Chapter 466: 466: Electric Furnace Steelmaking

Chapter 466: 466 Electric Furnace Steelmaking

"New weapons?" Aslan asked, pointing to Nigel's equipment covered by the canvas.

Nigel nodded, and said excitedly: "My lord! I promise to shock you."

Aslan nodded, pointed at Merlin's equipment and said, "Look at yours first! Good things should be saved for last."

Gwennaville laughed straight away.

Merlin also smiled helplessly, but he was confident that once Aslan saw this set of equipment, he would be too excited to speak.

The three goblin magicians flew up slowly and opened the sail.

A huge boiler similar to a pressure cooker appeared in front of everyone.

Duke Medea lifted his chin subconsciously to check, and the huge mental power swept across, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"What is this?" Duke Medea asked curiously.

Merlin looked at Aslan.

Aslan's eyes widened suddenly, and he asked in surprise.

"Is this a steelmaking electric furnace?"

Merlin smiled proudly.

"Great, just in time." Aslan excitedly walked around the electric stove with Gwennaville in his arms.

"How big is this electric furnace, and how much steel can it smelt at one time?" Aslan asked.

The eyes of Duke Medea and the other magicians widened suddenly. This big guy was actually a magic device for steelmaking.

"This is just a test furnace that can refine 500 jin of steel at one time. I have already designed another electric furnace that can refine five tons of steel at one time." Merlin said confidently.

Duke Medea and the other magicians stared wide-eyed. They heard something just now. One furnace can refine five tons of steel.

"How long is the cycle?" Now Nigel is not calm anymore.

Because of the research on weapons, he needs a huge amount of steel production. It is no exaggeration to say that Merlin and Nigel consume more than one-third of the steel produced every month in Merlot City.

There were successes and failures in the experiment, so there is a huge warehouse outside the two workshops, where more than ten tons of steel scraps are piled up. When Wilson found out about it, he felt so distressed to death.

"It only takes a little over an hour from putting it into the electric furnace to being out of the furnace, and the most important thing is that it can be resmelted from scrap iron." Merlin said confidently.

Jie Du subconsciously shouted: "Fuck!"

Gwennaville blinked her eyes. She already knew about electric elements, so she was not too surprised by the steelmaking electric furnace. The key point was that she had no idea what this kind of thing was.

In fact, no matter what era it is, unless it is a woman in this professional field. Otherwise, it is impossible to understand the difference between blast furnace steelmaking and electric furnace steelmaking, and many people have never even heard of it.

Therefore, even if Gwenaville is a time traveler, she has no idea what the significance of this electric furnace steelmaking technology is in this era.

Aslan waved his hand, and Merlin immediately understood, and asked his subordinates to pull out a small pile of scrap iron from the nearby warehouse and throw it into the electric furnace, then connect the power and start the electric furnace.

There are also a lot of templates prepared next to it, which are obviously molds for holding iron juice.

The real reason why Merlin gave priority to the development of electric furnaces was that the scale of the Merlo Dam power plant was too large, which caused a lot of waste of electric elements, and even started to lay power grids from Merlo City to several other towns.

Now that there is electricity, it is natural to develop an electric furnace that is easier to master. The interior of the electric furnace is composed of a complete electric heating magic circuit to replace the heating equipment, not to mention that the quality of steel refined by the electric furnace is generally better than that of the blast furnace.

The biggest difference between electric furnace steelmaking and blast furnace steelmaking is that all steel scrap can be used in blast furnace steelmaking, but blast furnace steelmaking should account for 90% of molten steel.

In terms of consumption, electric furnace steelmaking consumes electricity and oxygen, while blast furnace steelmaking consumes oxygen. The cost alone is several times higher than blast furnace steelmaking.

However, considering that the city of Mellow has excess electricity generation at this time, and even small reservoirs and windmills have been built in many places to generate electricity, there is no need to worry about power consumption.

It can even be said that the cost of electric furnace steelmaking is lower than that of blast furnace steelmaking. Moreover, the composition of the tapping liquid in electric furnace steelmaking is relatively stable and the quality is high. The composition of molten steel in blast furnace steelmaking and tapping is quite different, and several more procedures are needed to extract higher-quality steel.

What's more, electric furnace steel is mostly used to produce high-quality carbon structural steel, tool steel and alloy steel.

This type of steel is of good quality and uniform properties. At the same carbon content, the strength and plasticity of electric furnace steel are better than that of open hearth furnace steel. Electric furnace steel uses scrap steel of similar steel types as the main raw material, and some scrap steel is also replaced by sponge iron. Adjust the chemical composition and alloying element content by adding iron alloy.

To put it simply, electric furnace steelmaking is the most scarce technology in Merlot City. It may be possible to use this to refine a batch of higher-end steel products, which can once again increase the strength of the armor and weapons of the Merlot army.

Today, the Melo Army's armament is the most elite in the entire United Army. In terms of armor and weapons alone, the entire Kingdom of Cleveland was unable to wear such exquisite weapons and armor during its peak period. If one more level was raised, Aslan had a premonition that in the next battle, the Melo army had just fought with 50,000 troops on the battlefield, and the ten-party alliance had 500,000 troops.

As long as they don't get hacked to the vitals and where the armor can't protect them, trying to injure the Melo army with the crude equipment of the Ten-Party Alliance is simply a dream.

Because of the need for time to wait, Aslan turned his attention to Nigel's new weapon.

Nigel waved his hand, and the canvas flew up, revealing the new weapon underneath.

Everyone didn't notice that Gwenaville couldn't help showing a shocked look after seeing this new weapon.

Although Gwenaville was not a military fan in her previous life, weapons such as the Vulcan Cannon often appeared in blockbuster movies in the Lighthouse Country.

See more, naturally impressed.

Nigel walked up to the Vulcan Cannon, patted the twelve 12.6 caliber barrels and said, "Because the shooting is like roaring flames, I named it the Vulcan Cannon."

The corner of Aslan's mouth twitched.

It all works.

Nigel began to direct people to pull out the bullet chain and install it, and at the same time installed two standard units of energy storage crystals at the bottom, and began to deploy magic power output.

Just by looking at it, Aslan understood that the rotation of this Vulcan cannon and the loading of bullets were all driven by the electric energy of the energy storage crystal on the left.

The energy storage crystal on the right is responsible for the electromagnetic magic circuit on the barrel.

Aslan woke up suddenly.

He has always been in a misunderstanding. Bullets need gunpowder to be driven by kinetic energy, especially automatic weapons, which rely on the kinetic energy of gunpowder to unload and load. In fact, they can be completely replaced by electric motors.

Like the Vulcan Cannon in front of you.

Nigel turned the Vulcan cannon, and the huge open space was empty except for a stone wall covered with iron plates.

There are eye-catching red hearts painted on the iron plate.