radicalducati Chapter 537
Chapter 537
The engine was turned off and the engine was turned off.
“Boom boom boom!”
As Su Mo turned the starter key.
This four-cylinder hydrogen-oxygen-water engine used for testing after being connected in series started running instantly.
The overall power was surging and the idle speed was stable.
Stepping hard on the accelerator pedal, the engine instantly burst into a roar like a tiger and a dragon!
Zheng Zhiyuan, director of the North Sea Theater Research Institute, and many researchers were also suddenly enlightened.
After Su Mo used this queuing method to test, the conclusion has been drawn.
Water molecules can be decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, thereby generating heat energy and water vapor to promote the normal operation of the engine.
In other words, there is no problem with the hydrogen-oxygen-water device of the Dragon-55 destroyer’s engine.
“Could it be… that there is something wrong with the water supply system?”
Zheng Zhiyuan pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, frowned and muttered to himself.
Su Mo, who had already found the problem through the system scanning function, nodded and said:
“The places that are prone to failure have probably been checked.”
“Now it can be confirmed that there is no problem with the hydrogen-oxygen conversion device.”
“Then the biggest possibility is that the seawater crystals stored in the water supply system pipeline are blocked.”
“It prevents seawater from entering the combustion chamber through the nozzle, causing the engine of this Long-55 destroyer to fail to start.”
After Su Mo finished speaking, Zheng Zhiyuan and the researchers began to get busy.
After finding the cause of the failure, the next investigation work has a direction.
Unlike before, busy without any clues, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The engine of this Long-55 destroyer was almost disassembled again, but the fault could not be accurately found.
Of course…
This is thanks to Su Mo’s ability to use the system to cheat.
Otherwise, he wanted to find the problem accurately among nearly a million spare parts.
In addition to checking each part one by one and praying for good luck to find it earlier, he had no other way.
Just like that, half an hour later…
A young man wearing a white coat and black-framed glasses shouted excitedly:
“Director!”
“Found it!”
“The seawater stored in these high-pressure water pipes is all crystallized and blocked!”
Hearing this, everyone instantly became energetic.
In a few seconds, the high-pressure water pipes as thick as thighs were dismantled.
Then after a thorough cleaning, a large amount of salt crystallized into blocks was indeed taken out.
It is obvious that the seawater has been stored in the high-pressure water pipe for a long time and has been roasted at high temperature.
After the seawater with extremely high salt content is evaporated, it becomes a pile of salt.
Being blocked in the high-pressure water pipe by this thing, the seawater behind cannot be pumped up, and it is strange that the water-fuel engine can start.
But in Su Mo’s opinion, the reason why the high-pressure water pipe is blocked.
In the final analysis, it is still caused by the seawater filtration device.
After all, seawater contains a lot of salt, and the average salinity is about 35%.
Many people also know that seawater is salty, and the more you drink unfiltered seawater, the thirstier you become.
The same is true for hydrogen-oxygen water engines. If you do not filter it and use seawater directly as fuel.
Then under high-temperature evaporation, seawater will produce salt crystals in the engine pipes, blocking and corroding the inside of the body.
Zheng Zhiyuan, director of the North Sea Theater Research Institute, also thought of this problem.
After thoroughly cleaning the salt in the high-pressure water pipe.
Then he immediately carefully checked the seawater desalination filtration device of the water-fueled engine.
Because salt is naturally adsorbed in water molecules, if you want to purify seawater, you need to break this adsorption force.
Therefore, warships or ships sailing on the sea.
If you want to use hydrogen-oxygen water engines, you must first filter the salt in seawater.
The main device for filtering salt is a multi-stage centrifugal pump.
A properly functioning multi-stage centrifugal pump can apply multiple times atmospheric pressure to seawater.
The filtered seawater will be pumped into a tube equipped with a filter membrane under the centrifugal pump.
The many small holes on these filter membranes allow only water molecules to pass through.
Larger salts will remain in the salt water solution and be transported back to the sea.
This device used by warships or ships can filter out 99.9% of the salt, and the seawater will become pure water when it comes out.
Although it cannot be directly drunk by humans, it is more than enough to be used in hydrogen-oxygen water engines.
It will not produce salt stains or damage
The water-fueled engine is corroded inside.
As expected!
After a careful inspection.
Zheng Zhiyuan and a group of researchers found the real “culprit”.
The real reason why the Long-55 destroyer, which was equipped with a hydrogen-oxygen water engine, could not start.
It was because there was a problem with the multi-stage centrifugal pump that filtered the salt in the seawater.
As a result, the internal pipeline of the hydrogen-oxygen water engine was blocked by salt crystals and could not be started.
Two hours later…
After replacing a set of multi-stage centrifugal pumps and thoroughly cleaning the salt in the pipeline.
Under the nervous and expectant gaze of Yan Heping, the head of the North Sea Theater, and the generals, as well as the researchers of the Theater Research Institute.
Su Mo came to the control room of the Long-55 destroyer and pressed the green start button without hesitation.
Strangely, there was no movement or reaction.
It was as if the start button was broken.
But the generals and researchers at the scene all had a look of indifference.
Because everyone who has military knowledge knows that the power units used in warships are extremely powerful.
It is completely different from the engines of ordinary family cars. You can’t start the engine by pressing the start button.
Before the Dragon-55 destroyer was equipped with hydrogen-oxygen-water engines, it used 4 gas turbines.
Normal startup takes about 20 minutes.
Even for emergency startup, the fastest time is 10 minutes.
And this startup speed is already quite fast among warships.
Because conventionally powered aircraft carriers take more than ten hours to start once.
Even for aircraft carriers equipped with nuclear power from the United States, the fastest startup speed takes 6 hours.
Fifteen seconds later…
“Buzz!!!”
“Boom!”
A dull sound unique to mechanical devices instantly reached everyone’s ears.
This Dragon-55 destroyer equipped with hydrogen-oxygen-water engines has been successfully started!
Yan Heping, the commander of the North Sea Theater, and other generals, as well as the researchers of the Theater Research Institute, all showed an expression of great joy on their faces!
Compared with the previous 20 minutes, the 15-second startup time is undoubtedly a qualitative leap!
In the modern war where every second counts, the Dragon-55 destroyer has a great innate advantage in terms of startup time alone!