Chapter 950 Ore Processing Unit

Mining in space has many advantages, especially for minerals mined from space. Sending unprocessed ore back to the surface through a space elevator is equivalent to transporting useless slag waste back together. The price of unprocessed ore itself is not high, coupled with the transportation cost of the space elevator, it is difficult to be price-competitive in the international market.

Space elevator transportation costs are low, but not impossible.

Mining in the future has its own smelter, and there is no need to make profits by selling unprocessed ore. Only by processing ore into finished steel products can the standard of maximizing profits be met.

What's more, there is no need to worry about pollution in space. Throwing non-toxic waste slag into the atmosphere can be directly burned, which is much more environmentally friendly than those waste disposal stations that destroy the molecular structure of materials through ultra-high temperature. Toxic waste can be directly packed into packing boxes, and it can be thrown in the direction of Mercury with a low-power rocket.

In addition, the vacuum environment makes it far easier to smelt titanium ore, a metal with extremely active chemical properties at high temperatures, in space than on the surface.

Therefore, as early as last year, Jiang Chen provided Yang Yuan with the interface, specifications, and dimensions of the space station outside the Star Ring City, and asked him to instruct the scientific research department of Future Mining to design a set of ore that can be connected to the Star Ring City. processing unit.

Yang Yuan really lived up to his expectations, and soon brought Jiang Chen to the laboratory of Future Mining.

In the center of the laboratory warehouse, there is a machine with a volume of about four large containers, and people standing beside it are like ants next to rubber. The boxy shape is very similar to the movable iron houses that can be seen everywhere on the construction site, but it is an enlarged version of N times. Of course, this thing is not a metal house, but an accessible space station.

At one end of this space station, there is a raised interface with a section size of 6x4 meters, which can be connected to the outer orbit of the star ring city, as a channel for material and energy exchange. The ore is imported into the space station through the cargo channel, and processed by special smelting equipment to produce finished ore ingots.

On the side of the space station, the logos of Futureman Heavy Industry and Futureman Mining are printed, as well as a circled "Fe" logo.

"This ore processing unit is a prototype we customized for Future Heavy Industry. The drawings are designed by us and made by them through 3D printing technology. The smelted minerals are various iron ores. The daily processing efficiency can reach up to 12,000 tons , the annual steel output is more than three million tons!"

When he said this, Yang Yuan's face flushed with excitement.

Highly automated design, a workshop only needs four workers to complete the production. Using the next-generation electric smelting technology to replace the traditional steelmaking process, the recyclable carbon sequestration technology can maximize the utilization efficiency of each kilogram of coal,

It can produce hundreds of kinds of high-quality carbon steel, tool steel and high-strength A-shaped steel.

Incorporating the core technology of the future human mining industry, this ore processing unit tailored for outer space steelmaking has led the world in the field of automated steelmaking for at least 20 years, and it is no exaggeration to call it the crystallization of technology!

"This prototype has passed the performance testing test in a vacuum environment. It can be used as long as it is transported to Xinghuan City through the synchronous orbit and connected!"

"Currently, the titanium ore processing unit has completed the design phase. It is expected that the design drawings will be sent to Future Heavy Industry tomorrow, and the prototype will be ready by the end of the month."

After listening to Yang Yuan's report, Jiang Chen only asked one question, "How long will it take for mass production?"

Yang Yuan hesitated a little, but quickly gave a reply.

"Before the end of the month, the iron ore processing unit production line has been completed. Future Heavy Industry can deliver ten sets of equipment to us at the end of the month, and the remaining ten sets of equipment will be delivered in the middle of next month. There are a total of twenty processing units. The annual output of the steel plant in Xinghuan City can reach more than 30 million tons!"

"As for the titanium ore model, we have to wait for our drawings to be sent over, and the engineers from Future Heavy Industry will look at them before we can make a design plan for the production line."

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"Well, let's talk back."

Ye Qinghua hung up the phone, leaned back on the chair, tapped his old fingers rhythmically on the armrest, and fell into silent meditation for a long time.

