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Chapter 1007 Songjiang Machinery Expo

Songjiang Machinery Expo is the largest and most influential industrial product exhibition in the Chu Empire.

The first expo was held in Chengshun 28, and was held once every two years in the following years. The products exhibited in the early exhibitions were mainly various types of mechanical equipment used for production activities, such as various types of steam engines, general machine tool equipment, various processing equipment, etc. Etc., early trains and ships were included in the exhibition.

The early expos were mainly for the industrial sector, and those who came to participate in and watch the exhibitions were mainly industry insiders. Although they were also open to the public, they were too professional and the early expos did not pay much attention to appearance. , so the general public has little interest in it.

Later, the products exhibited were expanded to end-consumer industrial products, which are industrial products that ordinary people have daily access to.

At the same time, Songjiang Prefecture designed a very large exhibition hall in Yanjiang Park, and also introduced other non-industrial products and other random things, and even some unique craft products of indigenous people from overseas countries.

This has allowed the Songjiang Machinery Expo to gradually evolve into a very large expo that is open to both the industry and the public. Its exhibits include a variety of things, no longer limited to machinery and equipment or even industrial products... In recent years , the organizers of the expo are already thinking about changing the name, removing the word "machinery" from Songjiang Machinery Expo, and turning it into Songjiang Expo.

Whenever the exhibition opens, many local and even foreign people will come to participate, not for any reason, just to open their eyes.

The cumulative number of visitors to the expo every year can reach more than one million people...it's an exaggeration.

Even participating in an expo every two years has become a regular program for ordinary people in Songjiang Prefecture.

However, although the Songjiang Machinery Expo has become a grand event for almost all categories of products, and even for the public.

But the most valuable items in this expo are still various types of machinery and equipment.

At the Songjiang Machinery Expo held in Chengshun for 46 years, Hantian Machinery Company, the most powerful general machine tool manufacturer in China, exhibited their latest developed three-axis fully automatic machine tool (the so-called automatic machine controlled, not the CNC machine tools of later generations). This The machining precision of this thing is very high, and it is very efficient when used to continuously process the same kind of parts... This thing almost represents the highest general machine tool technology in the Dachu Empire.

Whether it is the cutting tools it uses or its unique fully automatic design, it represents the Empire's highest level of material technology and precision processing.

However, Hantian Machinery Company's biggest competitor, Li's Machine Tool Company, which has been eyeing the rear and has been catching up for decades, has also come up with products that are shocking. They use the latest electrification technology and use electric motors as Power, they developed the world's first electric drive machine tool, and in order to adapt the motor for speed control, they also specially invented a reduction gear.

This electric machine tool has also become a star product at the exhibition...not just because it is novel because it is electric, but because it can adjust the speed conveniently and quickly, and the vibration of the motor is smaller, and The size of the machine itself can also be reduced, making it very suitable for precision processing of small parts.

In addition to these two large general machine tool companies, some other machine tool companies have also come up with some of their own low-end products, such as Zhujiang General Equipment Company, a new general machine tool company that has emerged in recent years.

Although they have relatively poor technical background and insufficient accumulation of materials and processing accuracy, and cannot compare with the two leading general machine tool companies in terms of processing efficiency and processing accuracy, they have taken a different approach and are developing efforts in many special machine tool fields. Several special-purpose machine tools have been developed. Although these special-purpose machine tools can do relatively few things, they perform well in specific industries because they are specially optimized for a certain performance.

For example, their multi-axis drilling machine does a very good job. It can drill several holes at one time, which has a big advantage when used for processing multi-hole parts.

There are actually a few machine tool companies similar to Pearl River General Equipment Company.

Currently, in the Da Chu Empire, there are about a dozen medium and large-scale manufacturers engaged in general-purpose machine tools...and some are small and small, and some large enterprises build their own machine tools for their own use, not to mention.

So despite the fact that Hantian Machinery Company and Li's Machine Tool Company are very strong, with leading technologies and good product performance, relying on the empire's huge market, there is still a lot of market space to accommodate mid- to low-end machine tool manufacturers.

This is still talking about general machine tool manufacturers...not including manufacturers that produce various special machine tool equipment. If these are added, there will be too many.

Production equipment is not just general machine tools. In fact, a lot of production equipment in many industries are special equipment, or even customized equipment... For example, many oil extraction and refining equipment in the current petroleum industry are It is a specialized customized equipment.

The Dachu Empire is a country with a population of more than 6 million and a huge industrial system. There are many factories and all kinds of equipment required. This also provides a broad living space for many mechanical equipment manufacturers in the Dachu Empire. .

Various industrial power equipment can also be regarded as a series of production equipment, such as steam engines, electric motors, and industrial gas machines produced by Hekou Machinery Company.

Everyone has long been tired of seeing things like steam engines... Even if Tianjin Machinery Company exhibited their top research and development project: a prototype of a six-expansion steam engine, it failed to attract people's attention. Even many people, especially People in the industry don't have a good impression of this six-expansion steam engine... This thing is technically more difficult, and the R&D and production costs are extremely high, which means that the cost of use is also very high.

