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Chengshun The Songjiang Machinery Expo in the summer of 46 is a large-scale trade fair for many companies to build their reputation, launch new products, and win orders, and Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company is no exception.

During the month of participating in the expo, Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company received a large number of representatives from the industry.

Among them were not only representatives of large enterprises, but also representatives of many small and medium-sized enterprises, mainly the coking coal industry attached to the steel industry. Almost all representatives of the coking coal industry who attended the Songjiang Machinery Expo ended up at the booth of Liaohe Hekou Machinery Company. Take a walk around, watch the trial operation of their industrial gas machine prototype, and read through the many technical information on gas machines they provide.

Finally, some companies even negotiated on the spot to discuss the purchase of industrial gas machines.

After all, industrial gas machines have great advantages for coking coal companies that produce gas themselves.

If other companies want to use this kind of gas machine, they have to purchase gas from outside, but they don't use it... They produce a lot of gas themselves, and many coking coal companies have serious environmental pollution and potential toxic gas poisoning problems. Most of them cannot be built in urban areas, but are even cheaper to build in the suburbs, such as near coal-producing areas.

This makes it difficult to transport gas, a by-product of coking coal refining, for export. Many companies have previously chosen to simply burn the gas.

Nowadays, with the advent of industrial gas machines, these hard-to-cash gases have a new use. No matter how bad they are, they can replace steam engines and save the coal required for steam engines.

Because of the market demand, the first-generation industrial gas machine launched by Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company to the market was relatively mature and could be applied on a large scale, so it achieved great market success.

After one month of the exhibition, they received orders for thousands of gas generators, including many very large and expensive gas generators.

When Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company launched gas generators to the market, it naturally did not just launch a single model. Instead, it launched a variety of gas generators with different powers at the same technical level through simple zooming in and out, adding cylinders, etc. , there are as many as six sub-models, ranging from small to large, with prices as low as four to five hundred yuan, and as high as two or three yuan.

Interested enterprises can order one or more of them according to their own needs.

The order amount for these thousands of gas machines has reached an astonishing million, and the average price of each gas machine has reached just over a thousand yuan.

This means that most of the gas machines sold by Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company are medium and large gas machines, including many very large gas machines.

This is actually reasonable. After all, the gas machine they launched is an industrial gas machine for the industrial market, and the factory's demand for power is not small.

However, there are not many orders for some seemingly cheap small gas machines.

Liaohe Hekou Machinery Company, which had received orders worth millions of dollars, had already sent the relevant news back to Liaodong Hekou via telegram, allowing the companies behind it to plan their production capacity.

This gas machine is not an ordinary industrial product. Its technical content is still very high for the contemporary Chu State, which means that it is not easy to mass produce it on a large scale.

Not only does it need to build a specialized production line, it also requires a large number of skilled workers with rich skills and experience.

Only in this way can we achieve large-scale mass production. Otherwise, we can only produce small quantities in a manual workshop mode.

If you want to take a huge order worth millions of dollars, not to mention that this is the first batch of orders, there will inevitably be a steady stream of orders coming in the future. This is also a very big challenge for Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company.

Technical workers are not a big problem. They are also a veteran machinery factory with a history of more than 30 years. They used to produce agricultural machinery, but later they also introduced equipment, purchased patents, and began to produce small steam engines for agricultural equipment on their own.

In this process, a large number of skilled workers have also been accumulated, including many skilled craftsmen.

It is not a big problem for mid-level and senior technicians. After all, they originally developed the gas machine themselves, and this kind of research and development was not done in just one year in the past. In fact, it also takes into account the many years of work on the gas machine. accumulation.

To be honest, Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company has been developing gas generators for more than ten years, but now it is just bearing fruit.

In this process, they themselves have also trained a large number of middle- and senior-level engineers who are good at gas engines, or in the field of internal combustion engines.

Last year when the empire's top officials promoted the research and development of internal combustion engines, why did they choose the three major agricultural machinery manufacturers? It was because these three major agricultural machinery manufacturers started the research and development of gas engines in the field of internal combustion engines early due to competition and the layout of agricultural machinery, and they have accumulated a lot of experience. A large number of intermediate and senior technical talents.

Even the Royal Institute of Technology is slightly inferior to the knowledge accumulated by the three major agricultural machinery companies in internal combustion engines.

