No one else heard the instructive conversation between the two. Ji Wusheng didn't pay attention to their actions, but ran back and forth to check whether all the preparations were in place.
The lighting ceremony officially started at 8 o'clock in the morning. Ji Wusheng had already prepared seven or eight furnace rods dipped in tar and burned red. After Zhan Wuya's simple speech, Wen Desi, Zhan Wuya and four others signed up.
Afterwards, the elders who were selected by drawing lots started to poke into the furnace through various vents. The dry shavings immediately burned. Warm applause and cheers immediately broke out among the elders and naturalized citizens who were watching around the blast furnace, especially the elders.
Each of them deeply understands the significance of blast furnace ignition.
"Open all the tuyere, slag outlet and steel tap to ventilate the blast furnace." Ji Wusheng had no time to express his celebration and loudly ordered the workers. He wore special goggles for steel workers and observed the fire and firewood in the tuyere.
It has been ignited by the burning of wood shavings. The first step of ignition has been successful. The burning of firewood will gradually introduce coke.
Black smoke billowed out from the top and opening of the blast furnace, and there was a commotion among the onlookers. A few elders who were afraid of their lives were already retreating.
"It doesn't matter, this is the smoke when firewood is burning." Ji Wusheng shouted loudly. As he said this, he turned to look at Engineer Li, "From now on, you keep an eye on the furnace. The air outlet, slag outlet and steel outlet are all open. Don't
Send air! Let the blast furnace burn by itself. Come back to me when the smoke turns white!"
In the beginning, the blast furnace was allowed to burn freely without air supply to prevent the firewood from burning out prematurely, causing the coke to fail to ignite or ignite insufficiently.
Ji Wusheng arranged all the work in front of the furnace and checked the situation of the entire workshop. The seniors in the workshop gradually dispersed, leaving only a few seniors from the industrial department, Zhan Wuya and Wu De from the Planning Institute.
"After the No. 1 blast furnace is put into operation, when are you going to ignite the open-hearth furnace?" Wu De asked.
"After the first batch of pig iron is produced, come to my office to discuss." Ji Wusheng built a small room in the blast furnace workshop as an office. He often had to work on site and provide technical guidance, so he had to do it in every workshop.
Prepare such a small room.
"To be honest, I have never built an open-hearth furnace." Ji Wusheng tidied up the table that had just been delivered to him. "The ones I have seen in steel companies are all electric arc furnaces, or at least oxygen converters. They are not very good at directly using concentrate powder to make steel.
I’m sure—we’ll stick to the old method and start with the mature technology I’ve mastered.”
Ji Wusheng's idea is that the first time he makes steel in an open-hearth furnace, he should mainly use pig iron ingots and add some of the open-hearth ore. This is safer.
"There is also the need to set up a special steel plant chemistry laboratory. Coke, iron ore, limestone... these all need to be analyzed for their chemical composition. Of course, the carbon content in the molten iron also needs to be analyzed. A laboratory is a must-Dalian
In the steel industry, blast furnaces were equipped with laboratories."
This request can only be made to the Planning Institute, and the laboratory needs to establish a project. Some equipment and instruments in the laboratory require special customization, and some require the use of controlled items - such as 1/1000 scales, microscopes, and fume hoods.
fan, platinum crucible...
These are either currently unable to be produced by Lingao, or are of very high value. Finally, there are no suitable chemical analysts among the indigenous people, and professionals must be selected from among the elders to serve as chemical analysts.
After D-Day, Chuanchuan Group established a number of laboratories, but they were mainly in the direction of biological research. The only laboratories used for industrial production were the laboratory directly under the Ministry of Chemical Industry and the analytical laboratory located at the Ma Niao Salt Plant and Cement Plant.
, steel plants require chemical experiments to analyze the composition of raw materials and finished products.
"If you want to refine special steel or alloy steel, it would be wishful thinking without a laboratory." Ji Wusheng said emphatically.
Zhan Wuya said: "Not only steel plants, but also cement plants are in urgent need of a laboratory."
Wu De thought for a moment: "Logically speaking, these are reasonable requirements. However, we do not have enough reserves of some key equipment, and there are not many veterans who are willing to do chemical analysis full-time." He thought that Mo Xiao'an also mentioned it to him a few days ago.
Laboratory configuration.
Finally, Wu De suggested setting up an industry central laboratory in each of the heavy industry and light industry systems. It should be configured according to high standards and be responsible for the experimental analysis work within this system.
"It's okay." After listening to Wu De's idea, Ji Wusheng felt that this was a compromise solution, "But Ma Niao is 12 kilometers away from Bairen, and the journey is too long. There is no time to analyze the molten iron and slag materials.
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"The laboratory of the heavy industry port will be located in Ma Niao Industrial Zone - this is our heavy industrial zone in the future. It will include a modern cement factory." Wu De was very generous: "In addition, I will help you build a simple one in the steel factory.
Laboratory, as long as you don't mind the rudimentary equipment."
