Chapter 244 Responding to the Crisis
Unknown to me, time has come July.
Shanmei's durian season is coming to an end. The local weather is better in early summer and midsummer this year. Although it rains, there is no continuous rain for a week or two, which is conducive to ensuring the quality of durian.
Usually, in order to ensure the quality of durian, if there is a heavy rain for two or three days, then durians that last for a week after the rain can only be picked as durian puree and by-products, and cannot be sold as fresh fruits.
If it is a short time when a light rain or two, just take a day or two.
This mandatory regulation is to ensure the quality of fresh fruits. Durians in the period of too much rain are prone to hydration and blandness.
Even if the durian planting areas approved by Hailufeng Company are all mountainous and sloped, once there is continuous heavy rain, it is difficult to avoid the appearance of rain fruits.
After rain fruit appears, the best solution is to pull the rain fruit to the factory for deep processing. It must not be sold as fresh fruit, otherwise it will easily ruin your reputation.
This is also one of the advantages of Hailufeng Company.
If it is a durian planting industry under the free mode, no matter how the official or industry associations repeatedly make a fuss, those who are obsessed with profit will still choose to sell fresh fruits of rain fruits for the sake of their interests.
Just like the kiwi fruit in Zhouzhi County, the local kiwi fruit association does constantly emphasize when to pick it, but it has no binding force at all. It depends entirely on farmers' consciousness. Once someone can't withstand the temptation, it is easy to pick it in advance, resulting in the kiwi fruit being dead and not being cooked at all. .
Only a strongly restricted management model similar to Hailufeng Company can avoid losing control.
Just when Hailufeng Company was developing steadily.
A new round of iron ore trade war has also erupted in full swing.
Jiang Miao naturally saw the relevant information.
The week before July, iron ore prices rose by nearly 13%, and prices are still rising.
Looking through the relevant reports from the Market Research Department, Jiang Miao frowned unknowingly.
Because in the report, he saw that the price of borax imports soared from 3,400 yuan per ton at the beginning of the year to about 4,800 yuan.
This price increase trend made Jiang Miao frown.
Among the consumable auxiliary materials for modified bean shreds, boric acid and glycerin are the core. For each ton of modified bean shreds produced, a high concentration of about 120 kg to 340 kg is required for different product specifications. Boric acid.
If tens of millions of tons of modified bean shreds need to be produced every year in the future, millions of high-concentration boric acid will be consumed every year.
Now, China can only produce 400,000 tons of borax per year, and then import about 300,000 tons of borax from Rio Tintori in Ottoman and Amika.
Using the current process, an average of 0.6 tons of boric acid can be produced per ton of borax. The cost of raw materials and price is about 9,000 yuan per ton of boric acid.
Millions of tons of boric acid mean large-scale imports of borax, with an import volume of at least several million tons, which will undoubtedly quickly push up the international market price of borax.
Jiang Miao looked at the Market Research Department's investigation report on domestic boron ore, and his face became even more cloudy after reading it.
The domestic boron ore reserves are only 35 million tons, of which the exploitable resources are about 20%∽40%. Even if some hidden mining areas are added, they still cannot withstand the consumption of millions of tons per year.
If you do not import, you will not be able to expand the production capacity of modified bean silk.
Import will quickly push up the international price of borax.
Jiang Miao tapped his desk gently with his fingers, and fell into deep thought as he looked at the reports.
From this resource war, the domestic lithium battery industry has caused the import of lithium ore very smooth due to the emergence of sponge batteries. Foreign countries have basically no idea of causing trouble in this regard. Obviously, Western capital knows that lithium batteries have already It doesn't matter. Even if it's a problem, it's just a matter of themselves.
After all, lithium batteries are only used abroad now, and many domestic power batteries and energy storage batteries have begun to be updated and are preparing to switch to sponge batteries in full.
So Western capital does not target lithium mines.
But they were eyeing copper and bauxite.
The fundamental reason is that domestic power technology and electric transportation are in full swing, requiring a large amount of copper ore bauxite.
