While Edel was waiting for the Balkan countries to convey his ideas, a piece of news from Germany made Edel no longer want to wait for the news. Professor Hartz in Germany finally solved the problem of industrialization of synthetic ammonia, and now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is holding a message from Germany.
telegram.
"Is the news about Calust confirmed?" Even if Edel received the telegram, he still confirmed it with the captain of the guard.
"Yes, Your Highness, this news came from someone close to Professor Haber. It is absolutely certain."
The chief of guard knew why the Crown Prince had such an attitude. He had seen the Crown Prince attach great importance to this technology and had studied the information specifically.
Ammonia is one of the important inorganic chemical products and plays an important role in the national economy. Ammonia can be used to produce chemical fertilizers and can also be used as raw materials for other chemical products. Ammonia is mainly used to manufacture nitrogen fertilizers and compound fertilizers, such as urea and nitric acid.
Ammonium, ammonium phosphate, ammonium chloride and various nitrogen-containing compound fertilizers all use ammonia as raw material. Ammonia is used as an industrial raw material and ammoniated feed. The main raw materials for synthetic ammonia include natural gas, naphtha, heavy oil and coal, etc.
Nowadays, ammonia can also be used as a raw material for explosives, which is the most critical thing now. After seeing the effects of ammonia, the captain of the guard can also understand the crown prince's interest in this technology.
"How is the professor we sent studying?" Edel asked.
"I heard that he had a very good chat with Professor Haber and was quite popular with the Germans." The captain of the guard said the answer he knew.
The professor they both mentioned was a chemist named Bolvin, who was in his thirties or forties. He was born in a grain merchant's family in Constanta. He was extremely smart since he was a child, and he was fascinated by chemistry when he was a student.
For this reason, he did many ridiculous things. For example, when he was 3 years old, he was obsessed with alchemy and wanted to convert gold. Needless to say, the result was natural. Later, under the strict discipline of Gabia, his chemistry teacher in middle school, he gave up alchemy.
He took a wrong path and embarked on the path of chemistry again. The chemistry teacher thought that it was a pity that Bolwin was so talented and had gone astray, so he pulled him out of his dream of being an alchemist.
With Bolwin's own efforts, he was admitted to the University of Bucharest as a chemistry student. Four years later, he went to the University of Berlin for further studies. During his seven years at the University of Berlin, he obtained a master's degree and a Ph.D.
Bachelor of Science.
After completing his studies, he returned to Romania and worked as the deputy director of the Department of Chemistry in Bucharest. He usually taught students when he had time, and researched experiments that interested him in other times. He lived a leisurely life. However, he often wore clothes while teaching.
He wears a white coat in the laboratory and has to endure the pungent smell of chemicals in class. Coupled with the messy hair that he has not been able to take care of for a long time, he looks like a Frankenstein.
Later, he was recommended by the principal Bigskler to the captain of the guard who was looking for a chemist. At that time, the captain of the guard thought he was a madman at the first sight. Later, a conversation between the two sides overturned his idea and he was considered a genius. Of course, after meeting with him, he was considered a genius.
How could the Crown Prince be so ignorant when he was in Del. In fact, he was mainly confused by the image of Bolvin. The classic white coat and messy hairstyle, except that the hair and beard are not white, are simply classic Einsteins of later generations.
Of course, the shape and the face were not similar, but they still left a deep impression on him. After enduring the pungent smell of the conversation, Edel also felt that this Bolvin was a buried chemical genius, so he left a deep impression on him.
He went to Germany to study, and now operates the most important chemical synthesis of ammonia in Romania.
After sending the counterfeit Einstein to Professor Hartz's laboratory, the two men were impressed by each other's fantastic ideas and profound knowledge. Professor Bolvin was in Hartz's laboratory
I feel like a fish in water, and my life is quite smooth.
However, the main contributor to the industrialization of ammonia synthesis this time was not the two of them, but Bosch, an engineer from the German BASF Company.
Previously, BASF saw the prospects of the ammonia industry and planned to purchase Professor Haber's ammonia technology for industrial improvement. During the negotiation, it was discovered that the Romanians had already taken the lead and could not leave them behind. This put BASF at risk.
It was disgusting, and the negotiation almost failed. However, in the face of the prospect described by the company's consultant Engel, BASF finally purchased Haber's ammonia synthesis technology and studied it together with Romania.
