Chapter 1025
Stick a pipe into the Bohai Sea? That's quite graphic.
The engineers involved in the development of this technology, even if they don't know anything about business, know exactly what a huge difference this desalination system will make to mankind and how beneficial it will be.
Water is a resource on which mankind depends, and the severe shortage of water resources in northern China has largely constrained the economic development of the region, while the biggest feature of the desalination system developed by Future Technology is that it is energy efficient, consuming no electricity at all during the desalination process.
Advanced desalination systems are being used on a large scale in these Middle Eastern countries in Israel, and the technology is mature, but one of the biggest features is that ...... is expensive!
The Middle East is able to play around, such as Dubai, that is the landed gentry family has money.
Traditional desalination requires a strong electric field to support, meaning huge consumption of electrical energy, like Dubai's desalination is equivalent to the use of natural gas to turn into fresh water, its desalination equipment to consume electricity ah.
And Dubai's electricity is generated by burning natural gas, which is the same as using natural gas to turn it into fresh water.
And for the current energy structure, there is still electricity energy is obtained by burning coal, burning coal means air pollution, in fact, the biggest cause of haze pollution on earth is burning coal.
The reason why there is no hazy weather like the old Maoists is that they don't burn coal at all, but natural gas, which is not going to produce harmful gases and environmental pollution.
Naturally, it is impossible to do desalination on a large scale in North China, not only because the power supply is already tight and the huge consumption of electricity will drive the consumption of coal, further aggravating environmental pollution.
The demand here is not comparable to that of a populated area, and the two are not at all on the same level.
And Li Linfei from the system to exchange this set of desalination technology, grounded on the direct plug a pipe to the Bohai Sea can be.
It is no exaggeration to say that this technology is enough to solve the serious lack of fresh water resources in the north of the country, whether it is agricultural irrigation or urban living water, plug a pipe in the Bohai Sea and suck it up.
The entire economy of northern China may usher in a strong wave of take-off because of the large-scale application of this technology.
Li Linfei walked out of the laboratory and went to another R&D room.
The development of carbon nanotube composite membrane material has been successfully passed, out of the laboratory and large-scale application is no longer a problem, but the key material is solved, but still need to manufacture a complete desalination system equipment.
Li Linfei mastered the core technology, then mastered the standard customization. Inside the R&D room, the head of the team greeted Li Linfei when he saw him coming, and the latter said dryly, "How's the progress?"
The person in charge immediately called up a holographic display panel, and in the middle of the R&D room, a three-dimensional model was soon projected, with the major module components being disassembled and suspended in the air, and he said, "Mr Li, according to your requirements, we have tried to keep compressing costs as much as possible while ensuring the ability to remove salt."
"We have divided it into three filtration stages, the first layer uses conventional filtration materials to remove large masses of impurities from the water, the second layer filters microorganisms as well as large masses of impurities, and only the third layer uses carbon nanotube composite membranes for salt removal as well as chemical elements."
The three filtration stages are actually designed to extend the life and replacement frequency of the composite membrane, which is a realised cost saving. The first two layers use cheaper filtration materials to keep the large sediments in the seawater out of the first two layers, which extends the life and replacement frequency of the third layer of the composite membrane, thus saving the consumption of composite membrane materials, which is also cheaper.
"After the third layer of the carbon nanotube composite membrane has been used, it can be recycled and applied to the fresh water irrigation needs of agricultural irrigation, allowing for further cost savings by reusing the waste product." The director added.
Drinking water and farmland irrigation water are two different sets of standards; to put it bluntly, drinking water for city dwellers should be dry and clean, but farmland irrigation, for example, can allow the water to exceed the standard for many chemical elements such as salinity.
"Build me a set of prototypes that meet the standards within a week, and the Water Resources Bureau will send someone to investigate in a week's time, so don't fall off the wagon." Li Linfei said with a reminder and nodded in satisfaction when he saw the person in charge patting his chest with assurance. After checking the development progress report again, everything was progressing smoothly as expected, he gave a few words of explanation and left the R&D department with confidence.
Li Linfei knew how great an impact this technology would have on the world, as it could solve the water problem in northern China at home and become a major weight for the country abroad.
If we had such a desalination technology, it would be impossible for the Middle East to ignore our presence in the future. For example, the world is concerned about the Middle East because of its oil, and whoever has it controls the lifeline of the world.
Of course, no one can control it and have it all to themselves, it's everyone's, and by everyone I mean the big five .......
But the desalination system developed by Future Technology, that is absolute control.
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A few days later at around 10:40 am, the Future Technology meeting room.
"Minister Tan?"
Li Linfei saw the leader in charge of the special investigation team sent over from above faintly, and then picked up: "Minister Tan line change really fast, a soldier, this time actually did the work of the Ministry of Water Resources, but really a multi-faceted ah!"
Chapter 1026
"Haha, long time no see Mr. Li."
The leader, Tan Gang, came up with a smile, shook hands with him familiarly, and also smiled as he received, "Once you've been born, twice you've gotten acquainted, change other people's faces, I've already mingled."
Li Linfei well see behind them there are several other very richly dressed, oh no, bejeweled people, it seems that the above informed these kaiju, oh no, tycoons, to send them to the door to be slaughtered.
It was as if Li Linfei saw these kaiju lining up to send money to Future Technology, ahaha.
