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Chapter 240 Electrochemical Workshop
"What are you burning?"

Lin Guiyao watched as a worker passed by pushing a cart, and on the cart was something like black jelly cut into pieces.

"Coal grease block."

Seeing that Lin Guiyao was curious, Director Hua simply asked the workers to pull the cart back. He reached out and picked up two black cubes the size of half a mobile phone and spread them out in his hands. They shook slightly. They really looked like jelly.

"This is a solid fuel made of cocklebur oil and coal powder as the main raw materials, mixed with some gelatin boiled from animal skin and bone, and some reagents given by the Minister of the Night as a coagulant. It has high calorific value and low pollution. It is also very easy to make, and the cost is not high, not only the boiler, but also used in other places that need to be fired."

Lin Guiyao poked the thing with his finger, and nodded. Unsurprisingly, it should be the joint product of Ge Bling and Ye Sangeng's PY research.

The giant cocklebur was originally just a weed, but after domestication, it became a valuable cash crop. Lin Guiyao even allocated a large area of ​​farmland to plant it.

Xanthium shell is the main material for making oil bombs. Before immature, the oil in Xanthium is a solid paste, which is non-flammable, wear-resistant and heat-resistant. It is a good industrial lubricant. After it matures, its properties change drastically. It is in the form of oil. If the seeds are not removed, it will be a poisonous oil that can make living things extremely itchy. After being removed, it will be a super flammable fuel oil.

The two states have different functions and purposes.

Although this oil is also edible, it has a bland taste and is not very safe for cooking due to its flammability.Therefore, the edible oil has been replaced by animal oil, and with the newly developed sesame oil squeezed from sedge tubers, cocklebur oil has officially become a special oil for industry and weapons.

"How is the combustion continuity? I see that you are pulling a carload of cars, can the production keep up with the consumption?" Lin Guiyao looked at his fingertips, and the black grease was not stained.

Director Hua nodded: "This thing is indeed not as resistant to burning as coal. Although it releases more heat at the same volume and at the same time, it can be boiled quickly when used in a boiler, but it needs to be a continuous process when used to generate electricity. That's why we have to keep refilling.

However, Minister Ge said that someone in the research institute is already taking over the research on the thermal insulation of the boiler, and when the research is completed, the heat of the fuel will not be wasted too much.As for the production capacity of the coal fat block, don't worry, Lord Lord, it is completely enough. "

Lin Guiyao knows the production volume of cocklebur, which is second only to barley.

Nodding his head, Lin Guiyao walked to a large wheel set not far away that was constantly spinning, and the buzzing sound continued to sound, and he saw that the flywheel set was composed of five one-story-high metal wheels. , strung into a cylinder, surrounded by guardrails on both sides to prevent people from accidentally entering and being ground into pieces.

The ever-expanding piston rod drives the set of flywheels rapidly, and at the other end, there are ten large iron houses, which look like ten telephone booths tied together, but there are sticks protruding from the end of the booths. Thick cables.

Lin Guiyao was familiar with this cable. It used the latex sent by Qiufeng Mountain before, and the first batch of rubber obtained after refining was originally used here.

No wonder there is only one generator. In addition to the efficiency problem, the amount of rubber in Hope City really cannot support the production of more cables.

"This is a storage transformer unit. The electricity from the flywheel generator is concentrated here, and then distributed to the nearby factory building. But I don't know the specific principle. After installing this thing, Minister Ge only said the problem and then Find him." Director Hua spread his hands with a wry smile.

Lin Guiyao didn't care about the principle of this generator, he just needed to know that it could work.

"Okay, I'll go to other places to see, you have worked hard, remember to be safe."

After leaving the power workshop, Lin Guiyao looked around. The power of that generator only supplies two small workshops. One is the electroplating workshop, which is used to coat the finished metal components with a layer of copper or aluminum. , It is said that a metal refining plant will be separated for the follow-up power supply. Now it is only a small-scale production, and there are only about ten workers.

The other is the electrolysis workshop, which is smaller in scale. There is only one long electrolysis tank, and an unknown liquid flows inside. Metal probes are inserted in it, and some bubbles are continuously ionized, and then collected into an atmospheric tank above. , There are only three people maintaining it.

According to the person in charge, this is just a test workshop, which mainly electrolyzes the molten salt water to obtain some chlorine, hydrogen and alkaline water, that is, sodium hydroxide.

However, it seems that the composition of rock salt is too complicated. It is still difficult to obtain pure alkaline water at present, but chlorine and hydrogen are obtained. If there is chlorine, hydrochloric acid can be obtained. As long as the chlorine is dissolved in water, it can be obtained by exposing it to the sun. Low concentration of hydrochloric acid.

The way to produce hydrochloric acid without mixing hydrogen and chlorine is too dangerous and easy to explode. In order to ensure the safety of the workshop, the windows of the entire workshop are covered with thick curtains. Day and night, after all, chlorine meets a little hydrogen plus Sunlight would explode, and the excess hydrogen could be used elsewhere as pure fuel.

When Lin Guiyao saw this, he knew that Ye Sangeng's chemistry knowledge was definitely not bad, at least at the university level.Gobling created electricity, and he used the electricity to obtain simple substances and compounds that are difficult to obtain in nature.

Although the current conditions in Hope City are still very crude, resulting in the current products of the two factories being small-scale trial production, but as long as Ye Sangen is given enough time, it is estimated that complex compounds such as plastics can also be produced.

"However, the application of electricity is still a bit rudimentary. It has not yet been applied to power. It doesn't match the name of the power workshop at all. It might as well be called a boiler room."

Lin Guiyao shook his head. Electricity is tightly controlled by the metropolis, so there are very few people in Hope City who understand it, and the research and application of electricity and raw materials are very weak.

Even Gobling could only make such a generator that even he didn't want to admit, and it supplied two small workshops for Ye Sangen to do experiments.

However, the metropolis has only provided electricity within the fifth ring road, which means that their power generation capacity is not sufficient, or the cost is too high to supply the entire city, so the gap is not that big.

Well, one point less difference is also less.

"Didn't someone in the metropolis negotiate a deal to send a group of talents over last time? It's been half a year. I guess it's a blow. I don't know if they will come to the city next time."

Thinking of the metropolis, Lin Guiyao frowned.

(End of this chapter)