However, the thermal efficiency and even power it provides do not have much advantage.

You said that your six-expansion steam engine is very good and has high power... but yours is expensive. Other manufacturers might as well just buy two three-expansion steam engines and use them together, which is cheaper.

The steam engine is an old thing that can no longer attract much attention in the Dachu Empire... Although this thing is still very important, it is an indispensable part of the industrial production and transportation of the Dachu Empire!
Even the current electrification promotion must rely on steam engines... The electric motor must have electricity, and the electricity must be generated by a generator, and where does the power of the generator come from?

There are no hydropower stations yet, and they have great limitations. Therefore, the power supply of electrical equipment currently used on a small scale relies on coal-fired steam engines to drive generators to generate electricity. In short: boil water!
Therefore, even if the electrification era of the Great Chu Empire began, boiling water would still be indispensable.

Not to mention the contemporary Da Chu Empire, even in the 21st century, it has entered the so-called intelligent era, but energy supply cannot be separated from boiling water...

In the modern society of the 21st century, power supply is a top priority and is a necessary product for industrial manufacturing and people's livelihood.

In terms of power supply, so-called clean energy such as hydropower, wind power, and tidal power are only a small part of it. In most countries, power supply is supplied by thermal power plants, and some countries rely on thermal power plants. Supplied by nuclear fission power plants.

Thermal power plants in later generations mainly used steam turbines, but before steam turbines, ordinary steam engines were used, which are the ordinary multi-expansion steam engines currently used in the Dachu Empire.

Nuclear fission power plants, the conversion and utilization of nuclear energy, also need to boil water first, and then drive the steam turbine to generate electricity... Except for the process of nuclear fission, the rest is actually not much different from thermal power plants, they all boil water.

Coal-fired thermal power generation is the easiest way to obtain power!
As an aside, there is a term called carbon neutrality in later generations, which requires countries to control carbon dioxide emissions... At first glance, it seems to be for the sake of the global environment, with bluer skies and whiter clouds and so on...

But you have to know that if backward countries want to develop, they cannot do without power supply...

In terms of power supply, if backward countries want to provide large-scale nuclear fission power supply, don't expect it. This thing is not something you can do if you want to.

Hydropower is too restricted by region and cannot meet demand even if it is developed.

As for wind power, solar energy, tidal energy, and other messy so-called clean energy sources, you can just play around with them at the current technological stage, but don't take them seriously...

Therefore, if backward countries want to obtain electricity supply, they can basically rely on the cheapest and most easily available thermal power.

But unfortunately, Western countries have stopped exporting low-emission thermal power generation equipment for a long time... You said that you don't use the top thermal power generation equipment from big countries, but use your own crappy thermal power generation equipment. As for the emission exceeding the standard, it exceeds the standard. No, I don’t care.

If someone backhanded you and punished you... this would be disgusting.

There are no nuclear power plants, there is not enough hydropower, wind power and solar power are of no use, and thermal power is not allowed to be used... What should we do? Vietnam and a large number of other backward industrialized countries also want to ask what to do?
What else can we do, cold salad, power outages every three days... Vietnam knows this very well!
Behind this carbon neutrality...is actually a problem of power supply. For backward countries, if you want to catch up and develop, you can't do it without power supply.

But a big country will directly pull your power switch. If there is no power, you will just play with wool...

Even in the 21st century, power supply is indispensable, and it is equally important to develop electrified power supply in the Dachu Empire.

And the power supply requires the use of steam engines!
Not to mention that almost all other aspects of industrial production are inseparable from steam engines.

Therefore, although the steam engine is an old thing with no freshness, it is still the highlight of the exhibition at the Songjiang Machinery Expo. The three major steam engine manufacturers and more than a dozen ordinary steam engine manufacturers have launched various new products of their own, including Many of them are still project samples under research and development, just to win more customers. In terms of power, in the past few years, there were basically only steam engines, but last year, various electric motors appeared.

This year, a brand new exhibit appeared in the power field, which is the industrial gas machine of Hekou Machinery Company.

When the Hekou Machinery Company's industrial gas machine was put into prototype testing, many people in the industry who came to visit saw its stable and efficient operation, and then looked at the high thermal efficiency value. Many people's mouths were watering...

This thing is a good thing. Just because the thermal efficiency is so high, the subsequent daily fuel cost can be lowered. In addition, the gas machine has the unique advantages of small vibration, stability, and high speed.

And this thing is not as expensive as an electric motor, and the cost of use is also very high.

This means that industrial gas engines have great application prospects in some areas and industries, especially in areas with nearby gas plants and cheap gas supplies. This thing is much easier to use than steam engines, and it is also cheaper.

On the first day of the exhibition, hundreds of representatives from different manufacturers asked about the industrial gas machines of Hekou Machinery Company and took away the introduction materials.

In the following days, as the news spread, more manufacturer representatives came to consult. By the next day, Hekou Machinery Company also received its first order: fifteen high-power industrial gas turbines. machine.

In the following days, more manufacturers placed orders one after another, and soon the total order exceeded [-] units, which made the people at Hekou Machinery Company smile from ear to ear.

