Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1069: Chapter 530 Nuclear-Powered Technology_1

Chen Zeshu led a group of people to look at the design of the transport shielding pump and also visited the control room to review some materials.

The transport shielding pump was still in the design phase, and the control room only had two civilian transport shielding pumps, whose performance did not meet the standards for use with the propulsion nuclear reactors on naval vessels.

What they had to do was to improve the design to elevate it from a civilian to a military grade. freewēbnoveℓ.com

The nuclear propulsion system of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier uses a transport shielding pump officially called a high-temperature liquid lead-bismuth alloy transport shielding pump.

It is a name so complex it gives one a headache just looking at it.

In fact, if the name is broken down into three parts for understanding, it starts to become simpler. "High-temperature liquid" refers to the state and properties of the internal coolant.

Lead-bismuth alloy, as the name suggests, is a type of lead-bismuth alloy material, which is also the material used to manufacture the shielding pump. Lead-bismuth alloy is a low-melting alloy, easily fusible, consisting of lead and bismuth with low melting points, to which other metals are added to adjust the melting point of the alloy.

Lastly, "transport shielding pump" refers to a type of seal-less pump where both the pump and the driving motor are sealed within a pressure vessel filled with the fluid being pumped, because it involves the cooling of nuclear reactions, it must achieve complete leak prevention.

After Chen Zeshu had given a detailed introduction, he started to talk about the problems encountered in R&D, "If we want to improve performance, we definitely need design improvements."

"Our main problem is that after raising the temperature and sealing it, the stator and rotor do not work in harmony."

"Look at these two rotating shafts, above are the stator and rotor, several related designs have failed. Either the seal standards are not met or there are other problems..."

"Furthermore, there are many options for the power input method of the rotor, but we need something efficient and stable, and we don’t have it..."

Chen Zeshu went on for quite some time.

After he finished speaking, he looked somewhat amusedly at Zhao Yi and asked, "Academician Zhao, what do you think?"

Everyone else turned their gaze to Zhao Yi.

It was Zhao Yi who had mentioned that he thought the transport pump technology was simple, prompting them to come and take a serious look, and Academician Chen Zeshu had provided a detailed explanation.

If Zhao Yi could not come up with anything, it would be somewhat embarrassing.

Zhao Yi carefully examined the design drawings, then pointed at the position of the stator and said very earnestly, "Academician Chen, regarding the two problems you mentioned earlier, for the first, you can move the stator back by nine millimeters, design the periphery in a gear shape, and add a seal plug." freēwēbηovel.c૦m

"The position of the rotor needs to be moved forward because of the second issue, which is power transmission."

"The best method of power transfer is actually through magnetic induction, by transferring the magnetic field from the stator to the rotor."

"This makes sense to you, right?"

Zhao Yi seemed to be speaking off the cuff, and others were somewhat baffled, some thinking that he was merely offering suggestions to avoid embarrassment, and they continued to look on amusedly.

At first, Chen Zeshu thought the same. However, as he followed Zhao Yi’s suggestions and scrutinized the design drawings while pondering, his expression suddenly turned serious. After about half a minute, he immediately shouted over to an assistant research fellow, "Summon the people from Zhu Lin’s office, however many there are, just bring them!"

"Quickly!"

The others suddenly realized something was not right.

The people in Zhu Lin’s office were responsible for the design work of the input shielding pump.

This was also their ongoing project.

Zhu Lin, with two research fellows in tow, hurried over. Upon seeing Zhao Yi, he greeted him warmly, "Academician Zhao, pleased to meet you, I am Zhu..."

"You’re Zhu! Yes, you! Hurry over here, skip the nonsense!" Chen Zeshu, ever decisive in his actions, immediately pulled Zhu Lin over with a stern face and began discussing Zhao Yi’s suggestions.

Zhu Lin immediately became serious.

Soon.

Several people began to work together on verifying the design.

Chen Zeshu voiced an apology and quickly joined in. Although the input shielding pump was not his project, he was an academician at the nuclear institute, and he had to pay attention to every project. Since there seemed to be significant progress, it naturally warranted his utmost attention.

Thus, the job of hosting the anti-gravity aircraft group fell to administrative and logistics staff, who repeatedly apologized and even said a few words to Chen Zeshu, "Old Academician Chen is like this; research always comes first!"

"That’s okay, it’s quite good to watch this!"

"Research is certainly important!"

The representatives of the anti-gravity aircraft team were quite understanding, as they knew the reason for the shift. Simply put, Zhao Yi had offered a few minor suggestions, which appeared to be very useful.

This was indeed surprising!

Even though they all knew Zhao Yi was a supreme genius, even having researched anti-gravity, but that a technical team at the nuclear institute had their design problem, which they had been grappling with for some time, so succinctly solved by Zhao Yi was still astonishing.

"Academician Zhao..."

"Truly omnipotent!"

"I don’t know how much he helped; did he just solve the technical problem just like that?"

"It’s possible!"

Others speculated amongst themselves.

Zhao Yi himself seemed quite indifferent, as if he had only done a trivial matter.

When asked, his expression casually conveyed a sense of, "I already told you it was simple."

Others were a bit frustrated.

To them, watching Zhao Yi solve problems made it seem genuinely simple, but upon reflection, they realized it was not right; how could a technical issue encountered by a research team at the nuclear institute be easily resolved?