For example, in China's copper mines in Africa, even in areas where there is no way to develop copper mines, Western capital has mobilized various forces to destroy the transportation lines and prevented the copper mine from being transported smoothly after mining.
After all, several large copper mine producers in Africa are landlocked countries. As long as the coastal areas do not agree to borrow roads, the situation is unstable, or the transportation lines are damaged, it may make it difficult to transport minerals.
Domestic companies have had no choice but to replace some transport copper ingots with transport aircraft to alleviate the problem of insufficient onshore capacity.
As for the bauxite production area, there have been turmoil in the past few months, and local mining and transportation have basically stopped.
Australian bauxite is taking the opportunity to raise prices.
After seeing these situations, Jiang Miao felt more and more that he could not rely on imports to solve the supply of boric acid. For example, the current imported borax in China is concentrated in the two core suppliers of Ottoman and Ameika. This relatively single The supply channels are too fragile.
He closed his eyes and rested, and various information appeared in his mind, which were all information he had browsed before or collected through the identification panel.
The supply problem of borax is that when it cannot rely on imports, the domestic borax production capacity cannot keep up. In fact, the best solution is to directly remove the firewood from the kettle and simply do not use boric acid.
Jiang Miao quickly found two alternatives to boric acid in the database in his mind.
One is silicic acid.
The other is phosphoric acid.
Silicic acid, like boric acid, is both weak acid, and the central atoms are in the highest valence state. Silica atoms in silicic acid and boric atoms in boric acid form a tetrahedral structure with oxygen atoms. Silicic acid can form a polyacid form similar to boric acid. For example, metasilicic acid, polysilicic acid, etc. They can all undergo partial ionization in aqueous solution and have a relatively small degree of ionization.
Phospic acid has similar properties to boric acid. Phosphoric acid is also a ternary weak acid, which is ionized step by step in aqueous solution.
Under certain conditions, phosphoric acid can also form a variety of acid salts, such as dihydrogen phosphate, hydrogen phosphate, etc., and boric acid can also form similar acid salts. Both can produce insoluble salts when reacting with some metal ions. For example, boric acid and magnesium ions can form precipitation of magnesium borate, and phosphate and calcium ions can form precipitation of calcium phosphate.
Whether it is silicic acid or phosphoric acid, Jiang Miao believes that it can effectively solve the supply problem.
The raw materials of silicalic acid are common in soil and rocks.
Phosphoric acid is due to the technology of Hailufeng Company. At present, United Mining has opened a phosphate mining base in the northern area of Zhelim City in the southern desert. Using biological mining technology, it can mine about 80,000 tons of phosphate at a low cost every year. .
It is not difficult to mine on a large scale. As long as there is official support, the phosphate production capacity can be increased to millions of tons in less than a year; within ten years, the utilization will be increased to tens of millions of dollars in annual output. Tons of phosphate scale.
So, whether it is silicic acid or phosphoric acid, foreign countries cannot interfere with domestic production.
Considering that starting from September, modified bean shreds will need to be produced on a large scale. Although only about 1 million mu of fairy shreds were produced in September, almost 120,000 tons of bean shreds were produced, and the boric acid needed was only produced. About 20,000 tons.
But this accounts for almost 4.7% of the total annual borax consumption in China.
This is just the beginning.
Western capital forces are definitely not blind. Once they noticed the surge in domestic borax consumption, coupled with the important strategic use of modified bean shreds, they will definitely not easily develop the bean shred industry in China.
The Ottoman is even more nervous than the Husky. When they may extort a large amount of money, they will definitely choose to cooperate with Western capital.
Thinking about it, Jiang Miao felt that he still had to take action himself.
After arranging other work, he came to the fiber laboratory at the headquarters and began to study how to use silicic acid, phosphoric acid, and even sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, etc. to make similar to boric acid-modified bean silk. Artificial fibers.
In fact, there are already people in Dousi Laboratory studying alternative products in this area, but the research progress is not fast and the products produced are not good.
Jiang Miao first looked through the relevant research reports of Dousi Laboratory.