After some brief innuendo, Li Linfei led the way to the First Research Institute.
Li Linfei led the crowd to arrive and the team responsible for the preparation of the seawater desalination sample prototype was waiting for them early.
The head of the team went up to Li Linfei and gave him a few words of explanation, and with a nod of his head the latter turned back to the crowd who were looking around with a smile and said, "Gentlemen, this way please."
When they arrived in a spacious laboratory, they were immediately drawn to a set of machines and equipment in the middle, the core of which was a cylindrical silhouette, a bit like a water pipe but a bit more refined and technological, with a number of meters around it.
It actually looks like the same thing, but it's actually not very complicated, and any country with a certain industrial base could easily copy it.
But this is not really the core technology, the real black technology is the carbon nanotube composite membrane.
At this moment, whether it was Tan Gang or those tycoons, both groups of them were curiously looking at this not-so-small prototype sample.
After a while, under the unblinking gaze of Tan Gang and the others, a researcher brought in a jar of seawater, while several other researchers brought in a dozen chemical elements, including macronutrients, trace elements, trace elements and other chemicals, which were poured into the water in a single stream in front of the crowd's eyes.
The water was then gradually diluted and dissolved. It was definitely an aqueous solution with compounds that were seriously over the limit.
Tan Gang and these tycoons in white clothes all brought a professional technical advisor with them this time. Seeing this scene they were all talking and asking the experts, and after a few moments, they were also getting more and more excited, especially these few tycoons.
A short while later, the researcher poured the aqueous solution, which was heavily overloaded with salt ions, into the prototype, which flowed downwards completely by gravitational potential energy in free fall, inside the soluble tube.
When the aqueous solution reached the carbon nanotube composite membrane, the water passed through the composite membrane at a rate of more than 80%, while chemical elements such as cadmium, iron, and zinc were successfully blocked.
The aqueous solution in the upper layer has a special modular device that is constantly re-mixed so that the chemical elemental substances of the aqueous solution do not increase with time and gravity vectoring factors.
This leads to massive deposition on the carbon nanotube composite membrane affecting the passage rate of pure water, while here also chemical elemental substances such as salt ions are induced to be diverted and exported.
Before long, Tan Gang and others who saw this scene for the first time were very shocked as the left channel port of the prototype began to flow with pure water that could be directly consumed, while compounds such as calcium sulphate, copper chloride and sodium acetate continued to fall out of the right channel port.
Everyone present knew that these compounds were the various chemical elements that had just been dissolved in the water and had been successfully separated from the water by the prototype.
At this point, one of the researchers picked up a cup and took a drink at the water purification outlet then drank it down in front of Tan Gang and the others, followed by Ye Hua who also took a cup and took a sip himself.
"I'll try it too, this comrade please give me a cup too!" Tan Gang's spirit was lifted at the sight and he couldn't resist tasting it himself. Even Li Linfei drank it, and a leading tycoon couldn't resist stepping forward to take a cup.
Even Li Linfei drank it, and one of the leading tycoons couldn't resist going forward to fetch a glass. Then everyone took a glass from the left channel of the prototype and tasted it.
Tan Gang and the others tasted it themselves and were all amazed, and their hearts were even more excited. Such a miraculous desalination technology was so efficient and convenient that once the water solution containing various chemical elements was introduced into the machine, pure water was exported while compounds were exported.
A few technical advisors were really curious about how Ye Hua had done it and what technical principles they used, but this question was mostly fruitless, as it was bound to involve commercial secrets, only to sigh at the charm of technology.
But Tan Gang was even more excited, once this simple, energy-saving and cheap desalination technology is applied on a large scale, in the future, the Great North China can directly insert a pipe to the Bohai Sea to provide water resources for the whole northern part of the country.
The leader of the group couldn't help but drink several glasses of water in a row, and then looked at Li Linfei and said with a serious face, "This is the most delicious pure water in the world I've ever drunk!"
The laboratory researchers in the room were happy, and Li Linfei also smiled faintly, pure water is colorless and tasteless, how can it be delicious?
But his sentimental words were also understood by Li Linfei and others present, Li Linfei again on the way here Tan just told him that they are from Dubai.
If Dubai, the UAE, were to introduce this fresh water equipment, in the future it would be able to draw on the fresh water resources on which mankind depends by plugging a pipe directly into the Persian Gulf, or the Arabian Gulf.
Because Dubai is on the sea, there is no shortage of sea water there, but there is a shortage of fresh water.
It's only because Dubai has the money that it can do conventional desalination to meet its water needs, but the cost of water is expensive, but the Middle Eastern tycoons are too rich to care about this small expense.
But then again, it is true that there is no shortage now, but once you want the economy to grow further and the population to boom, the demand for resources will soar, and once the volume goes up the tycoons will not be able to afford it.
So the lack of fresh water resources is also a major constraint on Dubai's development ceiling, which now has a population of over three million, and even including Sharjah, only five million people.
The tycoon's consciousness is clear: Dubai wants to develop further and even leapfrog to become a world-class super metropolis with a future population of 10 million or even 20 million or more, like the city of Shanghai in China.
The problem of fresh water supply must be solved, otherwise Dubai will never be able to become a super metropolis with a population of 10 million, and even if it could, the economic cost would be unimaginable.
Even if it could, the economic cost would be unimaginable.