industrial overlord

Chapter 445 Gas Turbines
Lin Zhenhua stayed in Luzhong Machine Tool Factory for two days and inspected the situation in the factory.Later, Zhang Yihua, a steam turbine expert, also rushed over from Xunyang. Ma Shengfan sent a car for the two of them and took them to Weihai, where Liu Xianghai was waiting for them at the naval base.

Since accepting the position of commander-in-chief of the 998 project, Liu Xianghai has become busier.An aircraft carrier project involves as many as hundreds of fields, and he needs to understand everything in each field in order to coordinate resources and ensure the balanced development of all parts.In the past year or so, Liu Xianghai traveled non-stop to more than a dozen provinces and regions in China, visiting hundreds of enterprises and scientific research institutes.

Last year, in order to introduce talents from the former Soviet Union, Liu Xianghai squeezed out more than two months to travel to Russia with Lin Zhenhua and Chen Tian.Since returning from Russia, Lin Zhenhua hasn't seen Liu Xianghai for more than half a year.

This time, Liu Xianghai went to the Weihai base to visit the experts who had just come to work from Russia, and at the same time asked Lin Zhenhua to meet him at the base.Lin Zhenhua knew that Liu Xianghai's meeting with him was of course not to chat and reminisce, but to discuss some important matters related to the construction of the aircraft carrier.

Lin Zhenhua and the others came to the gate of the naval base in the jeep. Before Lin Zhenhua got out of the car to negotiate with the sentry, a young naval officer ran towards him, carrying two bars of three stars on his shoulders, which was particularly eye-catching.He ran in front of Lin Zhenhua, saluted a standard military salute, and shouted, "Manager Lin, hello!"

Lin Zhenhua was stunned for a moment, and when he saw the other person's face clearly, he quickly stepped forward and took his hand and laughed: "Who did I say, it turned out to be Baoxing! No, no, I should call you... Colonel Wang?"

Wang Baoxing waved his hands repeatedly and said, "Manager Lin, stop joking with me. In front of you, I will always be a small soldier."

At this time, Zhang Yihua also got out of the car and came in front of the two of them.Lin Zhenhua introduced them to each other, Zhang Yihua widened his eyes and asked, "No way, Colonel Wang, you look like you are in your early 30s, so you are actually a colonel?"

Zhang Yihua is engaged in aviation and has a lot of connections with the military.He knew that it was not easy for a colonel in his early 30s. Generally, only those who had made great achievements could be promoted so quickly.

Wang Baoxing blushed. He didn't know whether it was shyness or pride. He explained: "I was promoted out of the ordinary, mainly to commend my little contribution in the South China Sea battle."

"Zhang Gong, you don't know yet. Five years ago, when Bao Xing was serving in the South China Sea Fleet, he was caught up with the Sino-Vietnamese sand and sea battle. Bao Xing was the combat staff officer who led the soldiers to retake the Red Rock Reef from the Vietnamese invaders." " Lin Zhenhua introduced to Zhang Yihua with a smile.

"It's amazing, it's amazing." Zhang Yihua praised with his thumb raised.China has not fought a war for many years, and there are very few soldiers who have participated in the war.Soldiers like Wang Baoxing who have made meritorious service by participating in the war are indeed very commendable.

Wang Baoxing was a little proud of being praised by Zhang Yihua, but he knew that Lin Zhenhua was Liu Xianghai's guest, and even Zhang Zhifang's guest of equipment minister, so he still tried to keep a low profile in front of Lin Zhenhua.

"Manager Lin, Engineer Zhang, I'm here to meet you under the order of Vice President Liu. Please come with me." Wang Baoxing said.

Lin Zhenhua smiled and said, "You Vice President Liu is really bureaucratic. You actually sent a colonel to pick us up. How can we afford it?"

Wang Baoxing said: "Actually, Vice President Liu arranged for Xiao Ke and the others to pick you up. I happened to be there. I heard that you were here, so I took the initiative to ask to come out to pick you up. I remember that Manager Lin came to Shanghai for the first time. When I went, I was the one who picked you up at the train station. At that time, Manager Lin taught me a lot, and I still benefit a lot from it."

"Did I teach you?" Lin Zhenhua scratched his scalp, really couldn't remember what he had said to Wang Baoxing.

In fact, Wang Baoxing's words are just a kind of well-behaved show of favor. It doesn't matter what Lin Zhenhua said. The important thing is that he, Wang Baoxing, can always put himself in the right place. Ordinary guard fighters.

