Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 185 The Five Small Factories Are Making Rapid Progress

After 24 hours of low-load operation, all equipment in the thermal power plant is operating normally, and data from various instruments show that the equipment is operating within the designed range.

This means that the power station has achieved initial success.

The steel plant also started full-load production at the same time, which immediately increased the load of the thermal power plant and slowly climbed to the economic operation state of 5 kilowatts, and began the more important 72-hour operation test.

As the steel plant's electric furnace delivered molten steel one after another, the simplest carbon steel began to achieve stable mass production. After simple product testing, these carbon steels were found to be better than those smelted by the traditional open-hearth furnace method, achieving a production capacity design of 50 tons of carbon steel per day.

The level of fine control over the original material input is completely different from that of electric furnace steelmaking. In addition to the No. 45 steel that has been in stable mass production before, Ren Zhong can now smelt new types of steel according to their uses.

The manufacture of small mortars and grenade launchers requires high yield strength. Renzhong can produce Q235/Q255/Q275 high yield carbon structural steel.

For machine parts, high-quality carbon steel is required, such as No. 20 steel and No. 45 steel.

If it is used to manufacture ordinary machine tools, various cutting tools, measuring tools, and molds, then the special tool steel T9/T12 is produced.

It can manufacture parts with complex shapes that require a certain level of strength, plasticity and toughness, such as gears, couplings, etc. It can also produce cast steel, such as ZG25 steel. In the world of Bright Sword, these things are basically secrets blocked by foreigners.

For example, the steel mill provided by Rogue Eagle only provided an ordinary No. 20 steel production process, but did not provide the real high-end steel production process at all.

But these are simple tasks for Ren Zhong. He puts forward the local materials and his own needs, and finds Professor Hu, a real expert in steel smelting in the main world. He will soon use a supercomputer to calculate a set of the most reasonable formulas.

This will bring the production of Haojiaping Steel Plant directly into a new era of on-demand production.

And that’s just carbon steel.

The production of special alloy steels has also entered the era of large-scale mass production. Special alloys such as manganese steel and artillery steel, which were difficult to produce using traditional open-hearth furnace methods, have now been replaced by electric furnace steelmaking. Not only has the difficulty been reduced, but due to the use of a large number of mechanical equipment, the reduction in labor is an order of magnitude lower than the original traditional blast furnace!

This is equivalent to increasing the steel production capacity by 50 tons, and the steel plant only added a few dozen people, which is a leap compared to the previous hundreds of people.

This has greatly increased the production capacity of alloy steel in the border area, and basically doubled the ability to produce special raw materials for the border area's weapons. Supported by the current production capacity, the production capacity of S41 mountain guns and G20 anti-aircraft machine guns has begun to climb towards the level of 100 guns per month.

With the addition of more than a dozen earthen blast furnaces and the machine tools operating at full capacity, the production capacity of ordinary firearms began to explode further.

After solving the food problem, Jiang Chongjing no longer had a bottleneck in the number of workers to recruit.

56半自动步枪产能已经开始冲击月产2万支，机枪冲击月产500挺，82毫米迫击炮冲击月产200门的新纪录。

Ren Zhong had no idea about these things. Machine tool development had now entered a self-circulating cycle. Ren Zhong only needed to provide them with the ordinary machine tool designs from the 1960s and 1970s in the main world, and they would be able to build new types of machine tools very quickly.

The only thing that made them feel difficult was the 10,000-ton hydraulic press! Because it was too big! However, with the overall improvement of the mechanical design technology of the Liming Institute, the imitation of the 10,000-ton hydraulic press has been fully launched. Because the castings are large enough, the factory building that produces this 10,000-ton hydraulic press is close to the latest steel plant in Haojiaping, so the gantry crane can directly reach the steel plant and transfer the large castings through the gantry crane.

This is the most important equipment in the aviation industry. As long as the aluminum from Ikh Ju League is produced, the production of P51D will be able to successfully replicate the 1650-ton hydraulic press and the legendary Merlin V engine.

The GAA V8 engine was developed together with the Merlin engine and was close to success, and the simpler single-cylinder diesel engine was easily replicated. With current processing conditions and materials, this diesel engine with more than ten horsepower can almost be directly mass-produced.

Now the rest of the Mustang fighter, such as wireless communication equipment, cockpit instruments and weapons, has basically been researched and trial-produced. The fuselage frame cannot be manufactured without a large forging machine. After all, the model built by the general casting method is fine, but it is far from strong enough to fly.

Another major raw material is copper. The smelter at Qiluban has been built and is beginning to supply copper to the border area in a steady stream as agreed.

This is an indispensable material in the research and application of electricity. After Qiluban mastered the production of wrought iron bullets, the demand for copper was not strong. They exchanged copper for high-quality explosives, and Qiluban had no other source of supply to replace it.

Therefore, most of the smelted copper flows into the border area.

This has temporarily provided the Liming Research Institute with sufficient copper resources for its power development. However, with the successful development of the thermal power station, the demand for electricity will increase significantly in the future. It is an inevitable trend to send electricity to more distant places through overhead lines.

With the success of the 6MW thermal power station, the second one will be placed in Ikh Ju League for aluminum smelting, but the third one will be placed in the capital of the border region to provide electricity to most areas of the capital.

In this way, before the steel-core aluminum stranded wire for power transmission is researched and processed, Ren Zhong has to use cold-drawn copper wire for 10KV transmission lines, so that the consumption of copper will soar suddenly.

There are more factories now, and Ren Zhong cannot equip each factory with a power plant. Fertilizer plants and refineries are highly polluting, so Ren Zhong designed these two to be located in the downstream area a few kilometers away from Haojiaping. Now the factory construction and large-scale casting are basically in place, and are being installed and debugged in full swing.

The two factories are connected by 10KV copper wire overhead. The transmission distance of the 10KV line is acceptable within 20 kilometers.

The Dawn Research Institute has already researched the cracking unit and other core equipment needed for the refinery. Now, by adjusting these devices to match the refinery provided by Rogue Eagle, the factory can be put into operation quickly. Of course, this matching work is not easy and is even more difficult than that of a steel plant.

Therefore, in terms of progress, it lags behind the steel plant a little bit. As for the equipment of the fertilizer plant, Ren Zhong has to wait for some core components provided by General Shi to arrive before he can assemble them successfully.

Now the Dawn Research Institute does not focus on fertilizer equipment as its main research. Large castings have been localized, but the lack of core equipment is not enough.

Although according to the technical information provided by General Shi, the Dawn Research Institute itself is also studying the independent manufacturing of fertilizer equipment, but it is still focusing on large external castings that are bulky and clumsy, and the core components need further research before they can be produced.

Now there are so many things to do. Even though the scale of the Liming Research Institute has expanded to more than 1500 people, it is still very short of staff. Now 500 students from the Cave Academy have begun to supplement as research assistants, bringing the research team to 2000 people. Then the second batch of students are also undergoing early training and screening in the border area, which is about 500 people.

The research scale of the Dawn Institute is developing rapidly.

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