The rise of nanometers

As soon as the package plan between Rongcheng and Suiren Company was signed, Suiren Company became popular again. This was the second city to be contracted by Suiren Company.

Moreover, Chengdu is an important town in the southwest, with a permanent population of 12.21 million. Taking over Chengdu's sanitation, water services, and gas, this is a very scary market.

The current demand for tap water in Chengdu is around 650 million cubic meters this year, and the compound annual growth rate is very fast. It is expected that the annual demand will reach 1.2 billion cubic meters in 10 years.

In terms of the gas market, based on per capita annual liquefied gas consumption of 47.75 kilograms, Chengdu's population of 12.21 million requires approximately 580,000 tons of liquefied gas per year.

The potential that Chenggong can bring is about 3 to 5 times that of Shanmei and Tuocheng combined.

Lin Baijie, who had just returned to the Shanmei headquarters from Tuocheng, was still hot from sitting, so he hurried to Rongcheng, Sichuan Province to arrange relevant work there.

at the same time.

Lu Province, Pengcheng, etc., who received the news, also behaved differently.

On the other side, the three major international water companies that have suffered from the subprime mortgage crisis, including Gallic Suez and British Thames, have announced their withdrawal from the Chinese market. Only Gallic Veolia is still holding on.

In fact, Veolia currently invests in more than a dozen projects in China, many of which are acquired at high premiums, and their profitability is worrying.

In Veolia's projects in China, there are only two ways to achieve profitability, either by increasing the official subsidy price or by increasing the retail price of tap water.

However, according to data analysis by Suiren Company, unless the retail price of tap water is raised to more than 5 yuan per cubic meter, it will be difficult to make a profit within 30 years.

Huang Xiuyuan knew the other party's little thoughts. Veolia's plan was to operate the water plant at a low cost through contract loopholes, and on the other hand, force the official to increase pricing, thereby achieving profitability.

For this situation, Suiren Company specifically set clear and detailed terms when signing the contract to avoid wrangling in the future.

Because the contract is too rough and many terms are ambiguous, this is not only useful for Veolia. The official can also use this contract loophole to take back equity and franchise rights.

This is what Suiren Company needs to pay attention to.

The company's business has been extremely busy recently, and Huang Xiuyuan and Lu Xuedong are also busy with the scientific research department.

The headquarters area has now expanded to 157 acres, with a first-class materials laboratory and three supporting affiliated laboratories.

As for CCIC, it has signed a contract with Suiren Company to build another nanomaterials laboratory, a semiconductor laboratory, and a microcircuit design laboratory, which are currently in the construction stage.

Jiang Mingzhang, who was in charge of this project again, was also surprised by Suiren Company's investment in scientific research. In less than a year, so many laboratories were set up, and the levels of the laboratories were not low.

In the established laboratory area.

In addition to the materials laboratory, there are three other affiliated laboratories.

First Affiliated Laboratory.

It is specifically responsible for studying the fuel passivation of nitrogen 20, and is also the resident area of ​​the joint scientific research team.

Second affiliated laboratory.

The recovery process of six-cone ball oxygen is currently being studied. In-depth research on this material has also further improved the element recovery technology.

The third affiliated laboratory.

Li Ying's team is in charge, and it is also a laboratory specializing in silicon 9 and silicon nano-coating.

With the support of the Ministry of Scientific Research, Li Ying's team has expanded to 57 people. At present, they have figured out the lifespan of silicon 9 molecules.

Huang Xiuyuan also comes often to learn about the research and development situation.

In the renovated electroplating box, more than a dozen kitchen knives are undergoing electroplating. The electroplating conditions of the 9-molecule silicon solution do not require other auxiliary reagents and only need to be controlled by power.

Electroplating only lasts about 120 to 130 seconds. If the time is too short, the plating may be incomplete; if the time is too long, the plating may be thickened.

Under normal circumstances, a layer of silicon nano-coating is enough, and there is no need to have too many layers.

Especially for kitchen utensils and tableware, due to the use conditions of such items, there are high-frequency temperature changes. Such use conditions will accelerate the aging of the coating.

Applying too many layers of coating will not extend the service life.

Li Ying personally took out the kitchen knives and placed them on the workbench.

Huang Xiuyuan picked up one of them. The kitchen knife was polished to an extremely sharp edge before electroplating. Now you can see that it is covered with a transparent coating. The coating seems to be soaked in engine oil and feels extremely smooth.

I cut vegetables and pork and found that the kitchen knife is very fast and has the characteristics of non-stick coating, which does not stick to grease or mucus.

It has obvious advantages when chopping ribs, pork ribs, etc.

“This is a technology transfer point.”

Two analysts from the technology transformation team were also recording these situations. They had previously tested the inner pots of non-stick cookware, pressure cookers, and rice cookers, and discovered the excellent performance of silicon nano-coating.

Silicon nano-coating has non-stick properties, high strength, high hardness, strong adhesion, non-toxic and harmless, long service life, and is also non-toxic and harmless when decomposed.

Moreover, the production process is very simple and suitable for large-scale industrial production.

Immediately afterwards, Li Ying's team tested the coating effect of the pipeline. In tests such as internal pressure, external pressure, high-speed water jet, and temperature, the performance of the silicon nano-coated pipelines made a qualitative leap.

For pipes of the same material with the same inner diameter and thickness, after being coated with a layer of silicon 9nm coating, the internal and external pressure resistance is increased to about 5 to 7 times.

Through coating, the thickness of pipes with the same inner diameter can be reduced a lot. The reduction in thickness means that more pipes can be manufactured with the same weight of pipes.

In the current pipeline market, iron pipes with the same inner diameter are more expensive than new plastic pipes.

The emergence of silicon nano-coating can reduce the material used in pipes and reduce the production cost of iron pipes. Two technology transformation analysts discussed some details with Li Ying's team.

Based on the current strength of silicon nano-coating, if the cost performance of iron pipes is to be maintained, the pipe wall thickness can be reduced by 60 to 70%. This pipe wall thickness is still equivalent to 2 to 3 times the previous one.

Iron pipes are inherently stronger than plastic pipes. When combined, the performance is even better than stainless steel pipes.

However, silicon nano-coating is not without its shortcomings. For example, in northern areas where temperature changes are large, the service life may be affected.

In addition, the electroplating of positive silicon 9 can only be used on items made of metal and glass, and cannot be used on plastic, wood, and paper.

Despite its slight shortcomings, silicon 9 is definitely an excellent nanomaterial that is enough to change several industries.

Huang Xiuyuan communicated with Li Ying's team and asked them to cooperate with the Ministry of Industry to commercialize the technology.

The analysts of the two technology transformation groups also collected a large amount of test data. After returning to the technology transformation department, the data was further analyzed.

Jiang Hailin, who is also in charge of the technology transformation department, is discussing how to quickly open the market with Chang Fuguo, another deputy general manager.

The silicon nano-coating of Positive Silicon 9 has great commercialization potential, and according to the data of the Ministry of Scientific Research, the process of realizing large-scale industrialization is very convenient and fast.

As qualified company management, Jiang Hailin, Chang Fuguo and others are not fools, so they naturally want to give full play to the value of this technology.