Master of Thermodynamics

After the salting out is complete, a metal pipe slowly descends from the top of the container and extends into a thick layer of fatty acid sodium. Then another rune square plate is activated, and an oil pump integrated in the container hums. The vibration sound.

The fatty acid sodium is quickly sucked away by the metal tube, and the fatty acid sodium in the container decreases at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seth hurriedly brought the Lord Lord and Miss Archon to another container.

"Lord Lord, Miss Archon, there are two more processes below, namely'steam washing' and'alkali precipitation'. The purpose of these two steps is to further purify the soap-based solution and reduce the impurities in it..."

"In previous experiments, we found that boiling the soap-based solution can make it more uniform, and it can also decompose the remaining glycerin, pigments and other impurities, and improve the purity of the soap-based solution..."

Following Seth’s explanation, a large amount of hot water suddenly spurted out of the container, and a thermal magic heater under the container was also activated, and the soap-based solution soon began to boil.

After more than ten minutes, the originally slightly yellowish soap-based solution has turned milky white, and the few condensed fatty acid sodium has also completely dispersed, looking more delicate, and its appearance has improved significantly.

As the oil pump pumped the solution to the third container, Seth began to talk again.

"This step is alkaline precipitation, that is, secondary saponification, because a little oil and impurities remain in the fatty acid sodium. After adding caustic soda and table salt, wait another 20 minutes for alkaline precipitation to be completed..."

"After the second saponification, we will see that the solution is divided into two layers. The upper layer is pure soap base, and the lower layer is waste material with a darker color. These waste materials do not need to be discarded, and the reaction can be continued in the next alkaline precipitation..."

"After this step, the purity of fatty acid sodium in the soap-based solution will exceed 99%..."

In the "alkali analysis" process, the change in the container is not obvious. The color and viscosity of the soap-based solution hardly change, only a thin layer of yellow liquid appears on the bottom layer, which is not even seen by people with poor eyesight. come out.

When he came to the fourth container, the look on Seth's face became a little strange, and his voice was lowered.

"Your Excellency, the purpose of this step is to add two resins and water-soluble sodium silicate powder to the soap-based solution as...as a filler..."

After hearing these words, Miss Archon couldn't help snickering, and she knew that without asking her, the idea must have come from this extremely bad guy, Renault.

Renault's abacus is also very simple: cheating money.

Do not make money!

After adding fillers, the extremely cheap resin can be sold for the price of soap, and by the way, the content of fatty acid sodium in the soap can be reduced.

In other words, the rate of consumption of soap will be greatly accelerated, and Haichaoling can sell more soap.

This little trick alone can increase the profit earned by soap by at least 20%, so Renault did not hesitate to ask Seth to put out his own pressure and find a few suitable fillers.

MMP, the filler method, is to learn from the earth, just find a few different brands of soap, look at the ingredient list, is there such a material as "rosin"?

Can rosin be used for decontamination?

Go for a woolen thread!

On the earth, the price of rosin is 5 or 6 yuan per catty. If you buy in large quantities, the price can be lower.

Soap base, that is, the cost of fatty acid sodium? Even if the cheapest vegetable oil is used, the price is more than twice as high as rosin, so fools don't add it.

In the alien world, all kinds of trees grow taller and faster just like eating Jinke La, and resin is secreted like no money, which means that the cost of resin is lower.

Renault is very upright and confident about this. Why can't this man do it if the profiteers on earth do it?

But Seth's conscience is not like someone who has been eaten by a dog. He is still a bit uncomfortable with this approach of "charging a shoddy good". He was forced to do so only at the command of the lord.

"What is the content of filler?" Renault asked suddenly.

"About 10%, this ratio has little effect on the cleaning effect, but the color of the soap will be slightly red, which is the color of red maple pine resin..." Seth replied.

"Does the smell matter?" Renault asked again.

"There is no effect, the red maple pine resin has a stronger fragrance, and the smell will be better." Seth shook his head.

"Then increase the proportion of additives to 15%.'Strong fragrance' is also a good selling point. Redness doesn't matter, as long as there are no impurities..." Renault smiled satisfied.

Big profiteer!

Seth lowered his head, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "As you wish."

He made another gesture to Renault Pi: "Your Excellency, here is the last process. In this step, we will see the finished soap..."

Seth walked quickly to the last machine and explained with some excitement.

"This is the'soap molding equipment' we just developed. It injects the molten soap base into the mold, and the cooled soap is the final product..."

"This equipment uses a 80-cavity mold design and can make 80 soaps at a time..."

