Chapter 61: De-petroleum

Yang Jinghan took the longevity medicine from his daughter-in-law Qu Xiaoyan. He lamented that with the rapid technological advancement now, everyone can live to the age of two hundred.
He opened the package and said to his wife: "We have one bottle of each of these two bottles."
His wife made fun of him: "Why are you so confused? Isn't this more than ten bottles."
Yang Jinghan carefully inspected the package, he was stunned. There were really more than ten bottles of life-extending medicine in the package.
He lamented his daughter-in-law Qu Xiaoyan and knew him. I know if the life extension medicine gets less. He will definitely give the opportunity to his mentor Zhang Shenghai first.
Yang Jinghan took out two bottles of longevity medicine and said to his wife: "These two bottles will be sent to my teacher Zhang Shenghai by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. When I come back, we will go to the hospital to inject the lifelong medicine."
Zhang Jinghan saw the instructions for life extension medicines. Life extension medicines must be matched with the necessary elements for the human body. There is a detailed list on the instructions. These are common medicines, which are available in every hospital.
Seeing Grandpa about to leave, Xiaoming playing next to him pounced. The silver-white metal on Xiaoming's hand was very soft, and some fine metal particles hung on Yang Jinghan's body.
Yang Jinghan comforted his grandson for a while and drove to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He entered the dean's office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but did not find his mentor Zhang Shenghai.
Yang Jinghan went out and met a colleague and asked, "Academician Ji, do you know where the dean is?"
"Academician Yang, you came back from vacation, and the dean went to your chemistry institute."
Yang Jinghan said goodbye to his colleagues and came to the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Researchers saw him coming and greeted him respectfully. Someone asked: "Director, you are not the 55th anniversary of your wedding. Have you taken a vacation to travel?"
Yang Jinghan replied with a smile: "I just came back, there are still a few days of vacation, accompany my grandson at home, by the way at home to organize the next experiment ideas, it is too difficult to do this experiment, so far there is no idea.
"Do you see where the dean is?" Yang Jinghan asked.
The man thought for a while and replied: "In the inorganic laboratory, I heard that the dean had taken a new device, and your experiment might be successful."
Yang Jinghan said goodbye to him and came to the inorganic laboratory. Next to the autoclave, he saw his teacher, Academician Zhang Shenghai. His teacher is ninety-nine years old this year and does not look old at all. There is a spirit that many young people do not have.
Yang Jinghan stepped forward to say hello: "Good teacher, I heard that you brought a new device, which is helpful for the experiment of carbon dioxide to ethylene."
Pointing to the machine next to the size of a rice cooker, Zhang Shenghai said: "This is a new quantum computer sent by the Prime Minister with the latest scientific simulation system of Xingyu Technology. Through the scientific simulation system, we found the conversion of carbon dioxide to ethylene. Industrial production methods. "
Yang Jinghan was shocked. He knows what this means. The method of converting carbon dioxide into ethylene has long been successful in the laboratory. But the cost is too high to carry out industrial production.
Once the industrialized production is successful. It will affect the petrochemical industry in another important area of ​​oil.
Petrochemical industry will completely abandon oil. Ethylene is the basic raw material for the petrochemical industry. It can be transformed into any kind of organic matter through a series of chemical reactions. He is the most basic raw material in organic chemistry.
The country has been planning this project a few years ago, just for the petrochemical industry, not to be contained by our foreign oil giants.
As long as this project is successful, the country's oil consumption will be reduced by one third. This saves more than money. Get the right to speak in the petrochemical industry.
His teacher Zhang Shenghai woke him up and heard him always say.
"The sudden emergence of Xingyu Technology has made rapid progress in technology. The quantum computer he produced is several generations ahead of the national development."
"This scientific research simulation system is really an excellent tool for the benefit of the scientific research community. With this system, a lot of things have been saved. Through the data of our experiments in the past few years, the system has calculated the conditions for the conversion of carbon dioxide and water vapor to ethylene. Zhang Shenghai said excitedly.