He found that those researchers were imitating Kou Hui's modification plan and did not have much of his own.
Although some of the properties of silicic acid and phosphoric acid are similar to boric acid, there must be many big differences between the two. It is definitely not feasible to completely imitate the boric acid modification solution.
Through the identification panel, he can see various changes in each reaction. In less than three days.
Jiang Miao saw the part of the reaction and structural products he needed.
Using diatomaceous earth, glycerin, dilute hydrochloric acid, and concentrated silicic acid as raw materials, plus bean shreds, diatomaceous bean shreds can be produced according to a specific process.
The stiffness limit of diatom bean silk is 496GPa, the tensile strength limit is 2.64GPa, the density is 1.5 to 1.9 grams per cubic centimeter, the heat resistance limit is 306 degrees Celsius, and the impact kinetic energy absorption effect is 2.76 of ordinary steel. The service life is much longer than that of boron bean shreds.
Except for the weight being slightly higher than boron bean shreds, the other properties are relatively good, especially the high temperature resistance, which has exceeded 300 degrees Celsius.
The disadvantage of silicon bean shreds is that they are slightly higher in unit weight and have a relatively poor elasticity, but they can already replace a large part of boron bean shreds.
In addition, during the process of studying silicon bean silk, Jiang Miao also discovered several more special silicon bean silk fibers.
The silicon bean silk No. 1 is the type that replaces boron bean silk. In addition, there are three types, namely silicon bean silk No. 2, silicon bean silk No. 3, and silicon bean silk No. 4.
Silica bean silk No. 2, also known as "hollow diatom tube" and "mercury silicon tube", is because the bean silk composition inside this thing has been completely removed after high temperature treatment.
The hollow diatom tube with the bean silk component removed is actually a silicon nanotube.
Its function does not lie in its own strength, stiffness, etc., because after removing the soybean silk protein, its strength and stiffness are similar to that of ordinary glass fibers.
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The reason why this thing was specially assigned a number by Jiang Miao is mainly because after the hollow diatom tube is infused with mercury, superconductivity can be realized as long as the mercury is in liquid state.
In other words, hollow diatom tubes plus liquid mercury are normal temperature superconductors.
After all, the melting point of mercury is 38.87 degrees Celsius and the boiling point is 356.6 degrees Celsius. In this range, mercury is liquid.
Although mercury is highly toxic, as long as the seal is better, safety can still be guaranteed.
Compared with that little toxic risk, its properties of room temperature superconducting are the real value.
Jiang Miao did not expect that the research and development of room temperature superconductors would be completed under such circumstances.
The reason why he thought of removing the internal proteins of the silicon bean silk was actually to test the high temperature resistance limit of the silicon bean silk. After decomposing the internal proteins at high temperature, during the test, he found that the conductivity of this new material was very good. Strange, I studied it in depth.
Silica bean silk No. 3 is similar to Silica bean silk No. 2, but its hollow part is added with graphite powder through extrusion process and then sintered by high temperature.
Therefore, silicon bean silk No. 3, also known as "graphite-diatom tube", can also be called silicon carbide tube.
Its characteristics are that it is resistant to high temperatures, can withstand extreme high temperatures of 2854 degrees Celsius, and has a very high hardness, almost the same as diamond, and can also be used as semiconductor materials.
Of course, if it is just that, ordinary silicon carbide can do it too.
The reason why the silicon carbide tube is really numbered is that this new material has characteristics similar to carbon nanotubes, that is, its high strength, its stiffness reaches 885GPa, and its production is simpler than carbon nanotubes, which is easy to use. It can produce silicon carbide tubes with a length of tens of meters, and the high temperature resistance characteristics that carbon nanotubes do not have.
As for Silicone Bean Silk No. 4, it is also a new material derived from the basis of hollow diatom tubes.
No. 4 uses chemical deposition technology to form a dense layer of silver on the surface, so it is also called "silver-plated silicon tube".
