Homo sapiens.

Calling out new materials that could be used, he carefully studied them again, and then began to replace the materials.

This is not a casual thing.

Or, you can do whatever you want, and you'll just waste some of the performance potential of these new materials.

For example, after using new materials, the thickness of the inner wall of the engine combustion chamber does not need to be the same as before. According to Mu Ziying's careful calculation, the thickness can be reduced to 63.7% of the original, which is enough to withstand the long-term deflagration shock wave.

For an aircraft, the dead weight of the airframe is often a matter of pennies.

Reducing the dead weight means increasing the payload and range of the aircraft.

Before, Mu Ziying didn't quite understand what the company was doing by acquiring the production line of classic fighter jets like the MiG 25, but now he understands.

With the support of these new materials, the MiG 25 production line is the most cost-effective choice.

After all, the cost of advanced fighter jets currently in service in various countries is ridiculously high, let alone buying production lines.

Small countries simply cannot afford the advanced fighter jet production lines in active service of the great powers, nor are they eligible to purchase them.

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The Hongshawadi branch is still adjusting the plan to adapt to new materials.

As for the Luzon branch, many new materials have entered the application projects.

For example, the gas turbine project that Li Qingye was investigating at this time.

The gas turbine project in Luzon started a long time ago. When Homo sapiens had just made a lot of profits, the gas turbine project was established.

The Gas Turbine Research Institute has been established for more than two years. It has not only completed the research and development and mass production of small and medium-sized gas turbines, but also developed several relatively poor large-scale gas turbines.

Aida, the person in charge of the research institute (who also serves as the general manager of Luzon Electric Company), and Zhang Chengyu, the chief technical officer, are introducing the research results to Li Qingye in a cautious manner.

Although Zhang Chengyu has the arrogance of a technician, he is really not arrogant in front of Li Qingye, and introduced very respectfully:

"Chairman, at present, our company can already produce various types of gas turbines. Especially after using new materials, the weight, energy consumption ratio and service life of large gas turbines have been greatly improved."

Li Qingye looked through their product parameters and compared the gas turbine data of General Electric, Siemens, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the database. There is not much difference between the two sides.

In the production workshop in front of you, a heavy-duty gas turbine is being assembled.

"What model is this gas turbine?"

Ada quickly replied: "It's our ZX-200, which is mainly used for thermal power generation. The power generation capacity is 200 megawatts, the thermal efficiency is 58.6%, and the operating temperature of the combustion chamber is 1600 degrees Celsius."

"Yes, you need to increase the scale of production. In the future, thermal power plants, large ships, nuclear power plants, and even cars and trains will need gas turbines." Li Qingye nodded in satisfaction.

Although it is a little worse than Siemens' thermal efficiency of 63%, compared with Dongfang Gas Turbine Company in Huaguo, whose thermal efficiency is only about 50%, Luzon Electric Company is already very good.

What's more, Siemens has been working in the gas turbine industry for hundreds of years, and it is normal for there to be a gap.

"We will continue to work hard to create better gas turbines for the company." Ada was a little excited.

When Zhang Chengyu heard about the gas turbines in the automobile industry, he thought about the company's plan to invest and build a factory in Siam some time ago, so he asked cautiously:

"Chairman, now we can produce our own materials and parts. What level of technology do we need to use to produce micro gas turbines in Siam?"

He asked this because there are some materials in Homo sapiens, which use products with a relatively high level of confidentiality.

It is better kept secret when used in power stations and ships.

As for the car, it is not easy to keep it secret. After all, the car must be oriented to the private market.

Li Qingye touched his chin, and then gave instructions: "Mainly use Grade C materials, and a small amount of Grade B materials can be used."

"I understand." Zhang Chengyu suddenly understood.

Luzon Electric Company will definitely enter the gas vehicle market.

Many of the gas car engines in the Homo sapiens control area were modified from gasoline engines. This is an expedient measure.

This kind of gas engine modified from a gasoline engine is not specially designed, not only the thermal efficiency of the gas is not high, but also there are certain safety hazards.

