Master of Thermodynamics
Chapter 178
While the audience was still sluggish, the black uniforms pushed iron boxes into the entrance of the conveyor belt, and at the exit on the other side, the boxes with ingots slid down the conveyor belt.
After the ingot in the box is taken out, the black uniform immediately brushes a kind of grease like thing on the surface of the box and sends it to the entrance of the conveyor belt.
The steel-making furnace spewed steel ingots at the speed of 2 seconds. It stopped after more than 2 minutes. At this time, several piles of steel ingots were piled on the cement floor, with more than 100 ingots.
"Shut down magic power steelmaking furnace..."
"Ingot weighing, total weight statistics..."
With the orders, the black uniforms are busy again.
Soon, the statistical results came out, a total of 112 ingots, with a total weight of 22 tons.
Once again, the audience was in an uproar. Half an hour, 22 tons of steel were put on the earth, which was not remarkable at all, but in the alien world, it was amazing.
Under normal circumstances, it takes at least one whole day for a steel plant to smelt the same weight of steel.
in other words, in the same time, the magic energy steelmaking process can smelt dozens of heats, and the steel production will increase dozens of times.
If the whole year starts 300 days, smelting 16 hours a day, the total output of steel will be as high as 210000 tons.
Is the annual output of iron and steel in a human kingdom 210000 tons?
No!
In other words, the steel-making furnace in front of us is equal to the steel output of a kingdom.
So this is a revolutionary breakthrough.
In fact, the whole magic energy steelmaking process is also divided into two steps.
The first step is the magic decomposition method, and its final product is molten iron.
To turn it into molten steel, a certain amount of carbon needs to be added.
Under normal circumstances, it takes quite a long time for carbon atoms to infiltrate into molten iron and fuse into iron carbon alloy in the steelmaking stage.
But now that there is a precedent of magic energy decomposition, the efficiency is still so high. The original ironmaking process, which was several hours long, was completed in just a few minutes. Naturally, Renault will think of another problem.
Can magic power be used to shorten the steelmaking process?
Of course!
The rune mage comes up with a second kind of magic black technology, Rune [smelting].
However, just like decomposition, it consumes magic power crystal and needs to be transformed into magic stone version.
This time, the magician didn''t encounter too many obstacles, and the rune Group [smelting] was born smoothly.
It can also be seen from this name that the function of Rune Group [fusion] is to forcibly knead different elements together, and the speed is incredible. The original long process of iron carbon fusion was abruptly shortened to less than 10 minutes.
This is the second step of magic power steelmaking: magic power smelting.
Different from the conventional steelmaking process, the two steps can be integrated in the same process, that is, concentrated in one container. In different stages, only different runic matrices need to be switched, and there is no need to separate smelting.
This greatly saves the number of equipment, and also reduces the time consumed between different processes. There is no need to wait for the hot metal to cool, transfer the iron billet, and then send it to the steelmaking furnace for smelting.
This is exactly what Renault pursues: one step in place!
In addition, magic power steelmaking has an extremely powerful advantage.
Please note that we are talking about "extreme" bull force, not general bull force.
It is a "heat recovery device" that makes the rune magicians cheer, makes the Lord smile, and puzzles the audience.
What is the heat recovery device for?
Heat recovery, of course!
To be exact, three parts of the energy are recovered.
The first part is the heat from the furnace.
Most of the heat will be completely absorbed by it, converted into thermal magic energy, and transmitted to the inside of the steel-making furnace. The heat spilled out is very little, and the furnace body temperature is only a little higher than the normal temperature.
It was for this reason that McGregor was puzzled when the magician stood close to the furnace.
The second part is the heat of high temperature exhaust gas.
The temperature of the waste gas discharged from the steel-making furnace exceeds 2000 degrees. If they are allowed to discharge, it will cause a lot of waste. But with the "heat recovery device", the heat of the waste gas is also used.
Impurities in the exhaust gas, such as phosphorus, sulfur, potassium and other elements, will also be cooled into solid elements, and finally collected as a by-product of magic energy steelmaking.
The third part is the heat of molten steel.
The high-temperature molten steel released from the bottom of the steel-making furnace will also be cooled by the "heat recovery device", which is also the reason why "the ingot is directly discharged".
What kind of magic black technology is such a powerful device?
It''s the rune Group [heat magic conversion]!