"Okay, as long as it works."
"The cement plant built in Ma Niao Industrial Zone can use the by-products of steel plant production: waste heat, waste gas and waste slag. The large amount of slag produced by steelmaking and ironmaking, slag is a good raw material for making cement - rather than just using
To pave roads or be used as fertilizer. This new version of the cement plant is planned to be built with relatively advanced process equipment. The commissioning of the steel plant has opened up the possibility for the Lingao industrial system to manufacture large-scale equipment.
Zhan Wuya was very excited: "Steel and cement must not increase tenfold, and our costs are getting bigger and bigger. I will solve the welding problem next."
"I would say that our industrial layout must be rushed out of Lingao as soon as possible - the lack of water in this place is very restrictive." Wu De recently participated in an internal seminar organized by the executive committee, with about 50 participants.
Professionals from all walks of life, in addition to technicians, also include veterans who are familiar with the land and human environment. A discussion was held on the future industrial layout.
The consensus reached by everyone is that Lingao and Danzhou are not places for large-scale industry - northwest Qiongzhou has always been short of water. Historically, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, water collection facilities were continuously built, irrigation main canals were dug, and Songtao Reservoir was built.
It took a series of reservoirs to basically meet the water needs of modern Lingao's industrial and agricultural production and population life. However, Lingao in the old time and space was not an industrial county, and the industrial output value of Lingao was very low even in the 21st century.
However, the current Hainan Island under the control of Chuan Chuan Group is not very stable, and the supply of machinery, equipment, construction materials and workers cannot keep up. It is impossible to open bases everywhere, and the industry can only be left in the core area of the rule, Lingao.
Rather than implementing optimal configuration.
"I ask: Why not move the light industry system to Guangdong?" Zhan Wuya said, "The Pearl River Delta is rich in various agricultural products, coal and raw materials are guaranteed, the water resources are in the Pearl River, and the labor force is abundant. The products we produce can also
Selling locally. It can even attract private capital to join. Aren’t the wineries and mirror assembly factories established in Guangzhou very successful?”
After Ji Wusheng saw off the last batch of seniors, he went back to the office and took a nap. At noon, the maid brought him lunch and woke him up. He ate a hasty lunch and walked around the workshop. Engineer Li also
He stood in front of the stove and watched the fire from time to time.
"How about it?"
"The firewood is almost burned out," Foreman Li reported, "the smoke has begun to fade."
While talking, someone pushed a trolley and delivered lunch to the workers in the blast furnace workshop - large portions of steamed rice and fried rice noodles in lunch boxes. Each portion weighed 500 grams. The workers in front of the blast furnace were special
Heavy physical labor requires the highest level of food subsidy. Today is the day to light up the stove, and as usual it will be more generous. According to Ji Wusheng's instructions, each worker was given an extra piece of fried fish fillet.
The workers were eating in front of the furnace. Dozens of people were chatting while eating. Ji Wusheng took this opportunity to talk about some concepts such as chemical reactions in blast furnace ironmaking. The workers were very interested in ironmaking technology. As long as
Many questions will be raised when given the opportunity - the elders advocate learning technology and attaching importance to skilled workers promotes workers' enthusiasm for learning technology.
The advanced technology possessed by the elders has virtually broken the bad habit of keeping secrets between craftsmen in the original handicraft industry - in the face of the elders' technology, any traditional secret skills are like scum.
Explaining redox reactions is quite difficult for workers who don't even have elementary school education. Ji Wusheng tries to explain it in a simple and clear way - he also hopes to select enough technical backbones from this group of workers to spread them to various workshops.
——You must know that he has barely managed to gather enough staff for the No. 1 Blast Furnace and the No. 1 Open Hearth Furnace. There are more than 100 workers in the No. 1 Blast Furnace alone in three shifts.——The operators of the No. 2 Blast Furnace are here.
Don't know where yet.
"Chief! White smoke is coming out!" Just after the noon class ended, the workers who went to see the fire started shouting loudly.
"Okay, get ready to blow the air!" Ji Wusheng quickly put on his sunglasses. The black smoke had completely disappeared, and now white smoke came out, which meant that the firewood was basically burned out and the coke had been completely attracted. He observed
, the combustion condition is very good.
"Start sending half the wind!" Following his order, the workers quickly opened the gearbox lever to transmit the power from the sky shaft to the blower drive shaft. The blower began to run and made a huge roar.
A blower powered by a steam engine is not as efficient as an electric blower, but its air output capacity is much more powerful than that of human power, animal power, water power or wind power. Originally, a blast furnace of this size cannot be provided by the power system of traditional handicraft industry.
Ji Wusheng focused on the flames in the furnace. Although only half of the wind was blown in, the firepower in the blast furnace immediately made a qualitative leap. The flames in the furnace gradually turned white, which was a sign that the temperature was continuously increasing.
"Seal the slag outlet!" Ji Wusheng shouted loudly, "Get ready to remove the ash!"