my magic industry

Chapter 133 Graphite
The establishment of a construction company involves all aspects of things that need to be dealt with, such as arranging management personnel and financial personnel, arranging the artisans called in by various chambers of commerce, testing their skill level and determining the shares of each chamber of commerce, setting up construction teams and recruiting workers, etc.

Although it's Xia Lin's turn to deal with these matters, construction won't start so soon.

Xia Lin, who returned to the industrial park, was going to go to the Karl Research Institute to see the current research and development of the rotation technique. However, on the pier of the industrial park, a ship that Xia Lin had met once, the Thorn Bird, was moored. It disrupted his scheduled plan.

However, if the plan was disrupted, it would be disrupted. Seeing Captain Nick who arrived at the pier by boat from the Thorn Bird again, Xia Lin was only happy and delighted.

"Fortunately, Your Excellency Xia Lin, my Thorn Bird has brought what you want!"

On the pier where the wind was blowing, Captain Nick, who was dusty and bearded, walked up the pier from the boat, and immediately took off his captain's cap and gave Xia Lin a noble salute. His thin cheeks could not be concealed. Pride and pride.

"Thank you for your hard work, Captain Nick!"

Xia Lin also said to Captain Nick in a solemn tone.

In just over ten days, Captain Nick set off from Helgana to Daffa Port along the Seine River, and then sailed westward from Daffa Port to find the graphite mine he said, and hired miners to successfully mine the ore back.

Although Xia Lin has never sailed far, he can estimate the hardships along the way. In Xia Lin's view, Captain Nick is qualified to be proud of this.

"It's not hard work, but it's not in vain. Your Excellency Xia Lin, I'll take you to the Thorn Bird to see if those black stones are the 'graphite' ore you want!"

After hearing the sincerity in Xia Lin's words, Captain Nick nodded with some emotion.

"Okay! These ores are indeed very important to the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce. I can't wait to see those ores now, so I will trouble you!"

In fact, Xia Lin also had the idea of ​​confirming the type of ore as soon as possible in his heart, so he followed Captain Nick's words.

"Haha! You are my sponsor. This is not a problem. Without the support of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce, I might not even be able to travel to the sea this month. Please come with me!"

For Xia Lin's attitude of respecting him, Captain Nick was very helpful, and Dang even enthusiastically took Xia Lin onto the boat himself.

The dock berths in the industrial park were designed to berth some inland waterway ships, and could not berth large ships such as the Thorn Bird, so Captain Nick and Xia Lin needed to use a small boat to get on and off the Thorn Bird.

With the help of the sailors, he climbed up the rope ladder to the deck, and Xia Lin followed Captain Nick to the bilge. As a cargo ship for long-distance voyages, the internal structure of the Thorn Bird was very different from the inland river boats that Xia Lin had been on. the difference.

The cramped passage, the small room, the dim ship lights, and Xia Lin, who is only nearly 1.7 meters tall, has to bow his head slightly to pass through. The smell of various goods mixed together, making people feel even more uncomfortable.

Arriving at the wet bilge loaded with ores, Xia Lin finally saw the raw graphite ore that he had been looking for for nearly two months. The black-gray ore showed a semi-metallic luster on the surface, and the ore could be broken with a little force.

After performing a low-light technique, Xia Lin saw plate-shaped traces on the broken surface. Through these features, he identified that the type of ore was indeed the graphite mine he was looking for. Xia Lin finally nodded in relief:

"That's right, this is the graphite ore I want, Captain Nick, now let's arrange for people to transport these ores off the Thorn Bird!"

"That's good, Andris, you find some guys to move these ores out!"

Hearing Xia Lin's affirmative words, Captain Nick, who was a little nervous just now, was also relieved, and immediately called his first officer to make arrangements.

Received a monthly [-] gold Lunte subsidy from the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce, and felt Xia Lin's importance and respect for him. In return, Captain Nick would naturally attach importance to the first mission Xia Lin arranged for him. Fortunately, This task has now been successfully completed.