All heat above normal temperature can be converted into thermal magic energy by thermal magic conversion. The higher the temperature is, the higher the conversion efficiency is.So what does that mean?
This means that there is no heat loss!
It also means that heat energy can be recycled!
This also means that the fuel consumption of steelmaking will be reduced by more than 90%!
Why not 100%?
Because there will be a certain loss when heat is converted into thermal magic energy, and every time it is converted, part of the energy will be lost.
Under normal circumstances, what is the biggest cost of steelmaking?
On earth, of course, it''s iron ore.
But in the alien world, the answer is fuel.
Due to the backward process of ironmaking and steelmaking, the consumption of fuel is very high. In the total cost of iron and steel, the proportion of fuel is even more than 30%, which is higher than that of iron ore.
Using magic energy steelmaking method, the fuel cost can be reduced to the original 110.
That''s just part of it.
Because the heat energy can be recycled, the heat from the previous furnace can be used to heat the next furnace. In order to improve the heat utilization rate, the best way is continuous steel-making, which is called "continuous steel-making".
In addition, the smelting time of magic energy steelmaking method is very short, and the steel production will increase explosively.
is not the same, but woodlouse''s capability is not able to make continuous steelmaking.
woodlouse has made 1 steel plants, Renault has already made 20 furnace, and so on, when woodlouse starts again, Renault has 10 more stoves, and so on, and the productivity of the tide collar will be 30 times more than that of woodlouse.
This is still a small magic steelmaking furnace. If it''s medium or large?
That productivity will be as high as 100 times, even 200 times!
The higher the productivity is, the lower the unit cost is, and the steel cost can be reduced by more than 30%.
Even if the magic energy steelmaking process needs to consume magic stone and the cost of magic stone is high, the final total cost will be reduced by at least 60%.
If the plan of "mass production of magic stone through the breeding industry" can be carried out smoothly in the future, the cost of magic stone will also be reduced by more than half, and the cost of steel will also drop sharply by then.
at that time, the cost of producing the same steel will be at least 80% lower than that of woodlouse steelmaking.
It''s just the cost. What about the quality?
can not hesitate to say that the woodlouse steelmaking method, each furnace steel, and "bet size" gambling is not much different.
If the "big" is qualified steel, if the "small", sorry, scrap.
Similarly, even if the steel is qualified, each furnace is different, just like the equipment for striking strange brushes. Some are green (inferior steel), some are blue (ordinary steel), and a few are purple (good steel).
How''s it going? Convinced or not?
Is the "probability steelmaking method" of the people from other countries moving?
Magic steel-making method is different. Its quality is extremely stable. What kind of steel you want, such as low carbon steel or high carbon steel, you can add as much carbon powder. The quality is surprisingly stable. There will never be inferior steel or scrap steel.
Finally, what does steel with low cost and high quality mean?
This means that steel factories all over the world will be run bankrupt by Renault.
This also means that all kinds of steel products produced by haichaoling will be incredibly cheap.
It also means that Renault can easily arm an army of steel!
The first test of magic power steelmaking process lasted less than an hour.
McGregor and pierce slipped out of the room before the people at the test site left.
Out of the door of the workshop, McGregor looked at the blast furnace in the distance. He suddenly felt that the figure of the blast furnace was so lonely.
He understood that the blast furnace would never be ignited again.
In the testing workshop, many people are reluctant to leave.
Many people look around the stopped magic steel furnace, still looking incredible. Some people walk around more than 100 ingots on the ground, just immersed in the shock.
Only Renault was always calm. After greeting Seth, he left with the consul and other members of the island guard.
ironically, woodlouse, who lives in a strange world full of magical energy, is rather unacceptable to the "magic energy steelmaking" method.
On the contrary, Renault, who grew up in the world of science and technology, can be indifferent. Even as the most orthodox mechanical dog, he abandons the steel-making method of the world of science and technology and pursues the method of "using magic power to transform the world" tirelessly.
So what makes this amazing contrast?
Methodology!
This is the biggest difference between a passer-by and the alien aborigines. Behind it is the profound foundation of a developed civilization.
This kind of inside information flows quietly in Renault''s blood vessel, deeply rooted in his soul, at the right time, it will bloom out the incomparably bright spark.Every ray of fire is a light of civilization.
Today, Renault lights up the whole world with the light of civilization, which represents "magic power steelmaking"!