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Chapter 411 Hydrogen Engine Manufacturing Begins

As some parts began to be processed and manufactured, McQuay's engineers found that something was wrong. There were some problems in the processing of a few parts, such as the fan blades of the engine.

This is a wide-chord fan blade, and the blade design is completely different from ordinary fan blades. It is the first time that McQuay's technicians have come into contact with such a blade design.At the beginning, after reading the design drawings of this engine, many people's eyes lit up, and they were amazed that the fan blades could be designed in this way.

These fan blades are starting to go into manufacturing.

The fan blades are made of a high-strength composite material. Of course, McVay does not have this material, but there are similar high-strength composite materials. They agree that it is no problem to use this similar high-strength composite material instead.

And for the sake of prudence, after repeated strength calculations, life calculations, etc., there is no problem at all, and this kind of similar high-strength composite material is completely applicable.

However, this is not the case when it comes to processing. The pass rate of the blades is actually zero. The first batch of fan blades that were fed were all wiped out, not even a single pass.

A large group of senior engineers are meeting, analyzing, discussing, hoping to find out the reasons, and even guessing, how the Leihuo Technology Industrial Group processes and manufactures, what are their process routes, process parameters, etc.

The problematic parts are not only fan blades, but also turbine blades.

The LH165 turbine blades are made of titanium-aluminum alloy.As the world's military industry giant, they can successfully develop the F-22 fighter jet. They also have titanium-aluminum alloys, which have been used in the manufacture of some aero-engine turbine blades.

They soon discovered that their titanium-aluminum alloy could not be used to make the turbine blades of the LH165 turbine engine.

Because the temperature before the turbine of this engine has exceeded the highest critical value that their titanium-aluminum alloy can withstand high temperatures.

Titanium-aluminum alloys have a characteristic. Once the temperature exceeds a certain critical value, the strength will drop sharply. Obviously, their titanium-aluminum alloys cannot be used to manufacture the turbine blades of the LH165 turbofan engine.

Their engineers have been thinking about alternatives, such as using nickel-based superalloys, but found that nickel-based superalloys are even more unable to withstand such high temperatures.

There are not only fan blades and turbine blades that have problems one after another, but also various problems with other parts, and they are generally important and critical parts.

in the office.

Howard is listening to the reports of several subordinates, including the chief engineer and chief technical expert of Mikeville Company.

"Your Excellency, so far, various problems have been found in 11 key and important parts, and the entire processing process is not as smooth as we originally predicted."

After listening to the report, Howard's face became serious.

To be honest, he is in a good mood these days. Not only has he obtained the technology of the LH165 engine he dreamed of, but the company's stock has also risen slightly.

In his view, the future development prospects of McVay are very strong, and he even considers using this engine on the F-22 fighter.

Their technical experts have conducted a comprehensive evaluation, and there is a high probability that it will pass. This engine should have no problem as the power of the F-22 fighter, and it is better than the original engine.

Originally it was bright, but unexpectedly there was a problem in the processing and manufacturing of parts.

After listening to the report, with a gloomy face, Howard said slowly after a long time, "Is Leihuo Technology and Industry Group fooling us, and there is something wrong with their design materials?"

The chief technical expert replied, "It should be impossible. We have carefully reviewed the entire set of design documents, and there is no problem at all. It is indeed the design and technical documents of the LH165 turbofan engine."

Howard said, "Then why are there so many problems exposed during the processing of these parts?"

"Your Excellency, President, we think it is a problem of processing technology. Leihuo Technology Industrial Group should have a complete set of very scientific and advanced process technology data. I suggest buying this set of process technology data."

Hearing this, Howard was so angry that he almost vomited blood!

Tell me this at this time, do you have a brain?

Now that the face has been completely torn apart, McVay also specially held a global press conference, announcing in a high-profile manner that it has joined the World Aviation Industry Alliance, and it is also the initiator of the alliance's establishment.

It is impossible to purchase a complete set of process technical data for this engine from Leihuo Technology Industrial Group.

Why did he only buy the design technical data and not the process technical data at the beginning? It is due to Howard’s self-confidence in the end. He believes that McQuay’s technical strength is strong. As long as he has a complete set of design technical data, he will be able to manufacture this engine.

It seems that this is not the case now!
Given them a complete set of design and technical information, it is estimated that this engine will not be able to be produced.

Howard's face became gloomy again, and he said fiercely, "I don't care, the technical department must try its best to manufacture various parts as soon as possible."

This is a little unreasonable.

But he is the president of the company, so no one dares to object to what he said. People like chief technical experts and chief engineers can only leave the office under pressure, thinking about how to manufacture these parts smoothly in their minds.

Rayfire Turboshaft Engine Manufacturing Company.

In the big meeting room, there are at least 100 people sitting there. The company's high-level executives, technical backbones, etc. are all sitting here.

Lin Feng presided over the meeting in person and personally arranged the production and manufacturing of various parts of the hydrogen energy engine. On the table in the meeting room, there were more than 100 technical procedures, corresponding to more than 100 key and important parts.

