Homo sapiens.

The accumulated advantages of New Luzon Shipbuilding Company in various aspects become more obvious when added together.

"Technology really is the primary productive force." Huang Weida sighed.

Eno turned his head and asked, "Designer Huang, I heard that the Ship Design Center plans to add some energy-saving designs?"

Huang Weida nodded: "Well, it's being researched, but it's not tested on this experimental ship, it will most likely be tested on the next ship."

"What design?" Another engineer asked curiously.

Huang Weida did not hide it, and directly introduced several energy-saving solutions to everyone.

Chapter 214 Potential Discovery

After listening to Huang Weida's introduction.

Several engineers finally knew the specific plan.

In fact, after entering the 21st century, ship technology has improved a lot compared to the last century, at least in terms of energy saving and emission reduction.

The main reason is that energy saving and emission reduction can reduce transportation costs. Shipping companies naturally like transport ships with high energy efficiency, which also encourages shipping companies to invest heavily in technological improvement.

"I have discussed some of the current cutting-edge technologies with several colleagues. There are four more suitable technologies, which are..."

Huang Weida took out his tablet computer and called up part of the information of the four technical solutions.

The four schemes are: low-speed large propeller, ultra-light hull, high-efficiency combined gas turbine unit, and exhaust gas and waste heat recovery system.

"The ultra-light hull has already been applied to this ship." Huang Weida pointed to the module hull on one side.

Everyone knows this technology very well.

Usually a 6500TEU container ship has a net load of 8 tons, an empty hull displacement of 2.4 tons, and a full-load displacement of 12 to 13 tons.

Among them, the empty ship displacement refers to the hull, equipment, lubricating oil, and fresh water, of which the hull is about 1.9 tons.

After switching to silicon-aluminum steel, the weight of the hull of the same specification will be reduced to about 1.2 tons, reducing the weight of the hull by 7000 tons.

The reason for this change.

The main reason is that the material density is different. The density coefficient of ordinary ship steel is about 7.5, while that of silicon aluminum steel is only about 4.8.

This part of the reduced dead weight of the hull can be converted into the load of the container, raising the load of 6500 standard containers to the upper limit of 8.7 tons.

It is equivalent to saving nearly 9% of transportation costs in disguise.

Huang Weida continued to introduce: "Low-speed large propellers are also one of the common methods for energy-saving renovation of many old ships, but there are technical barriers to the production technology of large propellers."

Hearing the technical threshold of large propellers, Eno immediately laughed: "We don't need to worry about this."

"Ha ha……"

"really."

Others didn't worry about that either.

The spare parts suppliers of other shipbuilding enterprises may have certain technical difficulties in producing qualified large propellers.

But the parts supplier of the New Luzon Shipbuilding Company is the new material of sea snails, not to mention large propellers, even super-large propellers can be produced, and their performance and service life are excellent.

"According to my simulation calculation results in the supercomputer, the arrangement of forward and reverse low-speed large propellers can reduce energy consumption by about 8%."

Eno touched his chin, and suddenly thought of a technology that has become more popular in recent years: "Aren't Daewoo Shipbuilding and Deutschland experimenting with a technology called rotor sail? It seems that it can also save energy by about 8%."

"This technology does exist, but rotor sails are not suitable for container ships, and the scope of application is relatively narrow." Huang Weida spread his hands helplessly.

Everyone will understand when they think about it.

Container ships need to be loaded with containers, and there is not enough deck space for installing the relatively space-consuming rotor sails.

Ore carriers, cement carriers, grain carriers, passenger ships, oil tankers, etc., can be equipped with rotor sails.

This kind of technology is not difficult for the current New Luzon Shipyard, and it can even be done better. After all, it is difficult to think about the blessing of various new materials.

"As for the gas turbine and exhaust heat recovery system, this is actually a complete system. According to the current technology, it can probably reduce energy consumption by about 10%."

Eno nodded: "I have read the internal papers of this system, and it seems that the car company has already applied it."

"That's right, our set of technology is borrowed from Qingye Automobile Company, and at the same time added our improvement plan." Huang Weida explained with a smile.

"Is it a combined unit plan?" Yinuo obviously saw the key point.

Huang Weida's smile became even brighter: "Engineer Yinuo's eyes are like a torch."

