Chapter 497: A thousand miles in a day
The Dahua Research Office is composed of a group of small buildings. The road connected to its headquarters is covered with green trees and is nicknamed by researchers.
Every day, researchers on the trail were excitedly holding documents and materials, and went to the headquarters to apply for projects and funds, and then carrying documents and materials, either dejected or cheerfully returned.
The application approval rate of Dahua Laboratory's project is about 8% to 12%, which cannot be considered low in research institutes in any country. Dahua Laboratory also relies on these project funds to maintain development. Therefore, the Ho Chi Minh Road is the logistics channel of Dahua Laboratory. Researchers coming and going have the experience of smooth application and failure of application. When passing this path, they will naturally speed up their pace.
But today, the Ho Chi Minh Trail is completely congested.
The first thing to bear is a huge high-temperature cracking furnace.
Young assistants are responsible for moving boxes and instruments. Most of the older researchers are surrounded by high-temperature cracking furnaces and amazed.
A man with a beard couldn't help but knock on the outer wall of the alloy and said, "It doesn't look like 800 alloy."
Wang Yun quickly knocked off his hand and said proudly: "You thought it was a horizontal tube furnace. This is a special alloy of hk40, and gr is added to it."
"You old boy, why aren't you so alone when using the centrifuge in our laboratory? Mr. Su hasn't said to give you the stove yet." The man with beard was displeased and circled around the high-temperature cracking stove and said with a jealousy: "You only have a few people in the laboratory. I don't think it's possible to work 24 hours a day, it's better to be a family of one day..."
"I can't even think about it. This means that I can give the carbon fiber research institute something. In the future, carbon fiber tests and high-temperature cracking furnaces will run all day and will not be vacant for a working hour. I can just ask if there is not enough people. I don't need your centrifuge anymore, the research institute is equipped." Wang Yun looked like he couldn't use you, and he saw that the people around him itched.
Yao Zefan from the three oil production research institute widened his eyes and asked, "The centrifuge is also equipped with... I haven't seen it, what model?"
He was the leader of the equipment team back then. Now he took over the three oil production institutes and is very familiar with equipment. Centrifuges are almost standard in various research rooms. From machinery to chemistry to biology, centrifuges are used more and more. Yao Zefan has been wanting a new centrifuge for a while. The one equipped with the three oil production institute was not only worn out and lagging behind in the continuous use of several years.
Wang Yun's personality was a bit muted, but among a group of equally muted researchers, he seemed much more normal. He tilted his mouth and pretended to be indifferent, saying, "There are piles over there. We are making asphalt-based carbon fibers, and centrifuges are also key equipment. Don't make any decisions."
Yao Zefan said nothing and went to search for him in the direction pointed by Wang Yun.
The shells of the wooden box are marked with the manufacturer and model, and the specific parameters are also partially indicated. Of course, for Yao Zefan, who is carefully researching equipment, as long as he has a model, he doesn't need to mark the parameters or anything else. He is almost clear about it, just like a fanatical computer resident who knows the newly released hardware data. Yao Zefan spent a lot of time drooling with the explanations of journals and manufacturers.
The position that Yao Zefan gave up was quickly filled up, chasing Wang Yun and asked: "Which is your non-critical device?"
A circle of scholarly researchers, like a wolf studying at night school, had their eyes squinted or stared, shining with their brilliance.
The research room is a jungle for researchers. Researchers who cannot find equipment are like wolves that cannot catch prey. They will be dragged to death without starving to death. A good equipment can simplify complex research much, save time and effort, and can also draw more accurate conclusions.
Historically, the proud Chinese have invented many wonderful experimental methods in order to bypass the dilemma of lack of equipment, especially in the process of catching up with the footsteps of developed countries, a large part of the experience of Chinese researchers is spent on how to repeat the other party's experiments.
Foreign experimental methods are not necessarily secrets, but equipment is secrets. Chinese researchers who lack equipment often need to spend a lot of energy to verify or reproduce the other party's experimental conclusions to use backward equipment to complete and time to complete the other party's simple work. Many of the methods here are classic, but because of the single function, those shining wisdom can only helplessly return to the old paper pile and have no value to use.
