The Hero Who Troubles the Heroes

It was a new day, and Professor Erbach left the house in good spirits after breakfast, unaware that he had slipped under his chair a few hours earlier.

In front of the cafeteria of the academy, Nikolai and several professors were discussing academic issues, and there were several people who looked like great nobles nearby pretending to understand what they were talking about.

After a while, more and more bigwigs gathered here, and the principal was the last to arrive.

Professor Erbach didn't say anything. With a wave of his hand, he led the people who had been waiting for a long time to the secret workshop area.

After putting on protective clothing and filter masks, those who have invested in electrolytic aluminum are now seeing the legendary equipment that can produce cheap aluminum for the first time.

The electrolytic cell in front of everyone is buried underneath, with internal dimensions of 5 meters long, 2 meters wide, and more than 1 meter deep. The outermost layer is a basin made of steel plates. Refractory bricks for steel furnaces, the bottom is covered with black cathode carbon blocks made of graphite.

At this time, Biqi, who was in charge of this experiment, explained to the investors that in places invisible to the naked eye, several cathode steel rods passed through the tank and extended to the DC magic array of the power room next door.

On the ground are trapezoidal hoods. These double-layered sheet steel hoods are filled with insulating material, and the side hoods can be opened like windows to remove slag.

There is a raised groove on the top of the hood, from which the exhaust gas is drawn and discharged into the absorption device in the treatment room next door.

There are three steel columns with thick human legs standing next to the exhaust pipe. Next to the steel columns are anode steel rods from the power room that are insulated with ceramic plates. On a large block of graphite anode carbon.

It stands to reason that these steel columns that fix the anode carbon block can move up and down, but Charles and the professors will not be able to think of a safe and reliable way for a while, so they can only continue to study.

Between these steel columns stand four large hoppers connected to the hood. These feed hoppers have a transparent glass strip on one side to allow observation of the material allowance, and the top has a conveyor belt leading to the outside.

After Peach introduced the electrolyzer, she took everyone to the console in the corner.

As a leading student in the core field of Demon Brain at Shield Bridge Academy, Leo was in charge of the research and development of the console. The chubby senior sister was wearing a white protective suit today, and from a distance, she thought it was a Michelin tire mascot.

There is a large row of pointer instrument panels on the console, showing data such as temperature, liquid level, voltage and current at various positions in the electrolytic cell. Below the instrument panel are switches for feeding, current regulation, emergency stop, etc.

A bunch of investors are not aware of it, but this console looks very powerful.

Nicholas asked her thoughtfully: "Leo, can this equipment automatically feed regularly and quantitatively?"

Leo replied immediately: "Now we can do timing feeding, but the quantitative technology is not yet mature, but it is enough."

Nikolai asked again: "How is the timing control achieved? Is the error accumulation caused by the long running time? Is it mechanical or magic?"

The time control problem at the core of the demon brain has always been a big problem. In the past, the demons used the fuzzy timing method, and the error would accumulate a lot over time.

Leo found that she had met someone who knew how to do it, and she replied: "Our college has invented a synthetic crystal that will vibrate violently after the input of magic power. Calculate time by counting the number of vibrations."

Nicola nodded, intending to wait for Charles to come back and let him buy this technology.

At this time, Professor Erbach has carefully read the electrolyzer start-up checklist, and a thick stack of checklists shows that all parts are ready.

"It's time to start," he said to Beachy, who had been in charge of the job from the beginning. "It's up to you."

Peach agreed without hesitation, she wouldn't let go of such a novelty.

Leo, who was discussing the console with Nikolai, was driven away, and Peach suddenly shouted: "Prepare to feed, close the cover, and everyone retreats outside the red line!"

Several investors who approached the electrolyzer to see the novelty were invited away by the students, and then the cover plates were closed one by one, leaving only two unclosed as observation ports.

