Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 74 Power Station

South of Garland Island.

Compared with other places on Gloria Island, the terrain here is a bit steeper, and it is not as covered with grass as other places.

This is a hilly area covered with jagged and strange rocks, highlighting the uncanny workmanship of nature everywhere.If the economy develops, perhaps this place can be developed into a tourist attraction.

Unfortunately, compared to the natural scenery, what is more important to the Huangjiang River is the development of Jialan Island.The AC power station project led by Nikola is undoubtedly a top priority.

The day after sending Gibran away, Huang Jiang came here on foot with Lexington.It's not like he hasn't considered raising two horses like other deacons, and then buying a bright carriage, like Andersen's white carriage with cloud patterns and glyphs.After all, asking visiting guests to visit on foot really makes people doubt their sincerity.

But Huang Jiang's heart is still looking forward to four-wheel vehicles powered by internal combustion engines.The current technology of the Federation is enough to point out such technology, but no one has thought of it.

It may also be because most of the federal land is related to islands, and people's demand for convenient personal transportation is not that strong.However, he believes that as long as this kind of iron horse that only needs oil appears, the people of the Federation will still like to buy it.

Private carriages only belong to the wealthy and ruling classes, but under industrialization, private cars where every part can be produced on a production line are enough for most of the middle class to afford them.

Huangjiang walks on a narrow path.A steam train track connects here from Beigang.Since the sea environment near Jialan Island did not meet the requirements for tidal power generation, Huangjiang asked Nikolai to improve and build a coal power station.

Nikolai is indeed a rare technical genius. He made relatively crude boiler and steam turbine prototypes by improving existing old equipment.

After a long distance, Huang Jiang saw the chimneys and cooling towers being built.The original design height of the chimney was only tens of meters, but because of Huang Jiang's insistence, the height of the chimney was increased to more than 120 meters.The cooling tower is much shorter than the chimney and has a hyperbolic shape. As the two most obvious landmarks of the thermal power plant, the cooling tower is always mistaken for a special chimney. In the era of Huangjiang's environmental awareness, it is often It will be misunderstood every time, and the white mist it removes will be discarded as exceeding the standard. In fact, it is just water vapor condensed into fine water droplets.

The power station is still some time away from its official operation. After all, it will take some time to convince the islanders to use electricity. Their ancestors have spent countless nights under the brilliance of the flames for generations.Huang Jiang came here this time to watch the trial operation of the alternator unit.

"A small power device that uses petroleum as energy?" Nikolai listened to Huang Jiang's general idea of ​​an internal combustion engine and asked, "Petroleum cannot be used directly as fuel. There are many distillation products of it. Which one are you talking about?" kind?"

"Below 300 degrees Celsius?" Huang Jiang didn't remember the distillation temperature range of gasoline. He had already given back the knowledge he didn't know about high school chemistry to his chemistry teacher.

"The by-products of kerosene?" Thors said with great interest. "As far as I know, they are flammable, explosive, and extremely unstable, so they cannot be used as a stable lighting fuel, so they are generally treated as waste by oil refineries." deal with."

"Huh? You seem to know a lot about the oil refining process." Huang Jiang said.

"I lost all my fortune on the wharf of Sunflower Island and worked for a while at the nearby refinery. You must know the name of the owner of the refinery, Rockefeller. He had just founded it when I entered The first oil refinery, you don’t know, it was almost bankrupt at the time.” Towers proudly showed off his experience, “Later, he was invited by the then Sunflower Collar Railway King to discuss some utilization. The railway transports kerosene. I was his coachman at the time. Because of drinking, I damaged the carriage and made him miss the train. I was afraid of his revenge, so I ran away overnight. "

Thors had a nostalgic expression on his face.Huang Jiang's eyelids jumped. He really didn't know what magical things this former sailor had experienced.

"I don't know much about engines. Most of my research is in the electromagnetic direction. I still recommend that you find a professional. I know that Mr. Emerson has a team responsible for the research of new power engines." Nico Ra said.

Thors seemed to have thought of something, lying on Nikolai's metal ball, and said to Huang Jiang: "Deacon Mark, since you are very interested in this small device, I can recommend a friend of mine to you, his name is Daimler, this guy recently had a falling out with his partner, and he even wrote to me a few days ago. This guy made this kind of thing, what is it called a four-stroke engine? It seems to be his partner Otto's The two of them had a falling out because of the size of the project."

When Thors mentioned Dalem, he immediately started talking.But this is not because Thors has a good relationship with this friend. He does this every time he mentions a friend, and he knows their past very well.

To be honest, Huang Jiang thinks Thors is a weirdo. His memory is not outstanding among the crowd, but he can always remember the things of those who have interacted with him. No matter how long it has been, he can Countless treasures.

"He is now soliciting investment, and I believe he is happy to have a deacon participate in their project." Towers patted his chest and confirmed.

Huang Jiang agreed with Thors with the idea that he would rather believe it.

He looked down at the equipment in Nikolai's laboratory: "These are the equipment you said? Used to prove the safety of alternating current?"

"Yes!" Nicholas proudly touched a huge coil, "High frequency and high voltage can create a dazzling arc, but the current is extremely low and does not cause much harm to the human body. At most, it only strikes in the direction of the arc. Local burns occur."

Nicholas said, touching the coil, his eyes were full of strange light.It seemed as if all his dreams were contained in it, and it was like looking at his newborn child.In the near future, he will perform for the first time in front of the people of Gloria Island, starting his journey to prove AC.

Huang Jiang interrupted Nikolai's thoughts. He looked at the huge AC generator set outside the window and took a deep breath:

"let's start!"

Nicholas nodded and pressed rows of switches in front of the console.The first thing to turn on is the water flow switch, then the boiler and steam turbine.

Coal burns water into steam in the boiler, and the scorching steam will hit the impeller through the pipe, driving the coil to rotate.

With the roar of the unit, after passing through the transformer, the current was introduced into the circuit placed on the plain, and the light bulb placed on the ground was lit with attention.

An artificial glow illuminates South Kelland in the evening.

(End of this chapter)