Gao Fan stopped mid-sentence, knowing that Gao Yiping understood what he meant.
Gao Yiping's eyes when he looked at Gao Fan were immediately filled with appreciation and relief:
This baby really looks like me!
He just said that there was a serious accident in the synthesis section, and he could immediately think that the accident might not be an accident, but had other reasons. It is not surprising that various production accidents occur in the fertilizer factory, but at such a juncture, such an accident happened.
Serious accidents cannot help but evoke some associations.
It's not surprising that an adult like me can think of this. Gao Fan is just a high school student, and is just a doll in the eyes of everyone. How can he react so quickly? What's this called?
Isn’t this just a tiger father without a dog son?
He didn't know that the reason why Gao Fan felt that this accident was abnormal was because in his previous life, he lived in an era where corporate production management was highly standardized. Process production companies like fertilizer plants have strict operations in every link.
According to regulatory requirements, it is very rare for large-scale catalyst poisoning due to unqualified mixtures to occur.
In this day and age, the production management in Chinese enterprises is still at a very rough stage, otherwise there would not be people climbing onto the ammonia pool to smoke. Things like this kind of unqualified gas mixture will happen in every factory, but it’s just a matter of degree.
It's just different. No matter who investigates the catalyst poisoning this time, it can only be said to be a liability accident, not a conspiracy.
"We have investigated and found that the operator in the desulfurization section made a mistake and failed to replenish the desulfurization liquid in time, resulting in insufficient desulfurization." Gao Yiping said, with a touch of contempt on his face.
Gao Fan noticed Gao Yiping's expression and asked, "Who does this operator usually hang out with more?"
"You got the point right." Gao Yiping nodded, but did not answer Gao Fan's question. There is also a small circle in the factory, and everyone knows who hangs out with whom more. This operator is Qiu Guoliang
Gao Yiping knew what was going on as soon as he heard the investigation results.
However, when it comes to the conflicts between factory leaders, it is not suitable for Gao Yiping to explain it to Gao Fan in detail. The fact that Gao Fan can ask this question shows that he knows the mystery very well. Who is causing trouble?
No need to know either.
"The top priority now is to quickly replace the catalyst and start driving again, right?"
Gao Fan put aside the previous question and suggested.
This sentence made Gao Yiping sigh in his heart. At critical moments, it is also a kind of vision to be clear about the importance and not to dwell on the issue of responsibility. Some people, including some middle-level cadres who stand on their side in the factory,
They are all clamoring to pursue the mastermind behind this. This is childish.
What the county leaders are most concerned about right now is whether the fertilizer factory can turn around its losses, or at least avoid too big a loss. If you argue about who is right and wrong at this time, no matter what the outcome is, the factory director will be slapped on the butt in the end.
On the contrary, if you can quickly solve the problem and resume production, the rest of the matter will be easier to handle. If you can pay hundreds of thousands of profits to the county, let alone the previous matter, it is not your responsibility, even if it is related to you, it will not be your responsibility.
Someone will care.
"Now we must seize the time to replace the catalyst. However, because our factory has just replaced the catalyst and has no inventory, we have to go outside the province to transfer goods. It will take at least ten days to go back and forth," Gao Yiping said.
The catalyst in the synthesis tower works at high temperature for a long time, and the fine pure iron grains will gradually grow, causing the surface area to shrink and lose activity. This situation is called the aging of the catalyst. In addition, there will inevitably be some in the hydrogen-nitrogen mixture.
Various impurities can cause slow poisoning of the catalyst. Therefore, fertilizer plants must replace the catalyst every once in a while, and the general interval is about one year.
Canghai Fertilizer Factory just replaced the catalyst a few months ago, so there is no new catalyst in the warehouse. It needs to be purchased from a specialized catalyst factory. Maolin Province is not a strong industrial province and does not have its own catalyst factory. There is a nitrogen fertilizer factory in the province.
To use catalysts, you have to go to neighboring provinces to purchase them. From the time the order is placed to the time the catalyst is shipped back to Cangtang, ten days is considered a very fast time.
After buying the catalyst, it needs to be loaded and then restored and started, which takes another ten days. This means that the Canghai Fertilizer Factory will have to stop production for at least 20 days. The county requires Gao Yiping to turn a loss into a profit within three months.
With this suspension of production, the efforts to turn around losses have basically come to nothing.
"Can't we make the catalyst ourselves?" Gao Fan asked.
"Make a catalyst yourself?" Gao Yiping looked at Gao Fan, "How is this possible? Do you know what a catalyst is?"
"Feferrous oxide, plus some accelerators, I think it should be aluminum oxide, potassium oxide, calcium oxide, right?" Gao Fan said.
"How did you know?" Gao Yiping asked in surprise, "Did you read this from the book?"
"Of course." Gao Fan said easily.
Gao Yiping nodded: "Yes, I somewhat believe what your Aunt Xiaoyun said now. You really have read a lot of books."
"What are you talking about? It turns out you never believed what Xiaoyun said!" Ran Yuying, who was listening while cooking, was annoyed. She ran over from the kitchen and scolded Gao Yiping, "Xiaoyun has already said that Xiaofan is a genius.
, he is better than those experts from the Ministry of Chemical Industry, do you believe it now?"
"Okay, okay, you are not bragging about cowhide." Gao Yiping couldn't laugh or cry. He sent Ran Yuying away and continued to say to Gao Fan, "The composition of the catalyst you mentioned is right, but producing the catalyst is not that easy.
It needs to be produced by a professional factory, how can we do it?"
Gao Fan said seriously: "Dad, professional factory production is only to meet the requirements of batch production. In fact, the method of producing catalyst is not complicated, and the equipment is also ordinary equipment. I have read in books, Pujiang Jiaotong University, Shuinan University
, have all developed ammonia synthesis catalysts, and they used the electric furnace of the experimental factory for smelting.
"There is an electric furnace in the Cangtang Iron and Steel Plant. Our iron ore in Cangtang is magnetite, which can be smelted directly. If we do it well, we can save 10 days, and the catalyst we smelt by ourselves will definitely be better than the catalyst from other provinces.
It’s cheaper to buy, why not give it a try?”
"What you said makes sense." Gao Yiping was convinced.
Gao Yiping had also read the chemical engineering magazines ordered by the factory, but he didn't read some of the articles too seriously. Gao Yiping had some impressions of the cases Gao Fan mentioned. It seemed that several universities were indeed in laboratories or experimental factories.
They produce their own catalysts here, and they also provide a more detailed introduction to the experimental process.
There is actually nothing mysterious about the ammonia synthesis catalyst. It is indeed iron tetroxide plus aluminum oxide, potassium oxide, calcium oxide and other substances, which are smelted and then crushed. Gao Yiping is a chemical engineer and is no stranger to this kind of process production.
Hearing what Gao Fan said, he felt that there was no harm in giving it a try.