"That's right!" Wu Shican smiled, "We spent a lot of money to support Wang Hongtai in the ruthenium catalyst process. Over the years, he has achieved a lot of results and has applied for dozens of patents. The process he has done is very different from traditional technology. It requires some equipment to be redesigned. The initial investment is relatively high, so it has not been promoted and applied. I thought that since the Chigu Manufacturing Institute does not allow us to use their technology, we might as well use the ruthenium catalyst process and catch Chigu off guard."

Xue Mucang knew about this, and he sighed: "Old Wu, Xiaochen, you two have a lot of vision. The idle guy he set up back then is now in great use."

As early as 0 years ago, in conjunction with the introduction of Japan's large fertilizer technology, the Redevelopment Office used the large fertilizer fund raised from the European market to launch a large-scale technical research activity, calling on scientific researchers from universities, research institutes, enterprises and institutions across the country to apply for projects based on their expertise and carry out technical research and development.

Most of the projects established in this research activity are production process problems that are consistent with the imported technology, such as certain welding technology, steel smelting technology used in certain equipment, etc. After these technologies are developed, the problems encountered in the imported technology are directly solved and good benefits have been achieved in production practice.

Among all the projects, one project is relatively special, that is, the synthesis of ammonia based on ruthenium catalyst proposed by Wang Hongtai, a young lecturer at Pujiang Jiaotong University. This project seemed a bit advanced and a bit inexpensive at the time. International research on the synthesis of ammonia by ruthenium catalyst is just beginning, and most chemical companies are not very interested in it. As a country with relatively backward chemical equipment technology, it is even more meaningless to conduct this process research.

However, at that time, Wu Shican and Feng Xiaochen were responsible for the project approval. One of them was a technical authority in the chemical industry, and the other was a time traveler with a forward-looking vision. Seeing Wang Hongtai's application, both of them thought the project was very valuable and immediately decided to give him 500,000 yuan in financial support. This was a super big project back then. The two of them had the same idea as Xue Mucang said, and they did regard this project as a leisure person. Of course, being able to spend 500,000 yuan to lay out a leisure person also showed the courage of Wu Shican and Feng Xiaochen. Later, the 500,000 yuan scientific research funds also triggered a series of contradictions in the Chemical Engineering Department of Jiaotong University, which was off-topic.

Wang Hongtai did not disappoint the hopes of Wu Shican and Feng Xiaochen. Over the years, he has devoted himself to research and has achieved a large number of achievements in the research of ruthenium catalyst technology, which has also caused a great sensation in the international chemical industry. The ruthenium catalyst ammonia synthesis process is a major improvement in the traditional synthesis of ammonia, and both the academic and industry have given high evaluations.

However, the formation of a process is not that simple, it will affect the entire process and the redesign of many equipment. International chemical giants have their own mature synthetic ammonia processes and are not in a hurry to introduce new processes. The main task of Chinese companies in the past few years was to build new fertilizer plants for various places. Time is tight and the task is heavy, so they naturally have to choose the most stable technical route. Since there is a ready-made Chigu process to use, why should you take the risk of using the immature ruthenium catalyst process?

In this way, although the ruthenium catalyst process proposed by Wang Hongtai was very advanced, it was not applied. However, Wang Hongtai himself did not mind this. He formed a large number of papers in the research of this process, won a huge reputation internationally, and was also named a professor and doctoral supervisor early, becoming a recognized life winner among the "green pepper" of Pujiao University.

Feng Xiaochen has always remembered Wang Hongtai and his ruthenium catalyst technology. At this time, he heard Wu Shican talk about the fact that he wanted to do a set of synthetic ammonia technology by himself, so he thought of him directly. Sure enough, Wu Shican was talking about Wang Hongtai. According to Wu Shican, the project released back then was a ten-year sword. Now it is time to take it out and try the edge.

"After Wang Hongtai completed the design of the ruthenium catalyst process, I helped him contact a fertilizer factory and conducted industrial experiments to prove that this process is completely feasible. It is more advanced than the Chigu process we used and the Dutch and French processes. However, the scale of the experiment equipment at that time was relatively small, with an annual output of 20,000 tons. Now, to apply this technology to a large device of 300,000 tons, some adjustments still need to be made." Wu Shican said.

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Old Wu, why don't I know at all if you help Wang Hongtai contact industrial experiments?"

Wu Shican said a little apologetically: "This is the daily work of our strategic planning department, and I have not reported it to you specifically."

