Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 794: Chapter 427: The Melting Point Has Increased by Nearly 100 Degrees Celsius!

Research and Development Building, main entrance.

Watching the car driving away, He Guilin stood still for a long time on the spot, repeatedly considering what Zhao Yi had just said, as well as Zhang Hongtao’s special reminder.

"Academician Zhao visited for two days without saying much, so why would he suddenly give a suggestion at the end?"

"When I said I wanted suggestions, it was just a polite remark!"

"And there really is a suggestion. ’Continue heating during mixing, and then go directly to deoxygenation treatment...’"

He Guilin pondered carefully, recalling Zhang Hongtao’s reminder, "Try it, you won’t lose? But trying... needs to be approved!"

Zhao Yi made it sound simple, but in reality, it was complex to implement. The mixing of the molten metal used a tumbling mixer. It was as said, pouring the liquid back and forth, but that’s thousands of degrees of molten metal. Maintaining such high temperatures is not easy.

After mixing the molten metal, skipping intermediate steps and proceeding directly to deoxygenation involves the equipment in the manufacturing process like the furnace, which would require equipment modification and adjustment.

These aren’t decisions the research team can make by themselves.

Adjustments like this, whether internal or external to the equipment, would require a report to the higher-ups for approval. The equipment would indeed need to be switched off during the adjustment period. The research team alone can’t make these changes, not to mention justifying them. He simply doesn’t know why, so he couldn’t possibly justify it.

He Guilin thought further, "But what Zhang Hongtao said makes sense - there’s no harm in trying, especially since it was Academician Zhao’s suggestion..."

Although He Guilin doesn’t believe that Zhao Yi has any research on alloy materials, he should still consider his suggestion, because Zhao Yi has created many miracles. Perhaps he got the idea from other fields.

Again, it’s the same word, "Try it, no harm!"

"Anyway, it’s Academician Zhao’s suggestion!" He Guilin suddenly had a thought. It was Zhao Yi who came for the inspection and gave suggestions on manufacturing. He just had to make a normal report, add ’We can try it’, and let the higher-ups decide whether to ’try it’. Unless something unexpected happens, it should definitely be approved.

Even if the suggestions came from alloy material experts like Zhang Hongtao and Wang Zhixin, the higher-ups would definitely take them into serious consideration and would organize many people to discuss it, because the cost of ’trying’ isn’t low.

Zhao Yi is different. His cross-field suggestions would also receive attention from the higher-ups.

The reason is straightforward--

His name is Zhao Yi!

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In the meantime...

Zhao Yi, Zhang Hongtao, and others sat in the car heading back to the capital. They would have to stay in the car for ten hours, a journey that would undoubtedly be exhausting.

Everyone else closed their eyes to rest, but Wang Zhixin was restless. He kept thinking about the problem Zhao Yi mentioned, but he couldn’t understand it and was hesitant to speak up. He disagreed with researching Nickel-Iron alloys, still believing that Single-Crystal Nickel Alloy had a better future.

Zhao Yi set the overall direction, and he was the chief researcher. Wang Zhixin, as a veteran in alloy materials, couldn’t possibly change the general trend.

Wang Zhixin knew that if he brought up minor suggestions, it wouldn’t be a problem and could even show his knowledge. But questioning the research direction, whether right or wrong, was bound to cause disagreements with Zhao Yi. Without a doubt, the research team was centered around Zhao Yi. Even Zhang Hongtao, who was halfway his student, leaned more towards Zhao Yi.

This was the frustration.

Wang Zhixin had thought of many things, but having been working on alloy materials research all his life, he still wanted to understand things in his professional field. He finally made up his mind and asked the question, "Academician Zhao? Academician Zhao? Are you asleep?"

"What is it?"

Zhao Yi opened his eyes and looked over.

Wang Zhixin said directly, "Here’s the thing. I’ve thought about it for a long time, and I can’t figure out why you made that suggestion. Shouldn’t there be any problems with the tumbling mixer? And I don’t understand why we should deoxygenate right after mixing."

Zhao Yi scratched his head hard before saying, "I just think that doing it this way makes the material’s properties better."

Wang Zhixin had his mouth half-opened, speechless for a long while. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

That...

Wasn’t saying that the same as saying nothing at all?

He quickly moved on to the biggest question in his mind, "I heard from Hong Tao that you’ve decided to do Nickel-Iron alloy research and give up on the Single-Crystal Nickel direction. I can’t figure out, why?"

As he spoke, Wang Zhixin pondered in his heart, "Perhaps Zhao Yi will answer that, ’I think Nickel-Iron alloy has more potential?’"

This time, he guessed wrong.

Zhao Yi had indeed given thorough consideration to doing Nickel-Iron alloy research. He turned much more serious than when he explained his reasons to Zhang Hongtao and stated, "Our research goal is to make turbine blades. At present, our demand for turbine blade materials is simply to catch up with international advanced levels."

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Wang Zhixin nodded in agreement.

Zhang Hongtao and Shen Binghe also opened their eyes to glance at Zhao Yi, curious about what he was about to say.

Zhao Yi continued, "The most advanced fighter engines globally can reach a turbine inlet temperature of roughly 2000 kelvin (approximately 1726.85°C), and the thrust can reach over twelve tons."

"For us to create advanced engines, our requirement is similar, the final products need to meet a standard of around 2000 kelvin."

"I think this standard can be met by improving the manufacturing technique of Nickel-Iron alloys. Single crystal technology is indeed very advanced. The future of Single-Crystal Nickel is broad, and I believe in that too. But our requirement isn’t that high."