The simplest example is that several core basic patents in internal combustion engines are all in the hands of these three major agricultural companies... and these core basic patents were developed by themselves.

Therefore, today's Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company has sufficient talent accumulation in the field of gas machines.

But there is a serious shortage of funds... Before receiving policy funding support from the empire for internal combustion engine research, Hekou Machinery Company had a hard time. It relied on selling various tractor chassis to barely survive, and even supported the continued gas production. Computer research is no longer possible.

Although the empire later provided some funds through internal combustion engine policy support, these funds were specialized research and development funds and could only be used in the field of internal combustion engine research and development, and could not be used for other purposes to build factory production lines.

These R&D funds obtained by applying for research projects are specially supervised and cannot be used however you want.

Why was the previous management of Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company dismissed? It was because they misappropriated the R&D funds for these internal combustion engines, transferred the funds through many means, and then put them into their own pockets. Later, they were discovered by supervisors, and finally attracted the attention of the Hekou Prefecture Metropolitan Procuratorate. Several people wanted to take advantage of them. The censor who had been promoted due to political achievements pounced on him like a shark that smelled blood, and it didn't take long to wipe out the core management of Hekou Machinery Company...

Therefore, although the project research and development funds issued by the empire are quite large, they are not something that Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company can use casually.

At the same time, the construction of a new large-scale gas machine production line also requires a lot of money. According to current orders and future market demand, they may need to build several production lines. Many of the equipment required for these production lines are not cheap.

At the same time, it does not mean that Liaodong Hekou Machinery Co., Ltd. can produce all the parts or raw materials for gas generators in-house... They also used a lot of raw materials and parts from the supply chain during research and development.

Some of these small parts may seem inconspicuous, but in fact they have very high technical content... They have very high requirements for materials and processing, and they can't even do it themselves... After all, they have specializations!
Their Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company is engaged in gas engines, but not all the parts and even raw materials in the gas engines... If they insist on doing so, then it will be no different from asking them to rebuild an entire industrial system.

Therefore, if you want to mass-produce gas machines, you need to rely on the entire industry chain to obtain corresponding raw materials, technical parts and components from cooperative manufacturers!

At the same time, because many parts were customized before, the cooperative manufacturers did not have any formal production lines. If they wanted to supply them, they would have to build new production lines... But it also costs suppliers to build new production lines.

Other manufacturers don't need this kind of parts, only you, Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company, need it. If our production line is up and your gas machine gets cold again, why won't we suffer a loss?
Therefore, it is okay to ask the supplier to establish a special parts production line, but it must be guaranteed, such as signing a large-volume reservation contract in advance and paying a part of the deposit, or simply asking Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company to provide part of the funds, and then both parties Cooperate to establish corresponding parts supply factories.

Therefore, the large-scale mass production of gas generators is actually very difficult, especially the demand for funds. It does not mean that Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company has received an order and then issued an order, and its factory can produce qualified products in large quantities. Gas engine.

This is impossible!
After getting the order, the first thing Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company did was to apply for a loan from Liaodong Finance Bank. In order to obtain the loan, it did not hesitate to mortgage many of the factory's fixed assets and various core patent assets that came with it.

At the same time, he also used gas machine orders for thousands of gas machines as a guide to prove to banks that he indeed needed these funds and that these investments could be recovered.

With these things in mind, and the fact that the empire itself has corresponding support policies for the field of internal combustion engines, especially after the launch of their industrial gas engines, many senior officials from the Ministry of Industry are keeping an eye on it.

In the end, with pressure from the top, policies from the middle, and mortgage from the bottom, Liaodong Finance Bank provided a low-interest loan of 30 yuan to Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company.

The interest rate of this loan is very low, much lower than normal commercial loans, and it is a policy-supported loan in the field of internal combustion engines.

With this low-interest loan of 30 yuan, coupled with Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company's years of accumulation, Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company quickly placed orders with dozens of suppliers and paid part of the money in advance.

At the same time, we found many equipment companies and ordered a large amount of new machinery and equipment.

At the same time, some of the original production lines were upgraded and refitted for preliminary gas machine production.

At the same time, they are recruiting people on a large scale. After all, to launch a large-scale new production line, the demand for skilled workers is still very large.

