Gas Promotion

The municipal solid waste recycling line at the recycling plant is already in trial operation. Currently, it can process 500 tons of waste per day, with only two recycling lines activated.

Meanwhile, the gas generator sets and the gas storage area have also been put into trial operation one after another.

The engineering team and Huang Xiuyuan and his colleagues completed the first gas production line on the 18th. With sufficient raw materials, it can refine about 500 tons of liquefied gas per day.

The current trial operation results are good, with difficult-to-recycle items like plastic bags, plastic film, and plastic-coated paper being added to the kitchen waste.

Over the past three days, they have produced 11 tons, 12.7 tons, and 13.6 tons of liquefied gas, respectively.

Judging from the liquefied gas refining situation, it is necessary to increase the volume of waste collected and further expand channels for organic matter recovery.

Huang Xiuyuan has already planned to start a new municipal solid waste recycling line to transport the existing waste stockpiled at various sites in the city to the plant for processing in batches.

At the same time, he instructed Du Jinhua's engineering team to continue debugging the gas production lines.

Meanwhile, Bao Sikang, the general manager of Hailu Gas Company, is also recruiting talent, personally leading gas sales staff to run business in various towns and villages.

Shanmei urban area.

Xinxiang.

Three vans and one small truck were parked next to the small square by the stage.

Bao Sikang and several sales staff set up simple tents and small tables, hung up a promotional banner for a discount event, and turned on the speakers to play music.

Many passing villagers were attracted to the scene.

"Hailu Gas? The first cylinder is half price?"

"Is that for real? A cylinder of gas for 50 yuan?"

"It's not a scam, is it?"

A middle-aged woman walked up and asked Bao Sikang, "Boss, is it really 50 yuan a cylinder?"

Bao Sikang hurriedly explained, "Miss, I've already brought the gas here. With your ID card and phone number, the first cylinder is 25 yuan. If there's any problem, you'll at most only be scammed once."

Another young man, seeing the advertisement for small agents, hurriedly asked, "Boss, how do I become an agent?"

"Young man, let me introduce it to you."

Under Bao Sikang's introduction, the young man became interested. After all, gas distribution in the vicinity was already controlled by others, and those two existing liquefied gas companies had no intention of recruiting agents.

Currently, the retail price of gas on the market is between 4 and 5 yuan per kilogram. A 15-kilogram cylinder of liquefied gas, including delivery fees, usually costs around 65 to 75 yuan.

With a price advantage, it is very easy to break into the market.

He happened to know how to drive a tricycle. At the gas station in Magong Town, the wholesale price per cylinder was 48 yuan, and he could add a markup of 1 to 7 yuan himself. The maximum recommended retail price from Hailu Gas Company was 55 yuan per cylinder.

"My name is Wang Gang. I want to apply to be an agent. How do I go about it?"

Bao Sikang patted the young man on the shoulder, "You've got a good eye, kid. Come fill out the form."

The villagers who heard about the half-price first cylinder, thinking there was no reason not to take advantage of a bargain, bought all 120 cylinders of liquefied gas brought by the small truck.

Including the deposits for the steel cylinders, Bao Sikang recouped a significant amount of money.

According to Hailu Gas's estimates, to maintain the gas supply for the entire urban population of 800,000, based on an average annual consumption of 47.75 kilograms per person:

800,000 people would consume 38,200 tons of liquefied gas per year, averaging about 105 tons per day.

Based on an initial market share of 30%, Hailu Gas needs to supply 35 tons of liquefied gas daily; later, as it gradually captures the entire market, it will need to supply over 105 tons.

Currently, after starting another solid waste recycling line and utilizing a large number of septic trucks to collect pig manure from rural areas and waste from urban underground pipes, the total gas production of the company can be increased to about 50 tons of liquefied gas per day.

In the process of promoting gas, the gas company also surveyed the situation of small pig farms in rural areas. In the villages around the city, small pig farms are ubiquitous.

According to current survey data, most of these rural pig farms have a scale of several dozen to several hundred heads, with a few reaching several thousand.

The total inventory of live pigs in the urban area is estimated at 140,000 to 150,000, producing about 210 tons of pig manure daily, of which the dry matter is about 63 tons, capable of producing about 15 tons of liquefied gas.

The 5 septic trucks currently in place are operating at full capacity, traveling to the vicinity of pig farms in various villages to transport large quantities of pig manure.

After all, one ton of pig manure can refine about 71 kilograms of liquefied gas. The selling price of liquefied gas is about 3.3 yuan per kilogram, making 71 kilograms worth about 232 yuan.

In addition, the residue left after gas extraction, after being blended, is an excellent organic fertilizer.

According to relevant research by Suiren Company, due to the catalytic decomposition of Nitrogen-16, complex high-molecular organic matter is largely decomposed into gas and small-molecule organic matter; these small-molecule organic substances are high-quality organic fertilizers.

Furthermore, under ultraviolet light, Nitrogen-16 decomposes into nitrogen gas or combines with small-molecule organic matter in the waste to form a portion of urea.

Moreover, the catalytic decomposition effect of Nitrogen-16 is extremely potent. It can achieve 99.9% destruction and decomposition of microorganisms, parasites, eggs, and antibiotics in the waste, which is more effective than the high-temperature fermentation used for ordinary organic fertilizers.

Although the organic fertilizer market is a mixed bag, the lowest price can still reach 600 yuan/ton, granular organic fertilizer is close to 1,000 yuan/ton, and high-quality organic fertilizer can reach several thousand yuan per ton.

According to Suiren Company's assessment, the quality of the organic fertilizer made from gas-refining residue, after desalination and dehydration treatment and the addition of beneficial bacterial groups, has a selling price of about 800 to 1,500 yuan per ton.

On average, every ton of kitchen waste and manure can produce 200 to 300 kilograms of organic fertilizer, and this business is equally viable.

The recycling industry is all about being meticulous; even if it's just a rock, one must squeeze oil out of it to ensure resources are recycled to the maximum extent.

Shanmei urban area.

The gas station of Huayang Energy Company, as one of the two liquefied gas suppliers in the Shanmei region, had maintained a market share of 68–75% before Hailu Gas began its operations.

The business manager of the gas station looked at the wholesale volume of liquefied gas for the past half month, his expression turning grave: "What is going on here?"

Previously, they could sell seventy or eighty tons of liquefied gas every day, but for the past half-month or so, that number had dropped to forty or fifty tons a day, and the downward trend was obvious.

The salesman standing to the side voiced a possible reason: "Manager Li, I heard that the newly opened Hailu Gas is running a promotion, and quite a few of our customers have been pulled over there."

"Hailu Gas? Is that the company that got their license just over two months ago?"

The salesman nodded: "That's the one. Their discounts are massive; a 15-kilogram cylinder of liquefied gas is only 55 yuan at most."

"55 yuan?" Manager Li jumped up from his seat as if he had been pricked by a needle: "Are they not planning on making any money?"

"Manager Li, maybe they're just trying to snatch up customers. They'll definitely return to normal prices later."

Pacing back and forth, Manager Li did not take it lightly: "No, we have to lower our prices too. We can't let our customers get poached."

After reporting to the head office, the wholesale price of liquefied gas at Huayang Energy was immediately lowered to 3.5 yuan/kilogram.

Another liquefied gas supplier was also forced to follow suit and lower their prices, attempting to hold onto their customers.

It was just that they hadn't realized that the source of Hailu Gas's liquefied gas wasn't being produced and transported from other regions, but was instead a self-produced and self-sold operation.

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