This machine is no longer the cylindrical container used in the previous processes, but a square silver-white device. From the rune squares on the surface of the device, Renault recognized that one of the runes was the rune group. Conversion], its function is obviously to cool the fatty acid sodium.

Seth waved his hand, and a magician immediately stepped forward and activated the three rune boards one by one.

The misty blue light enveloped the rune square plate, which gradually faded after ten seconds, and then the machine vibrated suddenly, a large metal cover on the top slowly turned over, and a pleasant resin fragrance spread instantly.

After the metal cover was fully opened, 8 rows of soap were printed in front of everyone's eyes. There were 10 bars of soap in each row, for a total of 80 bars.

The two workers who had been waiting aside for a long time took off the soap quickly and placed them neatly in a wooden box coated with a thick layer of resin.

Renault beckoned curiously, and a piece of soap flew into his hand.

This bar of soap weighs less than 250 grams and is similar in shape to a rectangular parallelepiped, but the corners are smooth and the middle is slightly narrowed. This is for easy handling. There are four simple spray patterns on the upper and lower surfaces of the soap. A line of general text is written under the waves: Hai Chao The flower.

This is the advantage of extrusion molding. As long as the mold is made, no matter how complicated the shape of the soap is, it can be easily made.

If you use a hand-made method to engrave the spray pattern alone, it will take 5 or 6 minutes to make 50 bars of soap, which takes at least 4 hours, but it can be done in less than 1 minute by relying on the mold.

The spray pattern and text are the logo of the brand logo, which naturally comes from Renault's indoctrination.

The aliens don’t even understand industrialization, and they have no idea about the benefits of building a brand. However, in the future, they will realize the huge benefits of the brand sooner or later.

Once the word "Hai Chao" is carved into the minds of people in other worlds, as long as these two words are inscribed on any commodity, the price will rise out of thin air.

As for the issue of piracy, there is nothing to worry about.

How can manual production be compared with machine production, it will only steal one and lose one, and stupid people will piracy.

While Renault was concentrating on the soap, Seth's commentary continued.

"Your Excellency, Miss Consul, this soap assembly line only has 7 employees, 5 of whom are responsible for operating the machine, and the other 2 picking up products..."

"We have calculated that if the three-shift production method is implemented, the maximum output can exceed 100,000 yuan/day, and the annual output can reach 30 million yuan..."

Hearing this terrible number, all the onlookers gasped, and everyone looked at these machines with incredible eyes.

What is the concept of 30 million yuan?

According to the roughest statistics, the population of the entire human world is only a little over 20 million. Calculated by households, there are about 4 million households. Among them, there are only 1 million households that can afford soap.

If each household consumes a piece of soap for half a month on average, the total demand is only 24 million pieces.

This also means that this factory building with an area of ​​no more than 1,000 square meters and these 5 machines can meet the needs of the entire human world.

Even if the purchasing power of civilians increases and the demand for soap doubles as the economy develops in the future, it will only be a matter of adding one production line.

Renault can proudly claim: All mankind’s soap is contracted by labor and capital alone!

This is the real industrialization.

Soap is also found in the alien world. How high is the labor productivity of the soap workshop of the turtles?

Craftsmen will only produce one jar of soap, and after making one jar of soap, the next jar will begin.

After putting the oil and caustic soda into the pottery jar, they can only rely on manual stirring. This method is not only hard, but the efficiency of the saponification reaction is not high, and it can be done in at least 3 hours.

Including the subsequent cooking and cleaning, salting out, and purification, another 3 hours have passed.

Finally, cool the soap base and cut into pieces, which takes about 2 hours.

In other words, it takes a total of 8 hours to produce a tub of soap, and a maximum of 2 tubs of soap can be made a day.

In addition, manual production is impossible to produce 1 ton per can, and the craftsmen can't handle this labor intensity. They can have up to 100 kg at a time, which is equivalent to 400 bars of soap.

But the advantage of hand-made is that the number of people required is small, and 4 craftsmen can start the work.

Based on this calculation, a small workshop with 4 people has an annual output of up to 300,000 yuan, with an average of less than 80,000 yuan per person.

But this is only an ideal state, and it is impossible in reality.

Because in this era of extremely low productivity, they can't get enough animal fats at all. The annual output has to be discounted by 20, which is 80,000 yuan, and the per capita output instantly becomes 20,000 yuan.

Where is the sea tide collar?

Even if the assembly line reaches full capacity, no more than 25 workers are needed, and 1.2 million soaps are produced per capita each year.

It is 60 times that of manual production!

Not only does the production efficiency shed more than a dozen blocks of manual production, relying on machines also greatly reduces the labor intensity.

So, can the sea tide collar solve the grease problem?

of course!