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Chapter 159 The Truth About Natural Gas Leaks (Add more, please subscribe)
Opening the valve to release the liquefied natural gas, which could explode at any time, is quite dangerous.

Even if you go to a gas station, you can't answer the phone. If you scan the QR code to pay, you have to go to the cashier. You can't be next to the gas machine, because you are afraid of causing a terrible fire.

When Anthony and the others disembarked from the Golden Horn, it was actually not suitable to use the radio to call, but they were in a hurry at the time, so they didn't care so much. Of course, if they were more careful, they would still find the problem.

Now, it would be dangerous for Qin Tao and the others to really open the valve to let the natural gas leak out. If a person is employed, it will be even more difficult for this person to leave after the valve is opened.

This person is at great risk.This time, I really want to take a risk.

Can it be remote controlled by radio?

Of course not, the radio may cause an explosion!
What is safer to use?

Of course it's something as old as a clockwork!
Most of the agricultural single-cylinder diesel engines are started by hand, and it is not cost-effective to install an electric starter. , has already begun to appear.

This kind of clockwork-driven thing can start the diesel engine, and naturally it can also unscrew the valve of the natural gas pipeline, and then add a small clockwork timing device outside, even if it is only set for half a month, it is more than enough. Allowing the installer to leave at his leisure.

For Qin Tao, who is ingenious and ingenious, it only takes one night to make such a thing.

Director Wang nodded: "If you need our help, just talk, and we can provide repair tools and so on."

Qin Tao shook his head: "I don't need these, but I want someone from you."

"No problem, who do you want?"

"Zhou Yongfei."

Director Wang was startled, and then he understood: "You, have you already figured it out? Okay, I'll give you this person."

Who is Zhou Yongfei?Cong Ju's husband!

Cong Ju is now stationed in Mingzhou Shipyard. Judging by the posture, it is estimated that Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou. Qin Tao does not intend to return Cong Ju, especially taking away Cong Ju's two children. Sima Zhaozhi Heart.

Zhou Yongfei has been working at Huating Shipyard all the time. This time Qin Tao wanted someone, so he gave it to him, and let his family go to Mingzhou for a reunion.

In the evening, Sotirio came again and brought the ship repair contract and transfer records to Qin Tao in a low spirit. After Qin Tao called Mingzhou Shipyard to confirm, a ship repair business was completed. Here we go.

After seeing off Sotirio, Qin Tao was about to go to bed, when there was another hasty knock on the door outside, and when he opened the door, it was Jin Ming and others.

"President Qin, this is Boss Zhang of our company." Jin Ming said excitedly, "We came here specially to thank you."

"Yes," Zhang Wei held Qin Tao's hand tightly: "We have completed the responsibility demarcation with the Serbian people, and they took the initiative to compensate us. Mr. Qin, this is all due to you, so, We have decided that all the compensation will be transferred to you, which is what you deserve."

Without Qin Tao, they would still have to go to court, and they might have to pay the foreigners. Now that Qin Tao has won compensation for them, they are still very sensible.

Qin Tao shook his head: "We can pay for the 100 million rescue fee, but the remaining 400 million..."

"President Qin, please accept it too!" Zhang Wei said.

"You don't get paid for nothing, how about you order a ship from our shipyard and use the money as a deposit?" Qin Tao said.

It’s embarrassing to ask for money directly, and some people will gossip, so it’s justifiable to use it as a deposit for a new ship. Moreover, it’s just a deposit, and Zhang Wei and the others will have to pay for it later.

"Order ships? Our company has no such plan at present." Zhang Wei was a little embarrassed.

"Come on, come in and tell me, do you want to have a [-]-ton freighter that can sail into the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River and can also sail on the sea?" Qin Tao asked Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei's eyes suddenly lit up.

The earth is the home of human beings. 70.00% of the planet is surrounded by sea water. Therefore, human beings have built various ships and sailed around the world.

However, these ships are also differentiated.

Some ships can only sail on the vast sea. If they enter the river, they will get stuck because the draft is too deep.

This is contradictory.

