Chapter 99 Thermoelectric Conversion

"Mingzhe, I've graduated." Wen Na grinned and waved her diploma in front of him.

Huang Mingzhe smiled.

After stepping down as secretary general of the Truth Society in November last year, Wen Na devoted herself to studying for a master's degree, and finally got her master's degree in March.

"Not going to do a Ph.D.?"

"No, I've already enrolled as a doctoral student, but I don't need to go to school often." Venna winked mischievously.

"Then stay and help me!"

"The beauty of thought."

He smiled and shook his head: "How about making you the secretary general of the Thinking Society?"

"Really?"

Huang Mingzhe gently grabbed her hand, his eyes were full of trust: "There are too few people I can fully trust, come and help me." ”

Wen Na's cheeks were slightly hot, and then she nodded arrogantly: "Seeing that you are working so hard, I will reluctantly agree, but the small money cannot be less." ”

"Haha, you're indispensable, a little money fan." Huang Mingzhe laughed and rubbed her hair.

The two discussed some things about the Thinking Club, and it was clear that Huang Mingzhe wanted Chen Wenna to take over his day-to-day affairs at the Thinking Club, so that he could devote himself to scientific research and other affairs.

However, in order to avoid being too abrupt, and Chen Wenna needed to be familiar with the work, Huang Mingzhe formulated a half-year transition plan for her, and handed over the work of the Thinking Club to her step by step.

And Wen Na has been the secretary general of the Truth Society before, and she still has work experience, plus Huang Mingzhe's support and guidance behind her, I believe that there is no big problem.

The recent semiconductor war has distracted Huang Mingzhe from a large part of his energy, and now he can finally devote most of his energy to scientific research.

The scale of the Materials Research Institute in Haicheng County has expanded to hundreds of times at this time, and dozens of materials laboratories occupy the entire town.

The town has now been transformed from an agricultural service to a service industry that caters to employees and researchers at the research base.

Minibuses traverse the bustling streets, with restaurants, restaurants, fruit shops, bakeries, flower shops, grocery stores, and more.

Not far from the town, there is a staff dormitory area on the east side and a scientific research area on the west side.

After entering the scientific research area, Huang Mingzhe's minibus parked in the parking lot, then changed into an electric sightseeing car, and came to the thermoelectric materials laboratory.

At this time, there was a discussion going on in the laboratory.

"Jianshu, what are you discussing?" Huang Mingzhe asked as he changed his work clothes.

Liu Jianshu, who was wearing square-rimmed glasses, noticed that Huang Mingzhe came in: "President, we are discussing a lattice problem. ”

Huang Mingzhe, who had changed into work clothes, held a special tablet: "How much more efficient are you now?"

“16.71%。”

This refers to the direct conversion of thermal energy into the efficiency of electrical energy, and the research project of the Thermoelectric Materials Laboratory is thermoelectric power generation.

That is, the direct conversion of heat energy into electrical energy, but the difficulty of this project is extraordinary, although the conversion efficiency of 16.71% is very high, but this efficiency is still unsatisfactory.

The thermoelectric conversion efficiency of the thermoelectric power generation equipment that can be commercialized on the market is generally between 6~7%, and it is generally used in the field of waste heat utilization.

In order to truly become a mainstream power generation equipment, the thermoelectric conversion efficiency should be refreshed to at least 20% or more, and preferably 40%.

The reason for the research and development of temperature difference power generation is that the principle of temperature difference power generation is very simple, that is, there is a temperature difference on both sides of the material, and then the high temperature area is actively neutralized to the low temperature area, and energy will be generated in this process, and the temperature difference power generation is to use this principle.

In fact, thermoelectric power generation and photovoltaic power generation are very similar, one is direct thermoelectric conversion, and the other is direct photoelectric conversion.

Abbreviated as a board for power generation.

Unlike ordinary power generation, where water is boiled in a complex system, the more energy is converted, the lower the total conversion efficiency.

Huang Mingzhe touched his chin and thought about it.

At present, the thermoelectric materials in the thermoelectric materials laboratory have achieved a conversion efficiency of 16.71%; The photoelectric conversion efficiency of the optoelectronic materials laboratory is currently about 27.5%.

If you combine photovoltaics and thermoelectrics to create a power generation system, the power generation efficiency should be good, but this is still too far from Huang's goal.

And the inertial confinement laboratory, which has been intensively experimenting recently, is approaching controlled nuclear fusion faster and faster.

At present, the energy level of the sunbow laser has been refreshed to 18,600 J, and the total energy level can be increased to 74,400 J by focusing on four sunbow lasers.

The higher the laser energy level, the more efficient the laser ignition will be, and the size of the device can be reduced accordingly.

However, with the increase of the energy level of the laser, other problems also appear, such as the auxiliary materials of the laser head are easy to be burned through, the transformer is difficult to cooperate, and the material problems of the reactor are also present.

In short, there are a lot of problems, and if one problem is solved, several new problems may appear, even if the Institute of Optics and Mechanics and the major plasma research institutes in China have joined the inertial restraint laboratory, many problems still make people's scalp numb.

Pulling the idea back to the thermoelectric laboratory, Huang Mingzhe checked the progress of the laboratory and then entered the working state.

The thermoelectric materials laboratory has the thermoelectric material law model developed by him, and while screening these thermoelectric materials, the law model is upgraded.

To modify and upgrade the law model, he needs a very deep foundation in computational materials science, as well as proficient in various fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.

Huang Mingzhe dared to pat his chest and say that even if everyone in the materials science community went together, it was impossible for them to successfully modify and upgrade one of the law models.

After a busy day, he had just gotten off work when he received a call from Wei Feng.

"Mingzhe, I have completed the final verification work on Dayi's side, and the model has been sent to your email."

"That's good, let's go back to Lingnan in a few days!"

"That's exactly what I mean."

"By the way, for the sake of safety, I will arrange for someone to pick you up."

"Okay."

The two of them are not the kind of people who like to talk on the phone, so when the matter was over, they hung up the phone directly.

After he went to take a shower and came out, the fat aunt had already prepared dinner.

Venna is already eating.

"Is the work going well?" Huang Mingzhe asked as he picked up the dishes and chopsticks.

"It went well."

The two of them chatted while eating, this was a rare leisure time, after eating.

When the two of them came to the study, he called up a lot of information in his laptop: "Wen Na, these are the black sheep in the company, according to the degree of harm, you dealt with them." ”

Wen Na looked at the dozen or so detailed investigation reports in her notebook, looked at him in surprise, and then nodded.

This is Huang Mingzhe preparing Liwei materials for her, if she doesn't kill chickens and monkeys, the people in the company are estimated to be disobedient.

After reading more than a dozen materials, Wen Na smiled and teased: "It seems that I am determined to be this wicked person." ”

"Go ahead! Girl, I leave everything there and look forward to the day when you become the king of business, and then I will be the king's man. Huang Mingzhe said funny.

"The beauty of thought!" Wen Na scolded with a smile.

It's rare for the two to joke, at this time, the moon is on the willow tops, and April is the time when the spring flowers bloom, and it is also the season for all things to grow and reproduce.

The two early cherry blossoms in Yunnan are colorful at this time, and the night is gentle and full of poetry, which always makes people forget to return to the gentle countryside.

It's a pity that the spring night is short, and the morning sun reminds him to continue to struggle.