Anna walked around the prototype twice and accurately told her first feeling.
Really...small.
But there was an indescribable beauty, Selin pondered, especially the dense pipes around it, which were like tentacles.
Roland couldn't help laughing. The two of them had completely different observation angles, but the conclusions they came to were particularly appropriate, and they both expressed the characteristics of the new machine concisely.
Compared with the first cast iron steam engine produced by Anna, the volume of the principle prototype has been reduced by more than ten times. This is due to the great leap in processing technology, but the most important thing is to save the boiler.
At present, the steam engine in Wushen City has developed to the fourth generation, but the boiler part has not changed much, whether it is coke, firewood, or heavy oil, a huge combustion chamber and steam generator are inevitable.
Now, it is only a rectangular steel box that is one meter long, half meter wide and less than twenty centimeters thick.
This box is also the core of the entire system.
Although simply putting the Rubik's Cube and Water in a container to achieve the fusion of combustion and evaporation, neither the almost harsh sealing requirements nor the high-pressure-resistant pipeline shell can be achieved at the beginning.
In other words, even if the relics of the radioactive tribe were obtained at that time, the effect they could play was probably no different from others.
Three ceremonial cubes are embedded side by side at one end of the steel box, as the source of power for the machine, and a layer of lead is placed at the bottom to block the excess rays.
There are more than ten heat pipes neatly arranged on the top of the smooth shell, which passes through the secondary water tank and the heat-sink condenser and returns from the bottom. The circulation process of heating and energy cooling is completely closed and does not exchange with the outside world. If the equipment is reliable enough, theoretically, there is no need to add new thermal media when scrapped is used.
Of course, this size is not the limit of a new steam engine.
Water is just the easiest and cheapest heat conduction medium. If it is replaced with other more efficient media, such as liquid alkali metal, the volume can be made smaller at the same power.
However, the principle prototype mainly verified the feasibility of the solution, and Roland finally resisted the urge to get it done.
After all, in case of an overheating leakage accident, if the steam-state alkali metal and water vapor are mixed together, the entire test center will probably be blown into the sky.
The pipes extending from the heating box can continuously transmit the heat generated by the Rubik's Cube until the secondary water tank is boiling. The next process is no different from that of ordinary steam engines, using Wudongcheng's already mature technology.
The part that Selin admires most is the condenser tubes evenly distributed on both sides of the body. In order to obtain a sufficiently large heat dissipation area, each pipe twists and turns, and it is not inconsistent to say that it is a tentacle.
If the current steam engines are all stupid, big, black and thick, this principle prototype can be called small and exquisite, especially the silver-white core box and the brown-red thermal copper tubes that are enough to reflect the face, which are much more dazzling than its predecessors in terms of color and brightness.
Even laymen who know nothing about industry can tell their level at a glance.
In terms of craftsmanship alone, it is enough to bear the title of artwork.
Then...begin?Roland looked at the two of them.
Anna nodded, reached out and placed her hand on the operating rod, let's go together.
Selin hesitated for a while, and finally lowered the master's beard and gently placed it on the hands of the king and the queen.
Rubik's Cube Steam Engine Principle Prototype Test, 3, 2, 1, Start
With Roland's countdown, the operating lever was pulled to the maximum limit with a click, and the linkage mechanism pressed down three Rubik's Cube switches at the same time, and the milestone new generation power source began its first operation.
However, the scene was silent and nothing seemed to happen.
Uh...failed?Looking at the unresponsive machine, Selin hesitated.
No, let it burn for a while.Roland replied calmly.
After about two minutes, the core box trembled slightly, and a light on the pipe also emitted a soft yellow light. It was a pressure gauge made of stickman relics, which indicated that the pressure inside the pipe was changing.
The heat transfer process is obviously much slower. After waiting for nearly five minutes, steam finally gushed out of the secondary water tank and pushed the piston to run slowly.
As the temperature in the tube gradually increases, the speed of the steam engine flywheel is getting faster and faster. At the same time, it also drives the water pump of the condensation system. The main function of the latter is to increase the speed of fluid circulation in the tube and to retract the heat conducting medium with reduced temperature back to the core box.
At this point, the new machine has completed a complete cycle and officially entered the operating state.
It seemed that the effect was pretty good. Anna let out a long sigh and a slight smile appeared on her face, but the startup speed was a little slower.
This is also a common problem with the steam engine. Roland nodded. Heat transfer takes time. Even if it is replaced with a more efficient heat medium, it is not as good as an internal combustion engine that can move when it is on fire.
In addition, since at least three water tanks are required to maintain circulation, no matter how small its volume is, it is much larger than that of the internal combustion engine.
