"By then, TJ might become a second-tier city. If the fire cannot be extinguished in time, the toxic gas and haze produced will bring disaster to the entire Yanjing."
"This is not the most important thing. Did you see this?" Liu Chi swiped the screen of his phone downwards and said, "There is a chemical plant to the east of the refinery."
"That's the most deadly thing. Although I don't know what's in that chemical plant, normally, a chemical plant supporting an oil refinery will have a large amount of benzene, xylene, and hydride."
Seeing Ye Yuxin's puzzled look, Liu Chi explained, "Benzene is a Class A fire-hazardous chemical that can paralyze the human central nervous system. Once a large amount of hydride is inhaled, it will kill you in a few minutes."
"You will faint without any warning and stop breathing within 15 minutes!"
"......" Ye Yuxin was completely shocked.
"If an explosion occurs in the chemical tank area, it will be a disaster." Liu Chi felt a chill down his spine.
"If a 100,000 cubic meter oil storage tank explodes, other oil storage tanks nearby will also explode one after another. If a tank in the chemical plant to the east explodes, all the firefighters on site will be poisoned and die. Once the poisonous gas drifts to downtown TJ, the entire city may become a dead city."
"Yanjing probably also..."
"In other words, the best way is to prevent the crude oil tank from exploding. This is the best way and the only way, because an explosion will cause a chain reaction." Liu Chi put down his phone helplessly.
"......"silence.
"!!!"
"I believe they will realize the seriousness of the matter, and I believe they can turn the danger into safety." Ye Yuxin held Liu Chi's hand tightly and comforted him.
"Hmm!" Liu Chi took a deep breath.
Two hours later, the two returned to Yanjing.
"I'll go take a shower first." Ye Yuxin put her bag down and said as she opened the clothes hanger.
"Okay, go ahead." Liu Chi nodded and sat down on the bed.
Watching Ye Yuxin leave, Liu Chi picked up his phone and flipped through the news about the Haibin Refinery.
......
Seaside oil refinery.
"Commander-in-chief, we need fire-fighting foam urgently." A middle-aged man with a dusty face and an unclear face rushed into the green tent.
"A batch will be delivered in ten minutes." A tall and thin man in his 60s with white hair looked at the real-time fire area on the big screen with a worried look on his face without even turning his head.
"Old Li, I'm here. All the supplies have been delivered to the intersection. You ask someone to go and take charge." Qin Caihui, who was exhausted, pushed open the tent, walked in, and said to Li An who was thinking of a solution.
"Thank you for your hard work, Caihui. You have troubled me to deliver it in person. Please wait a moment and I will make the arrangements."
"Okay, you can also ask the brothers who are driving to help." Now is not the time to reminisce about the past, Qin Caihui said anxiously.
"Thank you!" Li An hurried out of the tent.
Qin Caihui also followed him out.
"Fifth team, go to the outside intersection immediately to unload the supplies and deliver them to each team as quickly as possible. Hurry! If we don't have enough manpower, ask the brothers who drive to help." After rushing out of the tent, Li An shouted directly to the Fifth Team who were anxiously on standby.
"yes."
"Brothers, follow me, hurry up." The captain of the fifth team, Zhang Hong, waved his hand, loosened his legs and rushed out directly.
"Wow..." 14 people followed Zhang Hong and ran out quickly.
Watching his brothers risking their lives to put out the fire while he was standing by anxiously, if it weren't for the mobile team, he would be able to deal with emergencies.
They all wrote blood oaths to ask for battle early on.
Now that he finally had work to do, he rushed out like a chicken with blood injected.
"Old Li, is there anything I can help with?" Qin Caihui took a breath and said as he looked at the fire rising into the sky three hundred meters away.
"Or is there any difficulty?"
"Commander-in-chief, if we can't close the two valves of tank A01, it will be difficult to put out the fire. Now the fire has a tendency to grow." After a rustling sound, a series of anxious voices came from the walkie-talkie in Lao Li's hand.
"Our first team has been flushing water into tank A01 for three hours. We can't keep going like this."
"The supplies will be delivered immediately. Hold on tight. Do not let the fire get bigger." Li An shouted while holding the intercom, "Otherwise, you know what the consequences will be."
"yes!"
The first team on site.
"Captain, what should we do? Does the command post have any good ideas?"
"Hold on till the end."
"If this thing explodes and causes a chain reaction, none of us will be able to get out alive, especially the chemical tank area guarded by the third team. If..."
“No ifs…”
"The only thing we can do is to stay here and buy time for the headquarters to come up with a solution. Go check the water supply area to see if there are any problems. We must ensure that the water supply is unobstructed."
"Backup water supply equipment is always ready."
"Yes!" A little brother ran out with a "whoosh whoosh".
"......"
"Commander Li, Comrade Li Aimin is here."
"Hello, Mr. Li X." Upon hearing this, Li An turned around and greeted Li Aimin, who was walking in from outside the tent in a suit.
"Commander Li, how is it? Are there any difficulties?" Li Aimin asked as he looked at the fire map on the big screen.
"Almost three hours have passed now. The best we can do is suppress the fire temporarily. If there is no good solution, the danger will increase as time goes by."
"The only way to put out the fire is to close the two valves of tank A01."
"Why can't it be turned off?" Li Aimin frowned.
"The two valves are in the middle of the fire area, the temperature is as high as 3,400 degrees, people can't get close to them, and the electric doors of the two valves have been burned out, so they can only be opened manually."
"But artificial..." Li An finally shook his head helplessly.
"What's the matter? Are you having any difficulties?" Li Aimin asked.
"It takes 80,000 manual turns to close the valve. How can this be done at 3,400 degrees?"
“…” Even though Li Aimin didn’t understand, he knew the difficulty of this matter and fell silent.
"Even if it rotates twice a second, it will take at least 11 hours!"
"!!!"
"Can't we turn off the valve?"
"If we can, we can put out the fire." Li An smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Humans are not machines, how can we accomplish this? Now we are at a dead end here."
"Do you see this tongue of fire?" Li An came to the big screen, switched the screens a few times, pointed to the middle and said: "This tongue of fire is the crude oil gushing out from the tank channel. The entire tongue of fire is more than 30 meters long, and above the tongue of fire is the valve."
"What if we use robots?" Li Aimin asked whimsically.
"......"
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