C3743

A group of people escorted Xiao Letian into the gigantic No. 0 Workshop, which was more than 2000 square meters. It was filled with all kinds of machinery, and a series of metal processing equipment had been assembled!

Six steam engines were located to the north of the factory, providing power for the entire workshop. These steam engines were lavishly burning gasoline and diesel, and the smoke coming out of the pipes was pure white.

"He really got something on the spot. How extravagant!" "Directly burning the oil, hahaha..." Xiao Letian laughed.

"Yes …" Borneo is severely lacking in coal, so using sea ships to transport it over is too uneconomical. Therefore, we have to burn these by-products after refining the kerosene, otherwise, it would be a waste … "

Ren Youweimen bent his waist like a shrimp, and used the cautious answer unique to the Fu Sang people!

The middle leaves of the nineteenth century was the starting period for humans to commercialize and use petroleum products. Before this, most of the oil was used in the military, so very few were used for civilian purposes.

This was because the extracted oil was a mixed solution. The nature of the oil was actually a compound of hydrocarbon. In chemistry, this was what they called hydrocarbons!

Alkanes, Cycloalkanes, Aromatic Hydrocarbons... And so on. Adding water, natural gas, and all kinds of impurities together into a miraculous solution!

Under different geological conditions, the color, taste and composition of the oil are all different, and they are all different as well!

There were many taboos in the use of natural oil. Why was it that even though the use of oil was recorded three to four thousand years ago, the people still used firewood and coal to heat up the entire nineteenth century?

Even the lighting chose candle lamps over oil?

The key point was that this kind of hydrocarbon that was covered in impurities was too dangerous. Directly burning it would produce large amounts of poisonous gas, which could be used to make a fire and cook. It was extremely pungent!

If you use it to light a lamp, your eyes will tear up after a while!

In the final analysis, there were too many impurities in the original oil!

It was not until 1853, when Polish scientist Agnes Lukasievich distilled petroleum to produce the product of kerosene!

Through high temperature distillation, cooling the cycle, using mixed solvents with different boiling point of different materials, the oil was finally tamed!

Diesel, gasoline, kerosene, bitumen... Layers after layers of supplies were stripped off and the civilian oil products began to be extremely rich!

But in the late 19th century, the petroleum products used were mainly kerosene, while gasoline and diesel were mostly discarded as by-products!

Does it look like a waste? However, that was how the refineries around the world handled diesel and gasoline!

Without a market, no one would buy these fuels. Refineries would only use these 'wastes' as fuel for heating during the winter. If it was in the summer, these 'wastes' would be even more wasteful. People would burn these 'wastes'!

For people nowadays, only kerosene was useful because it could be used to burn light. Furthermore, kerosene could also be used as a mechanical cleaning agent during mechanical processing. It had a very wide range of uses!

Diesel is not good, the ignition point is too high and the combustion is not sufficient, the smoke is too big... Poor review!

Petrol is no good either. If the ignition is too low, it will easily evaporate and even explode … Poor review!

Selection, or kerosene indicators are very good standards, very suitable for the civilian, so countries in the petrochemical products are using kerosene to make a profit!

All of the machinery in Workshop Zero that Xiao Letian saw today originated from gasoline and diesel. After it was not refined enough to sell, it was sent to someone else.

All that was left was useless gasoline and diesel. Instead of coal, they began to burn, producing steam to drive the steam engine!

Xiao Letian said that they were extravagant, but in reality, they were judging from the perspective of their past life. In this era, gas and diesel were useless trash!

"This will not last long! "Believe me, the things that you have burned and lost today, in the future, are destined to be the most precious commodity. They can even change the entire world's structure!"

Walking in the workshop that was full of steam punk style, moving through the machines, the top of his head and his feet were everywhere on the official road, many parts of his body that were not tightly sealed were revealing neat and tidy!

Nan Yang was already very hot, but the temperature was even higher here. After walking for three or four minutes, Xiao Letian had no choice but to undo the buttons on his collar. When Ren Youweimen saw that the leader was sweating, he quickly fawned over him and fawned over him.

"It's too hot here …" Sorry... "I'm very sorry …"

"What are you sorry for?" Xiao Letian laughed bitterly and took his fan to fan himself: You Fusang people are too courteous, what have I not endured? You don't have to be so polite... Hurry up and bring me to look at machine zero! "

After circling around the maze of machinery and goods, a 100-meter open space suddenly appeared in front of him. In the chaotic workshop, it was so clean and tidy that it didn't even look like it should be.

On the brick platform, a strange machine that was emitting a metallic glow was quietly lying down!

"Leader, this is the zero internal combustion engine!" exactly according to the principle of the Otto cycle... "This is the gas conveyor, this is the cylinder, this is the spark plug, this is the crank …"

Yuan Chao presented the treasure to the Chief as if it was his own child. This was the first operating internal combustion engine of the Chinese race. They even considered using such an internal combustion engine to drive the oil wells to extract oil from the underground!

Xiao Letian frowned as he put away his fan. He reached out his hand to feel the hot metal!

"What …" Why is it so big! "

How could it not be big? The entire brick platform was only three meters long and two meters wide. The gigantic internal combustion engine was slowly occupying the platform!

"I have to admit that the structure of your internal combustion engine is correct. The four-stroke Oto Cycle is the most correct design direction …" Cylinder, Piston, Connecting Rod, Crankshaft, Flywheel... These parts are all complete! "

"But... But how could it be so big? And what's with this pipe and the big backpack behind it? "

Xiao Letian reached out and grabbed onto a copper pipe, and slowly walked to the back. After leaving the brick platform, there was a huge steel jar that was as tall as a person at the edge of the open ground!

Ren Youweimen walked over quickly and opened the door of the tank. "Leader, this is a gas tank! It's pressurized gas inside, and this internal combustion engine burns gas! "

"Light the fire, let the leader see for himself how the four-stroke internal combustion engine works!"

The gas valve was opened, the spark plug generated an electric current, and the gas combustion in the cylinder generated high pressure air and heat. The piston, which was going back and forth, began to move the crankshaft!

"It moved! Our internal combustion engine is moving! " The surroundings were filled with excited cheers, followed by a wave of applause!

As the piston went back and forth faster and faster, the crankshaft began to move faster and faster, the flywheel began to spin faster and faster. What was even more surprising was that the flying wheel didn't turn meaninglessly, and the rotary shaft also began to move a small machine.

Ren Youweimen pointed at the two copper wires that were erected side by side in the air and shouted, "There's power! We also made a generator... From now on you don't have to use your hands to send a telegram to generate electricity! "

Tsssssss … Tsssssss …

Blue arcs of electricity appeared on the parallel copper wire, intertwining with each other to form a strange yet beautiful image!