In terms of costs, Romania will provide 20% of the funds, and BASF will invest the rest. However, Romania can only use synthetic ammonia technology in its own country, and technology transfer is prohibited. After Edel in China got the news, he immediately agreed to BASF.
requirements. Being able to obtain the technology to synthesize ammonia before World War I was already the biggest gain. You must know that this was a top secret in Germany during World War I, and Edel was not so kind as to remind the Allies. You must know that the British now have a monopoly on ammonia in the world.
He doesn't want to be a living Lei Feng when it comes to exporting ore.
In the end, both parties invested heavily in research and improvement. BASF, at the suggestion of German chemist A. Mittas, conducted 6,500 tests with 2,500 different catalysts last year and this year, and finally successfully developed a catalyst containing potassium and aluminum oxide.
It is a cheap and easily available iron catalyst used as a cocatalyst. However, some problems encountered in the industrialization process include corrosion of steel by hydrogen at high temperatures, the life of ammonia synthesis reactors made of carbon steel is only 80 hours, and the use of nitrogen and hydrogen for ammonia synthesis
The method of manufacturing mixed gas was solved by the company's engineer Bosch. This man named Bosch proved with facts that scientists are far less useful than engineers in the industrialization of technological products.
Now that he has received the news that synthetic ammonia can be industrialized, Edel plans to wait for Bolven and his team, who studied technology in Germany, to return home and immediately start the construction of a synthetic ammonia plant. According to Edel's own estimation, the synthetic ammonia plant cannot be built without 20 million lei.
The production capacity is too high, so he plans to invest all the remaining funds from the royal family in this factory that is crucial to Romania.
Currently, the Romanian royal family still has 43 million lei, which is more than 16 million lei remaining from the previous rubber crisis, plus the balance of the Romanian royal family in the past two years. Now part of the money earned by the royal family has repaid the loans from Rockefeller and Morgan.
Part of it was used as daily expenses, and only a small part was saved. It should be noted here that Edel's wedding cost 8.7 million lei, which is still relatively small.
A week later, Professor Bolvin and his team returned to Romania, and Edel summoned the buried Romanian chemistry master alone.
"Hello Professor Bolvin."
Edel knew that these scientists were generally not very polite, and Professor Bolvin was the best among them, so Edel greeted the chemist first to avoid everyone being embarrassed.
"Hello, Your Highness the Crown Prince."
Professor Bolwin greeted the Crown Prince as casually as greeting a friend. Fortunately, he remembered to add the honorific title "His Royal Highness."
"How was your trip to Germany?"
Edel knew the professor's habits, so he couldn't help but care too much and started chatting.
Professor Bolvin, who heard Edel's question, told about his experience in Germany. "I felt very good during my stay in Germany. Harper and I were very attracted by each other. I didn't expect that he and I were actually alumni, and we discussed it every day."
We all put forward our own solutions to various chemical problems, and after debate we came up with the most reasonable ones for experiments. I feel that I have learned a lot of useful things in the two years that I have been with Hubble, and I plan to go back to it soon.
Go to your own laboratory to test your ideas."
Hearing Professor Bolwin talking endlessly about his achievements in Germany, Edel could only interrupt him with a question.
"So what are you going to study lately?"
"I plan to study pesticides." Professor Bolvin stated his goal with a serious face, and he also explained to Edel the purpose of doing so. "When I was young, I watched my father's interest in acquisitions.
The grains were classified, and those with less pests and diseases could get the first-class price. Some grains were not harvested by my father at all. Later I asked him, and my father told me that these were grains with serious pests and diseases, and they could not be sold after they were bought.
From this moment on, I wanted to do something for these farmers, and now I plan to research a drug that can kill these pests and save these crops."
After listening to Professor Bolvin's ideas, Edel was of course supportive of this. He saw in the report news that production in many areas had been reduced due to pests and diseases. For Romania, a good pesticide is absolutely necessary.
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"Professor Bolven, I admire your idea very much, and I plan to first fund you with 1 million lei to realize your wish."
"Thank you Crown Prince for your generosity."
Borwin originally planned to ask the crown prince for some funds to pursue his favorite projects. He knew that the crown prince was very generous in funding science. Before, he just suffered from lack of access. Now that he knows this big donor, how can he hold back.
After receiving funding from the crown prince, Professor Bolwin began to feel uneasy. Edel saw in his eyes the reason for these scientists and quickly ended the summons so that the professor could devote himself to his own research as soon as possible.
In the following days, Edel received news that Serbia and Bulgaria had signed an alliance. This let him know that the Balkan Alliance was slowly forming, and opportunities for Romania to fish in troubled waters were slowly coming, and Edel was also waiting.
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