However, during the next unloading process, they encountered some problems.

Ocean-going ships such as the Thorn Bird need to store a large amount of materials, and the tonnage is quite large, so the height of the ship is very high, and often requires a special wharf for unloading.

However, the height of the pier trestle in the industrial park does not meet the requirements, and it is impossible to erect paving boards. The ore can only be hoisted from the ship to the small boat by manpower, and then transported to the flatbed truck at the dock. Kilometers of Baotou steel rails are transported to the machining factory.

The efficiency of this process is really too low. Xia Lin waited for a long time, and the [-] pounds of graphite ore mined by Captain Nick's specially hired personnel was only unloaded by [-] to [-] pounds.

Although it will take another day to unload all these graphite ores at this speed, but considering that similar situations may happen in the future, Xia Lin thought about it and went back to his office to draw a simple set. The blueprint of the wooden gantry crane was handed over to Master Haller for the machining factory to produce it.

The structure of this wooden gantry crane is extremely simple. In fact, it consists of two columns and a main beam as the main structure, and the lifting system uses a set of steel rods as slide rails and two human ratchets as power. These two ratchets can Let two people rotate at the same time, the design can lift the weight of only 150 kg.

Although it seems few, the biggest advantage of the gantry crane is that it can lift the goods directly from the deck of a tall ship, and then directly move the goods to the flatbed truck through the slide rails, saving a lot of processes in the middle, so it can greatly improve the efficiency. .

It's just that the process of installing the gantry crane is relatively complicated. It is necessary to divide a suitable berth on the existing wharf for the large ship to berth, and then pour concrete on both sides of the berth for the fixed piles of the columns.

After the construction is completed, when the ship is parked at the berth, the gantry crane will be just on the front half of its deck, so that it can be easily operated.

After spending a day arranging the production task of the gantry crane, Xia Lin specially called a construction team to a vacant berth to prepare the pre-construction work for the installation of the gantry crane. On the other side, all the graphite ore loaded on the Thorn Bird It was unloaded.

After completing the loading, unloading and transportation of the graphite ore, Xia Lin gave Captain Nick an additional subsidy of two Jinlents without hesitation, and asked Captain Nick to use the money to take his sailors to the North District Wharf to repair for a period of time. Continue to set off to dig some graphite ore and come back.

In addition to being used to make electrodes, graphite is useful in many places in industry, such as lubricants, crucibles, casting molds, etc.There is also the pencil that Xia Lin wanted very much, which also needs graphite to make, so the more versatile raw materials, the better.

But this kind of thing can be one or two. The New Leaf Chamber of Commerce signed a sponsorship contract with Captain Nick, not an employment contract.

Moreover, long-distance talents like Captain Nick are used to specialize in these coastal shipping channels, which is really burying talents. For this reason, Xia Lin once again put the plan of establishing a shipping company or even a shipyard on the agenda.

It's just that he still has a job on hand now, which is to use the natural graphite ore that has been stored in the warehouse to manufacture graphite electrodes to replace the fine gold electrodes on the electric arc furnace.

In Xia Lin's impression, the electric arc furnaces in the previous steelworks generally used artificial graphite electrodes, because natural graphite has some problems, such as small reserves, difficult to mine, etc., but now he has one on hand. According to Captain Nick It's an almost completely open-pit graphite mine, so these aren't much of a problem.

The problem now is how to make graphite electrodes from graphite, which is knowledge that Xia Lin has never touched in his previous life.

But based on his understanding of graphite electrodes, it is speculated that the use of natural graphite to make graphite electrodes should first ensure the purity of graphite.

That is to say, in the production process, the ore should be crushed first, the graphite ore should be refined by chemical and physical means, and then the graphite product with high purity should be obtained through screening, and finally it should be pressed and formed.

As for the issue of purity, Xia Lin already held a master key in his hand.

(End of this chapter)