For China, the most important thing is the Yangtze River shipping.

As the longest river in the motherland, the Yangtze River originates from the west of the motherland and flows eastward to the sea. Along the banks of the Yangtze River, there are also large cities with urgent transportation needs.

The waterway on the Yangtze River is even called the golden waterway of the motherland.

Before the 60s, ships sailing at sea could still go upstream along the Yangtze River for [-] nautical miles. If it came to the flood season, ships with [-] tons could sail directly to Wuhan, and ships with [-] tons could only sail to Shashi. .

However, since the construction of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge and other chains, the [-]-ton freighter has been stuck in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It can only circle around the estuary, and cannot enter the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River at all.

Therefore, if goods imported from abroad want to be transported to the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, they can only be transshipped by inland ships at ports in Huating and other places.

Such a transshipment will greatly increase the cost of logistics, and the transportation time will also become longer.

If there is a [-]-ton freighter that can transport goods from abroad and directly drive to the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, that would be great!
Looking at the brilliance in Zhang Wei's eyes, Qin Tao knew that he had succeeded in impressing him.

"Here, I have a special design idea for a shallow-draft large-scale river-sea direct cargo ship. It is the first in the world, and its displacement can reach 1.2 tons." Qin Tao said, "Do you want to order one?"

"Okay, let's order one. If the performance is good, we will continue to order in the future." Zhang Wei made up his mind.

Well, another one has been finalized!In this way, after driving back to his own floating dock, he can also use it.

However, the design is really a big problem, Qin Tao can't do it alone!
We have to recruit a group of people and set up a special design department!
Qin Tao is thinking about the future development of the shipbuilding group.

The next day, a tugboat left the shipyard and headed for the waters where the liquefied gas ship Golden Horn is located.

This is thanks to those reporters who hired helicopters to fly over every day to check the situation and help locate it by the way, otherwise, it would be really hard to find.

Qin Tao climbed the rope ladder and led several people onto the Golden Horn. Looking at the big balls on it, everyone was full of interest.

"Qin Gong, can we build this kind of boat ourselves?" Zhou Yongfei asked.

He already knew that Qin Tao was going to leave him, so today he took the initiative to ask to come out with him on a mission.

Zhou Yongfei is a mechanic, he can operate all kinds of machinery and equipment, Qin Tao invented the clockwork-driven valve opening machine, which he turned from blueprint into reality, at this time, he was a little envious.

As a person in the industry, he knows the difficulty of building this kind of special liquefied gas ship. This kind of ship is simply the Mount Everest of civilian ships.

"Not yet, but it will be soon." Qin Tao said, "Let's go down."

On the surface, there are large tanks exposed one by one. In fact, they are shields made of steel plates. Below them are aluminum alloy tanks and various pipelines.

At this time, the white mist was still coming out from under the shield. When Qin Tao walked over, Zhou Yongfei grabbed him: "Be careful of frostbite!"

If the liquefied petroleum gas in the gas tank at home can become liquid at room temperature, this liquefied natural gas can be liquefied at minus 100 degrees, (to be precise, it can be liquefied at minus 80 degrees, but in fact, when it is stored, it is all below zero More than 100 degrees) Even if it turns into gas, it still has a cold air.

"Frostbite?" Qin Tao smiled, stretched out his hand, waved it in the air, and passed through the white mist, as if nothing happened?
what happened?

Zhou Yongfei was very curious. It was only when Qin Tao turned off a certain device that everyone walked down that Zhou Yongfei suddenly realized.

That's it!

What Qin Tao turned off was an industrial humidifier.

Household humidifiers did not become popular until the 21st century, when people lived in buildings and the heating was very dry in winter as people's living standards improved. However, industrial air humidifiers became popular in the 30s. Appeared, in addition to being used in medical treatment, there is a humidifier in the ventilator to make the patient comfortable, it is also used in the textile, printing and automobile industries, etc., where there will be static interference, special industrial equipment must be equipped. humidifier.

Because it is industrial-grade, it has a strong sustainable ability, and it does not need to add water for half a month. At the same time, it releases a lot of water vapor, which can be clearly seen from the outside, as if the MOSS tank here is leaking. .

