Chapter 414 Distillation Tower
Russell has limited knowledge of black oil. Even the black oil dragon Rose, who nourishes the black oil vein, does not understand black oil.
Just like an old hen can lay eggs, but does not know why it lays eggs.
Black oil is a "metal" mineral radiated and condensed by Rose's power, but the specific use of black oil needs to be explored by humans.
Fortunately, black oil is very similar to the oil in Russell's hometown on Earth.
And it happened that when Russell was watching Douyin in his previous life, he saw crude oil of oil, how to decompose it into daily oil products such as gasoline, diesel, and kerosene through distillation and cracking, and by using the principle that different liquids have different volatilities under different conditions
So, he thought of using the same distillation method to decompose black oil and try to get different products.
So when he was in the Red Castle, he went to visit the Great Scholar Tower and communicated with many great scholars of the Round Table.
Finally, the great scholar Placido was invited to go to the Black Fire Land to study the "metal" black oil that first appeared in the Shadow Flame Grand Duchy.
Placido is a great scholar in the field of metals. He has profound attainments in magic analysis and formation construction. He is also a senior pharmacist, and he has also made outstanding research in "metal" coal.
After the birth of black oil, Placido wanted to try to study what is so extraordinary about black oil, which is a fuel like coal and peat.
So he hit it off with Russell and established a black fire laboratory in the black oil mine with several apprentices of polymaths.
After that, Russell explained his understanding of black oil to Placido and proposed the idea of distillation and decomposition.
This led to Placido's distillation experiment, which resulted in four decomposition products.
"Lord Russell, let me introduce these four products to you." Dunn picked up a glass with a slightly yellow transparent liquid in it. "This product has a slight odor, is very easy to burn, and has a bright flame without smoke, which is several times more fierce than black oil."
"Hmm." Russell did not comment.
Dunn picked up the second sealed glass jar: "This product is very volatile, and it is easy to self-ignite and explode, but it has a very good combustion effect, and it is easy to distill and decompose."
"Yeah."
Dunn picked up the third glass cup, which contained a golden liquid: "This product also burns violently, but it is unstable, easy to volatilize, and smokes a lot."
Finally, Dunn picked up the fourth glass cup, which also contained a golden liquid, but it was more viscous: "This product cannot burn, and it is sticky. What use it has, I don't know yet."
After looking at the four products.
Russell raised his eyebrows: "No more?"
"Just these four distillation and decomposition products." Dunn replied, "The rest is some black oil residue."
"Bring the black oil residue to me." Russell said casually, "Coal slag can be used to pave coal slag roads, why can't black oil residue be used to pave roads? Maybe the effect of paving roads is better than coal slag."
"Okay." Dunn immediately sent an apprentice to bring the residue of the distillation experiment.
A large black mass, close to a semi-solid, but not a real solid, still retains some liquid properties.
Russell did not touch it with his hands, but watched the apprentice hold the black oil residue for a while, then smiled and said: "This stuff is mixed with some sand and then flattened, and the road paved will definitely be very beautiful."
"Maybe." The great scholar Placido has repaired the distillation furnace, "but the charcoal slag road is also good."
Russell smiled and said: "Once the black oil kiln test is completed, the fuel for the entire Youguang Valley and the Black Fire Land will no longer be coal, and there will be no charcoal slag to continue paving the road. So the black oil residue paving the road needs to be explored urgently."
"I see." Placido nodded.
"I think these distillation products are all very good. Mr. Placido, your next work direction is to design and build a distillation tower so that the mine can distill and decompose black oil on a large scale."
Placido complained: "Oh my God, a small distillation furnace is enough for me to worry about. If I design a distillation tower..."
Russell smiled: "I will provide more funds for you and your students to do research."
Placido's eyes suddenly lit up and laughed: "Of course, of course, it is our honor to serve a baron like you who respects knowledge, Mr. Russell. Don't worry, I will design a distillation tower for you!"
"Then please, sir." Russell also laughed.
Things that can be solved with money are not problems. He is looking forward to whether the Black Fire Laboratory will create an industrial era in the Dragon Sleep Continent with his heavy funding.
Kirov scholar said with a smile: "Sir, please give a name to the four, no, five products of black oil distillation and decomposition."
"Okay!" Russell took the responsibility.
Pointing to the first yellowish, slightly smelly, transparent liquid, he said, "Let's call this kerosene."
Pointing to the second liquid that needs to be sealed and preserved, he said, "This is very volatile, so let's call it liquefied gas."
Pointing to the third golden liquid, he said, "Let's call this... gasoline."
Pointing to the fourth golden viscous liquid, he said, "This is sticky, let's call it lubricating oil."
Finally, pointing to the black oil residue, he said, "This is called asphalt."
So far, the black oil has been decomposed into five new products, kerosene, liquefied gas, gasoline, lubricating oil and asphalt.
Russell concluded: "Of course, this is only tentative. Perhaps through experimental distillation and decomposition, we can get more new products. We will refine them again at that time. And now, Mr. Placido, I hope you can explore the uses of these products."
As long as the funds are in place, Placido is easy to talk to: "As you wish, Mr. Russell."
Plasido is easy to talk to, and Russell will not treat this group of scholars unfairly.
He immediately said: "The Black Fire Laboratory is too simple. I will choose another location near the Black Oil Mine and build a magnificent Black Fire Scholar Tower in imitation of the Great Scholar Tower for you to study, research and live."
Placido was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then hesitantly said: "Sir Russell, you don't need to build a tower. We are just doing research here for a while. When the research is over, we will still have to return to the Red Castle."
Russell smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I won't force you to stay, but if anyone likes to stay here to continue researching black oil, I will fully support and fund him. In my territory, scholars are VIPs!"
Sighing, Placido smiled and shook his head: "Everyone has their own ambitions... Placido thanks Sir Russell for treating us so well."
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The kerosene, liquefied gas, gasoline, lubricating oil, and asphalt decomposed from black oil are all useful, but at present, the most widely used is black oil itself.
"Sir, our brick kiln factory recently experimented with burning bricks with black oil." Little William, the head of the Black Snake Brick Kiln Factory, has been promoted to the head of the Black Fire Brick Kiln Factory. In the future, all brick kilns in the Black Fire Land will be under his management.
"What is the result?"
"The burning of black oil alone is not as stable as burning coal." Little William told the truth, "The quality of the slag bricks burned is uneven... But, but the effect of burning black oil with firewood is very good, better than coal!"
After all, black oil is a liquid. Traditional brick kilns do not have a special oil supply device, and the inverted fuel is not uniform.
But with the help of firewood, black oil can burn evenly in the kiln.
"Continue to study and strive to improve the technology of burning black oil bricks to the best state." Russell said affirmatively, "By then, I will build kilns all over the Black Fire Land, not only burning slag bricks, but also ordinary bricks."
By that time, serfs can live in comfortable red brick houses.