Chapter 657 The Secret of the Two

8days ago Xuanhuan Novels 9
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Roland made himself a cup of tea and looked at the Nightingale, do you?

Yes, thank you.

She leaned on the recliner, holding a script written by Mayi in one hand, and enjoying it.

Since Anna talked to her, Nightingale disappeared for two days first. When she appeared in front of Roland again, she seemed to have taken off her burden and returned to her previous free appearance.

There was always an unconcealed smile on his face, and occasionally he would secretly look at him, his eyes full of vitality.

Just like what she is now.

He put his feet horizontally on the coffee table without any fear, lifted his robe to one side, revealing his slender legs wrapped in black stockings, and only briefly hiding his body when someone comes in.

This seductive posture often made Roland's eyes turn to one side involuntarily, causing half a morning to pass, and even a pair of drawings had not been drawn.

If I had known it, I wouldn't have asked Soloya to draw these warm socks that are close to nylon.

He brought another cup of tea that emitted a pleasant fragrance to the nightingale, the tea you want.

She put down the script, took it with both hands, and sniffed it hard, Ah... It smells so good, can you add another piece of sugar for me?

In later generations, Nightingale was undoubtedly a centrist from both the salty and sweet parties, and she would not be fat.

During the period when Roland was sleeping, she lost a lot of weight and lost a lot of weight. However, after he woke up, he quickly returned to normal levels, and his weight seemed to have an upper limit. After meeting this standard, it would never increase again.

In the past, Roland would have nagged a few words and eating too much will make you fat, but now I find that the other party doesn’t need to worry about this at all.

Putting a piece of sugar into her teacup, he returned to the table and drew a few more strokes. Finally, he couldn't help but be curious and said, "Nightingale...

Um?

What did Anna say to you?

Well... She flashed and appeared steadily on the desk, it was a secret.

Can't even tell me?

It was Anna's request, Nightingale hesitated for a moment, and finally shook her head. If it was about me, I would say anything you want to know, but this... she asked me to keep it secret for the time being.

Well, OK, Roland took a sip of tea and stopped asking.Although he could go directly to Anna, people with normal emotional intelligence would not mention this matter repeatedly at this time.

At least he could see that Anna was not angry about it.

Just as he picked up the quill again, Nightingale suddenly said, Thank you.

What?Roland was stunned for a moment, raised her head, and just met her eyes.

The autumn sun dyed her long golden hair and left bright spots on her face. Her moving face was as beautiful as a scroll in the warm sunshine, and time seemed to pause.

Thank you for telling her my wish.

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By the afternoon, the Ministry of Construction received good news. According to Roland's newly drawn steelmaking facilities drawings, the first converter steel mill was completed at the foot of the North Slope Mountain.

Of course, it is called a factory, which looks more like a simple iron shed. It is placed alone in a new large-scale equipment. The difference between this time the smelting equipment is made of steel. The angular furnace rack and the huge converter have been coated with a heat-resistant coating. The gray-black dull surface gives people a sense of majestic and heavy in the sun.

When Roland brought the city hall officials to the furnace area, the new furnace had been surrounded by the recruited old workers, and it was obvious that everyone was curious about it.

Your Majesty, can this stove really make steel?It doesn't even have a place to burn the fire.Although Losya of the Ministry of Construction had questioned this issue before, he still meticulously completed the construction of the converter according to the requirements in the figure. All the components of it were made by Anna, and the Hummingbird's weight reduction assembly made the construction period shorter to within one week.

In nature, it is not only flame that produces heat, Roland smiled, let the workers be prepared for the trial of the furnace.

The three main technologies for steelmaking are open furnaces, converters and electric furnaces. Electric furnaces that do not meet the conditions are first excluded. After considering the remaining two, he chose the latter.

Although the open furnace is the simplest structure and closer to the traditional furnace to operate, the disadvantage is also very obvious, first of all, it requires a large amount of fuel, which is very unfavorable for the resources available in Winter City.

After all, the coal mine is far from the source of the Chishui River, and the coking plant is just starting out. It is already very difficult to meet the needs of blast furnace iron smelting. In addition, a flat furnace steelmaking will cause fuel shortages.

This is also the biggest advantage of converters that consume almost no fuel.

It exotherms itself by oxidizing impurities such as manganese, silicon, and carbon in pig iron, so that the temperature of the molten iron always maintains the high point, thus allowing the smelting reaction to continue.

The second disadvantage of the open furnace is that it covers a huge area and has a long smelting time. In order to strengthen the utilization of fuel, the open furnace needs to build a heat storage tank, preheat the air in advance, and it takes more than half a day to make a furnace of molten steel.

If it is replaced with a converter, the size of the furnace is the volume of the equipment. The tracks and the steel transportation system can be shared. It only takes dozens of minutes to smelter once. After the technology is mature, it can even be shortened within a quarter of an hour, and the efficiency varies greatly.

It is precisely in view of these two points that Roland chose to use the converter as the main steelmaking equipment for Wudongcheng in the future.

With the help of the steam engine, the workers quickly poured a large pile of cast iron ingots into the pear-shaped furnace.

Anna, make a fire.

Anna nodded, climbed the top of the converter along the stairs, summoning the black fire to melt the iron ingots. After a while, the red hot iron in the furnace illuminated her face.

By the time of formal production, the iron of the steel mill will be provided by the blast furnace, which is why he built the steel mill in the furnace area.

Next, follow the steps I said, Roland ordered the person in charge of the steelmaking group and inserted the blower into the mouth of the furnace.

Although these selected old workers have been officially involved in converter steelmaking for the first time, they have operated similar subsystems before, and there is no essential difference between operating pipes and controlling trailers.

The steam engine roared, and a steel pipe slowly fell from the top of the furnace into the chamber.

The other end of the steel pipe is connected to the coated hose, leading to the steam engine-driven air extraction equipment. As oxygen-rich air is sucked into the converter, flames suddenly burst out from the furnace, and orange-red sparks splashed out from the furnace, like blooming fireworks.

The dazzling light showed a strange incandescent, almost impossible to look directly at.

This spectacular scene amazes City Hall officials.

Roland felt extremely satisfied in his heart as he faced the scorching waves of air.

These sparks are symbols of mankind's move towards a new era.