The hollow diatom tube after silver plating will form a microelectric field inside the pipe when powered on. As long as metal particles are sucked into it, they will be accelerated by its Lorentz force, and are in nanometers The hollow pipe in size has a vacuum inside, so the speed of metal particles accelerated by electromagnetically, will soon reach a very high level.
What is the purpose of this thing?
Miniature electromagnetic gun?
Jiang Miao was still thinking, but he felt that this material might have certain potential. After all, in the laboratory, he used artificial spider silk with the smallest diameter as the raw material to create a hollow with a pore diameter of only 18 nanometers in the laboratory. pipeline.
This thing can generally only pass through metal ions, i.e. single particles.
The metal particles can be ejected through electromagnetic acceleration, and particles on the semiconductor surface can be forced to be absorbed.
Jiang Miao didn't know how to use it for a while, but he still recorded the characteristics and manufacturing process of this material.
In fact, Diatom Bean Silk No. 1 is the main purpose of his scientific research this time.
When he completes this series of research, it is already September.
He once again secretly went to the Minqin Base in the northwest.
This time, in addition to arranging technical updates, we just casually inspect the Northwest region. After all, this is the first time Jiang Miao has entered the Northwest region.
At the same time.
The Airship Company also built a test site with an area of more than 50 square kilometers in the desert around Minqin County.
Boom!
A hydrogen airbag of several thousand cubic meters exploded in the closed test area, raising yellow sand in the sky.
Wan Gaofeng, general manager of the Airship Company, put down his telescope in the underground shelter: "Baomu, you should keep an eye on the tests these days. I need to go to the Minqin Base to do something in the past few days."
Chen Baomu, the head of the test base, nodded: "Yes."
As for what Wan Gaofeng is going to do, Chen Baomu is very tactful and did not ask casually. Before he came to take charge of the test base, he Received very professional confidentiality training.
Hailufeng Company is different from ordinary private enterprises. It involves a lot of confidentiality and sensitive technology within it. Therefore, many employees who may be exposed to sensitive technology and confidentiality technology must receive comprehensive confidentiality training.
Wan Gaofeng continued, "Baomu, you sorted out the recent explosion test report before this afternoon, and then printed a copy for me."
"No problem."
That day In the afternoon, Wan Gaofeng took an off-road vehicle and returned to Minqin Base through a hidden highway.
As soon as he arrived at the Minqin Base, he came to the airship factory without stopping.
Among the 10 airship docks, the foundations and supporting facilities of 4 airship docks have been installed almost all the time, and now the dome part is missing.
On the way back, he saw a lot of fairy silk soybeans being harvested.
Then he came to the bean silk component factory.
"What? Can't be produced for the time being?"
Ma Donghai, the director of the component factory, explained helplessly: "Mr. Wan, it's not that I lost the chain, but the boss asked us to modify the process. Now there are some The craftsmanship and supporting facilities are being renovated. "
"Why?" Wan Gaofeng was confused.
Ma Donghai whispered: "I heard that it was because of the trade war. The boss did not want to use boric acid as a raw material. He was worried about the safety of import channels and the price increase."
Hearing this, Wan Gaofeng frowned: "But new Can the product with the process meet the standards? "
"Don't worry, I looked at the parameters of the product and it was heavier than the old model, and its strength and durability were greatly improved." "
" "Wan Gaofeng suddenly thought of another question: "Donghai, give me a copy of the parameters of the new product. I want the design team of the dome to recalculate it to avoid problems when there are any problems."
" Yes, I'll send you a WeChat message?"
Wan Gaofeng nodded: "Well, send it directly, it's just product parameter data, and it doesn't need to be kept confidential." "Okay, wait." Ma Donghai lowered his head and operated his phone. After a while, there were only a few products. The parameters are sent to Wan Gaofeng mobile phone.
Wan Gaofeng got the product parameters and quickly called the dome design team of the airship dome to let them analyze the components of the new product as soon as possible and whether they can be built according to the original plan.
The people from that dome design team were almost irritated. If Hailufeng Company hadn't given the money very happily, they would have wanted to scold her.
(This chapter ends)