Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 35 Distributed sulfuric acid production line on the agenda (please read later)
Compared with Li Yunlong's almost rapid progress in the project, the progress of Zhu Zhendong, Chen Deren, Zhao Chengzhong and Zhou Xueli was much slower.

They were responsible for the entire future industrial production of sulfuric acid. Ren Zhong got them several sets of beakers, crucibles, some sulfur ores, and even a small bottle of industrial concentrated sulfuric acid - this was what Ren Zhong had originally gotten them for the nitrocellulose experiment.

The data on industrial production processes were also provided, but Zhu Zhendong and his team obviously encountered many difficulties in verifying the process flow in experiments.

So, as soon as they saw Ren Zhong, everyone's face was full of question marks, and they surrounded Ren Zhong with a hundred thousand questions.
(Don’t ask what it said specifically, the author doesn’t understand, just skip it!)

Fortunately, Ren Zhong had foresight and hired a tutor in the main world to conduct these experiments himself. Under the guidance of the teacher, he solved all the problems in the practical operation and successfully produced sulfuric acid under laboratory conditions. Although these things are not difficult for a chemistry teacher, this is because chemical engineering has undergone nearly a hundred years of development, and chemistry teachers have mastered the knowledge gained by countless predecessors in industrial practice.

That is why he was able to guide Ren Zhong to complete a simple chemical experiment process for industrial production of sulfuric acid with ease.

In fact, the problems encountered by Zhu Zhendong and his colleagues would be a headache even for university professors.

There is a severe shortage of teachers with modern chemical engineering knowledge in this era.

Compared with his match against Li Yunlong, Ren Zhong's actions obviously made him more mysterious and majestic in the eyes of Zhu Zhendong and others.

Originally they thought that the information provided by Ren Zhong was wrong, so they could not realize it. They had been doubting themselves and the information for the past few days. As a result, after Ren Zhong answered their questions, they realized that they did not understand the details thoroughly and there were many flaws in the operation. In the final analysis, it was because they were too inexperienced. After Ren Zhong's guidance, they suddenly understood and had
Zhu Zhendong and his friends no longer had their initial arrogant mentality. Not only did they write down Ren Zhong's answers and prepare to review them from time to time, Zhu Zhendong thought further and planned to unite everyone to re-examine and refine the sulfuric acid process into a new textbook based on the information provided by Ren Zhong and his current practical experience!

Of course, Ren Zhong doesn't know what he is thinking now. If he knew, Ren Zhong would not be able to help but give him a thumbs up. This kind of model employee who has achieved self-motivation is really worthy of every boss's cherishment.

After spending some time pouring out what he had learned from tutoring and instilling it into Zhu Zhendong and the others, Ren Zhong felt enlightened after receiving a new wave of admiration. He immediately felt that his efforts had not been in vain.

However, when he thought about what he had asked Zhao Lidong and Wang Wenhui to do, which was even more difficult, Ren Zhong immediately started to have a headache as to how to learn to translate the techniques in these two areas so that they could be realized in the Bright Sword dimension.

The reason why he chose the obviously outdated electric vehicle technology route of lead-acid batteries was because after Ren Zhong briefly understood the manufacturing process of lithium batteries, he found that there was no basis for re-manufacturing them in the world of Bright Sword.

Lead-acid batteries have been invented in the Liangjian plane for nearly a century. The current production technology of Lisai batteries seems very low in Renzhong's main plane, but in the Liangjian plane, it is basically the upper limit of technology that can be barely achieved! Once it is mass-produced in the Liangjian world, it will probably be the top lead-acid battery in this world.

Unfortunately, in this world, even if there is a "Provisional Patent Regulations" in China, Ren Zhong thinks it is useless. In troubled times, human lives are worthless, and there is no room for high-end things like patents to survive. Europe and the United States are also at war everywhere. Ren Zhong does not have the ability to register any patents in these places at this stage, so he will not consider this for the time being.

After all, there are some things he doesn't talk about, and the technology is blocked within the base. Even if someone wants to reverse engineer the finished product in the future, it will not be possible in the short term.

Therefore, it is really unknown whether Ren Zhong can earn back the millions of dollars from the battery factory in the main plane, but if he can produce it in the Liangjian plane, it will be a real profit!
With the start of the industrial process, batteries were used in too many places in the world of Bright Sword, and there was no space to transport them. Ren Zhong had to move dozens of kilograms at a time like an ant moving house, and he would be exhausted but still unable to meet the needs of the world of Bright Sword.

The happy mood only lasted for a short while, as Ren Zhong was again burdened with the heavy responsibility of planning and designing the industrial production of sulfuric acid for the World of Sword.

The production capacity of each cylinder tower method is extremely low compared to the hundreds of millions of tons of sulfuric acid production capacity on the main plane. According to historical data consulted by Ren Zhong, the base's sulfuric acid production capacity was only a few dozen kilograms per day in the early days, and later after the capacity was expanded, it was only at the level of a thousand kilograms per day. Compared with the wide range of uses of sulfuric acid, it is simply a drop in the bucket.

Propellant is just a simple application of concentrated sulfuric acid. Explosives, chemicals, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals and many other industrial applications are what we need to do now. The military industry urgently needs ammonium nitrate, nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin and lead-acid batteries. Some metals need to be oxidized with concentrated sulfuric acid to improve their corrosion resistance.

The production of sulfuric acid must be increased to a level that is one or even two orders of magnitude higher than the original time and space in order for the base's strength to achieve rapid progress.

It is far from enough to rely solely on the production line that Li Yunlong has set up in the bedding factory. According to Ren Zhong's plan, after the successful trial of the sulfuric acid industrial production line in the bedding factory, it will be built into a demonstration site, and then it will be promoted on a large scale in the base. At least in the current few stable large bases, tower-type sulfuric acid production lines will be everywhere.

Taking into account the Japanese raids, the cylinder-tower method sulfuric acid production plants would be destroyed from time to time. The risk of the centralized production model being wiped out was too great. This also forced the base to adopt a distributed production model, with one place having a cylinder-tower method sulfuric acid production line. In this way, if the Japanese could not withstand the attack, they would just use a few grenades to blow up the production line, leaving the Japanese with nothing.

As long as this group of skilled workers can be transferred and retained in advance, according to the construction speed of an infrastructure maniac like Lao Li, even if the cylinder tower is built from scratch in the earthen kiln, it will only take more than a month to set up a new production line.

The main feature is short, flat and fast!

It was only 1940, and the base was weak. Faced with the Japanese invaders' large-scale raids, the bosses had to relocate frequently, so the production line could not be fixed in place.

Even if the large cave was rediscovered by Ren, it would have to be temporarily closed when the Japanese invaders came for a large-scale raid.

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