A group of people surrounded Xiao Letian and walked into the huge workshop zero. This workshop, which covers an area of more than 2,000 square meters, is full of various machines, including turning, milling, planing, grinding, and drilling, and a series of metal processing equipment!
Six steam engines in the north of the factory provide power to the entire workshop, and these steam engines burn gasoline and diesel in a luxurious way. The smoke coming out of the chimney is pure white, and there is no black smoke that pollutes the industrial areas of this era. .
"It's really a luxury to use local materials! Burn oil directly, hahaha..." Xiao Letian laughed.
"Yes... Borneo is seriously short of coal, and it is too uneconomical to transport it by sea ship, so we just burn these by-products after refining kerosene, otherwise it will be a waste..."
Niemon bent over like a shrimp and answered with the caution unique to Fuso people!
The mid-19th century was the beginning of the commercial use of petroleum products by humans. Earlier, most of the petroleum was used in the military, and rarely for civilian use!
Because the extracted oil is a mixed solution, the essence of oil is actually a hydrocarbon compound. In chemistry, this kind of thing is called hydrocarbon!
Alkanes, cycloalkanes, aromatic hydrocarbons...etc., plus water, natural gas, and various impurities are combined into a magical solution!
The color, taste, and composition of petroleum under different geological conditions are different, and its uses are also diverse!
There are many taboos in the use of natural oil. Why was the use of oil recorded three to four thousand years ago, but until the 19th century, people still mostly burned firewood and coal for heating?
Even lighting uses candle oil lamps instead of oil lighting?
The key is that this kind of hydrocarbons full of impurities is too dangerous. Direct combustion will produce a large amount of toxic gases, and the smell will be spicy and pungent when used for cooking!
If you use it to light a lamp, your eyes will be sour and tearful in a short time!
In the final analysis, there are too many impurities in the original oil!
It wasn't until 1853, when Polish scientist Agnus Lukasiewicz used distillation to process petroleum, that the commodity of kerosene appeared!
Through the cycle of high-temperature distillation and cooling, and using the principle of different boiling points of different substances in the mixed solvent, oil was finally tamed!
Diesel, gasoline, kerosene, asphalt...layers of materials were stripped out, and civilian petroleum products began to be greatly enriched!
But at the end of the 19th century, the main petroleum product used by people was kerosene, and most of the gasoline and diesel were thrown away as by-products!
Doesn’t it look like a waste? But at that time, this was how oil refineries around the world processed diesel and gasoline!
Without a market, no one buys these fuels. Refineries can only use these 'waste' as heating fuel in winter. If it comes to summer, it will be even worse. People will burn these 'waste' directly!
For people nowadays, only kerosene is useful, because it can be used for burning for lighting, and during mechanical processing, kerosene can also be used as a cleaning agent for machinery. It has a wide range of uses!
Diesel is not good, the ignition point is too high and the combustion is not sufficient, the smoke is huge... bad review!
Neither does gasoline. The ignition point is too low and it is easy to volatilize and even explode... Bad review!
After many choices, kerosene still meets the standards in all its indicators and is very suitable for civilian use. Therefore, kerosene is used in petrochemical products in various countries to make profits!
In the No. 0 workshop that Xiao Letian saw today, all the machinery was powered by gasoline and diesel. They were sent away for sale before being refined!
The remaining useless gasoline and diesel fuel began to burn instead of coal to produce water vapor to drive the steam engine!
Xiao Letian said they were extravagant, but he was actually judging from the perspective of his previous life. In this era, gasoline and diesel are really waste!
"This situation won't last long! Believe me, what you burn and throw away today is destined to be the most precious commodity in the future, and it can even change the pattern of the entire world!"
Walking in the steampunk-style workshop, passing through the machines, there are official roads everywhere above and below your feet, and many places that are not tightly sealed are leaking neatness!
It was already very hot in Nanyang, but the temperature here was even higher. After walking for three or four minutes, Xiao Letian had to unbutton his collar. When Niemon saw that the head of state was sweating, he quickly took out a Japanese folding fan. Open it and flash it to Xiao Letian.
"It's really too hot in here... I'm so sorry... I'm so sorry..."
"What are you sorry for?" Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and grabbed his fan to fan himself. "You Fusang people are too polite. What hardships have I suffered? You don't need to show your courtesy... Take me to see Ling quickly." Unit number!"
After bypassing the maze of machinery and goods, an open space of more than 100 meters suddenly appeared in front of us. It was not clean and tidy in the chaotic workshop.
On the brick platform, a strange machine emitting this metallic light is lying quietly here!
"Führer, this is the No. 0 internal combustion engine! It is made entirely according to the principles of the Otto cycle... This is the gas delivery pipe, here is the cylinder, this is the spark plug for ignition, and this is the crank..."
Yuan Chao presented a treasure to the head of state as if introducing his own child. This was the first operational internal combustion engine of the Chinese people. They even considered using such an internal combustion engine to drive oil wells to extract oil from the ground!
Xiao Letian frowned, put away his fan, and reached out to touch the slightly hot metal!
"Why...why is it so big!"
Could it be bigger? The entire brick platform is three meters long and two meters wide. The huge internal combustion engine slowly takes over the platform!
"I must admit that the structure of your internal combustion engine is correct. The Alto cycle four-stroke is the most correct design direction...the cylinder, piston, connecting rod, crankshaft, flywheel...these parts are all complete!"
"But...but why is it so big? And what's with this pipe and the big backpack behind it?"
Xiao Letian reached out and held a copper pipe and walked slowly backwards. After leaving the brick platform, there was a huge steel tank as tall as a person on the outside of the open space!
Niemon walked over quickly and unscrewed the valve of the steel tank. "Führer, this is a gas tank! It contains pressurized gas. This internal combustion engine burns gas!"
"Sign the fire and let the Führer see for himself how the four-stroke internal combustion engine works!"
The gas valve opens, the spark plug generates electric current, the gas combustion in the cylinder produces high-pressure air and heat, and the piston back and forth pushes the crankshaft to start moving!
"It's moving! Our internal combustion engine is moving!" There were excited cheers all around, followed by applause!
The piston moves back and forth faster and faster, the crankshaft begins to accelerate, and the flywheel begins to rotate at high speed under the rotation of the crankshaft. What is even more surprising is that the flywheel is not meaninglessly rotating. The rotating shaft also drives a small machine to move. got up.
Niemon pointed to two parallel copper wires erected in the sky and shouted, "There is electricity... We also made a generator... In the future, we won't need to use hand cranks to send telegraphs!"
Sizzling...sizzling...
Blue arcs appear on the parallel copper wires, intertwining with each other to form strange and beautiful patterns!
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