novelden #185 - Five small factories are progressing rapidly
#185 - Five small factories are progressing rapidly
After 24 hours of low-load operation, all equipment in the thermal power plant was running normally, and the data from various instruments showed that the equipment operation was also within the design range.
This meant that the power station had achieved initial success.
The steel plant also simultaneously started full-load production, immediately bringing up the load of the thermal power plant, slowly climbing to an economical operating state of 5,000 kilowatts, and beginning the more important 72-hour operation test.
As one furnace of molten steel after another was sent out from the steel plant's electric furnace, the simplest carbon steel began to achieve stable mass production. After simple product testing, this carbon steel was even better than that smelted by the traditional open-hearth furnace, achieving the designed production capacity of 50 tons of carbon steel per day.
The precision control of the raw materials input was completely on a different level compared to electric furnace steelmaking. In this way, in addition to the 45 steel that had been in stable mass production, Ren Zhong could now smelt new types of steel by furnace according to their intended use.
For manufacturing small mortars and grenade launchers, which require high yield strength, Ren Zhong could produce Q235/Q255/Q275 high-yield-strength carbon structural steel.
For machine parts, high-quality carbon steel, such as 20 steel and 45 steel, would be needed.
If it was to be used for manufacturing ordinary machine tools, various cutting tools, measuring tools, and molds, then T9/T12 specialty tool steel would be produced.
For manufacturing parts with complex shapes that require a certain degree of strength, plasticity, and toughness, such as gears and couplings, cast steel could also be produced, such as ZG25 steel. In the world of "亮剑 (Liang Jian)", these things were basically non-transferable secrets blockaded by foreigners.
For example, the steel plant given by the Rogue Eagle only provided an ordinary 20 steel production process. The real high-end steel production process was not given at all.
And this was only carbon steel.
The production of special alloy steel also began to enter an era of large-scale mass production. Manganese steel and artillery steel, special alloys that were difficult to produce with traditional open-hearth furnaces, were now replaced with electric furnace steelmaking. Not only was the difficulty reduced, but also, due to the use of a large amount of mechanical equipment, the reduction in labor was an order of magnitude lower than the original traditional blast furnace!
Equivalent to increasing the steel production capacity by 50 tons, the steel plant only added dozens of people. Compared to the previous hundreds of people, it was simply a leap forward.
This greatly increased the production capacity of alloy steel in the border area, basically doubling the border area's ability to produce special raw materials for weapons. Under the current production capacity, the S41 mountain gun and G20 anti-aircraft gun production capacity began to climb towards a level of 100 units per month.
As more than a dozen traditional blast furnaces were added and the machine tools were producing at full capacity, the production capacity of ordinary firearms further began to explode.
With the food problem solved, Jiang Chongjing suddenly had no bottleneck in the number of workers he could recruit.
The production capacity of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle had already begun to hit a new record of 20,000 units per month, machine guns were hitting 500 units per month, and 82mm mortars were hitting 200 units per month.
Ren Zhong no longer had any concept of these figures. Now, machine tool development had entered a self-circulating phase. Ren Zhong only needed to provide them with the designs of ordinary machine tools from the 1960s and 1970s that he found in the main world, and they could quickly manufacture new types of machine tools.
The only thing that made them feel tricky was the 10,000-ton hydraulic press! Because it was too big!
However, with the comprehensive improvement of the mechanical design technology of the Liming Research Institute, the imitation of the 10,000-ton hydraulic press had been fully launched. Because the castings were large enough, the workshop for producing this 10,000-ton hydraulic press was located near the newest steel plant in Haojiaping, so that the gantry crane could directly connect to the steel plant and transfer the large castings through the gantry crane.
This was the most important piece of equipment for Ren Zhong's aviation career. As long as the aluminum from the Ik Zhao League was obtained, the only things lacking for P51D production were the 10,000-ton hydraulic press and the successful replication of the legendary Merlin V1650 engine.
The GAA V8 engine, which was being developed together with the Merlin engine, was also approaching success, and the simpler single-cylinder diesel engine was easily replicated. With the current processing conditions and materials, this dozen-horsepower diesel engine could almost be mass-produced directly.
Now, the other parts of the Mustang fighter, such as wireless communication equipment, cockpit instruments, and weapons, had basically completed research and trial production. The fuselage frame could not be manufactured without a large forging machine. After all, building a model according to the general casting method was okay, but the strength to really fly into the sky was far from enough.
Another large raw material, copper, had now been built at the smelting plant on Qilu Half and had begun to continuously import copper to the border area as agreed.
This was an indispensable material for power research and application. After Qilu Half mastered the manufacture of wrought iron bullets, the demand for copper was not strong. Through the exchange of copper for high-quality explosives, Qilu Half had no other source to replace it.
Therefore, most of the smelted copper flowed into the border area.
This temporarily gave the Liming Research Institute sufficient copper resources for power development. However, with the successful development of the thermal power plant, the future demand for electricity would greatly increase, and it was a general trend to send electricity to more distant places through overhead lines.
With the success of the 6MW thermal power plant, the second set would be placed in the Ik Zhao League for aluminum smelting, but the third set would be placed in the capital of the border area to electrify most areas of the capital.
In this way, before the steel-cored aluminum stranded wire for power transmission was researched and processed, Ren Zhong had to use cold-drawn copper wire for the 10KV transmission line, which would suddenly skyrocket the consumption of copper.
Now that there were more factories, Ren Zhong could not equip each factory with a power plant. The fertilizer plant and the oil refinery were heavily polluting, so Ren Zhong designed these two to be downstream areas a few kilometers away from Haojiaping. Now, the construction of the factory area and the casting of large parts were basically in place, and they were being installed and debugged in full swing.
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A 10KV copper wire overhead connection was used between these two factories. With the transmission distance of a 10KV line, a range of 20 kilometers was still acceptable.
The Liming Research Institute had originally researched the core equipment such as the cracking unit required by the oil refinery. Now, adjusting these devices to match the oil refinery provided by the Rogue Eagle would allow the factory to be quickly launched. Of course, this matching work was not easy and was even more difficult than the steel plant.
Therefore, in terms of progress, it was a little behind the steel plant. As for the equipment of the fertilizer plant, Ren Zhong had to wait for some of the core components provided by General Shi to be in place before they could be successfully assembled.
Now, the Liming Research Institute did not regard fertilizer equipment as the main research. The large castings were localized, but it would not work without those core equipment.
Although, according to the technical data given by General Shi, the Liming Research Institute itself was also researching the independent manufacture of fertilizer equipment, but now it was still focused on the large, stupid, and crude aspects of external castings, and the core components still needed further research before they could be produced.
Now, with a thousand things to do, the scale of the Liming Research Institute, even though it had expanded to more than 1,500 people, was still very short of personnel. Now, 500 students from the Kiln Cave Academy had begun to supplement them as research assistants, bringing the research team to 2,000 people. Immediately afterwards, the second phase of students was also undergoing early training and screening in the border area, which was almost another 500 people.
The research scale of the Liming Research Institute was developing rapidly.
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