Chapter 414 Distillation
Russell’s understanding of black oil is limited. Even the black oil dragon Rossai, who nourishes the black oil veins, does not understand black oil.
Just like an old hen that lays eggs but doesn’t know why.
Black oil is a “metallic” mineral that is radiated and condensed by Rosey’s power, but the specific use of black oil requires humans to explore.
Fortunately, black oil is very similar to the oil from Russell’s home on Earth.
And it just so happened that when Russell was using Douyin in his previous life, he came across crude oil. How can crude oil be decomposed into daily oils such as gasoline, diesel, and kerosene through distillation and cracking and the principle that different liquids have different volatilities under different conditions? Therefore, he thought of using the same distillation method to decompose black oil and try to obtain different products.
So when he was in the Red Keep, he went to visit the Great Scholar Tower and communicated with many great scholars from the Round Table.
Finally, the great scholar Placido was invited to go to the Black Fire Land to study the “metallic” 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. He also has outstanding research on “metallic” coal.
After the birth of black oil, Placido wanted to try to study what was so special about black oil, which is a fuel similar to coal and peat.
Therefore, he hit it off with Russell and established the Black Fire Laboratory in the Black Oil Mine with several erudite apprentices.
Afterwards, Russell explained his understanding of black oil to Placido and proposed the idea of distillation and decomposition.
This led to the distillation experiment of Placido, and four decomposition products were obtained.
“Lord Russell, let me introduce these four products to you.” Dunn picked up a glass, which contained a slightly yellow transparent liquid. “This product has a slight odor and is very easy to burn. , and the flame is bright, smoke-free, and several times more powerful than black oil.”
“Hmm.” Russell was noncommittal.
Dunn picked up a second sealed glass jar: “This product is very volatile, easy to spontaneously ignite and explode, but its combustion effect is very good, and it is easy to distill and decompose.”
“Um.”
Dunn picked up a third glass, which contained a golden liquid: “This product burns violently, but is unstable, easily volatile, and smokes heavily.”
Finally, Dunn picked up the fourth glass, which also contained golden yellow liquid, but was more viscous: “This product cannot burn, and it is sticky. I don’t know what its use is yet.”
Finished reading four products.
Russell raised his eyebrows: “No more?”
“Just these four distillation decomposition products.” Dunn replied, “The rest is just the dregs of some black oil.”
“Bring me the black oil slag and take a look.” Russell said casually, “Cinder can pave charcoal roads. Why can’t black oil slag be used to pave roads? Maybe the paving effect is better than charcoal slag.”
“Okay.” Dunn immediately sent an apprentice to bring over the dregs of the distillation test.
A large dark mass, close to a semi-solid, but not a true solid, and still retains some liquid characteristics.
Russell did not touch it with his hands, but watched the apprentice hold the black oil residue for a while, and then said with a smile: “This thing is mixed with some sand and then flattened. The paved road will definitely be beautiful.”
“Maybe.” Placid, a great scholar, has already repaired the distillation furnace, “but the charcoal road is also quite good.”
Russell smiled and said: “When the black oil kiln test is completed, the fuel in the entire Youguang Valley and the Black Fire Land will no longer be coal, and there will be no charcoal residue to continue paving roads. Therefore, black oil residue paving roads needs to be explored urgently.”
“That’s it.” Placido nodded.
“I think these distillation products are 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 cried out in pain: “Oh my god, a small distillation furnace is enough for me to worry about. If I design a distillation tower…”
Placido’s eyes suddenly lit up and he laughed loudly: “Of course, of course, it is our honor to serve a baron like Russell who respects knowledge. Don’t worry, I will design a distillation tower for you!”
“Then please, Your Excellency.” Russell also laughed.
Things that can be solved with money are not problems at all. He is looking forward to whether Blackfire Laboratory, with his heavy financial support, will usher in the industrial era of Longmian Continent.
Scholar Kirov said with a smile: “Sir, please give names to the four, no, five products of the distillation and decomposition of black oil.”
“Okay!” Russell did his part.
Pointing to the first yellowish and slightly smelly transparent liquid, he said, “This, let’s call it kerosene.”
Pointing to the second liquid that needs to be sealed and stored, he said: “This one is easy to volatilize, so it’s called liquefied gas.”
Pointing to the third golden liquid, he said: “This, call it…gasoline.”
Pointing to the fourth golden viscous liquid, he said: “This is sticky, let’s call it lubricant.”
Finally, he pointed at the black oil residue and said, “This is called asphalt.”
So far, black oil has been broken down into five new products, kerosene, liquefied gas, gasoline, lubricating oil and asphalt.
Russell concluded: “Of course, this is only tentative. Perhaps more new products can be obtained through experimental distillation and decomposition, and we will refine it again. Now, Mr. Placido, I hope you will continue to Explore what these products can do.”
As long as the funds are in place, Placido is easy to talk to: “As you wish, Mr. Russell.”
Placido was easy to talk to, and Russell would not treat these scholars badly.
He immediately said: “The Black Fire Laboratory is too crude. I will choose another location near the Black Oil Mine and build a gorgeous Black Fire Erudite Tower, modeled after the Great Erudite Tower, for you to study, research and live.”
When Placido heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then hesitantly said: “Sir Russell, you don’t need to build a tower. We are just studying here for a while. When the research is over, we will always return to the Red Castle.”
Russell smiled and said: “It doesn’t matter, I won’t force everyone to stay, but if anyone wants to stay here and continue to study black oil, I will fully support him and fund him. In my territory, erudites are VIPs!”
Sighing, Placido smiled and shook his head: “Everyone has his own ambitions… Placido thanked Mr. Russell for treating me so well.”
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The kerosene, liquefied gas, gasoline, lubricating oil, and asphalt produced by the decomposition of black oil have their own uses, but currently, the most widely used one is the black oil itself.
“Sir, our brick kiln has recently implemented black oil fired bricks.” Xiao William, the person in charge of the Wuyao Snake Brick Kiln, has been promoted to the person in charge of the Black Fire Brick Kiln. In the future, all brick kilns in the Black Fire Land will It’s all under his control.
“What’s the result?”
“Simple black oil combustion is not stable enough compared to coal combustion.” Xiao William told the truth, “The quality of the burned clay bricks varies… But, when black oil is combined with firewood, the effect is very good. Well, better than coal!”
Black oil is a liquid after all. Traditional brick kilns do not have a special oil supply device, and the fuel is not evenly distributed when inverted.
But if it is supplemented with firewood, the black oil can burn evenly in the kiln.
“Continue to study and strive to improve the black oil brick-burning technology to the best state.” Russell said with certainty. “By then, I will build kilns all over the black fire land, not only burning slag adobe bricks, but also burning clay bricks.” Ordinary bricks.”
By that time, serfs would be able to live in comfortable red brick houses.
(End of chapter)