Chapter 336: Thor's Hammer
Wei Minsheng took a helicopter in the air to see the results of this fire, and shook his head, this Yun Mengze is really too big, even with the help of more than ten tons of gasoline, it has only reached less than one percent of the overburned area.
If it were to be fully developed, more gasoline would be needed, but such a large amount of gasoline would not be available in the short term.
Because the amount of gasoline purchased through Minsheng Company cannot have obvious abnormal fluctuations, so as to avoid causing some unnecessary trouble.
However, this area of more than 30 square kilometers has been able to meet the needs of Huaxia at this stage for the time being.
In this place, there are not as many tree resources as there in Huaxia Villa, and it is necessary to prevent those poisonous insects and beasts hiding in the depths of the swamp from coming out and hurting people.
Therefore, Wei Minsheng decided to use a new type of engine made by himself to provide a part of the power resources for Jiangling City.
This engine is not the same as the design of a real-world engine, as it does not have lubricating oil and a cooling system.
This type of engine uses the high-pressure gas produced when the combustible gas detoflages (also belongs to the category of explosion, but is slightly different from the general explosion) to generate power, so it can also be called an explosive engine.
In conventional engines, the violent combustion of explosions is designed to be avoided as much as possible, because deflagration is very harmful to the engine.
Deflagration can cause a decrease in engine power, an increase in fuel consumption, an increase in noise, a deterioration in emissions, and in the most serious cases, a knock on the cylinder, a shutdown of the engine, and the destruction of the engine's mechanical parts.
Although it is well known that the energy release produced by gentle combustion and explosion is the same for the same weight of fuel, the energy conversion process varies greatly between different combustion rates.
Due to the structural limitations of traditional engines, not all energy in the combustion process can be converted into mechanical force, and a large amount of energy is wasted due to heat dissipation, friction, etc.
Wei Minsheng had an idea in his heart after seeing how the salute was running at the wedding, but this idea was not easy to implement in the real world, because such a loud sound would bring inconvenience to the people living around, thus causing some unnecessary trouble.
But in this other world, people are not so densely populated, and Wei Minsheng also needs to use this huge explosion to expel those poisonous insects and beasts to ensure everyone's safety, so Wei Minsheng brought this equipment to Yunmengze.
The piston and the barrel of this engine are completely separated, and there are no piston rings, lubricating oil or other things in the middle to seal.
The canister is actually a row of upright salutes, except that the barrels are thicker and can be fixed to the ground or buried in the ground to reduce the sound of explosions.
The piston is a cylindrical solid steel column, the diameter of the steel column is slightly smaller than that of the cylinder, and it can move in the cylinder very flexibly.
A saucer-like iron lid is added to the rear end of the piston, and when the piston is placed in the cylinder, this cover covers the entire cylinder.
The piston is fixed to a fifteen-metre-long movable bracket by means of a shock spring, and a guide rail is designed close to the drum to ensure smooth access to the drum.
In this way, when the "Salute" fixed on the ground begins to work, the high-pressure gas produced by the gas that has reached the detonation limit will work on the piston at a speed of more than 2,000 meters per second and a pressure of upper megapascals, and throw the piston and the bracket of the fixed piston into the air, so as to realize the conversion of chemical energy to mechanical energy.
In this way, most of the mechanical energy obtained in this way is converted into potential energy, except for a small amount of loss caused by overcoming air resistance, during the piston ascent.
In order to convert this potential energy into a continuous and stable work output, the movable bracket is not connected to the other end of the piston, but is fixed to a steel pipe by a device that can only rotate in one direction like a bicycle flywheel.
When the piston drives the bracket upward, the bracket can move in an arc around the steel pipe without hindrance.
After the piston and the bracket convert all the energy generated by the explosion into potential energy, under the action of gravity, the piston and the bracket can provide a large torque, thereby driving the steel pipe to rotate and convert the previously obtained potential energy into stable output mechanical energy again.
Although the energy conversion process in this process is more complex, most of the conversion process is the conversion of mechanical force, and except for the air resistance of the piston support during the explosion and the rise of the piston support, very little energy is dissipated and wasted in the form of heat.
When the potential energy of the piston and the bracket is converted into mechanical energy, the piston returns to the barrel.
After the photoelectric detection device installed on the bracket detects the piston reset, it injects a flammable gas that reaches the detonation limit into the barrel again, and then explodes again through the ignition device to enter the next working cycle.
Although the power that can be generated by this one explosive barrel is not large, because this purely mechanical structure is relatively simple, and any number of brackets can be installed on the steel pipe as the power output at the same time, it is equivalent to a "multi-cylinder explosive generator" that can be expanded at will, so as to obtain a larger output power.
In order to avoid possible collisions between the brackets, Wei Minsheng uses two power take-off steel pipes, which are linked with gears, and the brackets set on both sides effectively increase the gap between the single-sided mounting brackets, so as to obtain a safer working environment.
Because the working principle of this explosive engine is very simple, although different combustible gases have different detonation limits, Wei Minsheng can fully mix the combustible gas according to different gas supply ratios when it is fed into the cylinder through a specially designed double-layer nozzle and air intake piston, so as to achieve the best explosion effect.
The way to test the effect of the explosion is also very intuitive, as long as the piston and bracket can be sent to a certain height, the most suitable air intake is the most suitable amount.
Therefore, those biogas and straw gasification gas can be used, and even some animal fats can be used as fuel after gasification at high temperatures, which greatly expands the range of use of this engine.
In this way, when Wei Minsheng installed this "double-row twenty-cylinder explosive engine" next to Yun Mengze, with the sound of a huge explosion, twenty pistons drove twenty fifteen-meter-long brackets on both sides to make a reciprocating motion up and down in a loop, providing a steady stream of power resources for Jiangling City.
Since the sound produced when the gas in the barrel explodes is directed at the sky, the engine works as if it were thunder, and the loud sound reflected through the clouds startles birds and beasts, fish and insects flee far away.
Between the top and bottom of the long steel arm, accompanied by the loud sound that seemed to come from above the nine heavens, the aborigines in Gangneung City were completely stunned, this must be the thunder god descending to the world, and the one flying up and down must be the "Thor's hammer" that can make people's souls fly......