Lin Zhenhua let the jeep that sent him back to Luzhong the same way, and he and Zhang Yihua got into the jeep driven by Wang Baoxing and drove towards the interior of the base.Along the way, Lin Zhenhua asked Wang Baoxing about his experience in these years. Wang Baoxing briefly introduced: "After the Nansha naval battle, I was promoted to be the deputy captain of the frigate brigade, and later sent to the pilot captain class to study. After graduation, I worked in the A detachment detachment served as the deputy captain. This time, the army arranged for me to study with Russian experts at the Weihai base, and it is estimated that I will stay for one or two years. Therefore, I am now a student."

"Learn from Russian experts?" Lin Zhenhua had a flash of thought, and asked with a smile: "Bao Xing, the leader's intention is not to let you work on an aircraft carrier in the future, right?"

Wang Baoxing smiled innocently, and said: "This is something that the army leaders consider. I am a soldier, and I just need to obey the orders and follow the instructions."

Wang Baoxing's answer was actually a kind of tacit consent.He was originally a guard soldier in the Naval Research Institute, and later went to the military academy to study, belonging to the educated generation of soldiers.After making meritorious service in Nansha, the navy first sent him to the pilot and captain class to study, and now let him go to the Weihai base to learn from Russian experts of the 998 project. The intention should be very obvious.China started to build an aircraft carrier two years ago. According to the fastest progress, it will take more than ten years to complete. At that time, Wang Baoxing will be in his 40s and in the prime of life. He is the best candidate to be the captain of an aircraft carrier.

"Bao Xing, not bad." Lin Zhenhua looked at Wang Bao Xing with admiration. Now he can no longer treat Wang Bao Xing as a little soldier. He is the future captain of an aircraft carrier.

Everyone talked and laughed and came to a villa facing the sea. According to Wang Baoxing, this is the residence of Tuchinov and his wife Liusha in Weihai.Liu Xianghai and Tuchinov had already been notified, and they were standing in front of the villa waiting for them. Beside Turchinov, there was another Russian, who seemed to be a great man.

Wang Baoxing stopped the car in front of the villa, quickly ran over to help Lin Zhenhua and Zhang Yihua open the car door, took them out of the car, and brought them to Liu Xianghai.Then, he saluted Liu Xianghai and said, "Vice President Liu, I have brought Manager Lin and Mr. Zhang here. Do you have any instructions?"

Liu Xianghai returned a military salute and said, "It's nothing, Baoxing, thank you, you can go to rest."

"Yes!" Wang Baoxing saluted again, turned around and drove away.He knew that Liu Xianghai, Lin Zhenhua and others had important matters to discuss, and these matters were not his concern.

"Xiao Lin, Zhang Gong, have you worked hard all the way? Let's go and talk in the room." Liu Xianghai said to Lin Zhenhua and Zhang Yihua.

Zhang Yihua and Liu Xianghai are about the same age and experience, but Liu Xianghai is engaged in naval equipment, while Zhang Yihua is engaged in air force equipment.The two have dealt with each other in the past, so they are quite familiar with each other.Hearing Liu Xianghai's words, Zhang Yihua pointed to the beach with a smile, and said, "Vice President Liu, with such a beautiful beach, is it too wasteful for us to discuss things in the house? I suggest, let's get some stools." , just sit on the beach and talk."

"I agree." Tuchinov raised a hand and said in awkward Chinese.Just now, Lin Zhenhua translated Zhang Yihua's words into English and told Tuchinov. Tuchinov agreed with the suggestion of sitting on the beach and talking about things.

In the base, there is no need to worry about finding people to work.Liu Xianghai just nodded, and several security guards swiftly brought deck chairs, small tea tables, parasols and other items, and arranged them one by one on the beach in front of the villa. They also quickly made a pot of tea and put them on Some fruit and snacks.After finishing these things, these guards and soldiers consciously retreated to a distance, so as not to interfere with the conversation of the chiefs.

"Old Liu, I say you are corrupt enough now." Lin Zhenhua sat on the recliner carelessly, sipping tea while joking with Liu Xianghai.Tuchinov and the others had already sat down on the deck chairs, enjoying the cool sea breeze on the beach.

Liu Xianghai said with a smile: "These conditions are all arranged for Comrades Tuchinov and Bles. They came here from Russia to work. We should take good care of them."

"Bles? Is he Bles?" Zhang Yihua turned his head to look at the Russian beside Tuchinov, and suddenly spoke to him in Russian, with a look of excitement.

The Russian named Bryce was slightly taken aback, and also started chatting with Zhang Yihua.The two chatted for a short while, and then they looked very familiar, shook hands with each other, and laughed.Tuchinov listened to the conversation between the two of them, interjecting a few words from time to time, and the chat was very lively.

"Why, old Liu, this is..." Lin Zhenhua asked Liu Xianghai strangely.

Liu Xianghai introduced: "This Comrade Bryce was introduced by Tuchinov. He used to work in a Ukrainian shipyard and was an expert in gas turbines. This time, I specifically ask you to bring Lao Zhang here. I just want the two of them to get to know each other, and there will be many opportunities for them to cooperate in the future."