With the development of the times, in the 1990s, this tail-run strategy was even difficult to work. The increasingly sophisticated instruments and higher experimental requirements made researchers who had not updated their experimental equipment for a long time at a loss...
If an advanced equipment could be available, it would be a waste of one or two years for a laboratory to liberate three or five outstanding researchers.
How could anyone not grab such equipment?
Researchers may temporarily ignore the returns of money and focus on making achievements or exploring unknown perspectives, but no matter what, researchers have a pursuit. In the face of modern science, equipment is an indispensable vehicle in the pursuit process.
More than half of the reason why Dahua Laboratory can gather a large number of researchers and get powerful researchers like Wang Yun is that Dahua Industrial has invested enough research funds, and most of these funds must be reflected in the equipment.
The price of research equipment in the 1990s was not too exaggerated. Equipment worth several million per unit was enough for national laboratories. Dahua Industrial's annual funding of hundreds of millions of yuan can support hundreds of projects and dozens of research entities, which is an average of each research entity, that is, a scale of one million.
Despite this, this is also incomparable to China Research Group in a shrinking state. For most research institutes, millions of funds not only need to maintain the project operation, but also to support hundreds of idle institutional affiliates. Many former large units may lose money if they pay a salary, let alone buy new equipment.
Wang Yun used to be a member of the search for equipment everywhere, but now he was so generous. His mentality was still the same as before. He just shook his hands and said, "Don't say it's useless, no one is missing. The carbon fiber research institute can't play with it, and there are no uncritical components."
As he spoke, Yao Zefan had already turned out the centrifuge and glanced at the symbol on it. He just howled: How could he be two generations ahead of us?
"The equipment in your laboratory is aging," said a person next to him.
"Yes, I can't just ignore us." Yao Zefan stared at the number of t160 on the ground, his eyes lit up: "The centrifuges in our three oil production centers are all from the early 1980s. In fact, they can also be used, and they are quite useful. Why don't we change them first?"
"Don't even think about it." Wang Yun said firmly. Regardless of the ashes on the floor, he called an assistant over, picked it up with brute force and placed it on a big cart. He instructed: "Don't stop in the middle. Send it directly to the laboratory. If you want to keep someone in the laboratory, it will not work for anyone. Except for me, you are not allowed to transfer the instrument to anyone."
"I understand." The assistant researcher is a college student who just graduated this year. Although he has little experience and knows the importance of equipment, he looks around with a vigilant look like a young vanguard.
In 1993, Dahua Industrial, whether it is research quality, colleague level, personal treatment, or even social status, is stronger than the poor Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions. Dahua Industrial's personnel department has begun to provide personnel files for research institutions across the country, and few researchers who are usually selected by them cannot be poached. In this case, Dahua can almost successfully recruit every graduate they need, and the fierce internal competition almost started after they entered Dahua. Everyone, whether it is a big bull or an ordinary cow, must do their best to participate in the competition, otherwise they may be eliminated from subordinate branches or affiliated companies.
There are often more sparks of competition in the eyes of young people.
Yao Zefan looked at the wooden box loaded with the centrifuge disappearing and sighed: "Our equipment application has not been approved, it is so popular that people are more awesome."
Wang Yun smiled and said, "It's not bad. In my impression, the three oil production centers are not organized in Dahua Laboratory, right? Director Su is willing to provide equipment, which is not bad."
"Why is it not Dahua? My organization has been converted into Dahua. In the Three Oil Resources Institute, 70% of the researchers are from Dahua. Moreover, the ownership of all patents and research results of the Three Oil Resources Institute belongs to Dahua Industrial. Shengli Oilfield only has free use rights and cannot be transferred. What is the difference between this and the research of Dahua Laboratory?"
Wang Yun had a simple idea and said, "No matter how you calculate it, there are always 30% not. Shengli Oilfield is almost no funding now. You still have 30% of them in Shengli Oilfield, so there is always a little difference."
