Chapter 127 A fatal blow
There was drizzling rain and dark clouds.
On a small hillside in the north of Bandon Island.
In front of an unmarked tombstone built last year, Li Qingye placed a bunch of white chrysanthemums on the stone platform and filled three wine glasses with green plum wine.
The sound of dripping rain is the only sound at this moment.
Philip, standing behind Li Qingye, held the umbrella dutifully.
Today is April 4, 2020, Qingming Festival in the lunar calendar.
Li Qingye stood in front of the tombstone in silence for more than ten minutes. He put away the sadness in his eyes and turned around: "Go back!"
at the same time.
In a factory of Donghua Group in Pengcheng, all employees are working overtime.
Kong Zhaolin, who was entrusted with an important task by Wu Heguang, was holding a meeting in the factory office at this time.
"Engineer Li, what is the current condition of the equipment?"
The skinny middle-aged man rubbed his temples and said, "It's almost done. The conversion system, synthesis system, secondary conversion system, and control system of the synthetic ammonia production line are all in place. We'll do the final inspection today, and we can start the factory test tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
"That's great, it's not easy!" Kong Zhaolin breathed a sigh of relief.
Even though there are still nearly two months before the delivery date, a complete synthetic ammonia production line still has to go through disassembly, packaging, transportation, and factory assembly after parts production and customization, component assembly, whole machine assembly, and whole machine testing.
Although Kaile Company requires that the equipment be transported to the Luzon factory in June this year, Donghua Group will be given three months for installation and commissioning.
But the time is still too tight.
As the chief engineer, Li Xinyi has been very busy these days because of the construction deadline.
At the same time, he was also very dissatisfied with Kong Zhaolin and Wu Heguang for setting such a tight deadline in order to grab the contract.
Kong Zhaolin also noticed Li Xinyi's fatigue and dissatisfaction, and quickly comforted him: "Mr. Li, you have worked hard. I will ask the company to hold a celebration banquet for everyone, and bonuses will definitely be given."
"Haha, thank you so much, Vice President Kong." Li Xinyi knew a little bit about the ways of the world.
After the two finished talking about work, they went to inspect the test site together.
This kind of equipment should have been installed in the factory, and then debugged and tested. If there were no problems, it could have been delivered to the factory. If there were any problems, the equipment manufacturer would have needed to solve them.
However, if Kaile Company adopts the previous plan in Luzon, the construction time of the entire project will at least double.
Therefore, Donghua Group had no choice but to manufacture the entire unit first, test it at its own site, and then disassemble and transport it to the factory in Luzon for reassembly and debugging.
Kong Zhaolin and Li Xinyi inspected it and found that there was no problem.
"Engineer Li, let's do a test run tomorrow!"
Li Xinyi nodded: "Okay, after all, many problems cannot be seen without actual testing."
This is also the reason why Kong Zhaolin hurriedly prepared for the test, because time waits for no one. It takes about 20 to 25 days from Pengcheng Railway to Haizhou Port, and then from Haizhou Port to Manila by cargo ship, which takes up almost a month.
It is now April 4th, and they only have one month left.
Within this month, they must complete the trial run, debugging, and solve possible problems, and then dismantle and pack. The time is obviously very tight.
Kong Zhaolin, who was worried about possible problems, even arranged for security guards to be on duty 24 hours a day .
That evening.
In the brightly lit testing field.
More than a dozen cockroaches gradually entered the core components of the equipment from corners and cracks.
These little creatures have a very clear goal, they are directly targeting the radiation section of a converter, where there are hundreds of converter tubes.
The inside of the reformer tube is filled with a special catalyst, and the inside of the tube is mainly used for the reaction of hydrocarbons and water vapor.
The outside of the pipeline is a heating furnace, which usually operates at a temperature of 900 to 950 degrees Celsius. The pressure inside the pipeline is about 4Mpa, and the operating conditions are relatively harsh.
After the cockroaches drill into the heating furnace, they begin to attach themselves to the surface of the conversion tube and release a stream of mucus. The mucus contains a special acid that can absorb the carbon in the alloy steel and thus destroy the alloy lattice structure.
After more than five hours of corrosion, more than a dozen weak points with a diameter of about one centimeter appeared on the conversion tube.
The cockroaches who completed their mission quickly returned along the same route.
The next day, morning.
Li Xinyi and Kong Zhaolin both came to the remote control room of the test site.
“Let’s get started!”
"Yes, Mr. Li."
The workers quickly injected the raw materials and then started to turn on the electricity and ventilation.
The people in the test site have been evacuated. After all, this kind of test involves risks. Even Li Xinyi, who is full of confidence, does not dare to stay in the test site.
Anyway, nowadays automation technology and detection technology can be remotely controlled, so no one wants to stay in the test field.
"Pressure 1.5..."
"Pressure 2..."
"Begin injecting..."
With the injection of water vapor and hydrocarbons, the natural gas in the external heating furnace burns fiercely, causing the temperature and pressure inside the conversion tube to rise rapidly.
There was nothing unusual at first.
It was not until the 13th minute that four weak points on the wall of the conversion tube began to crack under the ravages of high temperature and high pressure.
Phew…
The high-temperature and high-pressure mixed gas of water vapor and hydrocarbons is quickly ignited by the flame of the heating furnace.
boom……
The horrific explosion directly tore apart the entire heating furnace and converter, and affected the outer shell of the synthesis furnace not far away.
What’s even more terrible is that the natural gas pipeline of the heating furnace is broken.
"Damn it! Turn off the natural gas!" Li Xinyi yelled with a pale face.
The employees, as if waking from a dream, hurriedly closed the gas valve, feeding valve and coal powder injection valve.
At the same time, the emergency system was activated and work began to extinguish the flames.
But at this critical moment, Li Xinyi and Kong Zhaolin sat there pale and had no mood to care about firefighting.
"It's over! We are finished!" Kong Zhaolin muttered to himself.
Li Xinyi also looked dejected.
If it were other minor issues, they could still be fixed, but the problem is that the entire first-stage conversion system is scrapped, and other systems have also suffered varying degrees of damage. This kind of major problem cannot be solved within a week or two.
Not to mention rebuilding it, just investigating the cause of the accident is enough to keep them busy.
Half an hour later, the fire was put out and the losses could be preliminarily estimated.
Looking at the reformer and heating furnace that were blown to pieces, Li Xinyi said with trembling lips: "Vice President Kong, this synthetic ammonia production line is scrapped."
"I...I..." Kong Zhaolin's heart almost stopped beating: "Huhu...what should I do?"
"Vice President Kong, you should notify the chairman as soon as possible!" another executive reminded.
Kong Zhaolin was at a loss. He took out his cell phone but was hesitant to make a call.
Obviously he didn't know how to report it now. Wu Heguang gave him this important task in order to train him as his successor. Now he had messed up things, which made Kong Zhaolin have no courage to tell Wu Heguang about it.
Others did not dare to act on their own, after all, this matter naturally had to be handled by the person with the highest position on the scene.
Kong Zhaolin took a deep breath and finally called Wu Heguang.
"Hello... Zhaolin? What's going on?"
"Uncle! ..."
When Wu Heguang on the other end of the phone heard this address, he immediately felt something was wrong. Normally, Kong Zhaolin rarely called him uncle on the phone or in formal occasions.
"What happened?"
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