"Gas turbine? This is a good thing." Lin Zhenhua praised.

The so-called gas turbine is also a kind of engine.Its working principle is to suck air from the air intake of the engine, use the blades to compress it and heat it up, and then inject combustible gas into it to ignite and burn.The high-temperature and high-pressure gas generated after combustion pushes the blades of each stage to do work, thereby converting heat energy into mechanical energy.The traditional revolving lantern in ancient China is the prototype of the gas turbine.

Prior to this, Hanhua Heavy Industries developed industrial steam turbines to power 45 tons of ethylene compressors.The principle of an industrial steam turbine is to use a boiler to boil water to generate water vapor, then send the water vapor into the engine, and use the water vapor to push the blades to do work.The technical difficulty of the steam turbine is less than that of the gas turbine, but the thermal efficiency is low because water is used as the medium to transfer heat energy.

Zhang Yihua is the chief engineer of the steam turbine project of Hanhua Heavy Industry, but his original major is in aero-engines. "Aviator".Bryce is a famous gas turbine expert in Russia. Zhang Yihua is no stranger to his name, but he has never met him.At this time, when Liu Xianghai introduced Blaise's name, Zhang Yihua was naturally very excited, and directly communicated with Blaise.

As soon as the expert stretches out his hand, he will know if there is one.Although Zhang Yihua is not as well-known as Blaise, he has been immersed in the field of gas turbines for many years after all. A few words can make Blaise look at him differently.The two fell in love with each other, and immediately became friends who talked about everything.

Hearing this situation, Lin Zhenhua roughly understood the reason why Liu Xianghai invited himself to come, and he tentatively asked: "Why, old Liu, are you going to recruit our old Zhang to build gas turbines?"

"Why, reluctant?" Liu Xianghai asked back.

Lin Zhenhua nodded and said: "Yes, I am really reluctant. Our industrial steam turbine has just been put into production, and there are still many technical problems to be solved in the future. Lao Zhang is an expert in this field. If he is poached by you, my product will be almost the same It’s half off. Industrial steam turbines are a huge market. Just for the ethylene project, an output value of hundreds of millions can be produced a year. If this project cannot be completed, it will be a great loss for Hanhua Heavy Industries. The localization of our country's ethylene plant will also bring difficulties."

Liu Xianghai pretended to be angry and said, "You Xiaolin, I thought you would persuade the country to need it. Think about it, is it important for the country to build aircraft carriers, or is it important for you Hanhua Heavy Industries to make money?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "Vice President Liu, the country should be reasonable, right? When Lao Zhang and the others were idle because of the discontinuation of the Yunshi project, why didn't you dig him in? Now I finally found him a man who can play himself Expert platform, you are taking the country’s needs to snatch people, is there any reason? Besides, Hanhua Heavy Industries’ industrial steam turbines are also serving the country. You know, the localization of ethylene is also a national key project. "

Given the friendship between Lin Zhenhua and Liu Xianghai, it is naturally impossible for him to be really angry with Liu Xianghai, but if Liu Xianghai insists on poaching Zhang Yihua away, Lin Zhenhua must have a lump in his heart.He's a man of the bigger picture, but that doesn't mean he obeys unconditionally.In his opinion, many things can be done in another way. If Zhang Yihua stays in Hanhua Heavy Industries, why can't he engage in gas turbines?

Liu Xianghai laughed: "Xiao Lin, don't worry, I won't snatch your precious lump. This time, I invite you to come here to discuss with you whether it is possible to expand your industrial steam turbine project department to include gas turbines." Research and development work. We are now in great need of domestic gas turbines, which is also a major project of our 998 project. If you are interested in undertaking it, we can entrust you to develop it."

"This is a good thing!" Hearing this, Lin Zhenhua immediately regained his spirits, "Old Liu, is what you said true?"

Both steam turbines and gas turbines are prime movers, and their fields of use have a lot of overlap.For example, most of the prime movers used in ethylene projects are steam turbines, but Zhang Yihua once introduced to Lin Zhenhua that it is also possible to replace them with gas turbines, which have many advantages such as high efficiency, fast starting speed, and small size.

The price and profit of gas turbines are much higher than those of steam turbines, which is what makes Lin Zhenhua's heart beat.However, in order to develop gas turbines, there are far more technical obstacles to be overcome than steam turbines, so Lin Zhenhua has been unable to make up his mind to start developing gas turbines.

Now, the navy is going to develop gas turbines, and Liu Xianghai has made it clear that he hopes to do it together with Hanhua Heavy Industries. This is a great opportunity.With the support of the navy, there is a certain guarantee in terms of technology, capital, and future product markets. Lin Zhenhua is not willing to miss such an opportunity.It occurred to him at once that the current steam turbine business department could be upgraded to a steam turbine company immediately, with a complete team, and fully devoted to the research and development and production of steam turbines and gas turbines.

