"Increase the size of the coal bin? How can you add it casually? Isn't this adding more water to the noodles or add more water to the noodles? If you add it, you will definitely make a large basin of dough."

"How could this be? Isn't it just about appropriately expanding the size of the coal bin..."

"No? Think about it, increasing the size of the coal bin can indeed increase the amount of coal loading, but the size of the ship will also increase? Is this considered weight gain? The added coal is also considered weight gain? The boilers are still the same boilers. Will the weight increase be increased by the increase of the coal consumption?"

“Then….”

"Treat the symptoms and root causes. You cannot treat headaches and treat headaches and feet. In my opinion, you have to find a way to increase the power of the boiler."

"But that's very difficult. We have been busy for so many years and the progress has not been ideal..."

"It's hard to do it, right? If the boiler doesn't work, the boat speed won't go up. It's like a carriage. No matter how exquisite the carriage is, it's not possible to pull the carriage."

In a mysterious workshop by the lake, technicians were holding a discussion meeting to summarize the trial voyage of the "Experiment 15" steamship yesterday. This trial voyage almost met the technical requirements, but in the end it failed due to the exhaustion of coal.

While everyone sighed, they had a fierce discussion on the improvement of "Experiment 15". After the discussion, they came to a very helpless conclusion: if the steam boiler does not work, the steam boat will never be practical.

This is like a horse that can't walk fast or not depends entirely on a horse. The reason is simple, but it is a threshold that is difficult to cross.

Even if "Experiment 15" finds a way to complete the requirement of eight hours of continuous navigation, the speed problem must be solved next, and the technical problem of insufficient boiler output will still be encountered.

In this regard, the "key research team" has no choice but to do anything because according to the division of labor, they are only responsible for thinking about the improvement of steam ships and steam boilers, which is not their "key research" goal.

Seeing that everyone was a little discouraged, Lin Youdi, the "project manager" who presided over the meeting, showed his trick: "Don't worry, the craftsmen of 'Jiahesheng' and 'Welcome Spring' have worked together to improve a new type of steam boiler called the 'Wangcaisi' steam boiler!"

After saying that, he asked someone to pull the curtain behind him, and a brand new horizontal steam boiler appeared in front of everyone.

Lin Youdi saw everyone looking at the boiler and was confused. He knew that everyone could not see the inner world, so he spoke to everyone and explained where the "prosperous wealth type" was.

Boilers, as the name suggests, are collectively called "pot" and "furnace". The furnace is a stove that burns fire, and the pot is a pot that holds water. When the water in the pot is boiled with a torch, steam will be found. When the steam enters the cylinder, it will push the cylinder piston.

With constant piston movement (reciprocating movement), there is a water pump that continuously pumps.

Within the same time, the more steam it enters the cylinder, the more vigorous the piston moves, and the greater the water pumping volume of the pump.

To increase the amount of steam production, the boiler that generates steam is very important.

Jiahesheng Trading Company operates steam pumps, and Yingchunlai Trading Company operates "heating". Both products are inseparable from boilers. After years of continuous research, thousands of technicians and craftsmen under the names of the two trading companies have made many improvements to the steam boiler after countless explorations.

But a series of improvements were only continuously improved on the original basis. It was not until the beginning of this year that breakthrough progress was made, solving a problem: how to get more steam?

This question, simply put, is how to better boil water so that the same amount of water and the same amount of coal can obtain more water vapor, which will increase the output of the boiler.

Everyone knows the truth, but there are some considerations in how to achieve it. The identity of the person who achieves breakthroughs is surprising.

This person is just an apprentice from Jiahesheng. He has not yet figured out the principle of steam boiler for less than half a year, but he put forward an idea, which leads to a breakthrough in boiler technology.

The inspiration for breakthrough comes from bamboo rice.

It takes a long time to cook a pot of rice into rice. When the apprentice saw the master and seniors cooking bamboo rice, they found that the same amount of rice was made into bamboo rice and put it on the fire together. The time for the rice to be cooked is shorter than the time required to cook a pot of rice.

