Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 406 Microgravity Laboratory
After Huang Haojie, Zhang Haifeng and others explained a few words, they were sent to the laboratory area of ​​the space station.

"Qingsong, where are you from in the north?" Huang Haojie chatted with Liao Qingsong who led the way.

"I'm from Luoyang."

"I didn't go home during the Spring Festival, did I miss my family?"

"The network signal of the space station is very good. I often use holographic communication with my family, just like at home."

"Living on the space station, is there any inconvenience?"

Liao Qingsong thought for a while, and said with some embarrassment: "It is inconvenient to go to the toilet."

"Haha, what's so embarrassing, you have to raise this issue with the Universe Development Committee and let them find a way to solve it." Huang Haojie laughed.

"We have reported this to the Space Development Council."

While chatting, the two of them had arrived in the laboratory area before they knew it.

"Okay, Qingsong, go back and do your own business!"

"Chairman, if you have anything to do, call, I'll go first." After speaking, Liao Qingsong lightly pushed the bulkhead, and the whole person floated forward.

Huang Haojie knocked on the hatch and entered the password.

Bark!The airtight hatch opened slowly.

This cabin is the comprehensive cabin among the 14 laboratory cabins in the upper area, and it is mainly used for scientific research personnel to rest, discuss and hold meetings.

The entire New Kaohsiung Space Station is divided into three floors. There are 17 cabins on the upper floor, which is the laboratory area; 32 cabins on the middle floor, which are the general control, energy, living, and material storage areas; Material reserve replenishment area.

The new Kaohsiung space station looks like a double-topped top, with six top corners forming a football shape, which is to facilitate the protection of the condensed matter shield generator.

The top of the upper and lower layers is the electromagnetic field generator, which is set up to isolate some cosmic rays. As for why not use a shield generator with a stronger isolation effect.

The main issue is energy. Before the nuclear fusion reactor was equipped with the space station, their energy could only be used in a small amount. The shield generator of the energy-hungry consumer would exhaust the reserve power of the space station after being turned on for an hour. This kind of thing It is used at critical moments.

At this time, in the No. 52 cabin of the comprehensive cabin, two researchers were discussing something, and suddenly the door of the airtight cabin was opened.

"Chairman." The two reacted instantly and greeted quickly
"You're welcome, I just came to see your experiments."

"We are all very happy that the chairman can come here, but outer space is not safe after all, and we are a little worried." The bald-headed researcher in his 40s persuaded.

Huang Haojie glanced at his nameplate [Materials - Advanced - Ye Haisheng], and another younger researcher was [Materials - Advanced - Hu Chao].

"Don't worry, my body is a stand-in robot." Huang Haojie explained.

"Stand-in robot?" The two of them observed carefully, but they still didn't find any flaws.

With a click, Huang Haojie took off his palm at once, exposing some electronic components inside, and put it back again.

"It's unbelievable that it is exactly the same as a real person. If there is no special testing equipment, it will be a real one." Hu Chao raised his glasses and said.

"Okay, let's not discuss this, what project are you working on now?" Huang Haojie asked, changing the subject.

Ye Haisheng quickly reported: "Hu Chao and I are working on material properties in a microgravity environment. Another group of Huang Jincai and Dong Fei are working on the vacuum smelting project, and Dr. Li Nan from the Life Research Institute is working on the space disease project."

"So that's it, which cabin is the vacuum smelting laboratory?" Huang Haojie asked.

"Cabinets 57, 58, and 59 are all within the scope of the vacuum smelting laboratory. I'll call Jin Cai and Dong Fei over." Ye Haisheng said and was about to pick up the communicator.

Huang Haojie stopped him: "No need, I'll just watch their experiment videos and materials here, don't disturb them."

"Ok."

Huang Haojie logged into the internal network of the laboratory of the New Kaohsiung Space Station, and looked at the space smelting research of Huang Jincai and Dong Fei's team.

Judging from these internal experimental data, the problem of space smelting lies in the problem of vacuum heat dissipation. Once the furnace is mass-produced, heat accumulation will be unavoidable.

In outer space, in order to dissipate heat, spacecraft generally use radiation cooling panels. The space station we often see has a lot of solar panels on it, but have you found that there are some similar to solar panels besides black solar panels? silver white plate.

These silver-white plates are radiation heat dissipation plates, and the artificial satellite achieves heat dissipation effect through its own special design.

Watching the experiment video of Dong Fei and Dong Fei, the gold talent, in a sealed electric furnace, the ore collected from Iron Star No. [-] was put into the electric furnace.

It took only about 15 minutes for the powerful electric furnace to melt the ore, but the equipment responsible for monitoring the temperature quickly alerted that the temperature of the furnace was rising rapidly.

This is the phenomenon of heat accumulation, and the experiment was forced to stop. The only time they succeeded in smelting was by reducing the power of the electric furnace, melting the ore slowly while quickly dissipating heat through the radiation cooling plate.

The problem is that this method not only has a very slow smelting speed, but also consumes a lot of energy, which is equivalent to about 3 to 4 times the energy consumption of smelting on the ground of Blue Star, which is simply not worth the candle.

Huang Haojie looked through their experimental materials for a long time, and found that they had tried many methods, but the heat dissipation in vacuum was too difficult, and the experimental results were quite unsatisfactory.

Turning off the holographic computer, he was thinking while floating in mid-air.

Suddenly he thought of a way, turned a somersault, Huang Haojie opened the holographic bracelet, and redesigned an electric melting furnace with Zhong's assistance.

[Thermoelectric power generation self-circulation electric melting furnace] This is the name of this plan. His idea is to add a thermoelectric power generation system to the electric furnace, use the heat that is difficult to dissipate to generate electricity, and then reinvest the electric energy produced by these thermoelectric power generation systems into The electric furnace is working.

However, there is a prerequisite for this plan. The thermoelectric power generation technology must have a breakthrough. It is best to increase the ZT value of the thermoelectric material to 20, so that the thermoelectric conversion efficiency can reach about 40%.

The thermoelectric power generation system cooperates with the radiation cooling system, which can not only complete rapid heat dissipation, but also save energy.

After all, recycling 40% of the electric energy at one time is equivalent to saving 70-80% of the energy, so that the cost of smelting is almost the same as that of the ground.

He looked again at the research progress of the Institute of Materials Research on thermoelectric materials. With all their efforts, they have refreshed the ZT value to 11.

After reading the thermoelectric power generation system is just around the corner.

He turned around and found that Ye Haisheng and Hu Chao had left, and the researcher in the comprehensive cabin was Dr. Li Nan from the Life Research Institute.

"Dr. Li, is the experiment done?"

Dr. Li Nan, who was inputting data on the computer, was stunned for a moment: "Eh... Chairman, I just finished an experiment, and I don't want to disturb you when I see you thinking."

"Haha, it doesn't matter, what experiment are you doing?"

"Osteoporotic issues in microgravity."

"It's calcium depletion disease!"

Li Nan nodded.

Suddenly the police sounded loudly.

[alarm!alarm!Red alert, everyone is on red alert. ]
(End of this chapter)