First announced the confidentiality discipline, and then Lin Feng said loudly, "Starting today, the production of the first batch of parts for this hydrogen engine will start. There are a total of 132 drawing numbers, all of which are relatively critical and important parts."

After talking about it, Lin Feng also talked about the processing and manufacturing of several important and key parts. Through the slide projector, he displayed the technical materials of the process and manufacturing in front of everyone.

Every process step, every process parameter, including the process method are clear.

"Awesome, this is the process specification compiled by Mr. Lin himself!"

"It's so standard, it feels more standard than our previous process regulations!"

"This is the template, and the craftsmanship of other parts is based on this as a reference standard!"

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The first process specification was displayed, and when Lin Feng started to tell everyone about the processing and manufacturing of this important part, the originally quiet conference room was slightly commotion, and it took a while for it to gradually quiet down.

Lin Feng spoke for more than an hour, and then the meeting was adjourned. The production of this hydrogen engine officially started at Leihuo Turboshaft Engine Company!
After the meeting adjourned, several senior executives of Leihuo Turboshaft Engine Company, as well as several technical directors and production directors stayed.

For everyone, there is one more important task.

Lin Feng said, "A series of production preparations need to be carried out immediately, including feeding materials, division of labor, production and manufacturing arrangements and organization, etc. You are responsible for these matters, and I only look at the results."

Everyone nodded one after another. Of course, the boss does not need to do these things by himself.

Lin Feng continued, "After the official mass production of hydrogen energy engines, the future production volume will be very large. It is estimated that the monthly production of thousands of units will not be able to meet the needs of the market. We have to start a lot of work in advance now."

Everyone agrees!

This is an epoch-making product. Once it comes out, it will surely replace aero-engines powered by burning chemical fuels, various large internal combustion engines, etc., and it will be widely used not only in the field of aviation industry, but also in other fields.

What is the monthly production of a few units? It is estimated that the monthly production of tens of thousands of units will not be able to meet the demand, and the supply will still exceed the demand.

Lin Feng knew that it was impossible to produce tens of thousands of units a month at once. Once mass production started, he set a small goal first, that is, to produce [-] units a month, and then move towards [-] units.

To achieve this volume, some work needs to start now.

Lin Feng said, "Leihuo Turboshaft Engine Company currently only has one assembly plant, which is absolutely not enough. After the hydrogen engine enters mass production, we put all the general parts outside for processing, and we are only responsible for key and important parts. manufacturing, as well as the final assembly of hydrogen engines."

This hydrogen engine has a total of tens of thousands of parts with drawing numbers. In the future, it is estimated that only a few hundred important and key parts will be manufactured by Leihuo Technology Industrial Group, and more than [-]% of the other parts will be manufactured and provided by various suppliers. To Leihuo Technology Industry Group.

At that time, a complete industrial chain will be formed and a huge industrial cluster will be formed. Leihuo Technology Industrial Group is the leader of this industrial cluster.

Lin Feng told everyone a lot.

It not only talked about the future industrial chain management, but also talked about the expansion of Leihuo Turboshaft Engine Company's factory area. It took a few months to build about two more assembly plants.

In addition, there is also the production and manufacture of the assembly line.

Leihuo turboshaft engine will participate in the production and manufacturing of the assembly line, but it is not the main body. It is mainly in charge of Leihuo Equipment Branch. They are more professional and have a complete set of design drawings, process and technical data. There is no technical difficulty in manufacturing such an assembly line.

For several days in a row, Lin Feng was very busy.

In addition to guiding the design and development of this hydrogen energy engine, he personally took care of the production and manufacturing of various parts.

A few days later, Lin Feng arrived in Shenhai City again.

Those who took the helicopter directly boarded a 'Tianlong' transport helicopter directly from the roof of the Phoenix Building, arrived in Shenhai City in more than two hours, and landed directly on the roof of the Leihuo Technology Building.

The roof of this building has a great face, four helicopter positions have been planned, and the entire building has basically been renovated and can basically be put into use.

The helicopter landed and stopped.

Lin Feng got off the helicopter, and there were already many people standing there to greet him on the roof. In addition to Yunquyang, there were also several senior executives from Leihuo turbofan engine and several senior executives from Leihuo Equipment Branch.

Along with Lin Feng, there are also a large amount of technical information, including the design and manufacturing technical information of this assembly line, and the process regulations of this hydrogen engine with more than 100 drawing numbers.

"Boss, hello!"

"Hi boss!"

Everyone stepped forward and shook hands with Lin Feng respectfully.

After shaking hands, Lin Feng waved and said, "Come on, let's go to the meeting room, now we have a meeting."

The 111th to 118th floors of the building will be the new headquarters of Leihuo Technology Industry Group. At present, all decorations have been completed, and all kinds of office equipment are basically complete.

In fact, the whole building is already ready for use, and there is no rush to move here. Lin Feng mainly leaves a little time for ventilation, and waits for the smell of decoration to dissipate before moving in to work.