At the very beginning, the liquefied gas ship leaked due to the rapid starboard full rudder. A batch did appear, but it would disappear soon. There will be mishaps.

So, that night, Qin Tao brought people over once, and installed an industrial air humidifier. In this way, white smoke was emitted every day, and the people of Botim Transportation Company did not dare to approach it at all.

In fact, if the other party had actively rescued its own crew after the collision occurred, Qin Tao would never have done so, but the other party's actions made Qin Tao angry, and he had to give the other party a A lesson you will never forget!

Now, the device has finally fulfilled its mission.

Everyone got busy, found the valve of the tank, installed the clockwork device, connected the pipe, and poked it directly to a large round pipe outside. It was shaped like a tractor chimney and protruded five or six meters to the side of the hull.

It was done in ten minutes, everyone evacuated, and only the clockwork was moving around.

Half an hour later, boom!

The wind-up timer reaches the time and drives the pull rod, so the super spring of the wind-up starter turns.

Buzz!
Through the reduction gear, the energy of the clockwork is transferred to the valve, the valve creaks open, and the liquefied natural gas in the MOSS tank comes out with noise.

(I don’t know if this operation will work, but even if a [-]-ton crane is installed on the Shenzhou, it is impossible to lift the tank full of liquefied gas, so there is no way but to remove the liquefied gas inside first. Let go, oh, waste, waste is a crime)
A stream of white liquefied natural gas erupted from it.

It was originally a liquid, but after it came out, it entered the air and immediately turned into a gas, forming a huge white smoke. If someone was in the white smoke, it would probably turn into a popsicle in an instant.

When laying the pipeline, Qin Tao had planned to lay it in the direction of the downwind, so that the emitted natural gas was just far away from the hull, but the white gas still rushed towards the hull during the process of spreading.

"The sea seems to be freezing!"

On the tugboat that was far away, everyone used binoculars to watch the scene on the sea surface, and saw white ice cubes appearing on the sea surface amidst the white air, gradually agglomerating and getting bigger and bigger.

"Oops, there shouldn't be any accidents, right?" Zhou Yongfei was a little worried, in case the ship was damaged...

"It has been added to the contract long ago. This is a dangerous operation. Therefore, if something unexpected happens, we will not be responsible, and the other party cannot claim compensation from us for it." Qin Tao said.

Zhou Yongfei was surprised for a while, the other party could agree to this kind of contract terms?

Qin Tao smiled and didn't say anything. The other party had no choice but to ask his own side for help. Because the weather is good, a storm may really appear.

Either the ship sinks, or the dead horse becomes a living horse doctor, what else can the other party do?
The scene was incomparably spectacular, but unfortunately no helicopter pilot dared to fly over to let reporters take pictures. The concentration of natural gas in this sea area is too high, and it may explode at any time.

Within a day, the natural gas in the first tank was completely released, a piece of ice the size of a football field formed on the sea surface, and the entire ship was frozen, which looked very spectacular. However, the next day It melts away in the morning.

Eight days later, the concentration of natural gas here was so low that it was difficult to detect it. Under the urging of Sotirio, Qin Tao finally decided to start two days in advance and take his Shenzhou floating dock to earn a huge fortune of 2000 million US dollars. business.

The spherical shell on the top of the Golden Horn natural gas ship was hoisted away, and the tank was disassembled. That night, the lifting work was over. The silver-white aluminum alloy tank was hoisted on the open space of the floating dock. Then, the floating dock Sink and separate from the gas ship.

"President Qin, throwing this jar into the sea is too wasteful, isn't it?" Zhou Yongfei said.

"Of course, of course we have to transport the jar back. We'll do our own research to see if Sister Cong Ju can weld it out." Qin Tao said.

Anthony and the others happily drove the castrated natural gas ship and continued to drive away. Who cares about the extra things in Qin Tao's floating dock. The floating dock completed the repair task on the same day. Taking advantage of the night, sail all the way south and return to Mingzhou Shipyard.

(End of this chapter)