As the feed switch was pressed, the white powder in the three hoppers "rumbled" into the electrolytic cell, and the inside was suddenly white.

Then two students in full-body protective suits jumped down with tools to flatten the raw materials, and then hurriedly crawled out.

Auston I and Ji Shijun looked at each other, which was different from what they had heard before.

According to the process, the electrolytic cell must first be roasted and started, generally by generating heat through electric current to melt materials such as cryolite. Now it seems that this electrolyzer does not want to do this.

Then an unscientific scene appeared. Several students came over with a few four-wheeled carts. The carts were equipped with a large box. The metal pipes protruding from the box went in through the small doors reserved on the cover plate, and then began to go to A flame composed of magical elements spewed out.

On the console side, the pointer of the temperature instrument panel slowly rose by a small grid.

After about half an hour, an investor asked Beech: "How long will this step last?"

Biqi replied: "The electrolytic cell is heating up at a rate of about 25°C per hour. It is expected to reach 300°C after 11 hours, continue to heat up after 3 hours of holding, and finally reach about 950°C in about 3 days, and then you can It's down."

"So long?" the investor asked. "Can't you hurry?"

"You think it's a boiled egg, and it can be cooked in a few minutes?" Peach replied angrily, "If the temperature rises too fast, the entire electrolyzer will collapse on the spot."

"It will take twenty days for the steel-making furnace to ignite. If you have the ability, you can complain to the dwarves."

He Dou Dagger, who had not spoken at this time, suddenly murmured: "Because of my contribution under the guidance of my god, the time for opening the furnace has been shortened to twelve days now."

"Okay." Peach was speechless.

There is nothing to see now, Professor Erbach will take everyone to visit the exhaust gas treatment room, power room and raw material warehouse.

In the warehouse, packages of "aluminum ore powder", cryolite powder and other fluoride salts were neatly stacked.

After winning the principal's approval, He Dou Dagger jumped up and took out a bag of "aluminum ore powder", opened it and gently picked out a bit with his fingers.

Other investors followed suit, and they all took a little powder and studied it.

These powders are very fine, white as snow, and have no strange smell.

He Dou Dagger asked Professor Erbach with a blank face: "This is the ore powder for direct aluminum smelting? The purity is very high!"

Professor Erbach replied: "These mineral powders are all provided by Charles, is there any problem?"

He Dou Dagger then asked a question that investors are very concerned about: "Did he say the price?"

The people around became nervous immediately. The price of "aluminum ore powder" is very important, and it is related to the final profit margin.

According to their estimates, if the price of aluminum can be reduced to half that of silver, the business is worth doing.

Then the refined aluminum ore powder should be at most half the price of refined silver ore.

The cost of silver ore exceeds 70% of pure silver.

Professor Erbach took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Everyone listen, but I remind you, please be mentally prepared."

For a while, the sound of swallowing saliva sounded around, and many people were shocked, I am afraid that the price of aluminum is higher than their psychological expectations.

Seeing that everyone's attention was focused on himself, Professor Erbach said seriously: "The price of these refined aluminum ore powders is ten times that of standard iron ore, and one ton of ore powders can produce about half a ton of aluminum."

The people around were quiet, and the good mind began to calculate.

10 tons of iron ore can buy about 2 tons of pig iron~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This money can buy 1 ton of refined aluminum ore powder, and you can get 0.5 tons of aluminum, after deducting equipment depreciation, other raw materials, energy and Labor and other costs, if those costs account for half, then 0.25 tons of aluminum can be obtained.

According to this algorithm, the ex-factory price of aluminum is 8 times that of pig iron. What if the error and loss are counted?

How many times the price of silver is that of pig iron?

At this time, someone asked: "How much is the output of this concentrate powder?"

If the output is small, then there is a lot of room to operate.

Professor Erbach thought for a while and said, "I remember Charles saying that although this mine is easy to dig, it is difficult to find. He also accidentally discovered some in his territory, Montenegro."

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