In addition, the consumption of uranium tablets by the Rubik's Cube in the Festival is too fast, resulting in this principle prototype having almost no practical value.
But any industrial product has come step by step.
As long as Celine can solve the problem of durability, its distinctive advantages cannot be ignored. Mature technology allows it to be put into production quickly, and its lightweight size is enough to be placed on most vehicles, and it will not increase the fuel burden while becoming popular.
Even if the durability problem cannot be improved for the moment, ships built on new power sources can save a lot of space to stockpile fuel, thereby loading more cargo or weapons.
Half an hour later, the steam engine's operating speed reached its limit, the entire body was trembling, and the hissing sound from the exhaust port turned into a sharp roar.
Obviously, the core box composed of three Rubik's Cubes has a little overpower for this steam engine. Roland pulled the operating rod back to first gear, which was equivalent to closing the two Rubik's Cubes before the prototype stabilized again.
Then comes a long reliability test.
This step will last for about a week and is also the most likely link to expose the problem. After all, the principle of the new machine is extremely simple, and it is not difficult to make it move. What is difficult is to run for a long time and stable manner.
It was originally an extremely boring thing to stay in front of a steam engine that kept ringing, but for Roland it became a means of decompression.
Sitting with Anna in the yard, chatting while paying attention to the dynamics of the prototype, just like the time when the two first met, relaxed and peaceful.
At some point, Selin quietly left the laboratory, leaving only him and Anna in the yard.
The latter leaned his head against his shoulder, and the noise of the machine seemed to have become very far away.
If it succeeds, we will be one step closer to the world you used to be, right?
Well, it will shorten a lot of things at once. You need to know that the world has not yet implemented similar technologies.
Can the four-wheeled car you mentioned that can be driven by a person?
Yes, if you like, I can design a simple one for you to try.
Good Ah!Anna's voice suddenly became much more excited. By the way, what name are you going to give this machine?
Do you have to have a name?Roland smiled.
certainly.Her expression was extremely serious.
Well, which one do you choose to Black Technology No. 1 or Rubik's Cube Power?
Where is it black... Really, I chose the one behind.But how do you distinguish the differences in models?
Simple, a ceremonial cube represents a cylinder, and the principle prototype is called the three-cylinder cube power. How about it?
I always feel something strange.
Don't care about the details...
The laughter of the two men mixed with the sound of the machine, forming a melody that lasted for a long time in the yard.
Really...small.
But there was an indescribable beauty, Selin pondered, especially the dense pipes around it, which were like tentacles.
Roland couldn't help laughing. The two of them had completely different observation angles, but the conclusions they came to were particularly appropriate, and they both expressed the characteristics of the new machine concisely.
Compared with the first cast iron steam engine produced by Anna, the volume of the principle prototype has been reduced by more than ten times. This is due to the great leap in processing technology, but the most important thing is to save the boiler.
At present, the steam engine in Wushen City has developed to the fourth generation, but the boiler part has not changed much, whether it is coke, firewood, or heavy oil, a huge combustion chamber and steam generator are inevitable.
Now, it is only a rectangular steel box that is one meter long, half meter wide and less than twenty centimeters thick.
This box is also the core of the entire system.
Although simply putting the Rubik's Cube and Water in a container to achieve the fusion of combustion and evaporation, neither the almost harsh sealing requirements nor the high-pressure-resistant pipeline shell can be achieved at the beginning.
In other words, even if the relics of the radioactive tribe were obtained at that time, the effect they could play was probably no different from others.
Three ceremonial cubes are embedded side by side at one end of the steel box, as the source of power for the machine, and a layer of lead is placed at the bottom to block the excess rays.
There are more than ten heat pipes neatly arranged on the top of the smooth shell, which passes through the secondary water tank and the heat-sink condenser and returns from the bottom. The circulation process of heating and energy cooling is completely closed and does not exchange with the outside world. If the equipment is reliable enough, theoretically, there is no need to add new thermal media when scrapped is used.
Of course, this size is not the limit of a new steam engine.
Water is just the easiest and cheapest heat conduction medium. If it is replaced with other more efficient media, such as liquid alkali metal, the volume can be made smaller at the same power.
However, the principle prototype mainly verified the feasibility of the solution, and Roland finally resisted the urge to get it done.
After all, in case of an overheating leakage accident, if the steam-state alkali metal and water vapor are mixed together, the entire test center will probably be blown into the sky.
The pipes extending from the heating box can continuously transmit the heat generated by the Rubik's Cube until the secondary water tank is boiling. The next process is no different from that of ordinary steam engines, using Wudongcheng's already mature technology.
