After Huang Junjie, Zhang Haifeng and others exchanged a few words, they were sent to the laboratory area of the space station.
"Qingsong, where in the north are you from?" Huang Haojie chatted with Liao Qingsong, who was leading the way.
"I'm from Luoyang."
"Didn't you go home during the Spring Festival? Do you miss your family?"
"The network signal of the space station is very good. I often use holographic communication with my family, just like at home."
"Is there anything inconvenient about living on the space station?"
Liao Qingsong thought for a while and said with some embarrassment: "It's a little inconvenient to go to the toilet."
"Haha, what's the point of being embarrassed? You have to raise this issue to the Universe Development Committee and let them find a way to solve it." Huang Haojie said with a smile.
"We have reported this matter to the Space Development Committee."
While chatting, the two of them unknowingly arrived at the laboratory area.
"Okay, Qingsong, go back and do your own business!"
"Chairman, if you need anything, just call me. I'll leave first." After saying that, Liao Qingsong lightly pushed the bulkhead and floated forward.
Huang Junjie knocked on the cabin door and entered the password.
Phew! The airtight hatch slowly opened.
This cabin is the comprehensive cabin among the 14 laboratory cabins in the upper area. It is mainly used for scientific researchers to rest, discuss, and hold meetings.
The entire New Kaohsiung Space Station is divided into three floors. The upper floor has 17 cabins, which are laboratory areas; the middle floor has 32 cabins, which are general control, energy, living, and material storage areas; and the lower floor has 17 cabins, which are fuel reserves, spacecraft maintenance, and
Material reserve and supply area.
The new Kaohsiung Space Station looks like a double-topped top, with the six top corners forming a rugby shape, which is to facilitate the protection of the condensed matter shield generator.
The tops of the upper and lower floors are electromagnetic field generators, which are set up to isolate some cosmic rays. As for why not use shield generators with more powerful isolation effects.
The main problem is energy. Before the nuclear fusion reactor was equipped with the space station, they could only save a little bit of energy. The energy-consuming shield generator would consume all the reserve power of the space station within an hour of being turned on. This kind of thing
It is used at critical moments.
At this time, in Comprehensive Module No. 52, two researchers were discussing something, and suddenly the airtight hatch was opened.
"Chairman." The two people reacted instantly and greeted quickly.
"You're welcome, I just came to see how your experiments are going."
"We are very happy that the chairman can come over, but outer space is not very safe after all, so we are a little worried." The bald researcher in his forties persuaded.
Huang Junjie glanced at his nameplate [Materials-Senior-Ye Haisheng], and the other younger researcher was [Materials-Senior-Hu].
"Don't worry, my body is a stand-in robot." Huang Junjie explained.
"Stand-in robot?" The two of them observed carefully, but still found no flaws.
Click, Huang Junjie took off his palm, exposed some electronic components inside, and put it back again.
"It's unbelievable. It's exactly the same as a real person. Without special testing equipment, it would be fake and real." Hu raised his glasses and said.
"Okay, let's not discuss this. What project are you currently working on?" Huang Junjie asked, changing the subject.
Ye Haisheng quickly reported: "Hu and I are working on material properties in microgravity environments, while Huang Jincai and Dong Fei from another group are working on the vacuum smelting project, and Dr. Li Nan from the Institute of Life Research is working on the space disease project."
"I see, which cabin is the vacuum smelting laboratory?" Huang Junjie asked.
"Cabins 57, 58, and 59 are all within the scope of the vacuum smelting laboratory. I'll ask Jin Cai and Dong Fei to come over." Ye Haisheng said and prepared to pick up the communicator.
Huang Junjie stopped him: "No, I'll just take a look at their experimental videos and information here. Don't disturb them."
"OK."
Huang Haojie logged into the laboratory internal network of the New Kaohsiung Space Station and looked through the space smelting research of Huang Jincai and Dong Fei's team.
Judging from these internal experimental data, the problem of space smelting lies in the problem of vacuum heat dissipation. Once the furnace is mass-produced, heat accumulation is unavoidable.
In outer space, spacecraft generally use radiation heat dissipation panels to dissipate heat. The space stations we often see have a lot of solar panels on them, but have you ever found that in addition to black solar panels, there are some that are similar to solar panels?
silver white plate.
These silver-white panels are radiation heat dissipation panels, and artificial satellites achieve the heat dissipation effect through their own special design.
Watch the video of the experiment between Dong Fei and Dong Fei. Inside a sealed electric furnace, the ore collected from Iron Star 1 was put into the electric furnace.
The powerful electric furnace only took about fifteen minutes for the ore to melt, but the equipment responsible for monitoring the temperature quickly alerted the furnace that the temperature was rising rapidly.
This is the phenomenon of heat accumulation, and the experiment was forced to be suspended. The only time they successfully smelted it was by reducing the power of the electric furnace, slowly melting the ore, and quickly dissipating heat through the radiation heat sink.
The problem is that this method not only smelts very slowly, but also consumes a lot of energy, which is equivalent to about 3 to 4 times the energy consumed by smelting on the Blue Star ground. This is simply not worth the gain.
Huang Junjie looked through their experimental data for a long time and found that they had tried many methods, but vacuum heat dissipation was too difficult, and the experimental results were quite unsatisfactory.
Turning off the holographic computer, he floated in mid-air while thinking.
Suddenly he thought of a method, and after some flipping, Huang Junjie opened the holographic bracelet and redesigned an electric furnace plan with the help of Zhong.
[Thermoelectric Self-Cycling Electric Furnace] This is the name of this plan. His idea is to add a thermoelectric system to the electric furnace to use the heat that is difficult to dissipate to generate electricity, and then put the electricity produced by these thermoelectric systems back into the electricity.
The furnace is at work.
However, there is a premise for this plan. There must be a breakthrough in thermoelectric technology. It is best to increase the zT value of thermoelectric materials to 2o, so that the thermoelectric conversion efficiency can reach about 40%.
The thermoelectric system combined with the radiation cooling system can not only achieve rapid heat dissipation, but also save energy.
After all, 40% of the electrical energy is recovered at one time, which is equivalent to saving 70-80% of energy every time. In this way, the smelting cost is almost the same as the ground.
He once again looked at the research progress of thermoelectric materials at the Institute of Materials. With all their efforts, they had refreshed the zT value to 11.
After looking at the thermoelectric system, it is just around the corner.
He turned around and found that Ye Haisheng and Hu had left. The researcher now in the comprehensive cabin was Dr. Li Nan from the Institute of Life Sciences.
"Dr. Li, is the experiment done?"
Dr. Li Nan was inputting information on the computer. She was stunned for a moment: "Um... Chairman, I just completed an experiment. I saw you thinking so I didn't bother you."
"Haha, it doesn't matter. What experiment are you doing?"
"Issues in Microgravity Osteoporosis."
"It's just calcium loss syndrome!"
Li Nan nodded.
Suddenly the alarm sounded loudly.
[Alert! Alert! Red alert, everyone enters red alert state.]