Sail across the sea

Chapter 51

"Is this an accident, or..."

Gao Fan stopped in the middle of speaking, he knew that Gao Yiping understood what he meant.

Gao Yiping looked at Gao Fan with eyes full of appreciation and relief:

This baby really looks like me!

He just said that there was a serious accident in the synthesis section, and he immediately thought that the accident might not be an accident, but had other reasons.It is not surprising that there are various production accidents in chemical fertilizer plants, but at such a critical moment, such serious accidents cannot but make people have some associations.

It's not surprising that an adult like myself can think of this.Gao Fan is just a high school student, and in the eyes of everyone, he is just a doll, but he can react so quickly, what is this called?

Isn't this a tiger father without dog son?

He didn't know that the reason why Gao Fan felt that this accident was abnormal was because he lived in an era when the production management of enterprises was highly standardized in his previous life.Process production enterprises such as chemical fertilizer plants have strict operating requirements for each link. It is very rare for a large area of ​​catalyst to be poisoned due to unqualified mixed gas.

In this day and age, the production management in Chinese enterprises is still in a very rough stage, otherwise there would be no such thing as someone climbing onto the ammonia pool to smoke.Such unqualified gas mixtures will happen in every factory, but the degree is different.No matter who investigates the catalyst poisoning this time, it can only be said to be an accident of responsibility, and it is impossible to say what kind of conspiracy it is.

"We went to investigate, and it was the operator of the desulfurization section who made a mistake and did not replenish the desulfurization fluid in time, resulting in insufficient desulfurization." Gao Yiping said, with a hint of contempt on his face.

Gao Fan noticed Gao Yiping's expression, and he asked, "This operator, with whom does he usually walk around more?"

"You got the point." Gao Yiping nodded, but did not answer Gao Fan's question.There are also small circles in the factory, and everyone knows who walks more with whom.This operator was from Qiu Guoliang, and Gao Yiping knew what was going on as soon as he heard the investigation results.

However, when it came to the conflicts between the factory leaders, it was not suitable for Gao Yiping to tell Gao Fan in detail.Gao Fan's ability to ask this question shows that he knows the mystery of it very well, and Gao Fan doesn't need to know who is doing the trick.

"The most urgent task now is to quickly replace the catalyst and start driving again?"

Gao Fan put aside the question just now and suggested.

This sentence made Gao Yiping feel emotional again.At critical times, it is also a kind of vision to be clear about the importance and not to be entangled in the issue of responsibility.Some people, including some middle-level cadres who stood on their side in the factory, yelled and claimed that they wanted to investigate the mastermind behind the scenes, which is naive.

What the county leaders are most concerned about now is whether the fertilizer plant can make a profit, or at least avoid too much loss. If you argue about who is right at this time, no matter what the result is, the board will be slapped on the factory manager's ass in the end.

On the contrary, if you can quickly solve the problem and resume production, the following things will be easier to handle.If you can pay hundreds of thousands of profits to the county, don't say that the previous matter is not your responsibility, even if it is related to you, no one will care.

"Now we must hurry up to replace the catalyst. However, because our factory has just replaced the catalyst, there is no stock, and we have to transfer goods from other provinces. It will take at least ten days." Gao Yiping said.

The catalyst in the synthesis tower works at high temperature for a long time, and the fine pure iron grains will gradually grow, resulting in a reduction in surface area and loss of activity. This situation is called catalyst aging.In addition, there are inevitably various impurities in the hydrogen-nitrogen mixture, which will lead to slow poisoning of the catalyst.So every once in a while, the chemical fertilizer factory needs to replace the catalyst, the general interval is about one year.

The Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory just replaced the catalyst a few months ago, so there is no new catalyst in the warehouse, and it needs to be purchased from a special catalyst factory.Maolin Province is not a strong industrial province, and does not have its own catalyst factory. The nitrogen fertilizer factories in the province have to purchase catalysts from neighboring provinces.From placing the order to transporting the catalyst back to Cangtang, ten days is already considered very fast.

When the catalyst is bought back, it needs to be filled, and then restored and driven. It takes another ten days to come and go.This means that the Canghai Fertilizer Plant will stop production for at least 20 days.The county required Gao Yiping to turn losses into profits within three months, so the suspension of production basically ruined the turnaround.

"Can't we make the catalyst ourselves?" Gao Fan asked.

"Make your own catalyst?" Gao Yiping looked at Gao Fan, "How is this possible, do you know what a catalyst is?"

"Ferric oxide, plus some accelerators, I think, it should be aluminum oxide, potassium oxide, calcium oxide, right?" Gao Fan said.

"How do you know?" Gao Yiping asked in surprise, "You also read this from the book?"

"Of course." Gao Fan said lightly.

Gao Yiping nodded: "That's right, I believe your Auntie Xiaoyun's words now, you really read a lot of books."

"What are you talking about? So you never believed Xiaoyun's words!" Ran Yuying, who was listening while cooking, was annoyed. She ran over from the kitchen and scolded Gao Yiping, "Xiaoyun has already said that Xiaofan is a genius , he is better than those experts from the Ministry of Chemical Industry, you believe it now?"

"Okay, okay, cowhide is not what you boast about." Gao Yiping didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he sent Ran Yuying away, and continued to say to Gao Fan, "The composition of the catalyst you mentioned is correct, but the production of catalyst is not so easy. It needs to be produced by a professional factory, how can we do it?"

Gao Fan said seriously: "Dad, the production in a professional factory is only to meet the requirements of mass production. In fact, the method of producing catalysts is not complicated, and the equipment is also ordinary equipment. I have read it in books, Pujiang Jiaotong University, Shuinan University , have developed ammonia synthesis catalysts, and they used the electric furnace of the experimental factory for smelting.

"The Cangtang Iron and Steel Works has an electric furnace. Our iron ore in Cangtang is magnetite, which can be smelted directly. If we do it well, we can save 10 days, and the catalyst produced by ourselves is definitely better than that produced from other provinces. It’s cheap to buy, why not try it?”

"What you said makes sense." Gao Yiping was convinced.

Gao Yiping also read all the chemical magazines subscribed in the factory, but he didn't read some articles too seriously.Gao Yiping had some impression of the cases mentioned by Gao Fan. It seems that several universities did produce their own catalysts in their laboratories or experimental factories, and there were more detailed introductions to the experimental process.

In fact, there is nothing mysterious about the synthetic ammonia catalyst. It is indeed ferric oxide plus alumina, potassium oxide, calcium oxide and other substances, which are smelted and then crushed.Gao Yiping has a background in chemical engineering and is no stranger to this kind of process production.Hearing what Gao Fan said, he also felt that there was no harm in trying.

(End of this chapter)