The part that Selin admires most is the condenser tubes evenly distributed on both sides of the body. In order to obtain a sufficiently large heat dissipation area, each pipe twists and turns, and it is not inconsistent to say that it is a tentacle.
If the current steam engines are all stupid, big, black and thick, this principle prototype can be called small and exquisite, especially the silver-white core box and the brown-red thermal copper tubes that are enough to reflect the face, which are much more dazzling than its predecessors in terms of color and brightness.
Even laymen who know nothing about industry can tell their level at a glance.
In terms of craftsmanship alone, it is enough to bear the title of artwork.
Then...begin?Roland looked at the two of them.
Anna nodded, reached out and placed her hand on the operating rod, let's go together.
Selin hesitated for a while, and finally lowered the master's beard and gently placed it on the hands of the king and the queen.
Rubik's Cube Steam Engine Principle Prototype Test, 3, 2, 1, Start
With Roland's countdown, the operating lever was pulled to the maximum limit with a click, and the linkage mechanism pressed down three Rubik's Cube switches at the same time, and the milestone new generation power source began its first operation.
However, the scene was silent and nothing seemed to happen.
Uh...failed?Looking at the unresponsive machine, Selin hesitated.
No, let it burn for a while.Roland replied calmly.
After about two minutes, the core box trembled slightly, and a light on the pipe also emitted a soft yellow light. It was a pressure gauge made of stickman relics, which indicated that the pressure inside the pipe was changing.
The heat transfer process is obviously much slower. After waiting for nearly five minutes, steam finally gushed out of the secondary water tank and pushed the piston to run slowly.
As the temperature in the tube gradually increases, the speed of the steam engine flywheel is getting faster and faster. At the same time, it also drives the water pump of the condensation system. The main function of the latter is to increase the speed of fluid circulation in the tube and to retract the heat conducting medium with reduced temperature back to the core box.
At this point, the new machine has completed a complete cycle and officially entered the operating state.
It seemed that the effect was pretty good. Anna let out a long sigh and a slight smile appeared on her face, but the startup speed was a little slower.
This is also a common problem with the steam engine. Roland nodded. Heat transfer takes time. Even if it is replaced with a more efficient heat medium, it is not as good as an internal combustion engine that can move when it is on fire.
In addition, since at least three water tanks are required to maintain circulation, no matter how small its volume is, it is much larger than that of the internal combustion engine.
In addition, the consumption of uranium tablets by the Rubik's Cube in the Festival is too fast, resulting in this principle prototype having almost no practical value.
But any industrial product has come step by step.
As long as Celine can solve the problem of durability, its distinctive advantages cannot be ignored. Mature technology allows it to be put into production quickly, and its lightweight size is enough to be placed on most vehicles, and it will not increase the fuel burden while becoming popular.
Even if the durability problem cannot be improved for the moment, ships built on new power sources can save a lot of space to stockpile fuel, thereby loading more cargo or weapons.
Half an hour later, the steam engine's operating speed reached its limit, the entire body was trembling, and the hissing sound from the exhaust port turned into a sharp roar.
Obviously, the core box composed of three Rubik's Cubes has a little overpower for this steam engine. Roland pulled the operating rod back to first gear, which was equivalent to closing the two Rubik's Cubes before the prototype stabilized again.
Then comes a long reliability test.
This step will last for about a week and is also the most likely link to expose the problem. After all, the principle of the new machine is extremely simple, and it is not difficult to make it move. What is difficult is to run for a long time and stable manner.
It was originally an extremely boring thing to stay in front of a steam engine that kept ringing, but for Roland it became a means of decompression.
Sitting with Anna in the yard, chatting while paying attention to the dynamics of the prototype, just like the time when the two first met, relaxed and peaceful.
At some point, Selin quietly left the laboratory, leaving only him and Anna in the yard.
The latter leaned his head against his shoulder, and the noise of the machine seemed to have become very far away.
If it succeeds, we will be one step closer to the world you used to be, right?
Well, it will shorten a lot of things at once. You need to know that the world has not yet implemented similar technologies.
Can the four-wheeled car you mentioned that can be driven by a person?
Yes, if you like, I can design a simple one for you to try.
Good Ah!Anna's voice suddenly became much more excited. By the way, what name are you going to give this machine?
Do you have to have a name?Roland smiled.
certainly.Her expression was extremely serious.
Well, which one do you choose to Black Technology No. 1 or Rubik's Cube Power?
Where is it black... Really, I chose the one behind.But how do you distinguish the differences in models?
Simple, a ceremonial cube represents a cylinder, and the principle prototype is called the three-cylinder cube power. How about it?
I always feel something strange.
Don't care about the details...
The laughter of the two men mixed with the sound of the machine, forming a melody that lasted for a long time in the yard.
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