108. Chapter 107 Oil Extraction Bug Test
Chapter 107 Oil Extraction Bug Test
Fushun is a typical resource-based city that prospered because of coal and declined because of coal.
In fact, in addition to coal, shale oil reserves are also very rich here.
For example, the largest West Open-pit Mine in Fushun is the only coal mine in the world that integrates coal, shale oil, gas power generation and waste heat heating, ranking seventh in the world among large open-pit mines.
Kang Chi placed the experimental site here. In addition to the relatively superficial shale oil here, which is convenient for completing experimental tests quickly, there is actually another meaning in it…
As early as the beginning of the eighteenth century, the little guys who defeated the old Russians in the north began to control the Fushun coalfield and began to plunder China’s coal resources frantically here.
Later, they built an oil factory here, using the oil shale here as raw material to produce the first barrel of artificial oil on Chinese land.
Today, Kang Chi is going to use a brand new technology to produce another barrel of artificial oil here that can set off a petroleum revolution in China! 10 o’clock in the morning.
The West Open-pit Mine has actually stopped mining in 19 years. Now it has been transformed into a comprehensive ecological park, and even a coal mine museum has been built.
However, today, the park suddenly announced that it would suspend its opening and was temporarily controlled by the military.
At the bottom of the mine pit more than 400 meters, the lowest point of the Chinese mainland, Chen Hai and others helped Kang Chi lift the curtain, and a silver cylindrical device appeared in everyone’s sight.
“What is this?” Chief Lu looked at the equipment in front of him with some confusion, “Shield machine?”
”No, I call it an oil extractor.” Kang Chi took out a drawing and explained to Chief Lu, “It can directly drill into the shale layer thousands of meters underground to complete the extraction of shale oil.”
”!!”
Chief Lu’s face suddenly changed, and he understood how explosive Kang Chi’s words on the phone were! ”Are you sure? How much oil is produced? How much is the cost? Will it destroy the underground rock structure and cause environmental damage?”
He asked several questions in a trembling tone.
Kang Chi shook his head: “I can only be sure of these questions after completing the test. Now they are just predictions and may not be accurate.”
”What are you waiting for? Start the experiment as soon as you are ready!”
Looking at Chief Lu who was more anxious than himself, Kang Chi couldn’t help but smile, then walked to the oil extractor, unscrewed a piece of the shell, pointed to the transparent jar inside and said: “Look, this is empty now.”
After that, he reinstalled the shell and took out the remote control.
It is called a remote control, but in fact it is more like a thicker tablet computer, which is a bonus upgrade when the oil extractor is upgraded.
After the upgrade, the oil extractor has multiple detection heads installed in its body, which can scan the surrounding environment and virtual model it, and present it on the controller panel.
In this way, Kang Chi can intuitively know the current location of the oil extractor and the environment around it, and design the mining route in advance.
After asking everyone to step back 20 meters, Kang Chi began to control the oil extractor to crawl towards the exposed oil shale layer that had been stepped on in advance.
Seeing this scene, Chen Hai suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu…
This feeling…
Isn’t it the digging toy that Kang Chi used to play with mud at home before? !
It turns out that the toy was not for playing with mud at all, but the prototype of the oil extractor? !
When he wrote the weekly task report, he reported to the superiors that Kang Chi was basically doing research at home this week and making lens manufacturing equipment. During this period, except for eating, he came out to play with the digging toys he made…
Isn’t this a joke? !
It’s too embarrassing…
The main reason is that they have changed too much before and after. Even when he saw the oil extractor that night, he couldn’t connect the two things together. Chen Hai couldn’t help but glance at Kang Chi, and then looked at his immediate superior standing next to Chief Lu with a guilty conscience…
Well, I seemed to have dug mud for two hours before I helped Dr. Kang find the equipment…
He has made a contribution, so he is not afraid! When Chen Hai calmed down and looked at the oil extraction machine again, its front drill bit finally came into contact with the rock wall.
Accompanied by a harsh friction sound, the rock began to be crushed and then collected into the extraction machine.After about five minutes, its body had already drilled halfway into the oilworm.
At the same time, dozens of holes on its butt began to rhythmically pull out “poop”…
This poo doesn’t look like ordinary gravel, but geometric shapes of various shapes.
Under Kang Chi’s instruction, a soldier walked up and brought back a piece of poo.
Everyone curiously came up to take a look and found that its structure was like a tetrahedron attached to each face of a cube, which looked a bit like a simplified version of a thorny ball.
“During the mining process, the oil extractor will simply compress the refining debris into more than a dozen different geometric shapes and discharge them from the back.”
Kang Chi explained to everyone at the right time, “When these geometric shapes are piled together, there will be a lot of air gaps to fill the reduction of rock material after the oil is collected. They are usually more pressure-resistant than the original rock. The principle is actually a bit similar to the flood control dams on the seashore. This is to solve the problem of geological collapse caused by mining. We will also do specific pressure tests later.”
Lü nodded: “This design is quite simple and ingenious.”
As the oil extractor drilled deeper and deeper, everyone could only judge the position of the oil extractor through the screen of the remote control in Kang Chi’s hand.
After setting the route, Kang Chi actually had nothing to do, so he could only explain the various design principles of the oil extractor to Lü.
“During the collection process, considering the complexity of the rock formation, there will be a simple material identification and screening. The oil-containing liquid will flow into a special container, the oil-containing solid will flow into the electrolytic furnace along the conveyor belt, and the ordinary soil and rock will be discharged directly…”
After Kang Chi’s more than one hour of explanation, Chief Lu felt that his head was big…
Fortunately, not long after an hour, everyone began to hear the sound of the drill bit digging, and quickly focused their attention on the rock wall.
As the sound became louder and louder, about five minutes later, the head of the oil extractor was close to the entrance, and it drilled out from the side again, leaving two closely attached circles in the rock formation, which were filled with various geometric rock bodies.
After the oil extractor stopped, everyone immediately surrounded it, watching Kang Chi remove the shell that had been disassembled before.
A can filled with black liquid appeared in everyone’s sight! “Success? Is it really oil?!”
“We’ll know after we check it out.”
Kang Chi jumped off the oil extraction machine, walked to the butt of the oil extractor, opened a cover, and pressed the button inside.
Next to the cover, another larger cover popped open, and a synthetic interface with four circular interfaces extended from it.
”One of these four ports is the oil outlet, one is the charging port, and the remaining two are for replenishing water and catalysts.”
After Kang Chi introduced it to Chief Lu, he connected a pipe prepared in advance to the oil outlet, and then pressed the oil discharge option on the controller.
So everyone saw that the oil in the transparent jar inside the oil extractor began to pass through the pipe at a speed visible to the naked eye and was discharged into the container prepared in advance.
”498 kilograms!”
The technician who was temporarily borrowed from Fushun Petroleum Company read out the weight of the liquid in the container.
Then it was liquid testing.
“The hydrocarbon content is 97%, including 85% carbon, 12% hydrogen, 3% trace elements such as sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen, and a density of 0.87. It is a light petroleum!”
Hearing this result, the scene was boiling! (End of this chapter)