my magic industry

Chapter 73 Magic Application
Zero Ring's Arc Art Rune Disk has a simple structure, consumes less energy, and can continuously emit arcs. The power can probably easily shock adults who touch it. The reason why Xia Lin bought them was to obtain a continuous and stable current.

Electricity, as the energy core of the second industrial revolution, is widely used in industry, and electrolysis is one of them.

If it is confirmed that the high-energy arc generated by the electric arc technique can indeed be used for electrolysis, Xia Lin can even produce caustic soda without using soda ash, but by electrolyzing saturated salt water to obtain products such as caustic soda, chlorine and hydrogen, which is the so-called chlor-alkali industry.

In addition, electrolysis can also be used for electroplating and metal smelting. For example, tinplate is the product of thin steel plate after tinning, which can be used to make cans. Galvanizing machine tool parts can also prevent hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion.

Metals such as potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium, and aluminum can also be smelted by electrolysis.

In addition, there is another important thing that requires electricity to participate, that is, electric furnace steelmaking, which uses the ultra-high temperature provided by the electric arc to smelt steel. This is the technology that Xia Lin wants to apply in the steelmaking plant.

If electric furnace steelmaking can be used, the efficiency will definitely be dozens or even hundreds of times higher than the crucible method he originally planned for steelmaking. At that time, the pig iron and wrought iron on the market can also be used to produce various key steel products. Maybe there will be excess production capacity sold to the market.

Because no graphite was found in the market in the imperial capital, and there was no news about the commission, Xia Lin connected two copper electrodes to the arc spell rune plate, inserted the other end into a saturated saline solution, and embedded a magic crystal on the back of the rune plate.

In Xia Lin's surprised eyes, after the rune disk started to take effect, there was a faint static sound of crackling in the air, and in the solution of the clay pot, there was also a blue precipitation, and there was a popping sound at the same time. .

This is because the two electrodes used by Xia Lin are both copper electrodes, which causes copper hydroxide to precipitate on the anode, and hydrogen gas escapes from the cathode, and a small explosion occurs when it touches the charged and exposed copper electrode.

If they are all graphite electrodes, then the products will be sodium hydroxide, chlorine and hydrogen.

"It seems that the phenomenon produced by the spell is completely consistent with the natural phenomenon."

With an excited smile on his face, Xia Lin came to this conclusion, and his thoughts began to spread out to think about the various applications of spells in industry.

However, before doing this, he had to make sure that the cost of applying the arc spell rune disk to industry would not be too high, otherwise it could only be used as a special method on a small scale.

This is actually quite simple. Xia Lin designed an arc spell rune disk energy consumption experiment using large copper electrodes and saturated saline solution.

In the end, I got a magic crystal that can support the operation of the arc technique for four hours, and the total weight of the copper hydroxide precipitate obtained is 15 pounds, which is about 50 kilograms.

According to the measurement data accumulated by Xia Lin in previous experiments, the magic power of such an ordinary-quality magic crystal polished by a jeweler should be about 180 grids, which means that the energy consumption of the electrolysis rune disk is about 0.75 grids/min.

From this point of view, arc technology still has certain practical value in industry, at least in the field of electrolysis, there is absolutely no problem in using this method to produce some products.

The next step is to see if the arc technique can be used to smelt steel.

Although Master Fine's high-temperature rune plate is easy to use, it is a secret of their clan. Only the priests of the Molten Clan with magical powers know how to make this extremely special rune plate.

When Master Fine was reduced to a slave, he also carried this piece with him, and it was the royal family who came forward to recover it from the Slave Chamber of Commerce.

Compared with the high-temperature rune plate that cannot be reproduced for the time being, Xia Lin wants to explore the application prospects of the arc technique by himself.

He came to the industrial park with these arc spell rune disks and the magic crystals used as energy sources, and urgently summoned a construction team to build a simple cylindrical kiln body with a diameter of two meters and a height of three meters with refractory bricks. Some small bumps.

Then someone put 150 pounds of pig iron and wrought iron of the same weight inside, and first put five activated rune disks on the deliberately left protrusions with the hands of a mage.

Standing on the ladder amidst the frightening noises, Xia Lin could observe that the surface of the iron material was gradually turning red in the pulsating blue-white arc. Apparently, the arc of the arc technique can also generate high temperature.

It seems that it is feasible to use the temperature of the arc generated by the arc technique to make steel, but I don't know how many rune disks are needed to melt pig iron and turn it into molten iron, and how much magic power in the magic power crystal is consumed to smelt steel .

Continuing with the experiment, when the number of rune disks increased to ten, the pig iron finally began to melt into molten iron. In other words, only ten arc rune disks were required to act simultaneously to generate a temperature high enough to melt steel.

The melting point of steel is about 1500 degrees Celsius. It seems that it is feasible to exchange the quantity for the energy increase of the arc.

The entire discharge heating process lasted for more than four hours. Xia Lin used the mage's hand to adjust the position of the rune disks from time to time to prevent them from being damaged by the high heat in the kiln, but even so, three rune disks lost their function due to the high heat.

Finally, the inlaid magic crystals on the rune disk ran out of energy, and the rune disk stopped discharging.

In this way, Xia Lin can roughly estimate the cost and profit of using arc technology to make steel.

In the market, a pound of pig iron is priced at 3 silver mals and 20 copper pess, a pound of wrought iron is priced at 7 silver mals and 44 copper pess, and a pound of steel is priced at 16 silver mals. It has risen to 20 silver maars.

It takes about half an hour for the electric arc furnace to completely melt 20 pounds of raw materials, plus half an hour for the oxidation-reduction reaction time, ten magic crystals cost [-] gold lund, which can almost support four rounds of steelmaking.

Even if using electric arc technology to design an electric arc furnace that weighs no more than 1 ton and produce nearly 300 pounds of steel at a time, about 1500 pounds in a day, the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce can earn about 150 gold lund.

In this way, using electric arc technology to build a magic version of the electric arc converter for steelmaking has considerable prospects. After Xia Lin calculated the data, he couldn't help but put a happy smile on his face.

Faced with this result, other onlookers were even more surprised. Master Fine shouted in surprise:

"Boss, have you cracked the rune disk of our clan?"

But he immediately shook his head again:

"No, our rune disks don't produce these crackling lightning, and the speed of melting steel is much faster than your rune disks!"

"Master Faen, speaking of which, do your rune disks consume a lot of mana?"

Hearing Master Fine's words, Xia Lin, who had just calculated the cost and output of this simple electric arc furnace, also became interested in his rune disk.

Although smelting four furnaces of steel consumes ten magic crystals is not too much, but as a group of priests among the dwarves who have mastered the mysterious magic power, it is still quite curious about the energy efficiency of the rune plates they make.

"I don't know much about it, but it's no problem for this kind of rune plate to refine tens of pounds of steel with a magic crystal.

Now I have lost contact with the clan for a long time, and I don't dare to use this rune disk at will.

I wouldn't take it out if it wasn't necessary for making the machine tool. This is a skill that every member of our Molten Fire clan needs to swear to keep secret when they can pick up the forging hammer! "

Master Fine waved his hand and said.

"Is that so?"

Seeing that Master Faen cherished the rune disk so much, Xia Lin put off the idea of ​​borrowing it to study it for the time being, mainly because he didn't have much time right now.

However, the high-temperature rune plate constructed with the flame rune variant of the kinetic energy rune can directly convert magic power into heat, which is better than the energy conversion efficiency of my own arc spell rune plate, which converts magic power into electricity and then heats it through arc heat release. to be tall.

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