I Have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World Chapter 1513: Blackane!
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Europa, in the outpost laboratory.
Researchers wearing chemical protective clothing are in the isolation room, carefully studying the samples in the culture tank.
When analyzing the soil collected from Europa, they found a special kind of bacteria in a black porous porous soil. This bacteria is anaerobic and can only survive under nitrogen. What people care about is not this bacterium, but the metabolites produced by this bacterium ...
It's a black hard block. Its chemical composition is very complicated, and it is composed of many kinds of hydrocarbons. The molecules fold with each other, showing a staggered zigzag space structure. Because of this tightly bound property, in terms of hydrocarbons, its density is quite amazing, almost twice that of the same volume of water.
"Incredible."
"This density is about to catch up with Teflon."
"Well, the density has reached 2, I am the first hydrocarbon of such high density."
Teflon, also known as polytetrafluoroethylene, has a density of 2.2, which is the highest density among commonly used plastic materials. By the standard of hydrocarbons, the density can reach twice that of the same volume of water. It is no exaggeration to use the word incredible to describe it.
"Did the cause analysis come out?"
"Just finished."
The researcher responsible for researching this bacterium code-named MW1 is named Wang Zhouping, a former academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and worked as a researcher at the Qindao Institute of Bioenergy.
Because of dissatisfaction with the superior bureaucracy, family and children ’s education, he finally chose a new country of skilled immigration. After immigrating to the new country, he quickly passed the interview and got the offer of Xinghuan Trading. After six months of astronaut training, he became a glorious researcher for an exoplanet survey ship.
Looking at the analysis report of MW1 bacteria, Wang Zhouping's eyes sparkled with excitement.
Before coming to the new country, his research direction happened to be the storage of new energy. It is for this reason that he knows better than everyone what this material means. If natural gas can be stored in solid form, not only can the storage and transportation costs of natural gas be greatly reduced, but the most important thing is that the use of natural gas can be further expanded!
Because the main components of this mixed material are similar to alkane compounds, and the color is black, it is uniformly decided by the scientific researchers of the research institute and named "black alkane".
"Methane and ethane are used as reactants to generate metabolites blackane through biochemical reactions, and the exothermic reaction generates heat required to maintain life activities. The heat insulation effect of blackane itself is strong, and it is attached to loose porous bacteria. The body is filled, no wonder this bacteria can survive in an environment with an average temperature of minus 180 degrees! "
"Have you seen this chemical formula?" Hou Jun, the general manager of the laboratory, asked.
"Never before, but theoretically it can be achieved." Wang Zhouping replied.
Hou Jun nodded, looked at the researcher in the isolation room, and said.
"Start the calorific value test."
"OK."
Tumor-sized black lumps, which are metabolites of MW1 bacteria, were put into sealed containers by researchers wearing chemical protective clothing. Under the instruction of Hou Jun, the researchers in the isolation room conducted a total of three sets of experiments, respectively measuring the reaction of blackane under different conditions of oxygen-free environment, air environment, and oxygen-rich environment at different temperatures.
The results of the experiment are quite amazing.
Not only the researchers present, but also the people who watched the experiment hundreds of millions of kilometers away, could not help making a sound of exclamation.
"Aerobic environment can be directly used as fuel. The decomposition rate of combustion products reaches the critical value at 150 degrees Celsius in the same oxygen-free environment as methane. Blackane will quickly decompose into a mixture of methane and ethane .... Try light! "Suddenly thought of something, Wang Zhouping grabbed the microphone excitedly and said," Under an oxygen-free environment! "
The researcher in the isolation room turned his head and glanced at Hou Jun through the glass. When he saw the latter nod, he turned around, put a piece of blackane into the container again, and then emptied the oxygen to fill the inert gas. Start illuminating the blackane in the container.
A startling scene appeared.
According to the jumping parameters on the instrument, the air composition is slowly changing, and the blackane begins to decompose slowly under the light, generating methane and ethane. Seeing this scene, Hou Jun's eyes also gradually showed a trace of excitement and suddenness.
This way, it makes sense.
Why no photosynthetic bacteria can reproduce on the cold Europa. By "breathing" methane and ethane gas to produce black methane metabolites, the exothermic reaction maintains energy consumption, and the light from the sun and Jupiter decomposes black methane into methane and ethane.
With blackane as a medium, MW1 bacteria, by virtue of their own strength, formed a closed energy cycle in this dead planet.
......
A silver aerial plane landed on the tarmac in the Star City, hundreds of millions of kilometers away. As the dome closed slowly, the aircraft's cabin door opened, and Jiang Chen was escorted by a group of soldiers and took the MRT to the headquarters of the Space Department.
At the aerospace command center, Jiang Chen saw Kerwin.
As soon as they met, Kerwin said excitedly to him.
"Black Pane! We have discovered a brand new energy source!"
"Blackane?"
"That's it!" Kerwin tapped twice on the touchpad, and a black solid hologram appeared in front of the two, slowly rotating, "Metabolism of MW1 bacteria."
"That is to say, this stuff is the feces of MW1 bacteria?"
"It ’s understandable," Kerwin smiled awkwardly, coughing softly, and continued, "At present, the Guardian Outpost is testing its physical properties. From the data just returned, This blackane can decompose naturally under light, and can also be ignited directly in an oxygen environment. Whether it is used as a storage method for natural gas or directly used as a fossil fuel, there is no problem. Its combustion efficiency is very high, almost not Produces harmful gases. "
After listening to Kerwin ’s statement, Jiang Chen immediately realized the value of this thing.
It is not difficult to mine the gas resources of Europa. The liquid methane and ethane mixture flowing on the surface of Europa is not like the earth ’s natural gas fields, oil fields, and some coal fields that contain a lot of impurities, which need to be refined. It is no exaggeration to say that holding a liquefied gas jar directly unscrews the gate and throws it into the lake, and then fishes it up again, which is a tank of high calorific value liquefied natural gas with high ethane content.
The only cost may be storage and transportation.
Put the liquefied gas in a low-temperature gas storage tank and transport it to a Mars colony, a moon colony, or even the earth, hundreds of millions of kilometers away with a seagull-class transport ship. This sounds like no difficulty, and it can be achieved technically, but the cost It is not a small number.
Storing more fuel gas per unit volume has become a new subject of the Xinghuan Trade and Energy Research Institute. It is best to study a hydrocarbon that can exist in solid form at room temperature instead of liquefied methane and ethyl alcohol. For transportation.
The discovery of black alkanes undoubtedly solved this problem!