Wang Yun actually didn't think much about this matter and said it casually. The speaker was unintentional and the listener was intentional. Yao Zefan immediately thought about it: Dahua and Shengli Oilfield have a good relationship now, and it's okay to be together without distinction. Mr. Lin will be promoted to general manager in the future, but there will always be a time to retreat. How old is Mr. Su? I'm afraid he will have a few decades of good life... Bah... If there is a little grudge, it's not surprising.
After thinking about it this way, his mind became moved: How about ending the cooperative relationship and turning to Dahua completely?
Those who are unwilling to come to Dahua now are mostly retired researchers over 50 years old. They have medical insurance and pension considerations. After all, the scale of Dahua Industrial cannot be compared with the country, and everyone is worried about what to do...
However, it would be impossible to transfer these people in the name of Dahua Laboratory.
Yao Zefan thought too much, but he no longer cared about the equipment behind him.
The equipment handling takes only half a day to complete, but installation is a slow effort. In order to pursue accuracy and stability, many equipment must be grounded with drill bits. If it is excessive, concrete must be poured. It is more natural to measure horizontal and vertical measurements. The requirements for avoiding the sun or installing velvet cloth are also different. The construction progress is that it cannot be faster.
Therefore, after determining the location of most devices, it is very difficult to migrate, and the design and installation requirements are much higher.
In order to avoid mistakes, Wang Yun was in the laboratory. Other assistant researchers and newly recruited researchers were also the same model. He wanted to make the construction progress faster while staring at it.
In about a week, the two spinning machines were first in place, followed by the top high-temperature cracking furnace.
Wang Yun immediately began to prepare the experimental design, and he had to spend time thinking about the toilet, and even throwing his mind away from going home. His wife could only come to deliver food every day.
Under such an atmosphere, it took only half a month to start working.
Wang Yun was holding a sense of enthusiasm: He wanted to make anisotropic carbon fiber before Director Su asked next time. As long as the cost is maintained to the current level, with the quality of anisotropic asphalt-based carbon fiber, it will definitely become a new generation of money tree for Dahua Laboratory, just like the well-funded offshore oil research institute!
At that time, who dares to say that the newly established carbon fiber research institute is not worthy of its name!
In order to achieve this goal, Wang Yun did not mean to be stingy in research funds. With full equipment, the firepower was fully opened. Here he was still cracking the petroleum straight-dissolved residue at a high temperature of 1,100 degrees, and then he began to make the cracked asphalt at 1,000 degrees into spinning asphalt. On the other hand, the test of the two simple heat treatment method started again, and the Exxon method of solvent extraction began to prepare the data...
Wang Yun began to study carbon fiber long before joining Dahua Industrial. In fact, China itself was a country that studied carbon fiber for a long time. In the 1950s, China had a project team specifically related to carbon fiber. At that time, the main goal was to track research. Unfortunately, in the 1990s, China was still conducting track research.
Research on carbon fiber is too expensive, and there are too many things that the country needs to study, so no one is missing. Only private companies like Dahua Industrial can do their own in-depth research without considering the complete categories.
Wang Yun used to study carbon fiber on paper, and experiments were mostly done over and over in his head. After joining Dahua Industrial, the carbon fiber project team was not unlimited, so he could only make simple and anisotropic asphalt-based carbon fiber first. However, the research plan he had in the drawer was modified many times.
With the injected funding at the research institute level, Wang Yun could not bear it. Now that the external conditions are complete, the internal forces are twisted into a rope. The previous ideas have been verified one by one in the experiment, and the experimental progress has been thriving, which further stimulated them.
The financial department of Dahua headquarters had to remind Wang Yun continuously: Pay attention to expenses! If it weren't for the only Sucheng in Almaty that only had the authority to cancel the research plan of the institute, the headquarters might have the responsibility to hinder Wang Yun. Even so, the extraordinary academic committee was established immediately and began to investigate Wang Yun's research.
Su Cheng knew about this, but he was silent. Before he made a clear statement, the Carbon Fiber Research Institute did race against time to come up with results.
One day earlier, anisotropic carbon fibers can bring millions of benefits. For a new institute, this is the best performance. For new researchers, it is also their best vote for the "special contribution" list.
Chapter completed!