Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 155 Treasure
Huang Haojie watched the experimental seawater desalination equipment of the Seawater Desalination Research Institute on the west side of Shanmei City.

There are three huge reservoirs, one is a seawater reservoir, the other is a freshwater reservoir after desalination, and the last one is a brine reservoir.

Huang Haojie brought a beaker from the side and filled a glass of water from the fresh water reservoir.

"Is there a kettle?"

"Xiao Wang, go and get a kettle." Yuan Quan ordered the assistant beside him.

Within a few minutes, Xiao Wang came over with a kettle.

Fan Chengan hurriedly helped boil the water.

Huang Haojie came to the side of the brine reservoir. These brines are the residues after seawater desalination, that is, high-concentration sodium chloride (salt) solution. Of course, there are not only sodium chloride, but also other compounds.

Seawater contains various salts, of which about 90 percent is sodium chloride, which is table salt.

In addition, it also contains magnesium chloride, magnesium sulfate, magnesium carbonate and other salts containing various elements such as potassium, iodine, sodium and bromine.

In fact, seawater is a veritable liquid mineral deposit, with an average of 3570 million tons of minerals per cubic kilometer of seawater. Among the more than 100 known elements in the world, 80% can be found in seawater.

1 chemical components in seawater with a content greater than 11 mg/kg.

They include: 5 kinds of cations such as sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium and strontium; 5 kinds of anions such as chloride, sulfate, bicarbonate (including carbonate), bromide and fluoride; boric acid molecules.

The total amount of these components accounts for more than 99.9% of all dissolved components in seawater.

The rock weathering products carried by rivers into the sea and the eruptions of volcanoes are the main sources of the main dissolved components of seawater.

Since the ocean appeared on the surface of the blue star, in the long geological time, not only has it experienced changes in the sea and land, but also the dissolved components in the seawater have undergone compositional evolution.

Although the salinity of seawater in each ocean varies with sea area and depth, there is a constant ratio between the contents of the main dissolved components of seawater, so the composition of seawater is said to be constant, and these components are called conservative components.

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Gulu... The cup of fresh water taken from the fresh water reservoir just now boiled in a short while.

After waiting for a while, the boiling water cooled down, Huang Haojie came over and said with a smile:

"Let me taste it today, the taste of desalinated sea water."

After pouring themselves a glass, Yuan Quan and the others also poured themselves a glass.

After the first sip, there was no taste at all, and it was weaker than plain water, so I drank the whole glass of water.

"Yes, this water is pure water."

"Our technology is definitely the best in the world. Even if you drink the fresh water directly, it's not a big problem." Yuan Quan replied with a smile.

"We can't rest on our laurels. I saw the brine reservoir just now. We need to use the brine." Huang Haojie suggested.

Yuan Quan was also very interested when he heard it. After all, there are huge reserves of both macronutrients and trace elements in seawater.

After all, the total amount of seawater in Blue Star is 13.2 billion cubic kilometers, and 1 cubic kilometer is equivalent to 10 billion cubic meters. With such a huge total amount, even if the average content is very low, the total amount will not be much less.

Although the contents of gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, aluminum, etc. are small, if these elements in the ocean are extracted, 5500 million tons of gold, 4 million tons of silver, 137 billion tons of iron, 41 billion tons of tin and 137 billion tons of aluminum.

Among them, the content of gold in seawater is between 0.01 and 0.04 mg per ton of water.

也就是说如果一个年产量400亿立方米淡水的工厂，将这些海水之中的元素提取出来，可以提炼出400～1200公斤黄金、9吨白银、320吨铁、90吨锡、320吨铝。

In addition, about 90 tons of yellow cake can be extracted.

Among these things, silver, gold, and yellow cake all have important meanings.

Silver is an important raw material for the room-temperature superconductor of Galaxy Technology, gold is a hard currency, and yellow cakes can generate electricity and grow mushrooms.

Of course, Huang Haojie has no interest in growing mushrooms and the like, and the power generation efficiency of yellow cakes is also average, which is much worse than growing the sun.

