In Ye Qing's imagination, the two nuclear reactors in front of him represented the highest level of industry.
The key equipment hidden in the sealed shell might be very precise and compact. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the shell of a screw was a training ground. When Dian Jing tapped with her hands and removed the sealed shell on the blueprint.
Ye Qing and the monsters realized that there were two sealed shells in the sealed shell.
They were flat cylinders stacked together.
There was a sealed shell on the top, and the inside was filled with thick metal rods. These metal rods were fixed inside the sealed shell, and there were 480 of them. There were no metal rods in the sealed shell below, but there were many pipes. These pipes were connected to the sealed shell above their heads, and the bottom extended to the outside. Finally, they were connected to the steam turbine.
If he only looked at the blueprint, it was not difficult for Ye Qing to guess that the reactor was divided into two core parts.
The top part was the fuel rods, and the bottom part was the circulation cooling system.
The circulation system continuously took away the ultra-high-pressure heat flow around the fuel rods. This heat flow rotated the steam turbine. After it gradually cooled down, it rejoined the circulation process.
It sounded very simple.
The fuel rods produced a lot of heat, and this heat heated the liquid. To put it bluntly, this liquid was water.
Some people once joked that no matter how many generations the reactor was developed and what kind of technology it used, it still could not get rid of the problem of boiling water. When it got rid of this problem, it could be considered true technological progress.
This seemed to be very reasonable. Even if it was said that there was still twenty-five years before success, the controllable nuclear fusion that broke the laws of physics still boiled water to generate electricity in the end.
However, it could not be said that "boiling water" was very old-fashioned. Among the known thermal energy conversion, the efficiency of boiling water was always the highest.
The technical difficulty of boiling water in a nuclear reactor was not something that ordinary people could imagine. It was easy to make it boil water, but the real difficulty was how to make it boil water stably and operate safely and stably. Otherwise, once a nuclear accident happened, the only outcome for the entire ship was to sink to the bottom of the sea.
The reactor blueprint on the screen was enlarged bit by bit. Soon, Ye Qing and the monsters discovered many extraordinary details from the seemingly ordinary core structure.
For example, the reactor fuel pellets in the 480 fuel rods were not the same.
The fuel rods were arranged in a hexagonal pattern. If the outermost fuel rods were loaded with thousands of uranium-235 pellets, then the fuel rods in the middle were only loaded with 600 pellets, and their number was arranged in a very regular manner.
Ye Qing guessed that this was done in order to pursue the consistency of heat.
Without the blueprints, the Monster Industries would have had to go through many experiments to figure out the perfect arrangement of the fuel pellets. They would have had to spend a lot of resources and accumulate a lot of data before the supercomputer could simulate it. Now, all he had to do was imitate it.
Also, the working method of the cooling system below was enlarged along with the drawing. Ye Qing and the monsters followed the circulation structure and analyzed it. It was easy for them to deduce the power generation mode of the reactor from the structure of the system.
The cooling water of the first circuit and the water of the second circuit, which channeled heat to the steam turbine to generate electricity, were not in a supercritical state.
Supercritical units were very different from ordinary steam turbine units. The Longxitan factory had produced supercritical units before, so they were naturally very familiar with this area. It was not a supercritical reactor, which meant that the heat efficiency of the reactor was not high.
If the supercritical unit could have a heat efficiency ratio of 50%, the heat efficiency ratio in front of them was at most 30%.
Ye Qing was a little puzzled. Although the manufacturing technology of supercritical units was only mastered by a few big countries, the United States was obviously the biggest country. Why did they still use ordinary units that were at least two generations behind technology in such an advanced reactor?
There must be a reason.
It was very simple to make the circulating water reach the supercritical state. Just increase the time it stayed around the fuel rods.
The fuel rods generated heat during the chain reaction process to heat the water in the pressure shell. If it was not cooled, the temperature of the fuel rods could rise to more than 2,000 degrees. The critical temperature of water was 374.15 degrees. Ye Qing estimated that the working temperature of the steam unit in front of him was at most 300 degrees.
It was only 70 degrees, but the difference in heat efficiency was huge. If he had a choice, he would definitely go to the supercritical unit or even the super-supercritical unit.
But the Americans did not dare to go.
Was it because the metallurgical industry technology was not up to standard? Or was it because of the natural limitations of the fuel rods?
If it was the former, then Ye Qing did not mind letting the Americans see what the world's top industrial technology was. If they could not do it, Monster Industries would show them what the super-supercritical unit was and what unlimited power was.
If it was the latter, then Monster Industries would most likely have to adopt the same conservative plan as the Americans.
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For the entire night, the monsters were analyzing this set of 3D blueprints of the aircraft carrier reactor that was not easy to obtain. All the details were meticulously recorded. Dian Jing transplanted the drawings into the supercomputer. Using the complete drawings and the existing metallurgical technology of Monster Industries, she built a calculation model on the supercomputer.
For example, the drawings could not show what kind of alloy technology the Americans used to build the sealed pressure shell at the outermost periphery of the reactor.
But Monster Industries knew that they could build the shell that could withstand the highest pressure.
Similarly, the cooling pipe pressure of the primary circuit and the maximum working pressure of the secondary circuit of the circulation system could be expressed in a very specific model.
Of course, this data alone was not enough. The specific formula of the nuclear core in the fuel rods was still unclear. Also, what kind of catalyst or passivator was added to the cooling cycle water to stabilize the chain reaction process of the fuel rods?
However, this data was no longer a hindrance.
The core structure had been cracked, and the remaining unknown parameters were purely theoretical data. Hua Xia was also a nuclear power. Large nuclear power plants had developed to the mature third generation and were at the same level as the world. Perhaps they were limited by industrial processing technology and could not produce a reactor for a surface ship.
But which kind of nuclear core to use, how to stabilize the nuclear core, or why the United States did not use the super-critical unit, could be answered by the nuclear energy system workers.
Zhongyun University did not have a nuclear energy department, but several universities in Shanghai did.
Many of the professors there had participated in the design and research of Hua Xia's nuclear power plant. They were serious people with both theoretical and practical work experience. In the name of the company, hiring them to perfect the parameters of the fuel rods and cooling cycle water in the model established by Dian Jing was too easy.
Moreover, only providing these internationally used data was not illegal. They also did not know that Monster Industries was building a reactor or the world's most advanced marine reactor from the United States.
Early the next morning, Ye Qing called Professor Cai Chenning of Zhongyun University.
Professor Cai Chenning was Ye Qing's mentor when he was in university. Although he was in charge of the mechanical engineering department, he was in the circle of professors and had lived for a long time. His connections were all over the country. It was right to ask him to recommend a few professors in the field of nuclear energy.
After receiving Ye Qing's call, Professor Cai Chenning did not think for too long and burst into a series of firecrackers.
"Mr. Ye, you asked the right person."
"Listen to me. You don't have to find a group of professors to study theoretical data. Studying nuclear energy is not playing mahjong. It's useless to have more people. "
"I'll recommend you a super 'big shot'. He alone is enough. He has the ready-made data you want."
Ye Qing was a little nervous and asked who this' big shot 'was. Could it be a national treasure academician? This kind of person seemed to be busier than the president. It was not easy to invite him, right?
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