Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology - Chapter 793

Chapter 793: Civilian use of Petrol By-products (1/2)
Somewhere in Nagpur

A heavily guarded convoy with military protection travelled at high speeds in the emergency lane. In the middle of the convoy were four different carriages, all painted black and reinforced with steel plates on the outside, and the horses pulling the carriages were the extraordinarily rare Rajavamshi horses, used only by high-ranking politicians, rich businessmen, and dignitaries of the empire.

The people of Nagpur quickly stopped what they were doing and turned their attention to the fast-moving convoy, but since Nagpur is the military capital of the empire, scenes like these are only unusual and not rare, so people immediately got on with their work.

Within moments, the convoy reached a secret facility. Reaching the facility, only the four carriages that were under protection entered the facility, while its military entourage stopped outside.

Within the four protected carriages, barrels could be seen bolted to the floor and walls of the carriage with the help of multiple belts keeping the barrels stable, while a lot of cotton had been cushioned in the middle.

People working in the facility came forward wearing gloves and masks and unloaded the barrels. The barrels contained hazard warnings and combustible warnings all over the surface.

The people carefully loaded the 16 barrels, four barrels per kart, into a long rail cart and pushed it into the facility, after which the door shut down, not to be opened once again.

The carriage drivers, wearing military uniforms, looked at each other and let out sighs of relief with smiles on their faces. It was as if a heavy burden had been lifted off their shoulders. Some immediately slumped onto the carriage, taking a brief rest as their nerves had been tight for the last four hours throughout the transportation, while others immediately went to check on the horses. In the end, all of them finally wiped off the sweat that had accumulated on their foreheads and left the facility to rejoin their battalions.

None of the carriage drivers knew what they were transporting, but they, who were the elite of the elite of the military logistics department, were tasked with transporting cargo. With so many warnings plastered on the surface of the barrels, nothing safe could come out of it. It would be surprising if what they were transporting was simple. Thankfully, there were no hiccups.

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The contents of the barrels is naturally naphtha, the most volatile substance that the Bharatiya Empire can currently extract on a large scale.

It was Vijay who ordered for the government to completely monopolise the processing of naphtha, because even though naphtha has a lot of civilian uses—like in lamp oil, fire starters, portable heating and cooking, solvents, paint, varnish thinners, rubber and resin extraction, textile industry, waterproofing agents, among other things—it is also the main material needed to manufacture incendiaries, explosives, incendiary gel, flame weapons, smokescreens, and others.

Hence, instead of directly selling the naphtha to the civilian market, to the industrial companies that make use of the raw material, Vijay had completely monopolised its processing for the sake of not releasing a potentially easily weaponisable product into a market. Fuels like kerosene, fuel oil, and heavy oil can also be weaponised, but they are not to an extent as naphtha, which has large-scale hazardous potential. So from now on, if weaponry has to be developed using naphtha, the government will do it itself, and in order to produce civilian equipment, the government will sell the processed raw material that is made after processing and making it less volatile.

For example, in order to produce solvent, a raw material will be sold to chemical companies around the empire, which will be already preprocessed, and its form will already be very close to the final product of solvent. The private companies would just have to experiment with other elements in order to get the final product. The same would be followed with paint and varnish thinner, rubber and raisin extraction, the textile industry, and even the waterproofing agent, where naphtha can be made into a thick liquid and sold to chemical companies in order to make a waterproofing paste to be sold on the market or to directly apply the waterproofing agent that is developed to coat wooden surfaces, metal surfaces, or even fabric.

Vijay has already approved a large research project in the Bharatiya Academy of Military Sciences for the development of incendiary explosives, naphtha nitric acid explosives, improved naphtha gunpowder, development of a primitive version of incendiary gel, development of naphtha propellant, and finally, the development of a flame thrower.

A research team has been formed within the Academy of Military Sciences, and even Manoj Reddy, who was working on the new generation of firearms for the Bharatiya Empire, has temporarily handed over the research tasks of his research firm, Trishul Arms Consortium, to his assistant researchers in the research group and joined the research of explosives production. In reality, even though he is an extremely brilliant researcher who is good at a lot of things, the thing he is most brilliant at is explosives. He is the person who figured out the most optimal ratio of the first-ever black powder, after all. He can be considered the father of gunpowder and the father of explosives in the modern Bharatiya Empire.

The researchers throughout the empire have become very busy, striving towards a greater goal, but Vijay, who had come back from his long tour of the north, had no leisure either because now that the production of kerosene, fuel oil, heavy oil, and tar has been started, the technologies and tools to use the petroleum byproducts are not available yet.

Thus, Vijay took it into his own hands to develop the technologies. Fortunately, all the tools are very simple to produce, so it’s not a very big deal for him.

If he was directly developing advanced tools like a multipurpose gas burner that could be used for cooking as well as lighting, he would hesitate because a lot of things were involved in developing the tool. Not to mention, such a burner cannot work with kerosene. But if he is only developing small gadgets like kerosene lamps, he has no scruples.

Vijay first developed a metal container with a solid circular base with a conical removable top which has a screw-like mechanism, where a hole was present in the middle out of which a cotton thread was coming out.

This was the most premium version of the kerosene lamp. He also designed several other variations, where the cheapest one could also be a pottery jar. He had many other ideas as well, but Vijay refrained from doing any more designs since he wanted to let the market develop on its own, and giving them the idea was enough.

He met another invention, Vijay developed a tool using stainless steel where the fuel oil will be poured into it first, after which the lid, which has a hollow pipe within which a suction tube exists, is closed. After closing the lid, he had attached a pump to the top of the lid, which is fused with the suction tube. As the pump is pressed several times, the pressure within the container builds up, thereby, when a button is pressed from the top of the lid without opening it, the fuel oil sprays out of the container like a mist.

This was the primitive version of an atomizer that he had developed. This could be used to evenly coat coal in industrial applications so that it will burn more efficiently. Simply dumping the fuel oil onto coal will also work, but it is highly unstable since one part of the coal will burn faster while another does not. Also, not to mention, just pouring the fuel does not mean that it will burn efficiently. If you drop a lit matchstick into a pool of petrol, the petrol will not burn after all; instead, the flame will be extinguished. So he developed the primitive atomizer, which he named the fuel oil sprayer.

Also, he was hoping that his sprayer idea would catch on and would pivot to other industrial and civilian applications as well, like soap dispensers, gardening purposes, and maybe even many other things—there are too many uses he could think of.

Moving on, in order to use the heavy oil, which is one of the byproducts of crude oil refining—Vijay came up with a simplified method of solidifying the heavy oil in order to make it applicable as a lubricant. He is confident that Bharatiya industries, once they absorb the knowledge, will create more specialised lubricants with more purity.

Vijay couldn’t directly invent the machine that would be used to pave the asphalt road, but he funded the research to be done at the Raya Research Institute. He is confident that, by using the talent present in Raya University and using the harvester as a foundation, it will not take too long for the machine to be invented.

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A few days later

“Director, look!!!” A beautiful secretary in a private home utensils manufacturing company ran over with an excited expression.

The director was surprised by the excitement on his secretary’s face, so he immediately looked over.

To his surprise, it was a brochure from the patent office. It’s a weekly released document that contains all the patents that are newly put on sale, and his eyes widened when he saw the place where his beautiful secretary was pointing.

He was so surprised that he even ignored the beautiful ravine, which contained two towering peaks right at the corner of his eye.

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📌 Wooden & Pottery Kerosene Stove (Multi-Use Patent)

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P.S. To be continued…