You must know that the industrial gas machines they bring to the market are not cheap items, but industrial gas machines specifically designed for industrial production. Moreover, you are not buying just one gas machine. In fact, you are selling a complete set of power supplies. solutions, as well as many other accompanying services.

Taken together, the price is not low, costing several hundred yuan per set.

The total value of this order of more than 200 sets reached more than [-] yuan.

The most important thing is that this is just the beginning. As the news of industrial gas machines spreads, and if the feedback from the first batch of users is good, more orders will follow.

At the same time, the steam engines they have launched now are just small-scale industrial gas engines. The price is several hundred yuan, which may be expensive for ordinary people, but it is not that expensive for industrial production.

Although it is more expensive than a steam engine with the same power, it is not much more expensive. Compared with an electric motor, it is simply a bargain.

In the Dachu Empire these days, anything related to electricity is extremely expensive.

This is an era when a light bulb costs 20 to [-] yuan... and the price of [-] to [-] yuan is the result of the price reduction in the past two years. Two years ago, the price of a light bulb was more than [-] yuan. Yuan.

Not only is power equipment expensive, but the cost of using it is also expensive... If you want to use an electric motor, you must first purchase a complete set of power generation and transmission equipment.

The power supply in the contemporary Dachu Empire does not form a so-called power grid. Companies purchase their own generating units and generate electricity for their own use.

Finally, there is the issue of talent... There are not many professional electrical talents in the job market these days. The electrical talents trained by the Empire in the early years are basically concentrated in the research field and are serious high-end technical talents.

In the practical application of electricity, what companies need to hire is not high-end talents who study electricity, but middle- and low-level talents who use, manage and maintain electrical equipment, um, for example, electricians.

As for these middle and low-level electrical talents, they had not been trained in major schools in the empire, especially in various technical colleges. It is only in the past two years that schools have begun to develop electrical majors and recruit students for training... This is the first time that they have begun to develop electrical majors. A group of technical students have not yet graduated.

Therefore, it is not easy for contemporary enterprises to find qualified electrical talents to manage, use and maintain these electrical equipment. It is also expensive to find just a few.

Equipment is expensive, usage costs are high, and labor costs are high. These ultimately lead to very high costs for companies when using power equipment.

The contemporary Dachu Empire is not a company with strong capital and high value-added production, so it cannot afford so-called power equipment.

It is estimated that it will take many years for it to be rolled out on a large scale.

But the gas engine is different... Although this thing is an internal combustion engine, it does not require any overly professional skills for simple use and daily maintenance. Equipment engineers in other industries can easily change careers after simply learning.

At the same time, there are also a large number of gas plants for gas supply.

In recent years in the Great Chu Empire, a large number of cities have adopted so-called gas lighting, using gas lamps as street lights. At the same time, in recent years, some areas have also begun to use gas for daily cooking and boiling water...that is, pipe gas. However, at present, various technologies are not too mature, the cost is high, and the risks of use are still relatively high.

At present, the indoor lighting of ordinary people in the empire basically uses whale oil and the now popular kerosene. When cooking and heating water, urban residents use briquettes, and rural residents generally burn wood directly.

Gas... is actually something that has a relatively narrow scope of use, a relatively high cost, and a relatively high safety risk.

Especially when used indoors...it's very dangerous!
But even so, gas was still a fuel used on a large scale in the Dachu Empire. It was basically used for street lighting in cities.

For example, in Songjiang City, almost every road has gas lamps to provide lighting.

In order to meet the gas supply required by these gas lamps, there are many professional gas factories in Songjiang City that produce gas by refining coal.

The fuel used by the gas machine... is also the gas needed for this ordinary lighting gas lamp.

Therefore, if there is a gas factory nearby, the gas can be introduced through the gas pipeline connection and then used to drive the gas machine for industrial production.

In addition, there are some very large factories, such as coking coal plants, steel plants, etc., which generate a large amount of coke oven gas during the production process.

The steel industry is often accompanied by the coking industry, so the steel industry is also the industry that currently orders the most industrial gas machines... People just hold on, since their own gas is free anyway.

Some steel plants are even far away from urban areas. Because they are far away from urban areas, the gas cannot be transported to the city through pipelines and sold. If it is canned, the cost is high and there is no market competitiveness. Many times in some remote steel plants, the additional product coke oven gas produced is directly ignited and burned. If it is not burned, it will spread to the entire factory area and cause carbon monoxide poisoning.

There are also some companies studying the use of by-products in the coking process, such as coke oven gas and coking oil, to extract various other chemical products.

In short, for these steel industries, because of the existence of the coking industry, they are also the most active in ordering the use of gas machines.

Anyway, for them, their own gas is burned if not used, and using it in a gas machine is equivalent to recycling waste, which is very cost-effective.

In addition to the steel industry, other companies that order gas machines are also companies with convenient gas supply and relatively special power requirements.

Generally speaking, the current industrial gas engines are relatively niche power products and are far less applicable than steam engines.

But this is just the beginning. It not only opens up the practical application of a special niche category such as industrial gas engines, but represents a big step forward in the entire field of internal combustion engines towards practical applications!

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