industrial lord

Chapter 226 Inspecting the Water Plant
"Good morning, Lord Digging Duke."

Maria covered her mouth and laughed after greeting Frederick.

Frederick went over and gently pinched her nose, making her want to hit someone with teeth and claws. This time it was Frederick's turn to laugh.

Maria asked him while eating breakfast, "Where are we going today?"

Frederick picked up the Wessen state chicken roll in front of him and studied it for a while, and said while eating: "I'm going to the construction site of the water plant later, are you going?"

Maria naturally nodded in agreement.

I don't know what Philip was thinking, or heard some wind or rumors, and sent Maria here for the winter.

Frederick has a lot to do recently.

This year is the first year of Wessen State's first five-year plan. The construction plan formulated last year has begun. As a result, he has been away for most of this year, and now he is coming back to inspect the work in various places.

It's just that few people in this era have the experience of hosting large-scale construction, and there are constant problems.

For example, the city of Wessenburg is now half paralyzed.

Frederick wanted to build a water system in Weissenburg, so it was natural to lay pipes.

It's just that all parties lack the experience of organizing large-scale construction. Hulala swarmed up, and the road surface was dug, but the production capacity of the water pipes and the magicians who worked as welders were limited, and many ditches could only wait there empty.

Let alone a carriage, there is a story circulating in the city. There was a man who drank when he went to the city to buy things. I have to obediently find a job, because I can't escape.

People didn't know who should take the blame, so they pushed it up, so Duke Wesson became the "Duke of Digging".

Frederick was more tolerant of this matter, and treated it as paying tuition fees, and asked various departments to further coordinate and come up with a feasible construction plan as soon as possible to ensure that the project was completed smoothly and quickly.

After breakfast, Frederick took Maria to the mountains south of Wessenburg with a group of related people and the reporter from Wessen Daily.

This mountain with a radius of ten kilometers has been designated as a water source nature reserve. There are only two places inhabited in the Wesson Family Cemetery and Heijiabao. Peach blossom stone style garden.

The waterworks was built next to a reservoir near the cemetery, which was formed by blowing up a river valley by teachers and students of Wessenburg University.

Now the water plant is still a construction site, the main facilities have been built, only the auxiliary facilities such as office buildings, dormitory areas and landscaping are missing.

The water plant was designed by Frederick. He is not very confident in the water purification methods of this era, so it is a bit complicated.

The entire water plant is built according to the mountain, and all the water flows by itself without pumps.

The lake water enters the waterworks through three covered canals. In the canals, there are several grids from coarse to fine to remove debris. Finally, there is even a wave-shaped sieve that can be used to sift flour. All of them are designed with Y-shaped filters. Easy to clean up.

The water flows from the pool into the sump, and the bottom of the pool is sterilized by necromantic magic. Such disinfection equipment is available in many links.

There is a traditional water wheel beside the ditch flowing out of the sump, which drives a screw rod, which can automatically throw alum as a flocculant into the ditch.

The water added with alum flows into the folded plate flocculation tank. The left and right sides of the pool are crossed with partitions to make the water turn left and right. At the beginning, the distance between the partitions is small and the water flow speed is large so that the alum and water are fully mixed. The distance between the partitions is gradually increased, and the water flow is slowed down, so that the dissolved alum gradually generates large alum flowers in the water to absorb impurities in the water.

After the water flows out of the flocculation tank, it flows into the advection sedimentation tank evenly and slowly through a distribution tank, which is like a long swimming pool.

The flow rate of water here is very slow, showing a stable laminar flow. In the vertical direction, the water in the upper and lower layers will not flow with each other, and the alum flowers will not be brought up by the water flow after they settle down.

The other section of the sedimentation tank is several overflow tanks, which take away the uppermost clear water.

Then the water flows into the filter pool, which has fine sand on the top and coarse sand and stones on the bottom, which can filter out the remaining small impurities in the water.

The filtered water can enter the clean water pool with the disinfection magic circle, and finally enter the water supply network in various places through the water pipes.

Some of the water will flow into a pool where some fish that are sensitive to changes in water quality are raised, and the water supply will be stopped immediately if there is a problem with the fish.

When Frederick came here, he asked the person in charge: "What if the fish dies of old age?"

The person in charge was stunned for a moment, obviously not thinking about the problem, and finally said: "It's better to stop the water first, and then restore it after figuring it out."

Frederick nodded in satisfaction, put his shoulders together and said, "That's right, work hard, there will be more than just a waterworks here in the future."

The person in charge heard the meaning behind it, and immediately said excitedly: "Thank you for the cultivation, principal!"

Frederick walked to the edge of the water plant, where two main water supply pipes with a diameter of 1 meter were buried.

These water pipes are all cast iron, coated with a thick layer of slime glue to prevent the pipes from rusting.

Maria covered her nose with her free hand. Someone was boiling asphalt next to her, and the smell was not very pleasant.

There are asphalt mines here, but now asphalt is only used for medicinal purposes and anticorrosion of ships. These pipelines need to be treated with "three oils and two cloths" with asphalt and sackcloth when they are buried.

Frederick said to Ogilvy, who accompanied the inspection: "I didn't expect you to catch up. I thought centrifugal casting would take a lot of time."

Ogilvy replied proudly: "It's not enough. The mold is limited and the pipe is too short. It would be nice to be able to make a longer pipe at a time."

"Small pipes are very popular now, and the orders are all scheduled for next year. The factory will expand its scale next year."

"I'm a little worried, will someone buy the tubes and go back to make our weapons."

Frederick smiled, shook his head and said, "It's okay, they made theirs, we make ours."

"How about water meter production?"

To get running water, of course, it is necessary to read the water meter, and this matter has been arranged for a long time.

Ogilvy said with some embarrassment: "The rotary water meter is theoretically successful, but the accuracy is still a little bit worse. They now have a direction for improvement, and they should be able to make it next year."

Frederick just nodded. It seems that there is nothing wrong with it, but as long as he doesn't walk into a dead end, it's fine.

They were at a very high place, and they could see the city of Wessenburg, and they could see several water towers being built in the city.

Frederick thought for a while, and said: "For the water plant, first gain experience here, don't rush to build it elsewhere, but you can choose a good location first."

"The city of Nuremberg was built last, and the disobedient children had no water to drink."

He didn't avoid the others when he said this, obviously angry.

According to the [-]st Five-Year Plan, the already backward glass manufacturing industry in Nuremberg City will be concentrated, and after industrial upgrading, it will form a scale advantage to occupy the entire market.

As a result, those bosses spoke well at the beginning, and they were willing to use their own glass workshops to invest in new large-scale glass factories.

Naturally, Frederick would not indulge them, so he would do it himself, as did the wool textile industry.

"By the way," Frederick remembered one more thing, "Have Monnarz and Fritz made arrangements?"

Ogilvy immediately replied: "Monnarz arranged for the smelter and approved a set of special equipment for him. The raw materials can be used freely. Fritz's experimental equipment is almost ready, and the experiment can start in a few days."

Frederick nodded and said: "If they have achieved results, they will publicize them in the newspapers. I will go and have a look at that time, hoping to attract more scholars."

The rapid development of Wessen State cannot do without the contribution of many scholars, but Frederick still doesn't like it too much, and tries his best to get more people to come.

Ogilvy understood what he was thinking, so he said: "This summer, those flame magicians held a seminar in the university, officially announcing the end of the phlogiston theory."

"We can't help those high-level talents. At the same time, we took the opportunity to recruit a group of middle-aged scholars with profound knowledge to enrich the strength of the university."

Frederick smiled and said, "You guys did a great job."

(End of this chapter)