Chapter 1035 of 3096
Chapter 1035: Not like sleeping!
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"Master! You haven't slept for two nights? Then go and rest! Let's talk about
the ironworks later!"
After finally recovering from the shock, Fu Bo "captured" the other meaning of
Han Yuxi's previous words, and the most important meaning, he quickly said to
Li Zexuan.
Li Zexuan shook his head and said: "Of course it was not completely sleepless.
I had a nap in the middle! Let's not talk about this. Fu Bo, you always look
at the drawings. Let's discuss what's wrong. We must mention the ironworks as
soon as possible. schedule!"
"OK then!"
Seeing Li Zexuan's insistence, Fubo knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he
lowered his head and started looking at the drawings.
The drawings given by Li Zexuan are very particular about the order of
placement. First overall, then specific. The first thing Fober saw is the
overall layout of the ironworks in the future, followed by the overall
structure of each part, and then It is the specific structure diagram of some
key components.
As the drawings turned page by page, Fober's mind gradually came to a huge
ironmaking factory that was very different from the style of this era (working
for a lifetime of engineering, this kind of ability to visualize shapes, Fober
still has ), a towering iron furnace stands in the center of the factory, and
pipes are drawn from the body of the blast furnace, like the rhizomes of old
trees, densely entrenched around them, and two large chimneys are towering
into the clouds, waiting to be inserted into the clouds. , The smoke is
constantly spitting towards the sky, and the sound of various machines in the
workshop is booming, endless!
Fu Bo was shocked. Obviously, Li Zexuan, the iron smelter, was not making a
fuss. Its scale was definitely one of the best in the entire Tang Dynasty!
It's just that this steelmaking method makes him feel so familiar with it?
"Master! Why does this look like shaft ironmaking?"
Fubo suddenly remembered and said.
China is the first country in the world to use shaft furnaces to make iron. In
ancient my country, the shaft furnace was mainly used for smelting pig iron,
and the iron shaft furnace was developed from the copper shaft furnace. In the
late Spring and Autumn Period, a shaft furnace smelting pig iron method
appeared, but this method was not completely popularized until the Northern
Song Dynasty.
Shaft furnace ironmaking is an economical and effective ironmaking method.
Charge from the upper side and blast from the lower part to form a relative
movement of the charge falling and the gas rising. The high-temperature gas
produced by combustion rises through the material layer and transfers heat to
the charge. The carbon monoxide contained therein also reduces iron oxide. In
this way, the thermal energy and chemical energy of the combustion are fully
utilized at the same time. The charge in the lower layer is gradually reduced
to melt, and the charge in the upper layer slowly drops from the top of the
furnace, and the charge is preheated to reach a higher temperature.
Blast furnace ironmaking is born out of shaft furnace ironmaking, but some
structural optimizations make its ironmaking efficiency and quality far
superior to shaft furnace ironmaking!
Li Zexuan smiled and said: "This is not entirely shaft furnace ironmaking. Fu
Bo, if you look carefully, you should be able to tell the difference! I call
this kind of ironmaking furnace a blast furnace!"
Fubo closed his eyes for a moment, then opened his eyes and said: "There are
indeed many differences! But the old man doesn't know whether these
differences are good or bad!"
Li Zexuan believed in himself: "Of course it is good!"
As he said, he pointed to a drawing and said, "For example, the air inlet of
this blast furnace. I merged the section before it finally enters the furnace,
and there is a fire pool isolated from the air inlet below. The coal is filled
in, and the air is heated to very hot and hot before entering the furnace, and
it can even melt the iron directly! In this way, the efficiency of ironmaking
will be greatly improved!"
Air preheating is the most critical step in improving ironmaking efficiency in
modern steel production. High air temperature is also one of the main
technical features of modern blast furnace ironmaking.
First of all, part of the heat required for blast furnace smelting is the
combustion heat released by the combustion of the fuel in the hearth, and the
other part is the physical heat brought by the high-temperature hot air. The
more heat the hot air brings into the blast furnace, the less fuel combustion
heat is required, that is, the lower the fuel consumption. Therefore,
increasing the wind temperature can significantly reduce fuel consumption and
production costs.
In addition, increasing the air temperature also helps to increase the
theoretical combustion temperature before the tuyere, so that the tuyere
whirling area has a higher temperature and the hearth has sufficient heat,
which is beneficial to increase the pulverized coal combustion rate and
increase the amount of coal injection. Reduce the focal ratio.
Therefore, air preheating is a key technology for blast furnaces to achieve
large-scale coal injection operations, and it is also an extremely important
technological advancement in the history of blast furnace ironmaking. In Li
Zexuan's impression, at least the whole world did not master this technology
before the Industrial Revolution.
Uncle Fu seemed to be a little enlightened, he nodded thoughtfully, and said:
"What the young master said seems quite reasonable, maybe you can give it a
try!"
Li Zexuan smiled and said: "In fact, the benefits of this blast furnace are
far more than this. Fu Bo, you will slowly notice in the future! The immediate
task is to build this iron smelter first! As for the interior of the furnace,
I plan to use Shuozhou. On the side...the clay mine is used as refractory
material, and I will talk about it after Xiaobin transports the soil back!
Fubo, your main task now is to first see what difficult problems can be solved
in the construction of the iron plant according to this blueprint? "
Li Zexuan did not intend to build the first iron-making blast furnace. The
blast furnace he planned on the drawings had an effective volume of only over
a hundred cubic meters. In modern society, the world’s largest iron-making
blast furnace is Shagang Hua in China. Sheng’s blast furnace has an effective
volume of 5860 cubic meters ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ an annual output of nearly 30
million tons of steel!
So his ironworks is just a small workshop in modern times! But in ancient
times, it was definitely a giant-like existence!
"Um...it shouldn't be a big problem, it's troublesome at best! The old man
started to call craftsmen to plan this as soon as possible recently. Master,
please take a good rest first and don't exhaust your body!"
Uncle Fu flipped through the drawings again, and after serious consideration
for a long time, said.
Li Zexuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, he is definitely lucky
compared to most traversers, because he has a workshop with many excellent
craftsmen around him, and he only needs to draw out many new ideas. The
craftsmen behind him will try their best to realize his thoughts, and he
himself just spends a lot of time drawing drawings!
"Haha! Thank you Fubo for your concern, my health is okay! But you must pay
attention to your health when you are old! Don't be too tired!"
Li Zexuan smiled gently and said.
Uncle Fu shook his head, then got up and said: "Master, don't worry about old
age, my old bones are getting more and more vigorous. If I lie in bed all day
long, I will lie down and get sick. Master, you can rest! The workshop has
been arranged!"
Li Zexuan quickly got up to say goodbye.
After a while, Fubo disappeared from the eyes of the husband and wife, and
only heard Han Yuxi say: "The grandfather hasn't gone to rest obediently yet,
does he have to look for his concubine..."
Seeing that the three characters were not finished, Li Zexuan had already
blocked her mouth with his hands, "Hey! You! What are you talking about? Walk
around! Let's go back, sleeping alone is not like sleeping! Haha!"
"Um...Don't~!"
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