His plan is not complicated. Taking advantage of the relatively small size of gas turbines and not requiring imported equipment, he changed the previous heavy-duty gas turbines into four sets of smaller gas turbines.

The purpose of this is to avoid the pain point of low speed and low efficiency of gas turbines.

The economic speed of cargo ships is around 11-13 knots. Although many cargo ships can reach the limit speed of more than 20 knots, in fact, no shipping company will choose high speed.

Because the high speed means that the energy consumption will be doubled several times, so the gain outweighs the loss.

Four medium-sized gas turbines were used instead, with two running at full capacity daily and two as spares.

And when you need to slow down, you can also turn off one of them, and the other will slowly reduce the power.

In case of equipment failure or acceleration, the backup gas turbine can be started.

In addition, the ship can also be equipped with a flywheel energy storage device for quickly starting the gas turbine, or emergency braking.

There is no need to introduce too much about the exhaust gas and heat recovery system, after all, Aoba Automobile has already applied it in this regard.

As for the waste gas and heat recovery system, Huang Weida is only a ship designer who can apply and give suggestions. The work of improving this system will be handed over to the researchers and engineers of Luzon Electric Company.

The only shortcoming of the current system is that the energy recovery efficiency of waste heat is too low, only less than 38%.

After research by Luzon Electric, they believe that the key to improving conversion efficiency and energy recovery efficiency lies in catalysts and catalytic systems.

As long as the efficiency of converting carbon dioxide and water vapor into methane can be improved, the efficiency of waste heat and energy recovery will increase.

Huang Weida actually knew very well in his heart that it wasn't that he was good, but that the company's technical reserves were too strong.

After various technologies are combined, there will often be complementary effects, and then the advantages will be further expanded.

For example, the compression of shipbuilding costs has increased the operational space of ship design, and there is a higher tolerance limit for the cost expenditure in the application of new technologies.

Another example is the localization of gas turbine technology, which has brought domestic gas turbines with high cost performance.

If it is still the same as before and can only import marine gas turbines at high prices from abroad, then Huang Weida would not dare to launch four medium-sized gas turbines.

Technological innovations in various production links and reductions in production costs will have an impact on the final product.

The large-scale cost effect brought about by Homo sapiens' systematic technological innovation is simply an earth-shaking change for the entire shipbuilding industry.

Now the New Luzon Shipbuilding Company is still digesting technology, integrating and expanding production capacity, and there are too many orders from internal brother companies, so it has not caused a huge impact on the global shipbuilding industry.

But this kind of dormancy cannot be hidden for too long.

Sooner or later, the New Luzon Shipbuilding Company will show its fangs and compete with the three major shipbuilding countries in East Asia.

This is unavoidable. Many industries around the world are becoming highly monopolized, and the winners must be a few.

The shipbuilding industry is just a microcosm of this era.

The industry competition in Asia is becoming more and more intense, and the situation in the Americas is becoming less and less optimistic.

It is mainly ABCD, which suffered continuous heavy losses last year. This year, there has been a huge gap in soybean planting.

However, the demand for grain and agricultural products in the Asian market did not increase significantly, and even dropped a little.

Chapter 215 Prosperity and hidden dangers

Hong Shavadi.

Yangon, a commodity trading center.

Ahasi, the president of Persia International Trading Company, completed another purchase of 6 tons of palm oil.

He walked out of the office provided by the trade center.

Then I saw Lai Shengli, the business manager of COFCO Group in Hongshawadi next door, also walked out of the office.

"Hello, Manager Lai." Ahasi smiled and greeted in English.

Lai Shengli also had a smile on his face: "President Ahasi, do you want to have dinner together?"

"Oh? No problem."

The two sides left the trade center building together.

The Yangon Commodity Trade Center is a special institution established by the Hongshawady government, but this institution has been contracted to the Aoba Group.

The international bulk commodity import and export trade in Hongshawadi needs to be carried out in the Yangon Commodity Trade Center.

There are price rolling halls for domestic and foreign bulk commodities (including the consultation front desk), membership application and review offices, import procedures offices, export procedures offices, data management offices, member-only offices, member-only trading rooms, and business negotiation rooms (exclusive and public two).

Hundreds of large companies including COFCO, Samsung, Mitsubishi, Temasek, Chia Tai, Hong Leong, Coca-Cola, Unilever, ABCD, Roche, Tata, and Aramco have established offices here office or branch.

