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Chapter 216: Flash Ironmaking (Part )

Not to mention that Wang Jiankun’s domestic clone was involved in the development of the 132 Factory’s third-generation fighter jets.

His own body was tested in BJ and it allowed him to synchronize with his avatar in China in real time through the global satellite communication system while wearing a brain-computer helmet. So one day in April, he flew back to the base in northern Myanmar in the "Thunderbird" hypersonic aircraft.

This return was not only for the launch and networking of communication and navigation satellites, but also for a more important thing that required him to take the lead in research and development, that is - the research on flash steelmaking technology.

As it is approaching the middle of the year, the All-Myanmar Liberation Front will launch a campaign to unify all of Myanmar in the second half of the year, which will surely attract the attention of the whole world.

Although he has already set up bases in South America, Africa and even in the heart of Europe, these bases will do some coordinated work at that time.

But something like war cannot rely solely on surprise attacks, one must ensure one's own strength.

Currently, the Zionist Party has only one small steel plant in northern Myanmar, which produces three million tons of pig iron and one million tons of refined steel annually. This steel plant is sufficient for the current base construction in northern Myanmar and weapons manufacturing.

But if Myanmar is unified in the future, we will have to consider the development of all of Myanmar and even South Asia.

The amount of steel needed at that time would not be as much as it is now.

Moreover, with the completion of the construction of the global satellite communication system and navigation system, the development of the full-solution array must be accelerated. By that time, the amount of steel required will definitely be ten or even a hundred times what it is now.

Now, in order to prepare for the impending war, not only are all steel mills producing at full capacity, but they are also actively purchasing pig iron and crude steel from overseas and stockpiling them in order to prevent possible sanctions and embargoes in the future.

In order to ensure that the development speed remains upward after reunification, the steel industry must be greatly accelerated and prepared in advance.

At this time, a lot of iron ore was discovered in northern Myanmar. It was relatively easy to mine and transport because it was close to the river. However, the grade was not very high, ranging from 35% to 50%, and the main type of iron ore was around 40%.

In addition, there are not many coal resources. Even if the output increases tenfold or even a hundredfold, it will definitely not be enough. Even if the whole of Myanmar is unified later and the coal in southern Myanmar is used, it will not be enough.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop an iron-making and steel-making process that can utilize low-grade iron ore and consume less coal per ton.

Wang Jiankun specially created a group of new humans to conduct steelmaking technology research.

They were all composed according to the genes of some steel workers in the steel mills at that time. They were tall and strong, heat-resistant, bold and careful, and generally loaded with a series of metal smelting knowledge.

With the cooperation of these researchers, his research got on the right track.

At this time, he combined the various metal smelting research materials collected in his mind with Zhizi's absorption and integration of these materials, and had a preliminary new iron-making process, which was "flash iron-making".

In fact, several countries have already conducted research on "flash metallurgy", but only Japan has already put it into industrial application. They have already "flash-speeded" the copper smelting process, which has greatly shortened the copper smelting process and greatly reduced the coal consumption. However, they have not yet vigorously promoted it, because the equipment used in "flash copper smelting" is very sophisticated, and because it has to work at high temperatures, the equipment manufacturing cost is extremely high, and the cost of maintenance is also not low.

Therefore, although Japan already has industrial production equipment for "flash copper smelting", the cost is still much higher than traditional pyrometallurgical copper smelting or hydrometallurgical copper smelting.

Wang Jiankun and Tomoko focused on Japan's "flash copper smelting" process and designed a "flash iron smelting" equipment, which is a very sophisticated reduction tower compared to the traditional iron smelting blast furnace.

It is 18 meters high overall. The tower body has a reaction chamber that runs through the upper and lower directions, which is the main place for reactions.

The tower top is installed at the upper end of the tower body and covers the upper end of the reaction chamber. The inner peripheral wall of the tower top is provided with a first heat exchange member, which extends along the circumference of the tower top and has a first inlet and a first outlet.

The first heat exchange element can play a heat exchange role and help control the reaction temperature.

The connecting part is installed at the lower end of the tower body and communicated with the reaction chamber, and is used to connect the tower body and other equipment;
The suspension is used to suspend the tower body, including a longitudinal support beam and a transverse support beam. The lower end of the longitudinal support beam is connected to the tower top, and the middle part of the transverse support beam is connected to the upper end of the longitudinal support beam.

The basic principle of this flash iron smelting is "explosive chemical reaction". The dry iron ore is ground into powder and sprayed into the flash furnace reduction tower through a vortex spray gun. In the high temperature and high reduction environment, the iron ore undergoes an explosive chemical reaction instantly, and the transformation from ore to iron can be completed in just 3-6 seconds.

Compared with traditional blast furnace ironmaking, this ironmaking method greatly speeds up the ironmaking process and reduces coal consumption, because the reducing gases inside it are mainly hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The former can be obtained by electrolyzing water to produce hydrogen, and the latter can be produced from some slightly lower quality coal.

Traditional blast furnace ironmaking requires high-quality coal, which must also be coked. This process wastes a lot of the coal's thermal energy and also loses a lot of carbon. However, producing carbon monoxide only requires gasifying the coal in an oxygen-deficient environment, generating very little pollution, with a very high utilization rate of the carbon element and very little heat energy lost.

In addition to the furnace chamber of this reactor that allows iron ore powder to undergo "explosive chemical reactions", Zhizi also used room-temperature superconductors that only Wang Jiankun can currently manufacture to create a magnetic confinement device for collecting molten iron.

When the iron ore powder undergoes an "explosive chemical reaction", the iron in the iron ore powder immediately melts and evaporates. The volume of the gas phase is much higher than that of the solid phase, forming an explosion. The gaseous pure iron (which can be regarded as iron vapor) condenses into liquid droplets in space, which will fall under the action of gravity. When they reach the magnetic confinement device, they will be gathered to form molten iron balls and then introduced into the cooling area.

The iron after cooling contains very little carbon. If the ore here contains very little cobalt and nickel, then this iron can be considered pure iron. This is because the magnetic confinement device only works on the three elements of iron, cobalt and nickel.

This cooled pure iron can be used to make steel.

If what you need is ordinary carbon steel, you can just add carbon powder into the refining furnace, and the required carbon content can be easily adjusted.

If alloy steel is needed, it can be easily produced by adding various other metal or non-metal elements into the refining furnace.

Because steelmaking on the refining road uses electricity and does not use coal, the combination of flash iron smelting and electric furnace refining can almost get rid of the dependence on coal and vigorously develop the steel industry.

(End of this chapter)