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Chapter 257 Absorption Tower

Samantha did not understand Purficott's high expectations for Oil Lake, but this did not prevent her from carrying out Purficott's orders.

The guards temporarily stationed themselves on the cliff, built a temporary camp, and began to look for a way to descend from the cliff into the valley.

However, because the valley was still filled with heavy miasma, the soldiers of the guard only made some simple attempts and did not really go down to the bottom of the valley.

However, even so, they still almost had an accident. Several guardsmen inhaled too much miasma while searching for a way down to the valley, and were deeply poisoned when they were brought back.

If Purficott had not used human alchemy to remove the toxins from their bodies and repair their physical damage, the best outcome for them might have been breathing out of breath for the rest of their lives.

This also made Purficott realize that in order to fully develop the oil resources in Death Valley, she must first solve the miasma problem.

It is obviously inappropriate to use fire to solve these miasma, as the impact will be too great and the consequences are unpredictable.

Then there are only two solutions left. One is to change the topography of Death Valley and use the power of nature to blow away the hydrogen sulfide gas and other miasma in the valley.

Doing so can solve the problem once and for all, but not only will the amount of work be huge, it will also have a huge impact on the surrounding environment.

Coupled with Perficot's plan to exploit the oil in the valley, this area will definitely develop into an important resource node in the future. Residential settlements and other facilities will be built around the entire valley. The environment is too bad and is not conducive to development.

The torch is even simpler. The gas that can be burned is directly ignited.

This kind of absorption tower is filled with a large amount of filler to fully disperse the gas-liquid mixture, increase the gas-liquid contact area, and fully dissolve it, and then react with it through chemical agents to ultimately achieve the purpose of desulfurization.

Of course, in addition to this wet desulfurization method using liquid, there is also dry desulfurization. However, dry desulfurization is somewhat unsuitable for Perfectkot now, so she decided to use a wet absorption tower to solve the problem. .

After all, the hydrogen sulfide gas will not disappear out of thin air. After being blown out by the wind, it will only spread around the valley. Although the concentration will be greatly reduced, it will still have a serious impact on the surrounding animals and plants.

Before traveling through time, he grew up in a chemical factory and was exposed to this industry as an adult. Purficott knew how to deal with these dangerous gases.

The usual practice in factories is to build an absorption tower. Through the special structural design inside the absorption tower, the toxic and harmful components in the gas mixture are dissolved through gas-liquid mixing, heat and mass transfer, and then harmlessly treated through chemical reactions and other means. Or collect the toxic and harmful parts and then discharge the purified air again.

So Purficott plans to adopt the second option, using absorption towers and flares to purify the hydrogen sulfide gas.

Both of these are toxic and harmful chemical gas treatment methods that Purficott often saw in chemical plants before traveling through it. Among them, the largest absorption tower she had ever seen was even nearly a hundred meters high.

This time Purficott still chose to draw the drawing first, but after the drawing was drawn, she used her omniscient eye to optimize it.

The optimized drawing divides the entire absorption tower into three parts, namely the absorption tower body, air suction device and combustion torch.

According to Purficott's design, she will build a large air extraction device and place it in the valley to extract air containing hydrogen sulfide and transport it through pipelines to the inside of the absorption tower for desulfurization. The treated air will be discharged from the top of the absorption tower. However, taking into account the possible residues and the situation where hydrogen sulfide gas in the valley rises or diffuses to the cliff due to environmental factors, Perficott also installed a gas detector next to the absorption tower. An ignition device no shorter than an absorption tower.

This device will maintain combustion by extracting natural gas from the ground. Its function is to ignite the hydrogen sulfide in the air and burn it as much as possible, thereby reducing pollution.

It sounds a bit unreliable, but in terms of actual effect, this kind of torch can indeed effectively purify the air.

After the design drawings were drawn, Purficott designed a device that could extract oil from the oil lake and then pump it to the cliff for storage.

After all, even if there are absorption towers and torches that can reduce the hydrogen sulfide content in the valley, in Purficott's view, Death Valley is still not suitable for humans to stay in it for a long time.

Therefore, according to Purficott's design, it is more appropriate to pump the oil from the valley up.

Even if the cost is taken into account, this will not increase the cost much. After all, the oil lake is not too far from the cliff.

As for processing petroleum into refined oil and various petrochemical products, this requires the construction of a chemical plant. Currently, Perficott has not figured out how to arrange it, so there is no design for this part yet. She just An oil storage warehouse was designed to store oil extracted from the oil lake.

After the two design drawings were completed, Purficott had the drawings sent back to Eagle Beak Cliff, along with the order to customize these things.

Although Purficott could use alchemy to create the things on the drawing, it would be too much work for her. If she had this time, it would be better to go back to the laboratory to study the dragon's corpse.

Moreover, the construction of the industrial system will soon begin in the North, and the related supporting equipment will make it a good choice for factories that move to the North for production.

While thinking about this, Purficott began to use alchemy to make a breathing mask that met the standards of the original world.

She planned to go down to Death Valley to see for herself.

Although her alchemy is completely capable of ensuring her safety even without any protection, the mental cost of maintaining alchemy is still a big drain for Purficott, even with the support of the Philosopher's Stone. .

In addition, she also needs to concentrate when using alchemy, and doing other things can easily lead to distraction, so she does not want to rely on alchemy to decompose hydrogen sulfide in the air to get herself down into the valley.

After all, this is too stupid for an alchemist. If she had the energy, she could even make herself a set of three-defense clothing.

However, Purficott did not go down to Death Valley as smoothly as she planned, because Samantha said she would not let her personally take risks, even though Purficott had said that the respirator she made was enough to withstand the dangers in the valley. There is a poisonous miasma.

In the end, after Purfict's persuasion, Samantha finally agreed to let a guard soldier go down to the valley with a respirator to test the effectiveness of the respirator. If it was confirmed that there was no problem, then let Purfict go down.

(End of this chapter)