A group of irregular cubes, the shape of which can be roughly thought of as a human heart, but also like a pile of old tree roots, with ferocious red copper pipes coiled on it. As a steam power assembly, it is said to be small.
It is a super vapor compression device, but its volume is close to the size of two adults. It is very compact in design, and the dense hoses have been fixed. The length of each one has its actual meaning and is not obtained randomly.
Numbers. The machinist has calculated them using a difference machine, trying to eliminate errors caused by repairs as much as possible.
The above parts cannot be replaced at will. Just like precision meshing gears, small errors will accumulate fatigue values on the entire mechanical body through countless wear and tear. When the endurance limit reaches the moment, it suddenly breaks out.
This is also the reason why super vapor compression devices are difficult to copy, or cannot be copied. They have a place in the foundation of imperial rule. The design, materials, processes, assembly, and debugging technologies have all gone through a long period of time.
Accumulation, and the dedication of generations of research.
"Before I saw this thing, I thought it would be a very regular object." Sotagang looked at the compression device above his head, sighed and said to Cassia, "There are broken parts, and the performance is greatly improved."
loss, but the power provided can still be equivalent to dozens of tanks. And in conjunction with the program set in the difference engine, the small super vapor compression device can do many things that ordinary compression devices cannot." p>
While talking, the aviation crane has moved the compression device to the fixed platform and is gradually lowering the height. Several engineers are manually aligning the fixed device on the platform.
With a muffled sound of "dong", the super vapor compression device completely matched with the hinge on the fixed platform. The sound of collision still surrounded the spacious factory building, and it still had a considerable weight despite its small size.
At this time, the technical engineers began to loosen the plug on the compression device, revealing a dozen dark holes.
These are the channels for steam to enter and exit, through the high-pressure tank of the compression device, the main body of the control valve, and the condenser and heating ring on the armor body, and then through the cooperation of various valve bodies, a complete power cycle is completed.
Complete cycle. Except for the compression device body, other components are now replaced by equipment in the factory to simulate the self-circulation system on the armor to test the performance of these devices.
Several technical engineers are now clamping the control pipelines and cables, and the sensors used to obtain relevant test data will be fixed at the end. They are all skilled veterans, and their rich experience makes the preparations before debugging go extremely smoothly.
Finally, as an engineer first opened the main steam delivery valve of the hydraulic system pump body, amidst the whirring sound of the blade-shaped hydraulic pump, the bright piston rod stretched out, driving the movable connecting rod to operate, and one side was clamped and installed on the compression
The tensioning block on the device also resists the compression device from behind.
Then via the calibrated ground track, a large trumpet-like injection restriction cover was pushed over and accurately connected with the main steam delivery port on the compression device. The technical engineers fixed both of them and started again from start to finish.
After checking it again, the time has also changed from nine o'clock to about eleven o'clock.
The other three compression devices also arrived at the factory during this period. The manpower was obviously not enough, so in the end Sotagang and Cassia also went to help. In actual operation, the two of them may not be as good as those technical engineers, but in theory
The knowledge is roughly the same. Although the basics of various mechanical drawings are the same, with the flexible body and huge strength, the progress of installation and fixation has indeed been accelerated.
After all five huge speaker covers were tightened twice, at 4 p.m., the fixing work was finally completed.
Sotagang evacuated the people around him, and several baffles almost as high as the factory building were placed not far from the horn cover to block the turbulent steam flow ejected at high speed. Above this space, ten
The huge hose was also pulled over by the aircraft crane, and dozens of shower heads with sufficient spray volume were installed on it. The test will officially start after a while, so that the cold water inside can fall down and quickly condense the massive amounts of steam to prevent them from dissipating too much from the factory building.
Go out and expose the target. Use baffles to enclose a large circle on the ground to collect water and enhance the effect of absorbing steam.
"Is the pressure enough?" Cassia looked around. All the precautions that should be paid attention to were taken. The possibility of problems is not very high. She was just worried that the factory's steam delivery volume was not enough and she could not touch the super steam.
The limit of the compression device. After all, it is no bigger than the steam engine of an ordinary truck, and it drives a battle armor body whose weight is measured in tonnage. All the moving parts on it must rely on the steam it delivers to operate.
"No problem. The steam pressure and volume here can drive dozens of medium and large machines. If the subsequent pressure and output are not enough, we can also temporarily apply for a steam discharge tower to increase our output here. When this factory first introduced steam,
The red copper pipes designed and purchased have never reached its limit. The worst result is that you have to pay more money to the steam emission tower. The emissions tower managers will not have a great appetite for the products of the Three Primary Color Group.
." With a smile on his face, Sotagang looked at Cassia, "We will see the true power of this thing in a moment. Based on its performance, maybe we can also make a rough estimate of the combat capabilities of the armor.
estimate."
Cassia and Sotagang all evacuated the area designated by the test. The technical engineers started the differential engine that controlled the fixed platform. After the test data was determined to be within the safe range, they pressed down the main steam pipeline of the factory.
The safety lever began to open the main control valve step by step. The sound of the air rumbling mixed in the pipe, penetrated the thick pipe wall, and turned into a muffled sound that hit a group of observers.
Ten seconds later, the main shaft of the steam turbine in the super vapor compression device began to rotate driven by several series of blades. The blades impacted by the high-temperature and high-pressure steam squealed, and the main shaft was accelerated to a terrifying state in a short moment. Horn.
The steam on the cover changed from falling to spraying, just like the triangle combination searchlight on the head of a heavy train at night. In the eyes of Cassia and the others, the milky white steam completely became a solid solid, with an extremely delicate and fine surface.
Only by looking closely can you see that it is the visual effect caused by the rapid flow of steam.
The baffles more than ten meters away screamed in response to the impact. The surroundings of the fixed platform were now covered in steam. They were stacked layer by layer like smoke, but they had a visual weight, billowing hard toward the top of the factory. p>
The water pipes on the crane began to fill with water, and a man-made rainstorm fell. The water droplets seemed to hit real objects, breaking through the layers of steam mist, barely suppressing them in the factory space.
Now, apart from the sounds of various mechanical rotations and vibrations, only the continuous flashing red lights next to the differential engine can show the actual conditions of the machines inside the steam-wrapped interior.
Sotagang looked at the rapidly advancing gears, and the numbers on them were rising steadily as expected. He finally breathed a sigh of relief, and all that was left was time to wait.