

Right now, there happens to be a target, and that is Steve, who has been taken advantage of and processed!
He said that he would give everything in exchange for safety, so Ted promised him, kept him safe, promoted him to be emperor, and then continued to make a fortune behind his back!

"Perfect!"

After the plan was made, Ted stretched himself, picked up Alice and circled three times in the sky before stopping.

At this time, Xiaoguai moved a little, and after drinking the water, he came to the cat litter box.

Mia didn't know when she woke up.
The three of them got together very tacitly, squatting behind Xiaoguai to observe.

"Tell me, what is she going to do?"

"I don't know, honey, do you know?"

Ted slowly turned his head, smiled and said, "You'll know right away."

(End of this chapter)