Monster Factory - 758

The pick-up process is unusually low-key.

After the two Il-76s landed at the airport, they were pulled into the exclusive hangar of the Giant Monster Industry by the tractor.

Then the tailgate of the engine room opened, and two Juli hard workers drove a large forklift, one by one, the coffin-like lead cabinets were transferred to the container heavy trucks.

A few hours later, these lead cabinets were transferred to the Longxitan factory.

In the underground base, a rare metal purification plant with a very high degree of industrialization has been established, but the scale is small, with a daily production capacity of about 100 tons at most.

This is because the metal purification work will be carried out after the construction of the factory in Sotu Rainforest is completed.

At that time, directly transported by air will be pieces of high-purity silver-white metal dysprosium.

In the highly clean, sealed underground factory, Ye Qing was wearing protective clothing and stood aside with great excitement, watching Juli’s hard work cut open the lead cabinets and take out piles of gray-brown metal ingots from the inside.

These are raw materials with a metal purity of 80% and a dysprosium content of about 8%.

In front of Ye Qing, there are industrial equipment in the shape of silver-white metal cylinders. At the end of these equipment, there are a large number of reactors and a huge metal melting furnace.

They are purification equipment, and Juli has already begun to transport these metal ingot raw materials, put them in a vacuum arc furnace, and perform the first step of smelting.

The extraction method of rare earth metal ore is both simple and complicated.

To put it simply, it is as simple as that some criminals secretly organize manpower to steal mines. You only need to drill dense deep holes in the mine, and then inject specific chemicals into these deep holes to react with the rare earth ore and oxidize and dissolve the internal metal elements. These solutions are then drawn up from the deep hole and poured into the tank for further processing.

How to deal with it?

It is roughly divided into three categories, acid method, alkali method and chlorination decomposition. The extracted solution contains a large amount of rare metal elements. Using the principle of chemical change, they are reduced into crystals, and these crystals are finally ground into powder. Then, the rare earth metal raw materials that can be sold are obtained and smuggled to foreign factories for a higher-tech unity. Metal separation step, and then those foreign factories sell high prices.

Why does my country continue to illicit rare earth mining after repeated prohibitions? It is because of these large-scale chemical raw materials that can be purchased at will, rare earth metal raw materials can be extracted from the raw ore.

These raw materials are piled up in the shed like flour, and every bag smuggled out can be sold for tens of thousands of yuan.

But this method seriously damages the natural environment. Usually a mountain is bored and liquid chemicals are injected into it, and the vegetation of the entire mountain will wither and die.

Those extracted solutions need a lot of water resources in the chemical reduction process. The criminals directly discharged the polluted water after use into lakes and rivers, and the only result was that aquatic organisms died on a large scale.

This is a simple purification method, and also a traitorous method for stealing and selling national strategic materials.

The complex purification method is the one being used in the Longxitan plant.

Juli Hardworking puts the raw materials from the previous mini factory through grinding and magnetic separation, and finally die-casting into ingots, into a vacuum furnace, heating it to 3,500 Baidu, and gasifying all the metal materials inside. Then these metal gases are directly introduced into the centrifuge, and the different metal molecules in the metal gases are further purified and separated by gas centrifugation.

The gas centrifuge is just five simple words.

It represents an insurmountable height in the industrial field.

Because of this method, we can master the purification of enriched uranium 235 from uranium ore.

Originally, Ye Qing could choose a lower cost chemical reaction purification technology. With a strong ionization sewage treatment system, Ye Qing can avoid any troubles of water pollution. However, gas centrifugation can not only be used to separate various single metal molecules in these rare metals. It can also lay the foundation for purification of the calcium uranium mica minerals mined in the mining area.

Ye Qing didn’t plan to build an atomic bomb. To build an atomic bomb would require tens of thousands of centrifuges to work in parallel.

However, energy towers need to invest in materials to generate more energy, and enriched uranium 235 is the best material currently available.

The energy tower is used to power the centrifuge. When the gas centrifuge is turned on, Ye Qing, standing in the workshop, suddenly feels that a high-power vibrator is connected between the world and the earth, and a machine is stuffed in his head, even the blood is fast. vibration.

There are hundreds of centrifuges in front of us, and each centrifuge rotates at 100,000 revolutions per minute.

What is this concept?

There are a lot of supercars on the market that are known to blow up the streets. The maximum engine speed per minute can be up to 10,000, even if the sky is high, and at 10,000 rpm, it can be a miracle if it can last for more than five minutes.

At present, these centrifuges are 100,000 revolutions, and this is its normal working speed, which must be maintained for more than one day.

However, under the condition of 100,000 revolutions per minute, there were hundreds of centrifuges in front of Ye Qing. From the naked eye, there was no jitter, or even shell resonance.

This shows that the balance of the spindles of these centrifuges has reached an incredible technical level. And the noise around Ye Qing was not the mechanical roar of an engine, but the feeling that every molecule in the air was vibrating.

In front of these industrial equipment, what is even 10,000 supercars?

Can a supercar engine use a magnetic bearing without any physical contact?

The super-running engine main shaft can achieve near perfect straightness, and the internal crystal structure is neatly arranged. Even if it is cut into hundreds of pieces, the weight error of each piece does not exceed one hair strand, which is 0.5 thousandths of a gram. Weight?

What can’t be done, the centrifuges in front of Ye Qing’s eyes have higher technical content than those used to separate uranium-235 in those big countries. This is also the reason why Ye Qing chose to hide in the underground base. The factory outside can get a set of chemical purification equipment that will produce a lot of chemically polluted water.

After staying in the sealed factory for less than two minutes, Ye Qing ran out sweating profusely. Although industrial power is shocking, but manpower cannot be violated.

However, Ye Qing can observe the final purification results of the centrifuge through another device.

The name of the equipment is a gas settling chamber. According to the weight of the metal molecules, the centrifuge can separate the heaviest metals in sequence. For example, scandium, lanthanum, cerium, and dysprosium. The different densities of these metals also result in different molecular weights.

The gas centrifuges used by major countries can separate uranium 235 and 238 from uranium.

You know that uranium-235 is only 1.6% lighter than 238, but under the high-speed rotation of the centrifuge, the slightly heavier 238 will be thrown to the periphery, not to mention the rare earth metal elements with greater molecular weight disparity.

At nine o’clock in the evening, the metal elements separated for the third time in the underground base of the factory slowly gathered in the settlement chamber.

After cooling, the silvery gas is sprayed directly on a layer of transparent glass substrate, and it slowly accumulates like snow.

It didn’t take long for a piece of metal dysprosium weighing a ton to appear quietly in front of Ye Qing.