Although Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company itself has a large number of technical talents, these people were not idle before. They were engaged in the production of other business products, such as tractor chassis... This business is still owned by Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company. The most important business of the company cannot be said to be given up easily. It is not a matter of reluctance, but if it is not done now, then the liquidated damages for a large number of previous orders will have to go bankrupt.

In this way, although some talents can be mobilized, a large number of talents will also need to be recruited to supplement them. But now that they had a loan, they were not short of money for a while, so they recruited a large number of employees in one fell swoop.

The vast majority of them are naturally ordinary industrial workers, but a large number of mid-level and senior technical personnel will also be recruited.

While these things were proceeding in an orderly manner, the gas machine production line that was modified from other production lines in the old factory also rolled out the first mass-produced gas machine.

When this batch of gas machines officially came off the production line, they also held a roll-off ceremony. Not only the superior Northeast Machinery Corporation came to watch the ceremony, but even some senior local officials in Liaodong also came to participate in the ceremony.

This thing is of great significance. It is the first internal combustion engine that can be put into practical use. In the context of the era when the emperor Jinkou Yuyan proposed to massively support the development of internal combustion engines last year, Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company's mass-produced and practical gas engine The actual influence of the machine is actually very large.

The emergence of this gas engine can even be said to prove to the world the great potential of the internal combustion engine in the future, and the current research direction of internal combustion engines is correct.

Now that the gas engine has appeared, will other internal combustion engines be far behind in the future?

Even competitors Tangshan Machinery Company and Liaodong Machinery Company received great encouragement!
There is a lot of potential in the field of internal combustion engines!

As competitors, instead of losing confidence after being stimulated, they increased their investment in research and development, and the research and development area is not only gas engines, but also gasoline engines and diesel engines.

In particular, gasoline engines have received collective attention from Tangshan Machinery Company and Liaodong Machinery Company... In fact, Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company also attaches great importance to the research and development of gasoline engines.

After all, the use of gas engines has many limitations. The three major agricultural machinery companies have previously explored the use of internal combustion engines using other fuels, not only gasoline and diesel, but also kerosene.

However, with the rapid development of the domestic petroleum industry in the past two years, and the discovery that gasoline and diesel can be extracted on a large scale in industrial production, the three major agricultural machinery companies have all launched gasoline engine research and development projects.

For example, Liaodong Machinery Company has invested heavily in research and development in the field of gasoline engines.

The main reason is that their gas machines are too crappy, and they also know that they cannot compete with Hekou Machinery Company in the field of gas machines.

So they simply gave up on the research on gas generators early... This is also the reason why the results of the gas generator project they produced are still at the technical level of many years ago, because they have not invested any resources in the field of gas generators in the past two years.

They invested all their own resources and the internal combustion engine research and development funds allocated by the upper levels of the empire into the field of gasoline engines.

Gasoline engines have a lot in common with gas engines. Their ignition modes require an external ignition point for ignition, unlike diesel engines which rely on high pressure to ignite directly.

However, gasoline engines also have their own technical problems, that is, gasoline is a liquid... which is different from gas.

If gas is used as fuel, it can be directly mixed with air and then injected into the cylinder to ignite and perform work.

But if gasoline is used as fuel, it cannot be said that gasoline is injected into the cylinder, and liquid gasoline cannot be mixed with air.

Therefore, this also requires a step of vaporizing or atomizing the gasoline.

Gasification is too difficult, so there is no need to consider this thing.

Then the only option is atomization... How to atomize gasoline, and fully mix the atomized gasoline with air before igniting it. This is the main technical problem faced by Liaodong Machinery Company when it develops gasoline engines... However, Liaodong Machinery Company already has first-mover advantages in this field and their many exclusive technology accumulations.

The jet nozzles widely used in gas machines today were invented by them from the beginning. They can effectively mix gas and air, and then inject them into the cylinder at a high frequency.

This technical advantage also provides a lot of experience for the research and development of atomization injectors for gasoline engines.

If you pay attention to other technical issues, many of them have something in common with gas generators, and many technological achievements in the field of gas generators can also be used.

In addition, there is another big problem that is ignition... Logically speaking, electronic ignition is the best, but electronic ignition has been in the laboratory for many years, but due to the current domestic electrification level, it is still unable to get out of it. laboratory.