This is a conference room on the 118th floor.

This floor will also be the place where the senior executives of Leihuo Technology Industrial Group work. In addition to more than a dozen ultra-luxury large offices, there are also several meeting rooms of various sizes, as well as reception rooms and lounges.

The decoration is luxurious.

Carpets are even laid on the floor of the corridors, and the carpets laid in the offices are even more high-end. They are all imported and the prices are not cheap.

Everyone sat down in the meeting room, and Lin Feng held a meeting for everyone in person.

The content of the meeting was similar to the meeting held at Leihuo Turboshaft Engine a few days ago. It mainly focused on the production and manufacture of some parts of the hydrogen energy engine, as well as the manufacture of the assembly production line, and asked Leihuo Turbofan Engine Company to build another assembly plant. , and remodeled an assembly plant.

On the basis of one of the largest production and manufacturing plants at present, it will be transformed into a hydrogen engine assembly plant. In this way, Leihuo Turbofan Engine Company will have three large assembly plants.

After this meeting, Turbofan Engine Company started the production of certain important and main components of hydrogen energy engines, and Leihuo Equipment Branch started the manufacture of hydrogen energy engine assembly lines.

Leihuo Technology Industrial Group has entered the era of hydrogen energy engines!

Although the secrecy of the matter is very high, there are still many people in the military who know this exciting situation. For example, Xie Kangquan went to Leihuo Technology Industrial Group in person.

First arrived at the Phoenix Building, a group of seven or eight of them sat in the reception room and chatted with Lin Feng and others for a long time. The content was the design and development of this hydrogen engine, as well as the production and manufacture of parts.

"Mr. Lin, it seems that the production of this hydrogen engine has started!"

Lin Feng nodded and said, "Yes, it's officially started. Design, R&D and production are going hand in hand. We plan to use about half a year to manufacture the first hydrogen engine, and then enter mass production in the first half of next year!"

What exciting news!
It will enter mass production in the first half of next year!

Lin Feng continued, "In addition to this hydrogen engine, we will design and develop several models of hydrogen engines, with power levels ranging from 10000KW to 10KW, which should be 10000KW, 20000KW, 50000KW, and 100000KW. Power level!"

In this way, the coverage of power levels is relatively wide, not only meeting the needs of the aviation industry, but also other industries can use these hydrogen engines.

After sitting together and chatting for a while, Xie Kangquan obviously became interested and proposed to go to Leihuo Aero Engine Design Center and Leihuo Turboshaft Engine Company to have a look.

Lin Feng hesitated for a while, but finally agreed. They are all members of the military, so there shouldn't be a problem of leaking secrets. Since the production of this hydrogen engine has already started, it doesn't matter if some things are known.

A group of people left the Phoenix Building and first went to Leihuo Aviation Engine Design Center to see the design of this engine.

To everyone's surprise, they actually saw the color picture of this hydrogen engine.

"Wow, this is a hydrogen engine!"

"So it looks like this!"

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Everyone was pleasantly surprised and looked at this color picture for a long time. Lin Feng also introduced this hydrogen engine to everyone based on this color picture.

After looking around at Leihuo Aviation Engine Design Center, everyone went to Leihuo Turboshaft Engine Company next door and saw some hydrogen engine parts being produced.

After a visit, Xie Kangquan and others happily returned to the capital in the afternoon. After returning, they must report some information about the hydrogen engine to the higher authorities.

With the production and manufacture of this engine parts, some insiders in the domestic aviation industry finally heard about this engine.

However, basically the understanding of this hydrogen engine is limited. They only know that Leihuo Technology Industrial Group is designing and developing a hydrogen engine, but most people don't know what kind of engine it is.

Everyone even agreed that this is an engine powered by hydrogen combustion, but they never thought of using controllable nuclear fusion technology.

Even Wang Tianfang is no exception.

They had just finished their office meeting, and after the meeting ended, some high-level executives did not leave the meeting room immediately, but sat there smoking and chatting, including Wuyou.

Because the meeting was over, it was relatively easy to just chat, and the chat soon came to Leihuo Technology Industry Group.

A high-level person said, "I heard that Leihuo Technology Industrial Group is designing and developing hydrogen energy engines. Have you heard of it?"

"No, what is a hydrogen engine!"

"I've heard of such a thing, but I don't know what kind of engine it is."

"It must be an engine that burns hydrogen. It seems that some experts have put forward some theories about this engine before, but they have remained at the theoretical stage."

"As expected of Leihuo Technology Industrial Group, it has come to the forefront of everyone again. The engine powered by hydrogen combustion is estimated to be more advanced."

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Wang Tianfang was just smoking and didn't say anything. Hearing everyone's words, he gradually became a little curious and thought in his heart, should he call Mr. Lin later to learn about this engine.

He also heard about this engine two days ago, and knew that Leihuo Technology Industrial Group was designing and developing a hydrogen energy engine, but he also didn't know much about what kind of engine it was.

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