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Published at 1st of March 2022 07:06:09 PM


Chapter 1450

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For the questions raised by Jiang Yanhai, Mr. Liu and they are all curious. Jiang Yanhai's way of thinking is different from them. There are many things that they didn't think of before Jiang Yanhai raised them.

"What design?" Professor Liu and Professor Hu and several other experts in fighter design are curious.

In a word, although the phantom was designed by Jiang Yanhai, because his own task is relatively heavy, the improvement of some small details and problems of the phantom is completed by these professors.

Of course, when they improve the phantom, they are also constantly learning. These professors know this in their hearts.

Not to mention anything else, they have never thought about many designs of the phantom before.

Now the phantom has started the research and development of the next generation, and these people also come with a learning attitude.

Although their ages are Jiang Yanhai's uncles and even grandfathers, they are really lacking in design.

"Well, you can see the performance of this new material, high temperature resistance, thermal expansion resistance, and it can also actively absorb radar waves, which is similar to that of existing composites. The key is the other properties behind it."

"When these properties are combined, the plasticity of this material is very strong, so I have an idea. Now the speed of the phantom is not limited by the engine, but by its materials."

"So, have you ever thought that if its shell is made of this material, we can integrate thermoelectric power generation and thermorefrigeration in its interior." Jiang Yanhai said his idea.

Thermoelectric power generation... Everyone was stunned. Generally speaking, this thing has nothing to do with fighters.

Do you say fighters need electricity? Of course, this is necessary. For example, the engine needs electricity to start. In the past, some fighter designs could not even start the engine independently, but needed ground power vehicles to start. In other words, almost all modern fighters use ground power vehicles to drive the engine on the ground unless necessary.

When the engine is successfully driven, it will switch to the internal power supply. Of course, it does not mean that the fighter does not have the ability to start the engine by itself, but for safety reasons, it will use the ground power vehicle as long as it is not an emergency task.

The power consumption of electronic equipment of each fighter is extremely terrible, whether it is high-power radar or other electronic instruments.

For example, the J10 is also equipped with a fuel cell as a backup power supply.

There is no way to do this. After all, the power of the engine is sometimes very tense.

However, the current solution, there is no solution, is to use the engine to drive power generation, and then supply electricity and use electronic equipment.

If the fighter has plenty of power, it has other options. For example, its fuel consumption will be reduced by a part, the fuel consumption will be reduced, and the combat radius will naturally increase.

But for the former fighters, apart from the nuclear power just proposed, the former fighters could not have other power generation methods. Now, Jiang Yanhai said that these old professors contacted this new material, and they all felt that this matter... Has a head!

Thermoelectric power generation, as the name suggests, is not like the traditional power generation method using thermal energy. The traditional power generation method using thermal energy is to boil water.

Including nuclear power plants, they boil water, and thermoelectric power generation directly uses the temperature difference of materials to directly convert heat energy into electric energy.

However, the efficiency of thermoelectric power generation is very low. The previous materials were only about 6%, that is, about 3% - 10% according to different materials, but most of them were about 6%.

The thermal efficiency of thermal power stations is different according to different technical levels, but most thermal power stations have a thermal efficiency of about 40%.

In other words, 60% of the heat is consumed in the process of power generation.

Let alone thermoelectric power generation.

But in the past, thermoelectric power generation mainly depended on materials, and this new material can improve the thermal efficiency of thermoelectric power generation to more than 20.

About 20% - 25%, this efficiency has been extremely terrible.

You know, this is at least three or four times more efficient than before!

More importantly, if the phantom of the new generation uses conventional power, its cruising speed can reach Mach 4.5, then the cruising speed of Mach 4.5 means that the temperature outside the body will be about 500-600 degrees Celsius, and the surface temperature of some bodies will exceed 600 degrees Celsius.

Such a temperature is in vain. If such a temperature is used for thermoelectric power generation, it does not say how much it can generate. At least, it is a huge supplement to the power of fighter aircraft.

Because at that time, the phantom estimates that the normal speed is supersonic. You think, the normal cruise speed is above Mach 4.5, and the ordinary flight speed is estimated to be supersonic. Moreover, some tasks performed by the phantom are estimated to be long-distance operations because of its combat radius.

Such operations can save energy, which is a good thing.

And in the process of thermoelectric power generation, it is consuming heat, and if possible, thermoelectric refrigeration can be combined.

This is equivalent to improving the high temperature resistance of the fighter during flight, and the cockpit environment where the pilot is located will also be better.

"We can experiment with this. If we can, it will play a great role in aerospace, especially for the re-entry module, as well as the re-entry shuttle, rocket, and even the power supply mode of satellite, etc." Professor Liu and they all took a deep breath.

They didn't expect that Jiang Yanhai came up with such a new material not long after he left. Although it was calculated from the research results of the materials research institute, it is also a new material

Because the properties and properties of materials have changed greatly, even completely different.

"It's troublesome for several professors. I may not have much time recently, but I think this material has great potential. In addition, they seem to be using this material in the research of controllable nuclear fusion, but I think the material they use is still not optimal. I'll try to calculate." Jiang Yanhai made a bottom first.

"Don't worry, these things will be left to us. I really don't know what to say about you. I feel that you can do everything. If you can really optimize, then we may be able to completely solve the controlled nuclear fusion." Professor Liu and their expressions became serious.




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