Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 140 Fulin House Gas Tank

  Large chimneys spewed thick black smoke, rendering the sky dark and heavy, and occasionally strong mountain breeze blows away the dark clouds, just before there is a bright sun shining down, bringing people a warm feeling.

  Red River Valley paid the environmental price for its development. The clear Baixi in Baihu City, which focuses on the development of heavy industry in the West, became smelly and black, and the locals called it "Smelly Creek."

  Due to the poor living environment, the entire city has a population of less than 50,000 so far. Many of them are workers and family members of nearby coal mines and coking coal plants, because they are forced to leave here because of their livelihoods.

   Among the nearby cities, Baihu City has the worst environment. The huge city is covered with layers of black and gray, making it look so gray.

  The strong mountain wind blows by, and the blackened dust spreads around like a black mist, making people feel cold.

In order to welcome the honorable Earl of Queensland’s inspection, White Tiger borrowed 20 tractors from the coking coal plant to wash the streets with huge water tanks on their backs, forming a small, dark water pool on the side of the road. Once pedestrians step on it, it looks like ink. The same stained clothes.

  The advantage is that the annoying black fog is reduced by more than half, but the disadvantage is that there is almost no clean clothes when walking on the street.

  The luxury horse convoy engraved with the Red Mountain Dragon family logo was driving on the street. Li Fushou looked at the helpless pedestrians and the gray city outside the window and sighed deeply.

  No way, development is the last word.

  Today's international metropolis London is suffering from severe smog. White Tiger City still needs to endure for decades and wait until it develops to control pollution.

  It is useless to say that those good-looking ones are the key products exported by the Hongshan Coking Coal Plant, but the money bags of the Queensland Earl accounted for a large share of the income.

  Don’t look at the more profit contributed by the wool spinning mill. This is just a superficial phenomenon, because the wool spinning mill uses less electricity. In fact, the profit from the closure of the Hongshan Reservoir cannot be reached by the wool spinning mill compared with the coking coal mill.

  For every ton of high-quality coking coal produced by the coking coal plant, the profit from the closure of the Red River Reservoir alone will contribute 1 pound, 3 shillings and 7 pence to the Queensland Earl. How much is it based on an annual output of 600,000 tons?

  Not to mention the profits and taxes of coking coal plants. It is another large amount of income. It is one of the two major products exported by Australia: one black and one white.

  Black is coking coal, white is pure wool yarn.

  The two have the same characteristics. They are not unprocessed primary products, but manufactured products with high added value, which are highly sought-after products in the international market.

  Take the United States as an example; steel production has soared 10 times in just three years, and the West Coast has a greater demand for high-quality coking coal.

  Without the sacrificed environment of Baihu City, there would be no coastal railway extending to the south today, no Songjiang Reservoir with large-scale construction projects, and no migrants arriving in Australia one after another. This is the backbone of heavy industry.

  Hongshan Coking Coal Plant

  Li Fushou wore bright leather boots and a velvet black cloak with a pocket on him, walked out of the carriage, and walked into the production plant surrounded by the crowd.

Along with the tall chimneys are burning fireballs. There are more than a dozen bright flames in the dark sky, which are burning continuously. That is the large amount of gas produced by refining coking coal, because it is temporarily unable to Use can only be burned.

  There was a choking smell of dust in the air. The white mask I just brought on quickly turned gray-black, and the dust pollution was very serious.

  Li Fushou frowned and asked; “The dust pollution in the factory area is too serious. Isn’t fly ash widely used in railway subgrade construction? How come there are so many?”

"Report to Lord Earl that the fly ash used on the railway is from the fly ash mountain that was left in the past. About half of the fly ash used on the railway is now used, and the rest will be emptied in the near future, which can fully meet the demand for the construction of the coastal railway to Sydney. , But today a large amount of fly ash is still being produced, which is a by-product of the production of coking coal and an inevitable price.” The relevant person in charge of Baihu City quickly replied.

"Fly ash can also be used in other scenarios, such as paving roads and squares, and used as cushion soil. The development of Songjiang Town requires a large amount of fly ash. Your factory actively contacted Songjiang Town. The construction there is now by Mr. Wu Mozhou. Responsible, just say what I ordered, fly ash is used as a cushion in urban construction, regardless of roads or squares." Li Fushou confessed as he walked.

   "Yes, Lord Earl."

The coking coal plant now produces eight production lines at the same time. The violently burning coal has raised the surrounding temperature by more than 10 degrees. Large red coke is pushed out by the coal truck, and then loaded by the quenching truck to the quenching pool. These are all produced using electricity. .

  The coal mine and the coking coal plant are only separated by a wall, and the supply of raw materials is very convenient.

The coal produced in the open-pit coal mine is transported to the coal mountain by a conveyor belt. There is a horn-shaped discharge port next to the coal mountain. The coal fell into the minecart.

The small train moved slowly, and the long minecart behind was filled with coal. The train pulled the minecart full of coal into the coking coal plant, opened the minecart in the unloading area to unload the coal, and completed a round of work. .