Therefore, the design of specialized micro gas turbines has become the core factor to promote the development of gas vehicles.

Zhang Chengyu made a rough estimate. Although the use of Class C and Class B materials will reduce the service life, this is also one of the unspoken rules of civilian products.

Using Homo sapiens' Class A materials, the service life of the gas turbine can reach about 40 to [-] years, and if it is properly maintained, the service life can even be doubled.

Civilian cars obviously don't need this kind of service life.

Its engine only needs about 15 years of service life.

Of course, this is only the design service life. It does not mean that the engine can only be used for 15 years, but that the thermal efficiency can be maintained stably within 15 years. After this service life is exceeded, the thermal efficiency will decrease and the failure rate will increase.

According to Zhang Chengyu's estimation, the thermal efficiency of gas turbines for civil vehicles only needs to reach about 50%, and the service life is only 15 years.

而目前一般的民用汽油机、柴油机、天然气发动机，其热效率分别在30～35％、35～45％、40～50％之间。

The micro gas turbines equipped by Luzon Electric Company for civilian vehicles have a thermal efficiency of 50%, which is actually a mid-to-high-end product on the market.

Although it can be further improved, it is not necessary.

When producing a product, we must consider the cost performance, rather than blindly pursuing high performance.

If a micro gas turbine with a thermal efficiency of 58% is used, the production cost may be increased by two or three times.

For a two-sided civilian car with a service life of only more than ten years, this is not worth the candle.

Although Li Qingye doesn't care much about the economic benefits in the internal circulation.

However, the automobile industry must enter the external circulation of the global market, which determines that the automobile industry must pay attention to economic benefits.

"Ada."

"Chairman please order."

"You can arrange the Siam branch as soon as possible. You can establish a joint venture brand with Chiang Mai Group, and then bring it back to Luzon for sale."

Ada nodded: "Yes, I will implement it as soon as possible."

"By the way, don't produce the core components in Siam for the time being, as the place has not stabilized yet." Li Qingye's subtext is actually that the place has not been cleaned up yet, and there is a risk of leaks.

"I will definitely do a good job in this area and promise not to leak the company's secrets."

Li Qingye asked the two of them to lead the way again: "Let's go and see the production area of ​​marine gas turbines!"

"plz follow me."

Taking a sightseeing electric car, they passed through a large park-like partition area before arriving at another production workshop.

This production workshop produces various types of marine gas turbines, as well as supporting marine bearings and propellers.

in the workshop.

"Chairman, this is a C-20 gas turbine with a maximum generating power of 20 megawatts, a maximum horsepower of 2.7 horsepower, and a thermal efficiency of 42.2%."

"What about the weight?"

Zhang Chengyu explained: "It was 37 tons before, but now it is 18.6 tons."

"The addition of materials is very obvious!" Li Qingye smiled and shook his head.

"The new materials developed by the chairman are too good. Otherwise, it would be difficult for us to reduce the weight. In fact, we have not fully realized the potential of the materials." Zhang Chengyu replied very respectfully.

Li Qingye waved his hand: "Then continue to tap the potential, as long as the design keeps up, we will not lose to any company."

"That is, we are still confident about this." Zhang Chengyu was full of confidence.

If they still acted like the mud couldn't support the wall with such powerful materials, then Li Qingye would probably send them back to the furnace for rebuilding.

"The power of the C-20 is still a bit small. Now the marine gas turbines in Europe and the United States have reached the 30-40 megawatt level, and you have to make persistent efforts."

Zhang Chengyu nodded: "The research institute is already setting up a project to develop the next generation of C-30 and C-40."

After investigating the gas turbine industry of Luzon Electric, Li Qingye is generally satisfied.

Although there are no products surpassing European and American companies, the overall level is already approaching rapidly.

As long as Ada, Zhang Chengyu and others don't get caught in the water in the future, this subsidiary can basically be self-reliant, and there is no need to secretly subsidize the production of products like before.

