Chapter 150: The Age of Alternating Current
Gradually.
The guests all discovered a phenomenon. After all, there was no one on the scene who was stupid, and everyone realized that this time the Department of Physics of the Kyushu Academy of Sciences seemed to be about to make a big move.
The achievements of the Institute of Electromagnetic Research are interdependent.
One is the research on electric motors, which makes the understanding of electricity more thorough and straightforward. Electricity is also a kind of energy, the same energy as steam energy, and it has unlimited potential.
Immediately afterwards, the Institute of Electromagnetism introduced the theory of alternating current.
These two scientific research achievements are interdependent, and the electric motor needs more powerful alternating current to support, and the power will become extremely large.
The development of alternating current theory is also imminent.
If there is nothing to think about when these two are on the field, then the results brought by the Mechanical Power Academy that appeared in the third place completely made everyone present faintly see a little meaning.
"Hello everyone, I am Qin Enze, Dean of the Department of Physics and the Institute of Mechanical Power of the Kyushu Academy of Sciences."
The ugly monster with a hideous scar on his face and a closed left eye walked onto the stage, wearing a Mao suit and a heroic posture, which made people ignore his appearance.
Qin Enze glanced at the audience and said lightly: "The research results brought by the Mobile Institute this time are steam turbines. ”
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar below.
"Steam turbines? Is it a steam engine? ”
"How does he fry leftovers. Didn't they come up with the steam engine a long time ago, and it was nice to say that it was not good to use this to win an award. ”
"Steam turbines? Is there any difference with a steam engine? ”
“……”
Qin Enze made a gesture of please: "Please also move to the square outside, I will demonstrate and explain the steam turbine on the spot." ”
Everyone stood up and the staff arranged for evacuation. A thousand guests walked outside the venue with some curiosity and stood outside the cordon drawn with white lime in advance.
In the middle of the field, there are a lot of machines. There are some disassembled parts scattered around, and in the center, there is a machine of irregular size and shape of a water tank.
Looking at this metallic-colored machine, everyone was a little excited. No matter what the era, men can never resist the beauty of machinery.
Li Zhen and Ge Qingping sat on the judges' bench and looked at the machinery in the field with a smile.
As a judge and the president of the Kyushu Academy of Sciences, Li Zhen naturally knows in his heart what achievements each academy has. Ge Qingping also understands something. Therefore, Ge Qingping was even more excited. He only had to look at the overview of the steam turbine to know what effect this big guy would bring to the scientific process in the future.
Qin Enze was in high spirits at this time, led the members of his courtyard to make preparations, stretched out his hand and introduced: "As you can see, this is the steam turbine. ”
"If there is a difference between a steam engine and a steam turbine, I will briefly mention it here. The steam engine uses steam as the working medium, uses it to expand in the cylinder to push the piston to do work, and uses the easy liquefaction of water vapor to achieve circulation. A steam turbine uses steam to expand inside a turbine to propel a turbine to do work, and its internal structure is similar to that of a turbine. Compared to the steam engine, the efficiency is greatly improved. ”
"What is a turbine?"
Qin Enze walked to a row of disassembled parts and pointed to the row of dense fan blades: "This is the turbine." It is a fan in the power machinery, the steam passes through the turbofan, and the energy will get a geometric multiple expansion, which in turn drives the turbine to rotate, and the turbine drives the rotor to rotate. It is a kind of rotating power machinery that converts the energy of the flowing working fluid into mechanical work. ”
"Compared to steam engines, they are machines that can be used for different purposes. The steam engine has a lot of torque and produces a lot of force, but the rotation speed is relatively slow. Whereas steam turbines, it rotates at ultra-high speeds, but the torque is small. Of course, this torque is only relative. ”
Qin Enze fixed the fan blade of a fan to the rotor of the steam turbine with a mortise and tenon buckle: "In order to let everyone feel the efficiency and energy of the steam turbine more intuitively, we can observe the rotation speed of the rotor through the fan blades. ”
Someone started the boiler, and the inside of the boiler quickly boiled under the fire. The exhaust fumes were discharged with the chimney, billowing white smoke and black smoke from the burning coal into the sky.
Qin Enze snapped his fingers: "You can start." ”
Someone suddenly pulled the air embolism, and in an instant, a terrifying howl spread throughout the entire Kyushu Academy of Sciences.
'Woo-woo-'
A sharp, sharp whistling of steam hits.
The person who was close hurriedly took a step back, subconsciously covered his ears, and was shocked in his heart, why is there so much force?
They all know the steam engine very well, and the power of the steam car is not so great. And this steam turbine looks about the same size as a steam engine, but it's too powerful, right? Deafening, you can hear the sound.
In the 'rustling' whistling, mixed with a sharp sound of breaking the air.
However, the fan blades linked to the rotor began to spin rapidly.
"Ahh So fast! ”
"That's a lot of speed, oh my god."
"That's too much power, isn't it? When the steam car spins at its fastest, it is not as large as this tenth. ”
“……”
Someone stood directly across from the fan, trying to feel how fast the wind was.
But as soon as he stood over, he only felt a burst of flying sand and rocks, and a terrifying storm struck.
'Whew'
The man exclaimed, and found that the coat he was wearing was missing, and he couldn't open his eyes. And he was seven or eight meters away from the fan blades.
In the midst of the crumbling, the man squatted on the ground with one buttocks, and quickly climbed to the side and exclaimed: "What a strong wind, what a terrifying energy." I can't even stand on my feet when I blow it. ”
Qin Enze shouted amid the roar of a large steam turbine: "This is the super power of the steam turbine, it is not enough to boil in the boiler now, and half of its potential has not been realized." ”
What the!
It could be even faster!
The thousand guests were all dumbfounded. This power is too terrifying, isn't it?
Qin Enze continued: "Compared with the reciprocating steam engine, the steam flow in the steam turbine is continuous and high-speed, and the flow rate that can pass through the unit area is large, so it can emit more power. High-power steam turbines can use higher steam pressures and temperatures, resulting in higher thermal efficiency. And this kind of high power and low torque can be used in more places. ”
"With the idea of our Mechanical Power Academy, we can build a large ironclad battleship. Abandon the wooden ships of the world and use them on ironclad ships, steam turbines that rotate these fan-shaped propellers to produce terrifying thrust. Realization: the ship is large, heavy, sinking, and has a deep draft. It is fast, lively, agile and maneuverable. According to our theoretical assumptions, if the steam turbine were installed on the existing Kyushu Naval Division, the speed of the ship would be increased by at least ten times. ”
"Ten times!"
Lin Ke of the General Military Administration gasped and let out a scream, his eyes were green.
Without giving Lin Ke too much time to be surprised, Qin Enze shouted again in that wild roar:
"And we are ready to cooperate with the Institute of Electromagnetism to open the first large-scale thermal power station in Kyushu. The use of steam turbines will be used as the main core of power generation by the Institute of Electromagnetics. According to the theoretical idea of colleagues from the Institute of Electromagnetics, a thermal power station unit would be built to produce at least 7 million kilowatt-hours of alternating current after a high-power steam turbine worked at full load for 24 hours. It is equivalent to laying an alternating current power grid in the entire Qingdao County, and the amount of electricity generated by the thermal power station in one day, according to the current degree of electricity use, is enough for millions of people in the entire Qingdao County to use it for seven days! ”
When these words fell, everyone's hearts were all groaning.
All the Kyushu giants present trembled wildly......