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After completing the construction of the ore leaching bioreactor model, Ning Chen exhaled heavily.

Ning Chen also felt a little incredible about his idea. It seemed that the increase in brain power index had indeed made Ning Chen's brain circuit somewhat different from ordinary people.

However, Ning Chen also knew that just a model of an ore leaching bioreactor was not enough.

In actual experiments, many unexpected problems will inevitably arise. Only by solving these problems can this idea be truly realized.

Early the next morning, Ning Chen came to Gao Hongliang's laboratory.

After a while, Gao Hongliang also came over.

When Ning Chen saw Gao Hongliang coming, he walked next to Gao Hongliang and said:

"Teacher Gao, are you busy now?"

"Ning Chen, what's wrong?"

"I had some new ideas about the research topic last night."

"Really? Then tell me quickly."

With that said, Gao Hongliang followed Ning Chen and walked over.

Ning Chen opened the computer modeling software and opened the scratch paper where he performed various derivation calculations yesterday, and told Gao Hongliang his thoughts last night.

When he first saw the model in Ning Chen's modeling software, Gao Hongliang was a little confused for a while and didn't know what Ning Chen wanted to do.

However, after Gao Hongliang listened to Ning Chen's story and read the various derivation, calculation processes and reaction equations on Ning Chen's draft paper, Gao Hongliang couldn't help but be in awe of Ning Chen again.

"What an incredible idea! Ning Chen, is this really just a plan you came up with in one night?"

"Well... you can't say that. I have been thinking about how to better achieve the mineral leaching cooperation between various microorganisms. It was not until last night that I finally came up with a more mature idea."

"It's really amazing. If this method can really work, the efficiency of microbial leaching will be greatly improved!"

Ning Chen's improvement direction is different from the previous physical, chemical, and biological improvements. It can be said that it is an improvement in a completely new direction.

But this does not deviate from any conventional improvement direction. It can be said that the ultimate goal of integration and breaking boundaries proposed by Gao Hongliang has been truly achieved.

After trying to calm down his excited emotions, Gao Hongliang said:

"Ning Chen, I'm going to find someone to make your mineral leaching bioreactor now. Let's finalize some details and try to complete the research experiment in this direction before this semester."

Gao Hongliang knew that after this semester, Ning Chen would probably end his exchange life at Yanda.

For Gao Hongliang, Ning Chen is now more than just a student who came to Yanda to get gold, but a "scientific research tool" to solve complex scientific research problems.

In the following time, Gao Hongliang organized everyone to discuss Ning Chen's new experimental direction.

After seeing Ning Chen's experimental plan, everyone looked surprised. However, after understanding Ning Chen's experimental ideas in depth, they were all impressed by Ning Chen's ideas.

Without a very broad range of knowledge, it is absolutely impossible to construct such a creative model with a very rigorous theoretical basis.

Next, everyone had a detailed discussion on various details in this model.

There are many details involved, including the selection of microorganisms involved in leaching, the environmental conditions in each container, the flow rate of mineral ions, the material and radius of the filter, etc. These are all issues that everyone needs to think about.

After several days, the experimental team finalized all the details.

The next step is to manufacture Ningchen’s mineral leaching bioreactor.

Gao Hongliang's experimental group focuses on the research of microorganisms, and naturally does not have the ability to manufacture mineral leaching bioreactors.

However, Gao Hongliang also had a wide range of channels and quickly contacted the appropriate manufacturers to manufacture the equipment on an expedited basis.

While waiting for the equipment to be manufactured, everyone was not idle. They continued to deliberate on some details of the plan and planned the experimental plan after the equipment was completed.

Perhaps because Gao Hongliang specifically requested expedited processing, the manufacturer's manufacturing speed was very fast.

In just the past ten days, this processed equipment was mailed to Yenching University.

Because this is just a relatively rudimentary simulation reactor, the entire equipment is not exaggeratedly big, but it still requires several people to move the various parts of the equipment to the laboratory.

After assembling the entire mineral leaching bioreactor, Ning Chen felt very emotional when looking at the equipment in front of him.

Ning Chen had to admit that this manufacturer had done a good job of restoring his ideal reactor model, and some of the details were also meticulous.

Just for this relatively rudimentary equipment, the cost is not cheap. If it is an ordinary laboratory, it will definitely not be able to afford this kind of expenditure.

Of course, the arrival of the equipment is just the beginning. Next, we need to conduct a lot of experiments to verify the feasibility of Ningchen's direction.

We first added the ore to be treated, a solution rich in metal ions and other catalysts, different microbial colonies, etc. into each container.

Each container here can independently control the temperature and other conditions in the container. When the connection channel is not opened, there will be no impact on each other.

After the environment in each container was stable, Gao Hongliang organized everyone to open the connection channels between the containers and test the performance of the entire leaching bioreactor.

As Ning Chen expected, the initial test did not go so smoothly. As expected, many problems that were not expected appeared.

For example, when the solution flow rate is too fast, it will be difficult to control the temperature of each container.

If the solution flow rate is too slow, the leaching efficiency of the reactor will decrease, making it difficult to take advantage of the reactor.

In addition, issues including the material selection of the channel filter and the control of the pH value of the solution also caused headaches for the members of the project team.

Fortunately, everyone had prepared many alternative plans before and maintained enough patience and perseverance for the entire experiment.

These recurring difficulties have not dampened everyone's will, but have further aroused everyone's determination to overcome these problems.

After several days of experiments, the leach bioreactor solution has become more mature.

Although compared with the theoretical data calculated by Ning Chen before, there are still some gaps.

However, compared with other plans, the ore leaching speed and leaching rate of this plan are already a level higher.

"Teacher Gao, in our latest optimization plan, the leaching rate of copper sulfide ore reached more than 90% in ten days. This efficiency should be in an absolute leading position in the field of biometallurgy research. .”

After seeing this test data, Gao Hongliang nodded vigorously, obviously very satisfied with the results.

Such a result, even compared with Gao Hongliang's previous ultimate goal, is higher.

The experiment has reached this stage, and Gao Hongliang and other members of the experimental team are sorting out the experimental results.

Unlike Ren Mingshan, Gao Hongliang will personally participate in the compilation of results and the writing of papers.

Because everyone in the project has a different division of labor, Gao Hongliang must have an overall grasp of the situation in order to better reflect everyone's results in the paper.

As a member of the project and a contributor to some important results, Ning Chen naturally participated in these works.

This was Ning Chen's first time contacting the writing of biology papers. He was learning and exploring many things at the same time. Fortunately, Gao Hongliang, Tong Chen and others would provide Ning Chen with a lot of help.

Finally, after everyone's joint efforts, the first draft of this paper was finally completed.

By this time, Gao Hongliang also began to decide on the order of authors of this paper.

On this day, Gao Hongliang called Ning Chen to his office to explain his thoughts.

"Ning Chen, what I mean is that I want you to be the first author of this paper. What do you think?"

Ning Chen was also a little surprised when he heard Gao Hongliang's words.

Although Ning Chen did contribute many key ideas to this research, compared with other members of the project team, the amount of work done by Ning Chen was indeed not too much.