After all the talk, it finally came down to funding. The head of the headquarters felt helpless. He thought to himself, Zhuang Jianye, the boss of a big company, couldn't you be more reserved?
Zhuang Jianye wanted to be reserved, but the problem was that he simply couldn't control it.
Not to mention other things, just talking about the Alloy , one item is open supply.
Even when the project team said they needed a rare metal called rhenium, Zhuang Jianye said nothing and used a trj-500 regional airliner to directly obtain the mining and operating rights for six mines in the Almalek copper mining area in Uzbekistan.
Because of this, not only did Ascendas Group not charge a penny for the 15 TRJ-500 regional passenger jets in Uzbekistan, but several years of maintenance and repairs by major manufacturers were also free. Based on this, plus Ascendas Group¡¯s investment in Uzbekistan As a result of the continuous operation of Bekistan, Ascendas Group has become the largest foreign mining contractor in the Almarek copper mining area.
There are 12 large-scale mines that it directly controls, and as many as 42 mines that it holds indirect shares.
Not only that, thanks to the decline in the technical level of hardware equipment in the civil aviation field caused by the economic difficulties in Central Asia after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Ascendas Group relied on Embraer to create a reputation for the ERJ-140 series regional passenger aircraft in the international market. .
After a series of operations by Zhuang Jianye, using the erj-140 series regional passenger aircraft as a stepping stone, using various preferential sales and service policies as supporting packages, combined with huge profit concessions and rebates, he quickly won the civil aviation markets of Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. , and based on this, it quickly invested in mining investments in the two countries. Through complex equity transfers, Ascendas Group obtained the mining and operation rights of the largest molybdenum deposit in Central Asia in Tajikistan; at the same time, it also obtained the right to mine in Kazakhstan. Ownership of the country's second largest copper mine.
Whether it is Uzbekistan, Tajikistan or Kazakhstan, Ascendas Group has only one purpose in arranging the mineral resources in these three countries, and that is to control an extremely rare special metal - rhenium - in the minerals it controls!
Based on this, Ascendas Group cannot be said to be the largest mining tycoon in Central Asia, but it is definitely the largest rhenium ore holder in the region, because through various profit transfers and mergers and acquisitions, Ascendas Group controls 60% of Uzbek rhenium ores; 85% of all rhenium ores in Tajikistan and 37% of associated rhenium ores in Kazakhstan.
The three parties combined will provide Ascendas Group with more than 1.2 tons of rhenium metal every year.
Don¡¯t underestimate this mere 1.2 tons of rhenium. The global rhenium reserves are only 2,500 tons. 1.2 tons of rhenium metal is already considered a huge resource. At the very least, if you want to do research, you don¡¯t have to worry about resources not being able to keep up after failure.
There is no way. Sometimes scientific research, especially applied scientific research, is actually no different from playing games. It means constantly launching attacks on the boss again and again, even if the group is destroyed again and again, the equipment is exploded again and again, and the experience bar is hit again and again. To return to the starting point, you can only grit your teeth and carry on, constantly inputting resources, because beyond this boss, whether it is equipment, experience, dungeons or even new maps in the next stage, no one else can catch up.
But the key to the problem is to continue to renew the old blood.
The same is true in the research of Alloy The research center was completely used up in less than a year.
You must know that the value of each gram of rhenium metal is equivalent to 10 times that of gold. 1.2 tons of rhenium is equivalent to 12 tons of gold. 12 tons of gold are poured in every year, and it is not just for a year, but continuously. It took nearly four years of hard work to win half of the super boss of nickel-based rhenium alloy single crystal turbine blades.
Yes, this is not all, it only takes half of the Long March, because adding rhenium only solves the problem of high temperature resistance and high strength of turbine blades, but the rhenium content in the turbine blades of the entire third-generation core machine is only 2.4%, which is not a large proportion. Because of this, although rhenium plays a great role, it cannot carry everything. It only focuses on strengthening high strength while resisting high temperatures.
As for the oxidation of nickel-based alloys at high temperatures, there is no solution to the further high-temperature resistance of single metals.
It¡¯s not that Ascendas Group doesn¡¯t want to increase the amount of rhenium used. The problem is that this metal is too rare and expensive, and the domestic reserves are not large. A few samples can be operated in the laboratory. If it really needs large-scale mass production and industrialization, every increase The dosage of 0.1% is an astronomical figure.
Therefore, how to strike a balance between product quality and cost efficiency is what Ascendas Group needs to do next.
Fortunately, Ascendas Group still has some progress in this regard.Therefore, niobium was added to the nickel-based rhenium alloy to offset the oxidation reaction caused by high temperatures; a small amount of hafnium was also incorporated to further improve the normal use of the alloy at high temperatures of about 1,300 degrees Celsius.
Finally, titanium is added to reduce the mass density of the alloy while maintaining a certain strength, making the turbine blades lighter and more durable.
At this time, Tengfei Group¡¯s new nickel-based titanium rhenium niobium-hafnium alloy was born, but it is really inconvenient to call it nickel-based titanium rhenium niobium-hafnium alloy.
Therefore, the leader of Ascendas Group, the knowledgeable king in the aviation industry, the accordion master, the little naming expert, Jianye, nb, Zhuang used his traditional artistic skills and simplified the academic name into an equation symbol with a stroke of his pen - Alloy x !
Not only is it mysterious, but it¡¯s also elegant, and most importantly, it¡¯s eye-catching.
If anyone asks, what are the turbine blades of your Ascendas Group made of? The phrase "alloy x" will definitely confuse the other party.
Of course, even if you don¡¯t use Alloy
Because even if they get the ratio, they still can't make it, because the smelting and addition of the entire alloy is not just a matter of adding it in according to the ratio, but requires complex heat treatment, vapor deposition, powder metal smelting and other processes to achieve it. The process of adding them one by one according to the matching ratio only exists in fairy tales.
After all, dozens of tons of gold are not wasted every year.
If not, why are Americans so confident in disclosing the ratios of all super alloys?
I just tell you, even if I can do it, you ca n¡¯t do it, so you do n¡¯t need to work hard. Hurry to kneel down and call your dad. Dad will give you a warm hug!
Zhuang Jianye is not as changeable as the Americans, but he needs the head of the headquarters, the father of the funder, to recover his blood. He has dozens of tons of gold every year. Who can bear it?
So looking at the unmoved look of the head of the headquarters, Zhuang Jianye gritted his teeth, tore a slit in his shirt with a ruthless sound, and then said with tears in his eyes: "Chief, look at it, I don't have any I have money to buy new clothes, so I can only wear clothes with holes to see you. Please do me a favor and allocate some funds, otherwise I really won¡¯t be able to open the door~~~"
Seeing this, the old face of the head of the headquarters no longer jumped around, but began to twitch uncontrollably
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