Chapter 5 Compound Fertilizer
"By the way, Mother, where's Father?" Fu Xin immediately asked as he saw his mother stop crying.
"There's been an accident at your dad's factory, and he's been leading a team to tackle the technical issues these past few days. Don't know if they'll succeed, otherwise..." Li Fanghua muttered.
The factory where Fu Zhenbang is located, called Red Star Fertilizer Factory, is a provincial-level unit. This factory is a chemical plant specializing in the production of fertilizers and has the largest scale in Yicheng area.
Fu Zhenbang is now also the deputy director of this factory, and in administrative level, he is also a deputy position at the departmental level. In Yicheng area, he can be considered as a figure. This is also the reason why Fu Zhenbang has the ability to throw his underage son into the army for training.
It was just that during this period, government officials were poor due to the country's poverty. Even in local areas, even the darkest officials couldn't get much benefit. As for Fu Zhenbang, he wasn't that kind of person. In modern terms, Fu Zhenbang was a tech nerd who threw Fu Xin into the army because Fu Xin had been too arrogant before and only managed to get in by pulling strings and losing face. So don't expect the Fu family to have much money.
"I heard from Xiao Wu that Father has been at the factory for several days, what kind of technical problem is this, and it's taking so long?" Fu Xin still felt somewhat puzzled.
It seems that there was no such scene in the previous life, of course, this may also be related to the fact that he had some resistance to his new family in his previous life. After being discharged from the army, he asked the troops to arrange a school for him, but he ran away without going to the arranged school and didn't go home either.
"It seems like it's saying something about mixing two kinds of fertilizers together, I don't understand either, wait for your dad to come back and ask him." Li Fanghua said after thinking for a moment.
This shocked Pei Xin, you know that before 1998, China was the world of single fertilizer, until the "Red Day" in 1998 changed this situation. Now Li Fanghua is talking about what? Isn't this compound fertilizer?
Compound fertilizer refers to a chemical or (and) mixed fertilizer containing any two or three of the nutrients nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Its function is to meet the comprehensive needs and balance of multiple nutrients required by agriculture under different production conditions. It is widely used in agriculture.
After rebirth, for some reason, Pei Xin's memory became exceptionally good. At this moment, Pei Xin began to carefully recall the history of compound fertilizers in China...
In the early 1990s, in a small town in Linyi Revolutionary Old District of Shandong Province, an event took place that had far-reaching significance for China's compound fertilizer industry and even the development history of China's fertilizer industry. China's fertilizer industry suddenly turned around here, changing its direction. It was "Red Day" that ignited the Chinese people's passionate dream of compound fertilizers.
Since August 1998, when the Dongshan Hongri 200,000-ton compound fertilizer project was completed and put into operation, China's compound fertilizer industry has opened its technological innovation curtain. That year is called "the first year of compound fertilizer" by the industry.
In 1998, China's fertilizer industry was still dominated by single-element fertilizers. In the total output of 295.6 million tons, compound fertilizers accounted for only about 15%, and 23.31 million tons needed to be imported. The days of relying on imports did not erase the Chinese people's strong desire to realize their dreams, and China's fertilizer industry was brewing a major transformation.
Wang Tingai and Li Jijin, as the main inventors of the patent for potassium sulfate type nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium compound fertilizer, were once the figures who dominated the Chinese compound fertilizer industry. The low-temperature conversion process they invented to produce potassium sulfate compound fertilizer technology, due to its simple and reasonable process flow, low production cost, and good economic benefits, is called a milestone in sulfur-based compound fertilizers by the industry. It was also the birth and promotion of this technology that made it possible for China's compound fertilizer industry to develop rapidly.
Under the guidance of "Red Day", more enterprises use technology to challenge the market, implement introduction and development simultaneously, greatly shortening the research and development cycle of new products, improving the technical content and market competitiveness of products.
China's compound fertilizer industry has since begun to move towards professionalization, diversification, pharmaceuticalization and long-acting, on the basis of granular type, towards mixed type, slurry type, **type, coated (dressed) fertilizer direction.
The birth of sulfur-based compound fertilizers has once again demonstrated a simple fact - science and technology drive productivity, and has verified the words of that great man - science and technology are the primary productive forces, and it is technological progress that has driven the prosperity of China's compound fertilizer industry.
In the 21st century, nearly 90% of the over 700 compound fertilizer manufacturers across China adopted this technology, which continued to influence China's compound fertilizer industry until its rebirth.
The emergence of sulfur-based compound fertilizer production technology has become an important factor for China to transform from a pure importer of mixed fertilizers to a net exporter.
It's really hard to imagine that without this technology, China's compound fertilizer would still be crawling on the path of industrial development for many years. It is also because of this great technology that Wang Yan'ai and Li Ji'nan are regarded as "the pioneers of China's potassium sulfate compound fertilizer industry".
It is rare and precious that Li Jijun, one of the inventors of this patent, still maintained his enthusiasm for technological innovation before Fu Xin's rebirth. In 2001, he applied for the "Composite Acid Dehydration Catalyst Production Process for Dimethyl Ether" patent, solving a world-class problem in the production process of dimethyl ether.
Li Ji Jin, as the vice general manager and chief engineer of Dongshan Jutaichemical Technology Co., Ltd., still tells people with his actions: "Innovation is not for oneself, but for humanity."
It wasn't until 1998 that the prelude to compound fertilizer was opened in China, no wonder I didn't know about it, I guess this matter ended abruptly in my past life. It's also no wonder that my father stood in that position all the way until Hongxing Chemical Factory went bankrupt without being promoted, I guess it was affected by this matter!
He was a new payment, although the main industry is mechanical manufacturing and its automation, but in other aspects, it is not weak. Otherwise, his nickname would not have "all-powerful king" said, otherwise he would not "die" in the process of studying bismuth antimony alloy film that may surpass graphene.
However, humans are not gods and cannot be all-powerful or omniscient.
Especially when he was young, Fu Zhenbang was an expert in the chemical fertilizer industry, but he instinctively disliked the chemical fertilizer industry and didn't want to learn it.
Later, when he grew older and became a father himself, he finally understood the hardships his own father, Fu Zhenbang, had endured. By rights, at this point Fu Xin should no longer have been opposed to the chemical fertilizer industry.
However, he was a researcher who attached great importance to environmental protection and had an instinctive aversion to chemical fertilizers, which he believed would pollute the environment. In addition, his research work was very busy, and he didn't have time to learn more about the chemical fertilizer industry, so Fu Xin couldn't be considered an expert in this field.