Feng Xiaochen waved his hand and said, "Old Wu, you are so serious, so why don't you report? I just kept thinking about Wang Hongtai's topic, and I thought about when I could find a project to experiment. I didn't expect you to do it in advance."

Wu Shican said: "I will keep an eye on all projects in our strategy department. Wang Hongtai's project is an advanced project and has not been applied. I saw some foreign scholars in the journal that made high evaluations of the ruthenium catalyst ammonia synthesis process, and felt that it would be a pity that such a promising technology would be shelved there. If a foreign company took the lead, our losses would be too great. So, I contacted a small fertilizer factory and persuaded them to invest funds and use Wang Hongtai's technology to transform. As a result, in trial production, the effect of this process was very obvious, and the production efficiency was increased by more than 20%. Because the investment invested by the company at that time was limited, some equipment was replaced with the original equipment, and it was difficult to achieve stable production. This experiment ended after two months."

"Two months of experiments are enough to discover the main problems in the process," said Feng Xiaochen. "On this basis, we can make improvements and then conduct larger-scale experiments. Once the second experiment is completed, we can use this process in Argentina projects."

"I think so too." Wu Shican said that this is the benefit of an expert leader. As long as you say something, the leader can understand everything and save time from explanation from subordinates. He asked: "What I am not sure about now is how much time Argentina can leave for us, and whether we have time to complete the next round of experiments."

"Drag it." Feng Xiaochen said with a smile, "Time is like... uh, anyway, you can always squeeze it out. Argentina is indeed very anxious about this project, but according to Lao Cao and others, the Argentine Agricultural Bureau was anxious while quarreling internally. The tendering matter was delayed for almost a year. Now let's disturb them and make them unstable. It should be fine to delay it for more than half a year."

Xue Mucang also smiled: "Xiaochen, you are so bad. If it were our own project, who would dare to argue with you for a period of half a year, you might have been anxious with him long ago?"

"What a hurry? Who dares to delay my time? I will just overturn the table." Feng Xiaochen said with confidence.

Wu Shican and Xue Mucang looked at each other, and both looked helpless. Xue Mucang was a little better. He was actually a relatively unconventional person, while Wu Shican was different. The old man was rigorous in his work and had good character. He could not do such a thing that would bother the other party in order to gain time. However, what he most admired Feng Xiaochen was also here. At any time, Feng Xiaochen could choose the most beneficial plan for the country, and did not hesitate to use various conspiracies for this.

Feng Xiaochen did not care about the expressions of the two seniors. He said, "This matter is decided like this. Lao Wu, we must do both plans you mentioned. I will arrange for Wang Genji to negotiate with Chigu Production Institute and ask them to transfer the international market license. As for the price, we can pay a little, but if the other party wants to speak out, I'm sorry. Wang Hongtai must move immediately and let the Chemical Design Institute, Xinyang Secondary Machinery and Beihua Machinery all come on. It's really not possible. I invite a group of people from the Petrochemical Design Institute to concentrate their efforts. At most, it must be perfected and ensure that this process is foolproof."

"Ichigu Production Institute probably doesn't agree, right?" Wu Shican said.

Feng Xiaochen smiled mysteriously and said, "It doesn't matter. Anyway, Wang Genji likes to make trouble, so let him go and mess with Chigu."

"But, since we decided to use the ruthenium catalyst process, what else should we talk to Iketani?"

Xue Mucang couldn't listen anymore, so he patted Wu Shican on the shoulder and said, "Old Wu, you let Xiao Feng go in. He asked Xiao Wang to negotiate with Chigu, but he was not at all kind. He used a trick to make the Japanese feel that we were at the end of our lives and could only beg them so that we would not notice that we were doing ruthenium catalysts."

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "There is another reason, that is, we have to delay the time in Argentina and strive to complete the research on the ruthenium catalyst process. This can deceive the Argentina Ministry of Agriculture, but it may not be able to deceive the Chigu Production Institute. I asked Lao Wang to negotiate a license with them, which can attract their attention and make them ignore the Argentina situation."

Wu Shican suddenly realized it. He patted his head in annoyance and said, "Oh, you are all too smart. I will never imagine these things in my life."

Feng Xiaochen said: "Old Wu, this is called having a specialty in arts. If you think about these things, I am not at ease. Your strength lies in discovering the cutting-edge of technology. Look, the ruthenium catalyst you were optimistic about ten years ago has now become our winning weapon?"
Chapter completed!