The microgravity laboratory jointly established by Huaguo and Xinghuan Trading has already started construction. Leader No. 1 has highly praised his efforts, but Ye Qinghua is very clear that the scientific research project of nearly 1.5 billion Singapore dollars has nothing to do with him. not big.

It has been half a month since he came to Koro Island, and he has been walking around Xinguo Jiudao and Penglai City for the past half month. He only felt that he was like Grandma Liu who had entered the Grand View Garden, walking in amazement all the way.

People drive pure electric vehicles with zero emissions, and the undersea tunnel connects the nine islands like rags into a whole. People of all colors live together harmoniously, not without conflicts, but under the supervision of police drones, few people turn their conflicts into violence.

Yes, the police drones that were rejected by them after careful consideration have almost achieved zero crime rate in the major cities of the new country.

For Keluo and Penglai, the old man's deepest impression is that drones have become part of the country's culture. They are the helpers of the police. Instead of firefighters, they rush into the fire and deliver the express from the logistics center to the buyer within an hour.

Efficiency is everything in this city, but efficiency doesn't crowd out everyone's lives.

This country never seems to lack imagination, and everything here is full of imagination that only exists in science fiction. A city built on the sea, farmland plowed on the seabed, an orbit connecting the sky and the earth, a space station bigger than a city...

Ye Qinghua doesn't know what they will create next, because there is no limit to imagination. He just took out his notebook silently, recorded everything in this city as he did when he visited the United States and Europe in the 1980s, and brought it back to China for reference.

The old man leaning on the chair sighed, took out the notebook with a slightly damaged cowhide cover from his arms, and rubbed the footer of the notebook with his fingers in remembrance. What he had seen and heard in the past half month both comforted him and left him speechless.

A weak and poor new country is undoubtedly more in the interests of Hua. But the words weak and poor are obviously far from Xinguo. Even, because of concepts such as low crime rate, beautiful environment, Chinese cultural circle, and high-tech cities, Xinguo has faintly replaced the European and American countries that are mired in economic crisis and terrorism, and has become the first place for rich people in China. 1. Immigrant volunteers.

At this moment, the door of the room was pushed open.

Two young men, a man and a woman, walked in.

"Grandpa, are you looking for me?" The young man in a suit and tie bowed slightly and greeted the old man respectfully.

The woman opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but the old man spoke first.

"Well, I'm a little worried." Ye Qinghua nodded and smiled at the young man, "So, I want to ask how your preparations are going."

Ye Ziqi smiled confidently and puffed out his chest.

"Don't worry! I've been preparing for this for half a month. Even if I'm not 100% sure, it's definitely more than 90%!"

Elder Ye nodded in relief.

"This project is very important to our Ye family. Now the country attaches great importance to the strategic cooperation with Xinghuan Trading. If our Ye Group can set an example, it will not be too difficult to raise the position of your third uncle." It's something. When the time comes, our Ye family will be able to produce another provincial and ministerial cadre!"

After chatting with his beloved grandson, Ye Ziqi bowed slightly and left the room.

In the room, there were only two people left.

"I..." Ye Yunfei gritted her teeth, suppressed the unhappiness in her heart, and said bravely, "He is not interested in me at all, and I happen to be too. We are not suitable, and there is nothing I can do..."

After a long time, Elder Ye sighed and smiled kindly like an old man loving his granddaughter.

"I won't make things difficult for you. Marriage is your choice. If you really don't like it, forget it."

Ye Yunfei breathed a sigh of relief, as if the big stone that weighed on her heart had been released.

It really made her feel ashamed to please a man she didn't like, which made her feel worse than killing her.

"Thanks……"

"It's okay, let's go down."

Ye Yunfei buried her head and nodded, then turned and left the room quickly.

Elder Ye leaned back on the chair, pondered for a moment, and turned his gaze to the invitation card on the table.

The New Foreign Space Resources Opening Forum will be held on Koro Island in three days. As a representative sent by the Hua Kingdom, he naturally received the invitation. He has already considered what issues should be exchanged on the forum, and how to help Huaguo win more interests.

It is his granddaughter who he is a little unsure about now.

Do you really just give up like this? (To be continued.) Enable new URL