So he asked: Why not make the boiler's "pot" into a tubular shape?

Instead of burning a large pot of water, it is better to burn the water in a pipe. Anyway, the water pipes finally gather in a container, and steam will inevitably gather together.

Lin Youdi said this and looked at everyone: "The stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade. The thoughts that an apprentice inadvertently made the 'Wangcai Three-type' seem out of date!"

"The 'Wangcai Si type' boiler is a new-style boiler. In the shell, there are iron pipes! The amount of steam generated per unit time has increased by 30% compared to the 'Wangcai Three'!"

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized and looked at the "Baocai-style" boiler and became hot: the same "eating" would be 30% more powerful. If this new boiler was installed on "Experiment No. 15", the problem of the coal bin would not be a problem.

Lin Youdi continued to introduce the birth process of the new boiler: "Everyone knows that the boiler burns coal, and then the combustion exhaust gas is discharged through the chimney. The temperature of the exhaust gas is very high and hot, right?"

Seeing everyone nodding, Lin Youdi continued, "Everyone knows that the boiler exhaust gas is very hot, then what? Nothing then."

"An apprentice who was 'Welcoming Spring' was so hot that he was so hot that he was so hot that he was so hot that he was too wasteful to discharge it in vain? Isn't it good to use it to heat the water in the boiler? How much can it save some coal, right?"

When they heard this, many people were stunned because they had thought about this problem when they first came into contact with the boiler, but when they saw that the master said that the exhaust gas from the boiler had to be discharged from the chimney, they didn't think much about it.

The result... Could it be...

"Yes, the utilization of waste heat of boiler exhaust gas is also a technological innovation in the 'Baocai-Si type' steam boiler road!" Lin Youdi looked at everyone and said with emotion: "Look, look! The apprentice who had not touched both doors proposed such a breakthrough technological innovation!"

"The 'Wangcai Si type' is a water pipe boiler and a pipeline for utilizing waste gas and heat, so the output is greatly increased. However, the problem is either not lacking, it is very troublesome to make, and the problem of water scale must be solved, otherwise it will explode."

"There are many problems, but there must be brave men under the heavy reward. The joint research team of Jiahesheng and Yingchunlai was successful at the beginning of this year. The team members and the two apprentices who proposed the concept each have a 'patent fee'!"

"From now on, as long as boilers that use 'water pipe heating' and 'sooth waste heat utilization' technology, they will have to pay patent fees, and each boiler will be given at least 500 yuan per person!"

As soon as Lin Youdi finished speaking, the audience was in an uproar. After hearing the news, everyone was so envious that they drooled:

Not to mention anything else, according to the "installation volume" of the two trading companies, Jiahesheng and Yingchunlai, the boilers produced in a year are no less than 500 units, and the "patent fee" of 500 yuan per person per person, those who participated in the development of the "Wangcai Si type" make no less than 250 tons of profit per person per year.

This is still the income you can get by doing nothing!

Lin Youdi saw everyone whispering and said loudly: "Look at it, the two apprentices who have not been in the process of getting started can come up with good ideas. It doesn't matter that we teachers and fathers can't think of anything!"

"Other mountain stones can be used to polish jade. If our steamboats want to be practical, they cannot go through the original path. They have to think of other ways to break through. They cannot stick to their old experience. They must use their brains more and strive to get patents!"

"Supreme... the court has set a patent system and will definitely be implemented. Therefore, with practical patents, there will be endless patent fees. This is to leave a chicken that lays a golden egg for the descendants!"

"This is the case with steam pumps, and isn't it the same with steamboats? Think about it, many years later, every time you launch a steamboat, as one of the patentees, you have an endless income that your descendants enjoy. I don't know how comfortable it is to do business!"

Lin Youdi's mobilization is extremely effective. Technical personnel know that the patent system is a strictly implemented system and is now fully implemented in Huangzhou. Employers and employees, as "joint patentees", can benefit from it.

Now, everyone looks at the "Wangcai Si" steam boiler, and they are so excited that their faces are red and their fists are clenched.
Chapter completed!