"We are still in the stage of domestic bidding. There are several steam turbine companies in China. We have contacted them. Some of them have insufficient technical reserves, and some of them are currently full of steam turbine production tasks and have no interest in developing new products. Therefore, I thought of you, I remember you once talked to me about gas turbines." Liu Xianghai said frankly.

According to what he said, he should have found several other steam turbine companies first, and only thought of Lin Zhenhua after hitting a wall.However, Lin Zhenhua has no objection to this. After all, Hanhua is only just getting started in the field of steam turbines, and the only one that can do it is Zhang Yihua. The accumulation of other aspects is far inferior to that of several old domestic companies of the same kind.

"Yeah, the main reason is that Lao Zhang was born in gas turbines, so I have been thinking about gas turbines. But, I remember you said that you want to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier? Nuclear power should not use gas turbines. Right?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Liu Xianghai pointed to Tuchinov and said: "This is mainly a suggestion made by Tuchinov after he came. He believes that we should not go directly to the 10-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in one step, but should first build A 5 to 7-ton conventionally powered aircraft carrier can accumulate experience as soon as possible. After fully seeking the opinions of the troops and discussing it many times, we decided to follow Tuchinov’s suggestion and do it first. Conventional power, then nuclear power. If you want conventional power, you must use gas turbines. In addition, the navy is still developing and designing new destroyers and frigates. If possible, gas turbines should also be used for power.”

"We are under a lot of pressure." Lin Zhenhua said half-jokingly and half-seriously.Isn't that right? The aircraft carrier is the most important weapon of the country. For such an important project, one of the important components is handed over to Hanhua Heavy Industry to complete. This is no joke.If no suitable product can be produced in the end, or the quality of the product is not up to standard, it will affect matters at the national strategic level.

Liu Xianghai said: "It doesn't matter, we will follow up the progress of the project at any time. Bryce is a very experienced gas turbine expert, and he will be a member of your Hanhua gas turbine research team in the future. I believe that with his participation , coupled with Lao Zhang’s rich experience, by the way, and your organization and coordination ability of Xiaolin, you will definitely be able to complete the research and development of gas turbines.”

Liu Xianghai still didn't say a word. In fact, the timetable given by the Naval Equipment Department for the localization of gas turbines is very loose, with almost 20 years left.Prior to this, China will import gas turbines to solve the power problem of warships. In this regard, the Navy and Ukraine have initialed an agreement that Ukraine will export much-needed gas turbines to China.

"You mean, Blaise will be ours in the future?" Lin Zhenhua asked, his face did not show the joy that Liu Xianghai expected, but a little more worried: "Old Liu, does this mean that So our gas turbine project is designed for the Navy and cannot be used in other fields?"

Liu Xianghai froze for a moment, and asked, "What other fields do you plan to use?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "There are many fields that can be applied. Our old business, the field of chemical equipment, can also use gas turbines. In addition, there is another important field that is electricity. Using gas turbines as the power of thermal power units has become the world's It is an advanced trend. If we can make a breakthrough in gas turbine technology, we want to get involved in these fields."

Liu Xianghai hadn't thought about these things before. Hearing what Lin Zhenhua said, he felt a little unexpected and reasonable.Liu Xianghai is a member of the military industry system, and his considerations have always been limited to the military industry system.But Lin Zhenhua is a businessman, and he always thinks about how to apply technology to the market.

Prior to this, the propulsion research institute led by Liu Xianghai developed a water jet propulsion system. Lin Zhenhua quickly saw the business opportunity and co-founded a propulsion company with the propulsion institute. It has already been launched, and the market prospect is extremely attractive.

Now, Liu Xianghai has given Lin Zhenhua an opportunity to develop gas turbines. It is entirely conceivable that Lin Zhenhua wants to apply this technology to the market.

"Old Liu, your military industry department needs to change its concept and cannot always work behind closed doors. It is a common practice in all countries in the world to transfer military technology to civilian use. Only in this way can military scientific research be continuously supplemented with funds, thereby promoting scientific research activities to go deeper. .” Lin Zhenhua began to brainwash Liu Xianghai.

Liu Xianghai nodded: "Xiao Lin, there is some truth to what you said. I remember that you mentioned this kind of thought to me in the past. Well, I will apply to the equipment department again for this question, and how to cooperate specifically , we can talk again."

　This period of work is busy, and I have been interrupted for two days this week.Stay up until midnight tonight, code out 6000 words, and express your regret.It's almost the end of the month, everyone has extra monthly tickets to help vote for a few.

　　
　
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