This good thing can only be viewed now, not used!
Open ignition does not have any technical content, but it is too simple, so it has many defects. Whether it is a gas engine or a gasoline engine, the compression ratio will be very low, the power provided will be very limited, and the thermal efficiency value will be very low. Low.

At present, the best choice is heat pipe ignition... This technology is not difficult and mass production is simple. At the same time, there are no problems such as low compression ratio and low thermal efficiency value of open ignition.

Of course, there are inherent flaws in reliability, but even so, this is the best choice at the moment.

But the problem is...this thing was developed by Hekou Machinery Company last year and registered a patent.

In fact, it was only after Hekou Machinery Company registered heat pipe ignition that other companies suddenly discovered that they could still do this...

The problem facing Liaodong Machinery Company today is that heat pipe ignition has been patented by Hekou Machinery Company, and everyone knows with their toes that it is impossible for Hekou Machinery Company to transfer this core patent.

Once this patent is transferred, Liaodong Machinery Company will be able to produce a new gas machine in minutes. In terms of performance, it is not much weaker than the gas machine of Hekou Machinery Company... This is equivalent to still transferring the patent, which is equivalent to adding an evenly matched competitor to itself.

No matter how stupid the management of Hekou Machinery Company is, they will never do this.

Therefore, Liaodong Machinery Company has only two methods. One is to conduct research and development directly, bypass the patent pool established by Hekou Machinery Company, and use other technical routes to develop its own heat pipe ignition.

The second is to exchange patents that the other party does not have but needs.

Just like when the three major agricultural machinery companies exchanged several core patents on gas engines with each other.

It's a pity that although their Liaodong Machinery Company has many patents, they don't have any indispensable core patents that the other party doesn't have... The atomizing fuel injector can be regarded as one, but they don't have one yet. Get it out.

There was no other way. Liaodong Machinery Company could only gather a large amount of personnel and funds to prepare for heat pipe ignition, trying to bypass the patent wall built by Hekou Machinery Company and develop its own heat pipe ignition patent.

But this road is not easy... The principle of heat pipe ignition is actually very simple. It is to make a semi-closed iron pipe, then use a heat source to heat the protruding iron pipe part, and use the heated iron pipe to ignite the mixed combustible gas or gas in the cylinder. Atomized fuel.

This principle cannot be registered by the other party. What Hekou Machinery Company can register is the implementation method... But Hekou Machinery Company is not stupid. When they registered the patent, they registered dozens of similar heat pipe ignitions in one go. As for patents, new patents will be submitted from time to time.

This is why it is said that heat pipe ignition has formed a patent wall... The patents held by people are not just one or two, but hundreds of...

It is not easy for latecomers to get around it... How can I put it, the principle is already there, and the implementation methods you can think of now, other technical staff have already thought of it last year...

For the technicians of Liaodong Machinery Company, what they have to do is not to develop some heat pipe ignition. This thing itself is actually not technically difficult, and the principle is very simple... What they have to do is actually find the R&D personnel of Hekou Machinery Company who have not done it before. I have thought of a certain method of realizing heat pipe ignition.

Of course it's not easy, but no matter how difficult it is, it has to be done...otherwise they won't have a heat pipe for ignition, let alone a gasoline engine or a gas engine.

Liaodong Machinery Company is obsessed with heat pipe ignition, and when they want to bypass the patent wall, the three major agricultural machinery companies, or Tangshan Machinery Company, one of the three major internal combustion engine companies, continue to be obsessed with their electronic ignition!
This company is a provincial enterprise directly affiliated with the Hebei Governor's Industrial Department. It has huge technical advantages in the field of electronic ignition. They developed this thing themselves at the beginning, but later exchanged technology with two other agricultural machinery companies. , so the three major agricultural machinery companies all have electronic ignition patents.

However, although Liaodong Hekou Machinery Company and Liaodong Machinery Company have relevant electronic ignition patent authorizations, having a patent is one thing, and whether they can do it well is another matter.

At least these two companies are still unable to make a practical electronic ignition device... they can't even get out of the laboratory.

But Tangshan Machinery Company is different. They have very deep technology in this field and have been studying it for many years.

(End of this chapter)