Yang Jinghan just wanted to take out the longevity medicine. Hearing the experimenter next to him shouting, "The dean has the result, the conversion rate is 15%, this experiment failed."
Li Jinghan asked: "What is the reason for the failure of the experiment?"
"The dean, the director, you are back." The experimenter said in surprise, "The pressure of the reactor is not enough, the pressure required for the experimental conditions is higher, but this is the strongest pressure reactor in the world."
Yang Jinghan thought and said: "The pressure can't go up, you have considered the temperature, or the catalyst."
Zhang Shenghai replied: "The temperature is taken into account, the catalyst is ferric oxide."
Yang Jinghan felt he didn't need to say anything. Whoever does chemistry doesn't know how to use a catalyst. It is a common tool in chemical reactions. It reduces the activation energy of the reactants and accelerates the rate of chemical reactions, while its own quality and chemical properties have not changed before and after the reaction.
Its role is simply to lower the threshold of chemical reactions. Just like various enzymes in the human body, he can reduce chemical reactions that require very high conditions to be achieved in the human body.
"Don't be afraid of difficulties, try two more reactors." Zhang Shenghai said beside him.
Watched the experimenter put the catalyst into the reactor. Yang Jinghan also aroused interest. He also picked up ferric oxide. What he didn't notice, ferroferric oxide is magnetic and attracts the metal particles on his clothes to it.
The reactor was closed, and carbon dioxide and steam were introduced into it, and the experiment started.
After a while, the reaction ended. The experimenter calculated the conversion rate in the two reactors.
He took the result and said in surprise: "This is impossible, how is it possible?"
The experimenter handed the results to Zhang Shenghai and Yang Jinghan. They see the results and feel incredible, the same experiment. A conversion rate of 15% and a conversion rate of 99.9%.
Zhang Shenghai said excitedly: "Other conditions are the same, it must be the problem of the catalyzer, go to the reactor to find the catalyzer."
Yang Jinghan hurried forward to collect all the objects in the successful reaction kettle. It is not yet known whether the catalyzer is a solid, a gas, or a liquid.
Separate it one by one through the experimental equipment. Most are reactants and products.
There is only one solid particle, which looks like ferric oxide.
The experimenter said: "It's impossible. I put the same ferric tetroxide, only one was put by me, and the other was put by Yang Yang. Observation found that there is also a metal substance on the surface of ferric oxide.
They all know that this metal substance is the catalyst.
The experimenter picked up this substance and saw it under an electron microscope. This kind of particulate matter becomes soft when you get caught.
Soft metal, Yang Jinghan thought of the metal his grandson played with. It is it, it must be it.
Yang Jinghan called home excitedly, and soon his wife sent the metal to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Continued the experiment with that metal as the catalyst, and each reactor was successful.
Everyone in the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was boiling. It was a small step forward in chemical technology, but he sounded the death knell for oil.
Yang Jinghan took advantage of his teacher Zhang Shenghai, and took out the Yanshou Elixir, and said to his teacher: "Teacher, you and your mother-in-law are so old.
Zhang Shenghai saw the Longevity Elixir and shook his head and said, "I can't use this. I can live a few more years and give it to other older comrades."
Yang Jinghan explained: "My daughter-in-law is at Xingyu Technology. According to him, the country will unify older scientists and distribute life-extending medicines. I will give you this bottle. You are saving one bottle for the country. Have a chance to get a bottle. "
Zhang Shenghai took over the life-extending medicine from Yang Jinghan.
Zhang Shenghai said: "Using all the technologies of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to understand the composition of this catalyst. It is now possible to report to the country and the experiment was successful."
The burden in Zhang Shenghai's heart was finally put down, but he didn't figure out the ingredients of this catalyst. Such a large piece of metal is enough catalyst for more than a dozen factories.