And they set up an office or branch in Yangon, naturally for the benefit.

Walking out of the member-only office area, you came to the trading floor.

The LID display screen composed of commodity plates is hung on the bracket above the hall, and the real-time prices of global commodities are scrolled differently.

Thousands of seats are set up in the lobby for temporary use by some customers in need.

Lai Shengli glanced at the price scrolling information of the grain sector.

It was found that the trading price of soybeans remained at a high level and showed no signs of falling, but the price of rice was only 3300-3500 gold dollars per ton at this time.

"Manager Lai, you have imported a lot of food this year!"

"There are so many people, there is no way." Lai Shengli replied with a smile. The import quantity cannot be concealed at all. Even if COFCO does not disclose it, Hongshawadi will disclose some transaction data.

Ahasi also showed a helpless expression: "Our country is the same. We can only reserve more. Fortunately, Hong Sawadi agreed to use natural gas and oil for settlement."

"I don't know if Hongshawadi can withstand the pressure." Lai Shengli sighed worriedly.

Ahasi is well aware of this, even though the current trade between Hongshawadi and various countries is booming, but the gold standard currency, the gold dollar, is itself a provocation to the hegemony of the US knife.

Now if it weren't for America's powerlessness caused by other things, it is estimated that Hong Shawadi would have been besieged by America and a group of younger brothers.

Persia is not so brave.

In the past, many people thought that the gold standard currency in Hongshawadi was likely to be a small trouble in their homeland.

The current situation is beyond the expectations of many forces.

With more and more powerful commodities in Hongshawadi and the gradual increase in gold reserves, the scale of gold coins issued by Hongshawadi has officially exceeded 5000 billion.

Among them, Luzon has reserved about 730 billion gold dollars, the Bank of China has reserved 273 billion gold dollars, and Siam has also successively reserved 133 billion gold dollars.

According to this momentum, the gold dollar in Hongshawadi has begun to threaten the hegemony of the US knife.

This is why Lai Shengli is worried.

Once America frees its hands, it will definitely suppress Hongshawadi with all its strength, and the possibility of using force will not even be ruled out.

Now many of the grain, soybean meal, and corn kernels in Hongshawadi are exported to China, which has greatly filled the soybean supply gap of ABCD.

The light industrial products and mechanical equipment produced by Huaguo enterprises are also exported to Hongshawadi in large quantities. The total trade volume between the two sides in the first eight months of this year has reached 1736 billion gold dollars.

Although due to Hongshawadi's trade balance strategy, Huaguo enterprises did not get much trade balance, but at least both sides exchanged the materials they wanted.

Half a month ago, Lai Shengli also signed a soybean purchase contract for next year on behalf of COFCO and the three major groups in Hongshawadi.

At a price of 6250 gold dollars per ton, equivalent to 4500 Chinese dollars per ton, 1500 million tons of genetically modified soybeans were purchased from the three major groups in Hongshawadi.

As for whether the three major groups can supply such a large amount of soybeans, and how to expand production capacity, there is actually no problem at all.

After the integration and development of the three major groups, Hongshawadi currently has 2034 million hectares of arable land, equivalent to about 3 million mu. In addition, there are 1000 million hectares of wasteland, sparse woodland, and hillside land that can be developed.

Most of these 3 million mu of arable land are planted once a year.

With the improvement of various water conservancy facilities and infrastructure, coupled with the localization of pesticides and fertilizers, it will be possible to achieve two or even three seasons a year in the future.

That is to say, if the total arable land potential of Hongshawadi is based on the yield per mu of the North China Plain as a reference base value, it is equivalent to about 13.5 billion mu under the condition of extreme development.

Next year, the three major groups plan to use one season of corn and one season of soybeans to fully integrate the current 4000 million mu of corn land and 2000 million mu of soybean land.

Including the genetically modified soybeans of Aoba Group, the yield per mu can reach about 360 kilograms, and 6000 million mu of arable land can be planted with soybeans for one season, which can produce about 2100 million tons of soybeans.

Except for the 600 million tons of soybeans used by the three major groups, the rest can be exported to COFCO.

Of course, this is in the absence of natural disasters, and the two parties have also agreed on the reduction of production due to extreme weather in the contract.