  Each production line of the coking coal plant has a small train dedicated line. In this era, it is an extremely advanced design, which greatly saves the manpower and material resources of loading and unloading.

  Calculated based on the current production capacity of Hongshan Coking Coal Plant, at least 3 million tons of high-quality raw coal is consumed every year. Except for 600,000 tons of high-quality coking coal, all other by-products and wastes are associated.

  The largest source of waste is millions of tons of fly ash. In addition, there are by-products of coal gas, coal tar, and a series of chemical raw materials, which are not well processed and utilized.

  Now it's slowing down, and the deep processing of these chemical products is on the agenda.

  After an inspection at the coking coal plant, Li Fushou assigned tasks to the accompanying coking plant leaders and engineers;

  Develop and collect process equipment for the collection of by-products such as tar and gas for storage and consumption.

  Gas can be collected in large storage tanks, packed in small tanks, and used as a stove instead of wood fire in ordinary households. It is clean and hygienic.

  The existing coking process needs to be improved. The purpose is to greatly reduce dust pollution and brighten the sky in Baihu City. People can breathe fresh air and the coking plant will become a clean and hygienic heavy industry production plant.

  There are many things that can be done and improved. We must encourage every employee to brainstorm, reward outstanding ideas, and mobilize everyone to participate in the improvement work.

  All of these have greatly broadened the horizons of the relevant personnel in the coking plant and Baihu City, and felt that they were suddenly enlightened.

  This is related to everyone's vital interests. No one wants to roll around in the dust of fly ash all day long. What is the use of enjoying too much money?

  Leaving the heavily polluted Baihu City, Li Fushou was dirty from beginning to end. He looked back at this heavy industrial town that had paid a heavy price for development, with a lot of emotion in his heart;

  If there is gain, there must be loss. Who can tell who is right?

  In the face of increasing demand for coking coal from North America, Red River Valley is limited by the power bottleneck, but cannot continue to increase production on a large scale. I feel so heartbroken.

  Songjiang Town has ample power supply, but no coal resources, and is inherently incapable of developing the coking coal industry.

  Millions of tons of coal are loaded and unloaded from the coal mine to the dock, and then transported by water to Songjiang Town for loading and unloading. After the production is produced and then loaded and unloaded, the cost of transportation and repeated loading and unloading will be unacceptably high.

  The most feasible way is to innovate technology, improve technical processes and processes, and consume the same electricity to produce more coking coal.

  Although Li Fushou does not know how to do it, he also knows that the existing coking coal process can be improved too much.

   By the way, there is also the gas tank industry.

  The gas tank can be said to be the simplest pressure vessel. There is a gate valve and a gas outlet on the top of the tank, and everything is done.

  Use a rubber hose to connect to the gas stove. It is really a simple design, but it can solve the needs of thousands of households to cook.

  The gas produced by the Hongshan Coking Coal Plant is enough to supply cities with a population of up to 2 million, and it can basically be fully digested in the local Australian market.

  In addition to the Red River Valley and the Brisbane Twin Cities, big cities such as Sydney and Melbourne also need it, as well as towns and villages all over the Australian mainland. The market prospects are quite promising.

  If you replace one shilling per tank of gas, one tank of gas can be used for one month, and you need to use 100,000 pounds of gas each month, which was originally burned in vain.

  Only replacing the gas, 12 months can create a market of up to one million pounds, and the profit is considerable.

  Not to mention the cost of purchasing gas tanks for the first time, deposits, and job demand for gas stoves and transportation, which can solve the employment problem of up to tens of thousands of people.

  Otherwise, hundreds of small towns and cities across Australia require at least a thousand horse-drawn carriages and thousands of coachmen, as well as gas station staff, etc., according to the current method of carriage mainly.

  Li Fushou sat on the carriage and formed a circular industry circle in the memory of these hastily, scribbled in a notebook, and handed over to a staff of the Secretariat to refine the plan, and finally promote the implementation.

  He thought about it and wrote;

  The production and processing of gas tanks and gas stoves can be patented for large-scale production and export. The East Coast of the United States and Europe are not lacking in wasting gas resources, but they lack the means and methods for rational use of coal and gas resources.

  Gas tanks and gas stoves are products that can be used for export. Regarding the brand, you can use "Fulinmen". This brand has a good meaning and is catchy.

  Whether the industry is married to local capital for better promotion and development, please organize demonstrations by relevant personnel of the Secretariat and implement them effectively.

  After writing, Li Fushou took a closer look and nodded in satisfaction.

Another industry in his memory has fallen into place, which gives him a sense of accomplishment. Maybe people will call Li Fushou the "father of gas" or the father of "modern household fuel". It's exciting to think about it. Son.

Nowadays Europeans and Americans generally use briquettes. Once this thing is extinguished, it is very difficult to re-light it. Many remote areas in the United States simply use wood. Light a fire and hang an iron pot on it. Can stew soup but not other dishes.

  The appearance of gas stoves really has epoch-making significance!

  (End of this chapter)