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at the same time.

Siam, Chiang Mai Province.

As the automobile industry base planned by Homo sapiens, Domino, which has been secretly controlled before, has roughly improved part of the infrastructure.

After more than three months of integration, compared with Qingye Automobile Company, which entered Chiang Mai Province earlier in the morning, there are now three production lines in operation.

And Baoshi Automobile, Yangon Automobile, Chiang Mai Group's own Glory Automobile, Nanyang Automobile jointly owned by Siam Group and Homo sapiens, and Tungsten Steel Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. solely owned by Ubon Ratchathani Group.

They have successively set up factories here, and these factories are currently improving their infrastructure and preparing supporting factories.

It seems that six automobile companies have been established, but in fact they are just six subsidiary brands of Homo sapiens.

Therefore, the positioning of these companies is also different.

Such as gemstones and tungsten steel, they mainly focus on engineering vehicles, heavy trucks, excavators, cement trucks, agricultural vehicles and the like.

The Yangon series and the Glory series focus on cars.

The Nanyang series and Aoba series mainly focus on auxiliary vehicles, small trucks, vans, RVs, high-end cars, and passenger cars.

Anyway, the six companies will adjust their product positioning to avoid concentrating their products on a small category.

At this time, the three production lines of Aoba Automobile are the production lines for small trucks, vans, and minibuses.

Hundreds of engineers recruited from Lifan Motors have already adapted to life in Chiang Mai.

Especially Guan Jianzhi, whose family immigrated to Hongshawadi, has learned some internal secrets. Although he doesn't know the core content, at least he knows a thing or two about the products the company will produce in the future.

Guan Jianzhi is a gearbox designer and is currently in charge of the gearbox design department.

For a car, parts can be roughly divided into engine, gearbox, chassis, transmission, electrical, tires, shell, glass, and interior.

Among them, tires, casings, glass, and interiors basically do not have too much technical threshold.

Especially for Sapiens companies.

As for those core components, it was previously necessary to import spare parts, or even entire components, from companies in Huaguo, Dongying, and Germany, which greatly increased production costs.

Now it is finally going to be localized.

This localization progress has exceeded the previous estimates of major foreign car companies.

In the transmission R&D team at this time, Guan Jianzhi had already designed several transmissions based on Japanese cars based on the previous company's requirements.

The reason why we borrowed from the transmissions of Japanese cars is mainly because Dongying people are really good at designing. Many of the other party's product problems actually occur in cutting corners, not in the design itself.

The material happens to be Homo sapiens' strong point. Combining the two, the transmission design of Japanese cars is the most cost-effective.

Guan Jianzhi and others felt a little nervous, because today the company's parts supplier has already transported the parts to Chiang Mai.

After getting the container, they couldn't wait to start assembling it.

In fact, their worries are unnecessary. As long as there are not too many problems in their design, the performance of the parts will definitely exceed the standard.

Although the parts supplied by Sea Snail's new materials are reduced versions, their performance still exceeds that of similar products on the market by a lot.

There are 5 types of transmissions in total, and 20 sets of parts are issued for each type.

Soon Guan Jianzhi and others assembled the first transmission, which is a transmission used in small trucks.

After pouring in the special oil for the transmission, put the transmission into the test platform.

Guan Jianzhi wiped the oil on his hands with a rag: "It's a mule or a horse, pull it out and try!"

The test officially begins.

The first is to try out the usage of various gears.

The engineer in charge of the test tested the gears one by one, and found that the problem was not serious, at most it was not proficient in use, and it felt a little unsmooth.

But after he tested it more than a dozen times, he gradually became proficient. With the assistance of the booster pump, shifting gears is relatively easy.

Guan Jianzhi was not surprised by this. After all, the reference content of the transmission is a bit high. If there are still major problems, then they can just pack up and go back to their hometown!

And the next test is the most critical.

That is the service life, high-intensity violent operation, and operating conditions in harsh environments.

Whether it can withstand the devastation can determine whether this transmission is qualified.