Chapter five hundred and forty-two from the association of fertilizers
If a large amount of labor is required to produce ammonia on a large scale, the collective farms may have already paid a huge price before the high grain yields brought about by chemical fertilizers.?
Yang Mingzhi asked himself, in that dimension of China, the country concentrated its efforts to build a large number of fertilizer plants. Once such a factory existed in a city, environmental pollution followed one after another, causing residents to complain endlessly. With the large-scale output of chemical fertilizers, food production
Large-scale increase in production. At the same time, such factories also support a large number of workers because they require a large amount of labor.
In order to produce one ton of ammonia, dozens of tons of logs are consumed in the entire process. Even if waste is controlled, the huge loss of wood will be worrying.
Yang Mingzhi closed his eyes and thought about the technical difficulties mentioned by Ivanov.
Equipment problems are not a problem at the moment, the biggest problem is raw materials.
He asked: "If we put a lot of charcoal into synthetic ammonia, our black powder production will also be hindered. Therefore, we must expand charcoal burning, and we have to build some supporting factories."
"In addition to the consumption of charcoal, the consumption of nitric acid has also increased. We are short of saltpeter here, and we only rely on human and animal excrement to make nitrate soil to further produce nitrate. We are now approaching the limit."
Yang Mingzhi was stunned, "Isn't it enough that 30,000 people pooping and peeing every day are enough for those nitrifying bacteria to work on?"
What he said was very interesting, and Ivanov's sullen face cracked. "Sir, you are right. We produce gunpowder, picric acid and hydrazine nitrate. If we want more output, we need more raw materials. Now we are mass-producing
We have a fertilizer plan in front of us. We need a lot of charcoal and a lot of nitrate, but we are not short of sulfur."
"Oh? Why don't we lack sulfur?"
"Because there is a sulfur mine in this swamp! There is also a hot spring there!" As he said that, Ivanov pointed in the direction of the target.
At this moment, Yang Mingzhi suddenly remembered that there was a hot spring in the swamp! It was an underground hot spot surrounded by a large amount of sulfur.
The Eighth Route Army in this plane was fighting fiercely with the Japanese. Since the Chongqing authorities did not pay the Eighth Route Army, and there was no ammunition supply, the Eighth Route military workers could only find their own solutions.
Naturally, the most produced grenades are hand grenades, but these "made in border areas" have a huge disadvantage, that is, the explosive power is not strong enough. What is the reason? Lack of sulfuric acid! Why the lack of sulfuric acid? Because of the lack of sulfur.
Due to geographical convenience, God gave a hot spot in the swamp. With a sufficient supply of sulfur, the black powder produced was even more powerful.
Ivanov continued: "If the chief particularly hopes for a high yield of potatoes, we can produce ammonia and urea, which are nitrogen fertilizers. Based on the local soil characteristics, I am afraid that a variety of fertilizers are needed, such as potassium fertilizer. If we produce
Potassium sulfate can also increase potato yields."
"Potassium sulfate? Potassium fertilizer?" This is something Yang Mingzhi has never thought of. He has always simply believed that as long as synthetic ammonia is produced, food production will continue to increase. Where does potassium fertilizer come from?
Ivanov smiled and said: "Of course it is plant ash, and the residue after burning is simply mixed into the soil to become potassium fertilizer. But since we have sulfur, we can make more efficient potassium sulfate. In order to obtain these materials, we also
We should really set our sights on migratory bird habitats.”
This person's words reminded Yang Mingzhi that the Pripet Swamp is very huge. In many cases, the winter here is not unbearable, and the climate is relatively warm and humid. That is to say, the rare cold snap in this winter once caused the temperature to be below minus 10 degrees Celsius.
, there was no such extreme low temperature here in the past.
A large number of migratory birds spend the winter here, and the fish in the wetland provide them with a lot of food, and they leave their feces. In addition, during the warm period of summer, this is also the habitat of a large number of birds. Finally, there are many areas densely populated with guano in the swamp.
Ivanov put forward an idea, which is to use bird droppings!
"The climate here is usually humid. Such an environment cannot turn guano into struvite, but there is a large amount of nitrate and potassium in the densely accumulated guano. Finding them to further mass-produce nitrate can expand weapons production capacity.
We can even use the special soil there to directly change the soil structure on our current farmland, so that food production will also increase."
The biggest problem with peat soil is the lack of nutrients. At present, the production teams of various collective farms are reclaiming new farmland. If they need to work, they plow the land, add the ash from the burning of feces and charcoal to the muddy new land, and then sow potato roots. Even so.
The soil is still lacking in nutrients, so potato production will not increase significantly.
"Even if we pull back all the soil in the migratory bird habitat, it would be more efficient than just spreading chemical fertilizers," Yang Mingzhi said.
It is necessary to build a fertilizer plant. The project has been finalized. Everyone, including the Novgomel Municipal Committee, knows and supports this matter. Belarus has a large number of forests, including tall red pine trees, whose wood is hard and dense, and produces
The quality of the charcoal produced is very high.
The economic level of Belarus has always been low, so that most areas are underdeveloped. There are a large number of red pines that are fifty meters high and one meter in diameter. Yang Mingzhi calculated that the weight of such a tree is
There are dozens of tons. A simple calculation shows that if you produce one ton of ammonia, you only need to consume one tree, and the damage to the environment is not that tragic.
As for the bird droppings and hot spring sulfur mentioned by Ivanov, these can be exploited, but the problem of ammonia synthesis must be solved first.
This closed-door meeting between the two lasted until late at night. Rather than saying it was a consultation on the establishment of a fertilizer plant, it was more like "two chemists" discussing a series of issues.
Everything from chemical fertilizers, weapons materials, and even agriculture have become topics of discussion. To find a close friend in this remote swamp is undoubtedly a gift for Ivanov, an old scholar.
No matter how many difficulties there are, a fertilizer plant must be established. Because of the current cultivated land situation in Novgomel, the demand for chemical fertilizers is only a hundred tons, and it is mixed with traditional organic and inorganic fertilizers such as plant ash, human and animal excrement, etc.
, the future demand for chemical fertilizers will not be huge.
The population base here is only 30,000. Even if one person needs to eat one kilogram of potatoes a day, 60,000 kilograms of potatoes per day is enough. The actual demand is less than this. Even if the minimum yield of potatoes per mu is two thousand kilograms, Novgomel can eat one kilogram of potatoes a day.
It can eat up the yield of thirty acres. According to this productivity, at least 1,800 acres are needed to maintain.
When it comes to economic calculations, Yelentina is an expert. The information she has at hand grasps the current status of Novgomel's cultivated land and the average grain yield per mu.
Yang Mingzhi knows that in fact, the villagers have been developing land in the past few months. Coupled with the current large-scale production movement and military reclamation, the grain output during the horse grain harvest season in April will increase much year-on-year. By June, the output will
Will explode.
In Yang Mingzhi's understanding, the yield of potatoes per mu was four to five thousand kilograms, which could be achieved in the Qing Dynasty. Later, farmers in New China used special fertilizers on a large scale, and coupled with the perfect potato detoxification process, the yield of one ton per mu was achieved.
is normal.
In fact, Maozi has used potatoes as their staple food for a long time, and their potato varieties are excellent. However, the poor peat soil in the swamps is not suitable for use, and the food production is really terrible. 8