Of course, chemical fertilizers do not just exist, they involve a lot of chemical engineering knowledge. Currently, Ivanov is the only one who can be a chemist. He has established a "miniature chemical factory" at the "laboratory" level, so for chemical fertilizer plants
Regarding the plan, Yang Mingzhi is still very informative.
Although there are many difficulties here, he still believes that the difficulties can be overcome.
After resting, he and his wife went to the cafeteria to eat as usual. Fuming also prepared a relatively sumptuous meal as usual. Bobosky, the mayor of Catfish Village, and Ivanov, the chemistry professor, also participated as expected.
As expected, some seized materials appeared in the dinner, such as French red wine. Compared with ordinary soldiers eating potatoes, the officers could also eat bread and meat, and even drink alcohol. Life was indeed relatively luxurious.
Yang Mingzhi did not have such a high revolutionary consciousness, nor was he so persistent in enjoying some privileges. As a pragmatist, he confessed: "Comrades, thank you for the sumptuous meal. If our soldiers, our
The villagers can eat enough butter and bread every day, this is my hope."
Hearing this, Fuming raised his glass. "These dreams will come true. As long as we build a fertilizer plant, our food production will continue to increase!"
Yang Mingzhi glanced at Ivanov, who was holding up a wine glass. His face looked a little embarrassed. Maybe drinking red wine was not as satisfying as holding tons of vodka.
"Okay! Cheers to our cause!" Yang Mingzhi raised his glass.
He still had to save energy to discuss the fertilizer plant with Ivanov. All the participants in this meal just had a few drinks.
After arranging everything that should be arranged, Yang Mingzhi followed Ivanov directly to his office.
After entering the room, under the dim oil lamp, Ivanov took off his hat, took off his scarf and hung it directly on the wall. He said, "Deputy commander, please sit down if you like. If you don't mind, we can talk about the fertilizer plant now."
talk."
"Okay, let's talk now."
Yang Mingzhi, who was wearing military uniform, walked to Ivanov's desk and saw a few documents on the table. Some of the yellow paper was produced by the papermaking workshop in the blacksmith village. These papers solved the problem of office paper and ensured that
Everyone’s toileting needs.
The paper has been replaced by dense text, and there are also some strange sketches. When you lift it up and knock it, it seems to be a drawing of factory equipment. There are large and small bottles drawn here, and there are official roads connected among them.
These properties made Yang Mingzhi think a lot - he was already sketching an image for the future fertilizer plant!
Yang Mingzhi turned around with joy and faced Ivanov.
"I didn't expect that while I was taking a bath, you were already designing our fertilizer plant? It seems that you have a complete grasp of this matter?"
Ivanov shook his head. "Deputy Commander, please sit down. I must tell you the truth about this matter. I am not that high in confidence."
What is going on? Yang Mingzhi has already been psychologically prepared for a series of problems in the establishment of a fertilizer plant, and he is all ears.
Ivanov immediately sat down and explained one by one the various problems existing in the mass production of chemical fertilizers.
First, the focus of the problem is on the equipment. At this moment, Yang Mingzhi is still holding documents in his hand. Ivanov took advantage of the situation and said: "The methods for producing urea, ammonia and ammonium nitrate remain unchanged. The problem lies in converting small-scale
The manufacturing industry needs to be industrialized, so the bottles and cans in the laboratory must be enlarged, and the containers must be turned into steel bottles, which also requires a large amount of steel pipes. We don’t have these things now!”
"I have thought about all these issues, so you don't have to worry." Yang Mingzhi said confidently, "Liguschkov in the arsenal can complete all the equipment you need."
"But, isn't it that what they produce most is cast iron? What I need is steel! Only steel can withstand high temperature and pressure."
"Of course he can smelt steel." Yang Mingzhi said firmly.
The fact is as he said, the fuel currently used in the arsenal is charcoal, whose calorific value is actually higher than that of coking coal. It is a good material for steelmaking. But because it is just making ammunition, it does not require exquisite smelting, as long as it meets the needs.
Yes. In addition, the current increase in production has to ignore the quality. The recycled metal contains a lot of impurities. He did not find a way to separate them, so he created a batch of "brittle bullets", which unexpectedly made such ammunition available.
More lethal.
But there is no problem in letting him produce fine steel. He just needs to strictly control the production and separate impurities and excess carbon.
After listening to Yang Mingzhi's explanation, Ivanov breathed a sigh of relief. In his opinion, the most important problem to be solved among all problems was the equipment problem.
"That Liguschkov, when the war is won, I think he can be an engineer. He used to be the chairman of the collective farm Soviet (village chief), which is really an incompetence." Ivanov sincerely wished that man a problem that urgently needs to be solved now.
The question becomes the next one.
He said: "The production of urea and ammonia must be chemically produced in large quantities. The method is to complete a special chemical reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, because we must have a large amount of these two substances. The best way is to use coking coal, and now charcoal
It can be used, but the deputy commander must understand that the hydrogen content in charcoal is very low, and the hydrogen mainly comes from hydrocarbons."
Yang Mingzhi nodded, he still knew this knowledge.
In China in the 1950s, two of the 156 projects aided by the Soviet Union were fertilizer plants. The raw material they produced was coal, and their annual output was only 60,000 tons.
Later, China improved its technology and adopted a method of synthesizing ammonia using petroleum as raw material. The petroleum produced was almost a hodgepodge of various olefinic substances, and the output efficiency was naturally greatly improved.
The deputy division commander is also an intellectual who understands chemical engineering. When Ivanov saw him nodding, he continued: "We are engaged in ammonia synthesis, which is an industry with high energy consumption. Furthermore, the chemical reaction of ammonia synthesis is very simple, but it needs to be realized industrially.
Industrialization, this process is still very complicated. On the one hand, it is troublesome to outsmart the raw material gas, and the process is a bit long. Last time I produced 500 grams, but I ordered the entire laboratory production workshop to stop working, and everyone invested in ammonia production.
On the other hand, synthetic ammonia is produced in a high-temperature and high-pressure environment, so I must have suitable equipment.
The most critical aspect is the problem of raw materials. To produce one ton of ammonia, I am afraid that ten tons of charcoal will be consumed in the process, and ultimately dozens of tons of logs. I have not yet counted the manpower and material resources consumed.
For our fertilizer, we have to mobilize a lot of people to invest! Of course, the final product is ammonium nitrate, which can be used as fertilizer, and it can also be used as an excellent explosive. The investment in producing it is probably our Novgomel