Chapter 501 Find an Application Scenario for the Rough Steam Engine!
The newly restored Liaodong area is undergoing administrative normalization, and the officials are very motivated. This should be the most satisfying thing to Zhu Youjian. No matter what the reasons are for the officials, as long as they have enterprising spirit and fighting spirit, the Ming Dynasty will be restored.
Just around the corner.
Speaking of just around the corner, Zhu Youjian is worried about one thing recently. The prototype of the steam engine has been improved for several versions, but until now he has not found a place where this thing can be used.
The problems of too low thermal efficiency, too poor efficacy, and too poor stability have not been overcome so far. To be honest, such things have no practicality. However, the problem is that with the current technical level, process capabilities, and way of thinking of craftsmen,
It has reached a point where it is difficult to make progress. It is necessary to find an application scenario for the crude steam engine prototype so that it can be quantified in production and play a certain value in real life, and find breakthrough inspiration through practical applications to break the current bottleneck period.
In my memory, it seems that steam engines were first used to pump water in coal mines. Although the steam engines used to pump water in Western Europe are different in principle from the steam prototypes that Zhu Youjian asked the craftsmen of the Tiangong Bureau to make. But this
You can consider the use scenarios. One advantage of coal mines is that there is no shortage of coal and they are not afraid of wasting coal. With this inefficient device, as long as the wastewater from the coal mine is pumped out, it will be of use value.
In addition to pumping water, bringing a blower to supply air into the mine through pipes seems to be a direction of use. As long as these two ideas can be realized, it will definitely be of great benefit to the coal mining industry. Originally, it was abandoned due to water seepage and too deep mining.
The mine can continue to mine now. By the way, is it possible to get a winch with a wire rope and use it as a traction engine outside the tracked mine to transport coal? I don’t know if the power of this thing is enough at the moment.
Use. Following this idea, is it possible to consider opening some mills near the mine to process flour and crush potato flour?
The more he thought about it, the more Zhu Youjian felt that there was no problem in considering the use scenarios of steam engines around coal mines. Judging from the current situation of steam prototypes, it is easy to implement a blower that does not require much stability.
.However, if a dust pump similar to that of later generations is developed, there may be problems in terms of speed and stability.
What to do? There are always more solutions than difficulties. Zhu Youjian, who is active in thinking, really thought of a water pump that can be made without too much trouble. Make a steel pipe, and then put a shaft with spiral blades inside.
, and then the steam engine drives the shaft to rotate, and the water can be pumped out. This is an improved version of the Archimedes pump. Compared with the dust-type water pumps of later generations, the speed and stability requirements are lower. Compared with the various types commonly used in the Ming Dynasty.
The water wheel is highly efficient, takes up little space, and has no worries about splashing water. It can pump water up whether it is turning fast or slow.
At present, the depth of the coal mines in Daming is actually limited. It is enough to drill a sloping hole with a depth of about ten meters in the coal mining surface and push the water down. It may be difficult to make a pumping bucket with a length of more than ten meters, but it is possible to make several buckets of three or four meters.
It can always be connected by screws, right? A genius is a genius. Can you find such a good application scenario for the steam prototype? Looking at the world, can you find the second person? After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Youjian was so excited that he was a little swollen.
Already.
Taking advantage of his excitement, he quickly went to the Tiangong Bureau and held a product meeting with the craftsmen, explaining his ideas and assumptions in detail, so that the craftsmen could follow this idea to implement product development.
"Daban, please notify the directors of several mines near the capital as soon as possible in the next few days and ask them to come to the city. I asked people from the Tiangong Bureau to develop some equipment suitable for coal mines. They will come and take a look, and then according to their own
According to the conditions of the mine, we will purchase a batch of them and put them into use as soon as possible." The situation of each mine is different, and the steam engine has not been mass-produced. It can only be produced with a single machine and a single output. It will be used more in the future.
After the quantity is increased, we will consider finalizing it. There is really no condition for it now.
"Your Majesty, what kind of equipment are they? When I notify them, I can tell them everything in advance."
"Currently, the main thing that can be purchased on site is a blower driven by a steam engine, which mainly supplies air to the mine below through pipes. Once the mine is deep, it will become stuffy and some poisonous gas will be produced. It is estimated that every year in the mine
A lot of people have died because of poisonous gas, right? With air supply equipment, there will be fewer incidents in this area."
"Blow air into the mine? Where can I get a big blower? I heard from people in the mine that they also thought about using a rotor to blow the air, but it was very inconvenient to use. The steam rotor made by the Tianjin Bureau is really useful.
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"Of course it can be used, otherwise why would I be so fussy about it? In addition to driving the blower, the steam engine can also drive a water pump to pump out the seepage water from the mine. In addition, I also asked the craftsmen to develop a method for extracting water from the mine.
It is an equipment that pulls a wire rope in the hole and carries the mine bucket out to transport coal. This thing can also be equipped with a millstone to grind flour and an iron roller to grind stones. In short, steam engines will be widely used in industrial and mining sites in the future, and the more they are used, the better they will be.
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"Things in the world are strange. You don't eat grass, don't use feng shui, and you can make the rotor spin by eating coal. Only people like you, the emperor, who have enlightened the wisdom of heaven, can think of such wonderful things and let craftsmen make them.
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"You can't say that. I do have some ideological guidance, but the fact that this thing can be made depends mainly on the ingenuity and skill of the master craftsmen of the Tiangong Bureau. My role is limited." Some of the credit cannot be disputed.
Okay, otherwise when we examine these things in history in the future, what should we do if we think this emperor is too weird and becomes a suspected time traveler like Wang Mang? Let’s just fight for the title of a famous ZTE emperor.
"This old slave respects the Emperor for his open-mindedness. After all, the Emperor is the one who wants to rule the world, so it's okay not to care about such petty tricks."
"My lord, the property in the palace has grown in recent years, and you father-in-laws have a lot of things to worry about and work hard. Now, the situation is calm, and I think that the old people in the palace like Wang Dehua have also reached the end of their lives.
Time! When you are done, tell them that I intend to let them retire to rest their bodies and minds. They should make preparations first, otherwise I am afraid that if I suddenly issue an order, they may have other ideas in their minds." Although some old eunuchs in the palace,
They have been marginalized for a long time, but the nominal position is still occupied by them. In recent years, these guys have made a lot of money, and it is time to get rid of them completely. This year, even Zhou Yanru and the others are going to
Relegated to the second line and marginalized, not to mention the old eunuchs, keeping them is too annoying!