Chapter 348 Water and Salt
Egypt.
4.6 km southeast of Kom Ombo .
After more than ten days of construction, the Gobi Desert New District has changed dramatically.
At the same time, Giant Rhino No. 1 also completed the excavation of the canal double-line and returned to Hongku Port, where it is currently resting.
With the opening of the double-track canal between Honku Port and Kom Ombo City, the previous ship schedule of one sailing every 8 hours can now be increased to one sailing every 2 hours.
Of course, this also requires increasing the unloading speed at the temporary dock, otherwise the speed can be further increased.
But at this time in the Gobi Desert New District.
The person in charge, Hu Mingliang, did not pay too much attention to the dock area. After all, without giant rhino-type canal-diggers, they could not dig much earth with their excavators. Therefore, he focused on the construction of supporting facilities in the Gobi Desert New District.
For example, the water purification plant that has just been built using modular equipment.
On one side of the Gobi Desert, there is a relatively high valley with several hills ranging in height from about 173 to 192 meters. There is a small basin in the middle with an area of about 4.9 square kilometers.
After investigation by the planning team leader Kamijo Hokuyo, he believed that this col could be used to build a water storage reservoir.
As for the water source of the reservoir, it comes from seawater in the canal.
At this time, the water purification plant has been put into operation.
The roof of the water treatment plant is covered with a large area of solar panels, which are arranged in concentric circles to reflect part of the sunlight into the molten salt heat storage column in the middle.
This tropical desert area is most suitable for deploying solar panels.
In Egypt's tropical desert area, the air is dry and cloudless, with about 8 to 11 hours of sunshine a day, and the light intensity per square meter can reach 2,000 to 3,000 kilowatt-hours.
The solar power generation system of the water purification plant is a photovoltaic and solar-thermal composite power generation system, which can solve the shortcoming that photovoltaic solar energy can only generate electricity during the day.
Currently, the solar power generation system of the water purification plant has a power generation area of 400,000 square meters and can generate 240 megawatt-hours of electricity every day.
The water purification system of the water treatment plant uses the water purification technology unique to Zhiren Company - biological nanostructure penetration technology.
The characteristic of this technology is that the cost of the permeable layer is very cheap and its service life can reach about 17 months.
Another feature of this technology is that it can accelerate the passage of water molecules through the permeation layer by increasing pressure , thereby increasing production and saving equipment space.
Currently, the water purification system of the water treatment plant can produce 5,000 cubic meters of pure water per hour and 120,000 cubic meters per day.
Hu Mingliang stood outside the water pressurizing room.
Huang Chongxin, the director of the water treatment plant, pointed to the two sides of the water pressure chamber and said, "Manager, this is the temporary storage tank for pure water, and this is the storage tank for mixed salts."
“How much miscellaneous salt is produced every day?”
"About 4,200 to 4,400 tons per day. The salinity of the water on this side of the Red Sea is relatively high."
Hu Mingliang pinched his beard and said, "We need to find a way to deal with these salts."
"There are supporting facilities there, but the equipment is still at Hongku Port. It will take about five days to transport it to Kom Ombo." Huang Chongxin replied.
Hu Mingliang's assistant took out a tablet computer and found out the equipment transportation status of the supporting factory: "It is indeed at Hongku Port. Do you want to urge it?"
"No need. All the tasks in the transportation department have been arranged. It's not good to cut in line temporarily. Don't mention this kind of thing in the future." Hu Mingliang rejected it directly.
"Sorry, I understand." The rookie assistant quickly apologized.
Hu Mingliang turned around and said, "Old Huang, you will also be in charge of the supporting factories. Also, how many temporary workers can your factory take?"
"Temporary workers? Hmm..." Huang Chongxin thought for a while: "About 20 to 30 people, mainly needed by the solar panel dust removal and mixed salt processing plants."
"Okay, then 25 people!"
"Okay, I'll arrange a team leader as soon as possible."
The two chatted for a while, and suddenly Huang Chongxin remembered something: "Manager, the salt processing plant needs you to do a good job of receiving the products it produces."
"Salt Brick, I will arrange a team to take charge of the response."
It is naturally impossible to use the 4,200 to 4,400 tons of miscellaneous salt produced every day to process edible salt or industrial salt because the world cannot consume so much.
At this scale, the entire water treatment plant will produce millions of tons of miscellaneous salts a year, and this is just one of the water treatment plants.
According to the plan of the Sapiens Company, 80 new cities will be built in Egypt. These cities will definitely need water purification plants, which will produce hundreds of millions of tons of miscellaneous salt every year.
Obviously, edible salt and industrial salt cannot absorb this production capacity.
But if it is not treated, it will take up space and even pollute the surrounding land.
Therefore, after developing water purification technology, Homo sapiens began to think about how to recycle these salts. After much deliberation, they finally thought of the construction field.
The mixed salt is pressed into bricks by adding an aluminum alloy grid, as well as a coagulant and structural reinforcement.
If it were in other places, this compressed salt brick would be difficult to apply in the construction field.
But where is this?
This is a tropical desert area with high temperatures and little rain all year round, and the air is dry. The salt bricks will not absorb water and dissolve, nor will they be washed away by rain.
Of course, considering the structural strength of salt bricks, Homo sapiens did not include them in high-rise buildings, and even urban buildings did not approve the use of salt bricks.
The current use of these salt bricks is to build simple roads, especially simple roads through desert areas, where salt bricks can be used to pave the foundation and road surface.
Anyway, there is no problem of soil pollution in these desert areas, as long as salt bricks are not used in the Nile River valley plain and delta plain areas.
In addition, roads in sea rice growing areas can also be paved with salt bricks. After all, sea rice growing areas are definitely salinized land, so there is no need to worry too much about soil salinization.
These miscellaneous salts can be recycled and used in the construction of roads in the Sahara Desert.
The other side.
In the staff dormitory area of Gobi Desert New District.
As soon as the employees got off work, they hurried back to their rooms.
These days are really uncomfortable. Although the new humans have strong adaptability, many people actually can't adapt well after running from the tropical rainforest and tropical monsoon areas of Southeast Asia to the tropical desert areas of Egypt.
For example, the problem of taking a bath.
In Southeast Asia, taking a shower once a day is standard, and taking a shower two or three times a day is also quite common.
But in Egypt, where water resources are scarce, taking a bath once a day is a luxury.
However, the Sapiens company is still very concerned about the lives of its employees.
As soon as the water purification plant was put into operation, shower rooms and swimming pools were opened in the dormitory area.
A dozen local temporary workers who had just joined the Homo sapiens were brought to the swimming room by their captain.
"Don't just stand there, change your clothes quickly."
The temporary workers, who had just woken up from their dream, hurried to the locker room to change their clothes, and then followed the captain to find a small swimming pool.
The cool purified water made everyone feel refreshed and swept away their previous fatigue.
A young local temporary worker asked curiously, "Captain! How much does it cost to wash in this kind of swimming pool?"
"It's free, it's one of the employee benefits. The infrastructure here is not good, I wash it every day in Johor."
“No money?” Many temporary workers were shocked.
After all, in their previous lives, this kind of indoor swimming pool was usually only enjoyed by the rich, and ordinary people could only swim in the Nile River at most.
"Don't make a fuss, it's just a small benefit."
A group of temporary workers became increasingly envious of the life at the Zhiren Company.