His ideal advanced energy is nuclear fusion power generation.

Of course, even if you don't use the yellow cake, you can sell it to my rabbit.

"Boss Huang, are you planning to extract those elements?" Yuan Quan asked.

"Gold, silver, and yellow cake, these three are the main extracts." Huang Junjie, of course, these products can quickly pay back.

"Of course, don't waste other compounds, especially potassium sulfate. Our fertilizer plant can be used as raw materials for production, and can also be sold to other domestic chemical plants."

Yuan Quan nodded and said: "No problem, we will set up a research and development team as soon as possible to tackle key problems in the extraction of these elements."

In fact, Huang Haojie didn't mention it, but the Seawater Desalination Research Institute also has plans in this regard.

After all, once the desalination plant is in operation, more than 400 billion cubic meters of fresh water will be produced every year.

The water content of seawater is 96.5%, which means that 3.5% of by-products are born.

This 3.5% by-product is about 14.5 billion tons, which is divided equally among every person in the country, which is almost 1 ton per capita.

其中氯化钠11.26亿吨、氯化镁1.58亿吨、硫酸镁0.71亿吨、硫酸钙0.52亿吨、硫酸钾0.36亿吨、碳酸钙435万吨、溴化镁和其他435万吨。

These are all macronutrients, plus a whole bunch of micronutrients.

Now when Huang Haojie thinks of this huge pile of sodium chloride and the like, he has a headache. The domestic production of sodium chloride is only 6000-7000 million tons a year, while the annual production of sodium chloride in seawater desalination plants is as high as 11.26. million tons.

If so many raw materials rush into the market, the sodium chloride market in the world can be crushed, and the problem is that the gain outweighs the gain.

If it is not used, it can only be piled up, which is another kind of waste.

Similarly, the by-products of other large amounts of elements are also in a situation where the supply exceeds demand, so you can only use part of it for yourself and reserve the other part.

It seems that we need to discuss with the Materials Research Institute and let them study the utilization of these desalination by-products.

It is also an annoyance to find that the production volume is too large for the first time.

Think about it in the future, if seawater desalination plants are deployed in the northern seas, there will be even more by-products produced.

After inspecting the situation of the Seawater Desalination Research Institute, Huang Haojie took his secretary and bodyguards to the Neutron Star Company non-stop.

The seawater desalination membrane is produced by NeutronStar.

Huang Haojie looked at the seawater desalination membrane being manufactured in the production workshop, and asked Huang Yongdong beside him:
"How is the production of Yongdong seawater desalination membrane?"

"We completed the construction of the first production line half a month ago, and started trial production a week ago. The annual output is expected to be around 50 square meters." Huang Yongdong replied hastily.

"Excellent! How much do you plan to set the ex-factory price at?"

"8000 Chinese yuan per square meter, of which 1500 Chinese yuan is the production cost, and another 1300 Chinese yuan is the patent fee for the research institute."

Huang Haojie nodded, Yinhe Technology's research institute has patent fees, if it is not something Huang Haojie invented, it will give 20% of the profit as the patent fee.

For example, the patent of seawater desalination membrane was invented by Yuan Quan’s team. Although the improved patent of seawater desalination membrane, the original patent contribution of Yuan Quan’s team has dropped to about 60%, of which Yuan Quan personally occupies 30% of the patent.

That is to say, the first seawater desalination plant is put into use, and the seawater desalination film patent alone will bring about 4500 million yuan of pre-tax income to Yuan Quan himself every year.

After all, Huang Haojie couldn't do the thing that required the horse to run without letting the horse graze, because doing so would be tantamount to self-destructing the Great Wall.

In Yinhe Technology, the income of researchers or engineers is very high, and the highest is Li Xiang, the director of the Materials Research Institute. His income last year was 6.7 million yuan before tax.

This is mainly because Li Xiang has a lot of invention patents in the Materials Research Institute. Although it is not a revolutionary achievement, he can't stand the large number, so his annual income is very high.

(End of this chapter)